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The Municipality of Uppsala is further investing in the promotion of circularity concepts within the local construction industry. For this purpose, a new recycling service for used building materials ..
The 1,000 municipal utilities that are the last link in the German energy supply chain are feeling the pinch of record-high energy prices, raising fears that some of them might go bankrupt.
The UK’s food policy substantially presumes that foreign countries will continue to send us shiploads of food, and currently over half of what is consumed here is imported. This is perilous indeed, especially at a time when many nations are adopting their own protectionist policies, restricting food exports so to feed their own people.
Once upon a time everybody ate local food. No one called it that back then, of course. People just hunted, gathered, tilled the soil, and grazed livestock—all, for the most part, relatively close to home. But then small agricultural settlements grew into towns, towns grew into cities, and eventually the city became a place where you moved to get away from farming. Covering the flat roofs and roof terraces of Bologna, Italy, with soil-free gardens could supply 12,000 tons of vegetables per year, or 77% of what the city’s inhabitants consume
“A Year of Living Locally” follows Shareable executive director Neal Gorenflo’s year-long experiment in local living throughout 2020.
The Czech Republic is on its way to introduce a protectionist food law despite warnings that this could be in violation of the EU's free movement of goods.
A Small Farm Future makes the case for a society built around local economies, self-provisioning agricultural diversity and a shared earth
La pandémie de COVID-19 a remis au centre des préoccupations la question de l’alimentation, et plus particulièrement les enjeux de sécurité et qualité de l’approvisionnement alimentaire français.
Offre dépendante d’importations et de chaînes complexes d’approvisionnement, difficultés à trouver de la main-d’œuvre agricole, recours croissant à l'aide alimentaire… : notre système a révélé des failles et des limites dont peu de citoyens avaient jusqu’alors conscience. Après le succès inédit qu’ont connu les alternatives locales au cœur de la crise, les questions d’autonomie alimentaire du pays, de relocalisation de certaines filières et de circuits-courts de proximité sont aujourd’hui plus que jamais d’actualité.
Authorities around the world are putting UN Sustainable Development Goal at the core of their agenda but including local governments in their implementation is key for success, writes Tine Soens.
From the covid-19 to a sustainable economy When talking to people these days who are concerned about global warmingand sustainability as central challenges, I often encounter worried faces and gloomy forecasts: Once the COVID-19pandemic has been brought under control, they fear, politicians will again do everything in their power to stimulate resource-consuming economic growth in every conceivable way. Longer-termecological goals will once again be in danger of being undermined,just as they were following the financial crisis in 2008. https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/uploads/4/8/3/2/48324387/from_the_covid-19_crisis_to_a_sustainable_economy_r_loske.pdf
In this episode of the Local Energy Rules podcast, host John Farrell speaks with Jessie Denver of East Bay Community Energy. Farrell and Denver discuss how distributed energy resources can prepare communities for disaster — and increase resilience after it hits.… Read More
L’ancien ministre de l’Environnement Yves Cochet, l’un des précurseurs de la collapsologie, appelle d’urgence à relocaliser l’économie, en créant des biorégions résilientes et solidaires, pour faire face à la pandémie de coronavirus, et à un possible effondrement généralisé.
London’s leafy streets and gardens have long been prized for their beauty — and more recently their ability to counteract carbon emissions and improve air quality. But the value of urban trees can also be measured with money. A new report from Britain’s Office of National Statistics estimates tree cover saved the capital more than 5 billion pounds ($6.56 billion) from 2014 to 2018 through air cooling alone. Additionally, by keeping summer temperatures bearable for workers, trees prevented productivity losses of almost 11 billion pounds.
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Local community groups are often seen as being against renewable energy sites or other projects to support the energy transition. But there is a rise in different ownership and funding models that includes local residents who do want to support the quest for a decarbonised economy
La nouvelle publication du Shift vise à interpeller et mobiliser directement les décideurs locaux autour de leur responsabilité et de leur capacité à agir afin de rendre leur territoire plus résilient. L’objectif : convaincre les dirigeants locaux de se doter d’un « plan de résilience territoriale » pour naviguer parmi les crises vers un nouveau cap, désirable et résilient, pour leur territoire.
It’s a popular idea that the path to sustainability lies in high-tech solutions. By making everyday items like cars electric, and installing smart systems to monitor and reduce energy use, it seems we’ll still be able to enjoy the comforts to which we’ve become accustomed while doing our bit for the planet – a state known as “green growth”.
Face à l’accélération des aléas climatiques, nous avions lancé il y a un an un travail de R&D sur la résilience productive et la capacité des économies locales à résister à un choc ou à ses conséquences sur les ruptures de chaînes d’approvisionnement internationales. La crise du COVID-19 a été un accélérateur de ce concept de résilience productive.
To World Bank's Sameh Wahba, resilience is one of the main challenges that cities face today, which is related to rapid urbanization and climate change.
Ce mercredi le Conseil d’Etat genevois a adopté le plan directeur de l’énergie 2020-2030. L’un des gros objectifs est notamment de sortir du chauffage fossile d’ici 2030 et de valoriser les ressources renouvelables du territoire. Le canton de Genève a adopté ce mercredi le plan directeur de l’énergie 2020-2030 et donne ainsi un nouvel élan […]
In 2017, Pueblo became one of the first cities in Colorado to commit to powering itself entirely with renewable energy. The decision was driven in part by frustrations with sky-high energy costs: Almost one quarter of Pueblo’s population lives under the poverty line, but residents of the Front Range city still pay some of the highest electric rates in the region. Energy costs rose dramatically after the city’s electric utility, South Dakota-based Black Hills Energy, invested in a new fossil gas plant, passing the costs on to already cash-strapped Pueblo families.
In Leeds city centre, the coronavirus crisis has merely accelerated trends that have been unfolding for some time such as bank,cinemas, shops declining
Urban farming increases the food security of low-income groups, contributes to local economic development and the social inclusion of the urban poor
Localtis : Alors que la phase de reprise de l’activité se profile avec le déconfinement, les collectivités anticipent déjà la phase suivante, celle de la relance. Après les régions appelant à un "New Deal industriel et environnemental", l'ADCF préconise une approche différenciée selon les territoires, à partir d’une analyse géographique de l’impact de la crise. Elle propose l'élaboration de "pactes territoriaux de relance et de croissance", rassemblant les différents contrats conclus à l'échelle intercommunale, accompagnée d’un "grenelle de la commande publique" et d’un plan de relocalisations.
Covering an area of 4,000 square metres, Europe’s largest urban farm is located in the heart of Brussels, on the rooftops of the Foodmet, a food hall known as “the belly of Brussels”, which attracts more than 100,000 people every weekend. “Having always had a vision of the city as a solution and not a problem, I’ve been investigating ways to make it productive,” said Beckers. “As an architect, I also saw the potential of surrounding a building with a productive greenhouse whose plants regulate the climate and protect the occupants from extremes, while at the same time purifying the air of the CO2 it is burdened with,” Beckers added.
Quels ont les risques d’approvisionnement ?
A l’unanimité, tous les acteurs du secteur agro-alimentaire ont réaffirmé que les stock
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