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Two artists in London are finding ingenious ways to fund a project that puts power in the hands of people. Other communities are watching with interest
It would be easy to mistake artists Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell for master magicians. For their first stunt, they made £1m of debt disappear (more on that later), and for their next trick they’re conjuring up a power station from an ordinary, east London terraced street.
Not the wheezing, fossil fuel burning kind, but one fuelled by sunlight, one that prioritises people over profit, and puts power generation in the hands of the communities it serves.
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Today, 9:37 AM
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The city of Brussels is shifting its policies in the Pietonnier zone due to tensions between cyclists and pedestrians.
Cyclists and pedestrians have clashed in the zone, with cyclists not adhering to the 6 kilometers-per-hour speed limit, leading to complaints from pedestrians.
The city has announced a ban on bikes in the zone most of the day, with bikes only allowed between 4 and 11 a.m., and is considering diverting bikes to a parallel axis along narrower streets to the west.
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Today, 9:29 AM
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Green heating technologies promise to slash Europe’s emissions, energy demand and energy prices, but that is only feasible if national governments start planning properly now, explains Euroheat and Power’s Aurélie Beauvais.
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Today, 8:49 AM
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Vinkovci is the third location in Croatia with positive results, as reservoir temperatures exceeding 100 degrees were earlier confirmed in Velika Gorica and Osijek, Croatian Hydrocarbon Agency revealed. The activities are part of a wider project to develop geothermal potential for district heating for six cities and towns.
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November 6, 8:34 AM
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Housing affordability has emerged as a central challenge across Europe, particularly in major cities and tourist hotspots. The issue has rapidly risen to the top of the political agenda: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has named it as one of her key priorities, while the UK government has made it a central mission to deliver 1.5 million new homes over the course of the current parliament. With the EU appointing its first-ever Housing Commissioner, attention is now turning to the forthcoming Affordable Housing Plan, a landmark initiative set to be published in December.
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October 30, 11:34 AM
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A new study on U.S. meat consumption suggests we’ve been missing a crucial piece of the carbon footprint puzzle: where our meat actually comes from.
Researchers found that a person’s “hoofprint,” or meat-related carbon emissions, can vary more than threefold depending on the city they live in, even though Americans eat roughly the same amount of meat nationwide. The difference, they say, lies far beyond city limits.
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October 16, 11:04 AM
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Loin des idées reçues, les personnes précaires éclairent le chemin d’une transition écologique et juste Premières exposées aux effets du dérèglement climatique et de l’effondrement de la biodiversité, les personnes en situation de précarité, souvent ignorées, portent pourtant des savoirs et des expériences concrètes, que le Pacte civique a estimés essentiels pour avancer vers une
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October 15, 9:46 AM
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Britain must prepare for global heating far in excess of the level scientists have pegged as the limit of safety, the government’s climate advisers have warned, as current plans to protect against extreme weather are inadequate.
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October 9, 10:08 AM
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Berlin's city government will adopt a draft law proposed by a citizen initiative to plant hundreds of thousands of trees in the German capital by 2040. According to public broadcaster rbb, the city government run by the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD), shelved plans to introduce its own bill for more green spaces and instead backed the draft from the citizen initiative “Baumentscheid” (tree referendum). The coalition parties said they could “not identify any need for major changes” to the citizen initiative’s draft, which will therefore be adopted “unchanged in its core parts”.
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October 9, 9:12 AM
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In episode two of the Urban Question, we discuss the impact growing cities have on the planetary boundaries In association with Bloxhub and WRLDCTY, The Urban Question is a special series of the Urban Report podcast from FORESIGHT Climate & Energy, examining how cities are adjusting to a 21st-century citizen “We have to combine a low-emission building with high-absorption city nature.” Welcome to The Urban Question, a special series of the Urban Report podcast from FORESIGHT Climate & Energy in association with Bloxhub, the Nordic hub for sustainable urbanisation and the WRLDCTY forum.
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October 9, 8:40 AM
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What has a doughnut to do with the planet? At first glance, nothing. But British economist Kate Raworth uses this powerful image to lay out the conditions for a sustainable economy. In her 2017 bestseller, Doughnut Economics: Seven ways to think like a 21st-century economist, she presents a model that meets the needs of all people, while respecting the planet’s limited resources.
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October 1, 4:50 AM
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The main report provides an integrated narrative, examining the central and vital role that the climate and natural environment play in ensuring health, resilience and prosperity for people, anchored in the EU’s vision for a sustainable Europe by 2050.
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October 1, 4:01 AM
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The waste problem in Amsterdam’s city centre is growing, increasing litter, overflowing trash bins, and mounting pressure on the city’s infrastructure. To tackle these challenges, AMS Institute and the City of Amsterdam have partnered in an ambitious collaboration: ‘Living Lab Schone Binnenstad’. This program focuses on developing, testing, and implementing innovative waste management solutions to make the inner city cleaner, more circular, and liveable.
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Today, 9:52 AM
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A first-of-its-kind energy initiative aims to make the green transition more accessible, delivering affordable solar power to those most in need
A scheme in London is delivering clean, affordable energy directly to residents in social housing via newly regulated solar microgrids.
Rooftop panels have existed on housing estates such as Frampton Park in the borough of Hackney for some time, but they only feed into the grid.
However, a new, first-of-its-kind scheme enables tenants to benefit directly from the power generated on their rooftops.
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Today, 9:36 AM
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On Amsterdam’s 750th anniversary, it continues to be a leader in climate adaptation — showing how a city can thrive in overcoming existential challenges.
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Today, 8:51 AM
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The European Union must slash its emissions to one tenth of 1990 peak levels by the end of the next decade, the European Parliament agreed on Thursday in a series of sometimes secret votes, with the yes camp outnumbering the noes by almost two to one. Despite concerns over growing opposition within the ranks of the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), 409 lawmakers backed a deal agreed earlier in a centrist alliance with the Socialsts & Democrats, liberal Renew group and the Greens.
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November 12, 11:49 AM
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As the European Commission prepares to unveil the Citizens’ Energy Package in 2026, energy communities and campaigners see an opportunity to shape Europe’s energy transition into a more inclusive and democratic process. However, questions remain about whether the package can adequately address energy poverty and ensure fairness, or whether it will fail to meet its potential.
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November 6, 8:28 AM
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The authors discuss the challenges of curbing land take and the complexity of achieving the net-zero limit. They call for a shift in perspective beyond the restrictive logic of traditional land-use planning and suggest that the regenerative potential of cities be unleashed.
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October 23, 2:24 AM
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À Strasbourg, la nouvelle mandature écologiste a mis en œuvre plusieurs dispositifs de participation, mais qui s’avèrent peu appropriés par les habitants et ne transforment pas le fonctionnement des institutions qui les soutiennent.
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October 15, 10:04 AM
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Placemaking Week Europe turned Reggio Emilia into a living laboratory, with 600+ participants co-creating solutions in five neighborhoods. Through Local Challenges, locals and internationals tested ideas—from quick actions to long-term strategies—showing how participatory approaches make cities more liveable, inclusive, and resilient.
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October 9, 10:13 AM
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Nikos Chatzilias spends his days tending to buzzing bee colonies with a unique view out over the rooftops of Greece’s capital.
He is among the dozens of Athenians who have embraced urban beekeeping to support local ecosystems, reconnect with nature and enjoy honey flavored by each neighborhood’s local plants and flowers.
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October 9, 9:32 AM
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A rising body of research is trying to quantify the impact of personal climate actions. The results show the most powerful impacts may come from some surprising places.
It's hard to get clear-cut evidence on what impact the personal actions we take in our lives can have on climate change.
While there has long been a focus on how to reduce the carbon footprint of what we buy, do and eat, it's harder to pin down the impact of many other measures people take, from community engagement and how we choose to vote, to where we save our money and the impact we can have in our workplaces.
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October 9, 8:55 AM
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The City of Pirot plans to build a solar power plant on the site of a former unsanitary landfill when it is remediated. The move would strengthen its leadership position in Serbia regarding the use of renewable energy and environmental protection.
In 2013, Pirot opened a regional sanitary landfill, which cost EUR 11 million. It enabled the local authority to shut down an unsanitary landfill on the right bank of the Nišava river. However, the land still hasn’t been remediated and reclaimed.
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October 3, 5:29 AM
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Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries
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October 1, 4:39 AM
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European cities face mounting challenges, from socio-economic inequalities and ageing infrastructure to the urgent demands of climate adaptation. A growing response is tactical urban regeneration, an approach that blends the quick, low-cost interventions of tactical urbanism with the long-term goals of urban renewal.
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