German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt calls for a revision of EU law and tougher EU regulations to prevent automakers violating emission limits. ...
Road map to sustainability for US cities
A new report provides a road map for US cities to become more sustainable. The results draw on the study of nine US cities that are of economic, ...
Habitat III – A resumé
The United Nations’ third Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) has come to an end. 30.000 representatives attended the ...
The sharing economy and big data
While owning things has been the measure of status for the last decades, millenials today see more value in other things. This change of attributed wealth ...
Swiss support for more energy-efficient buildings in India
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) continues its work with Indian states to improve the energy efficiency of buildings. So far the ...
Reshaping primary schools in Rwanda
The Boston-based nonprofit architecture firm MASS Design Group is known for its aesthetical projects that at the same time keep the needs of the people in ...
Actual commitment to realize the New Urban Agenda
Despite low turnouts of heads of state and top-end experts at Habitat III, which some see as a sign of low political commitment, there is a great belief by ...
How the Repair Café fixes more than broken things
In 2013, Peter Skinner found the Repair Café in Palo Alto (USA) which adopts the idea of a grassroot movement from the Netherlands: bringing people ...
L.A. is fighting its garbage mess
In L.A. businesses and owners of apartment buildings pick their own waste collector which leads to first of all trucks are taking overlapping routes and ...
Sustainability science is learning from traditional knowledge
Sustainability science is increasingly drawing on traditional knowledge. Especially in the field of forest and food management there is much to learn from ...
