Common Ground CoHousing Project
Members of the Common Ground Cohousing Project introduce their project, process for community building as well as the inspiration they drew from the LILAC project in Leeds, UK, to become the first cohousing project in Ireland.
Should Single-Family Houses Be Banned?
Written by Lloyd Alter and published on Treehugger on 17. February 2021, the article offers an English-language overview of the current debates occurring in Germany regarding the possibility to ban the construction of single-family homes in certain areas of the country.
Nordic Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale is a full-scale co-housing model
Written by Lizzie Crook for Dezeen, the article describes how, at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale, Norwegian architecture studio Helen & Hard has built a 1:1 cross-section of a co-housing project made from spruce wood.
Green homes: Resource sufficiency is key to achieving climate neutrality
Written by Gonzalo Sanchez and published on EurActiv, the article presents the principle of ecological sufficiency as it applies to the construction industry - as acting on ecological footprint of the housing sector becomes more and more urgent, the shortcomings of efficiency-oriented thinking, d
Social*Ecological Co*Housing
Efficiency meets Sufficiency and related Synergies:
The Center for Metropolitan Innovation, Nová Cvernovka in Bratislava, Slovakia, and other European Model Projects
Authors: id22: Institute for Creative Sustainability in Berlin:
Ökologisch und zugleich sozial
Markus Drescher und Martin Höfig schauen in Neues Deutschland in die Wahlprogramme der Parteien. Wieviel Klimaschutz steckt dort wirklich drin und kommen auch soziale Aspekte nicht zu kurz?
Who will be Berlin’s next mayor?
In this opinion piece published on EXBERLINER, Konrad Werner reflects on the upcoming Berlin mayoral elections.
Tausende Wissenschaftler warnen vor weltweitem Klimanotstand
Der Spiegel berichtet über ein Papier von knapp 14.000 Wissenschaftler:innen, die eindringlich weitgehende Maßnahmen gegen den Klimawandel fordern.