Oasis in the City of Ljubljana

Posted on January 15, 2008 by Peter Fagerström

The latest oasis, the first in the 2nd expedition of the Nurope has just finished and I was again happy that I attended. During the days we met a lot of different people, to describe it a bit, we met “1/4th” of Laibach something of a national icon part of an awakening in Slovenia regarding [...]

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Re-greening Chicago

Posted on October 11, 2007 by Peter Fagerström

Re-greening Chicago is a short video about greening urban space and other environmental actions within the urban area.

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Alive and busy

Posted on September 19, 2007 by Peter Fagerström

During the past month I’ve taken part in an Environmental Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark. A conference about Energy efficiency and a Partner Search Forum for the next EU, Baltic Sea Region (BSR) programme for 2007-2013. More to come about these two as well as other things I’ve picked up during this past month.

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prefabs and material flows

Posted on August 11, 2007 by Peter Fagerström

the U.K. based programme WRAP (Waste and Rescources Action Programme) published a report in the spring of 2007 with the findings that prefabricated buildings could cut construction waste by a staggering 90%! by increasing the use of off site manufacture and modern methods of construction. this is adding to the cost and time predictability as [...]

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m-ch

Posted on August 1, 2007 by Peter Fagerström

micro compact home or m-ch is a prefab with potential, measuring 266cm*266cm*266cm its very compact, no big area foot-print, it costs a mere 25k-34k euros (depending on contract) and is currently shipped to all parts of europe (at an extra cost of course). there is also there is a low e-home version (low energy home) which [...]

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Critical mass event in Turku - Critical bike trip

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Peter Fagerström

I see I haven’t posted anything for a month I need to start posting from the road as well I’ve been on a trip to Scotland and will be telling you about that wonderful corner of the world soon. However not to my hometown of Åbo (Swedish) Turku (Finnish) The Turku chapter of the Friends [...]

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Living in Finland, a changing climate?

Posted on April 23, 2007 by Peter Fagerström

Even though we rate high in SD, innovation, education and what-not-indicators I have to say that living in Finland can be VERY frustrating sometimes. I just read about the scheme in the UK to give real-time-electricity-cost-meters to the consumers. A way for people to follow their energy consumption and that it costs right now. This [...]

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Fossile fuel free.

Posted on April 11, 2007 by Peter Fagerström

I stumbeled upon the County of Växjö in my work
today, I’ve heared about them before, concerning
the ecobudget system they use.
Växsjö County in Sweden if going carbon neutral,
between the years 1993 and 2005 they reduced
their CO2 emissions with 24%.
2025 they aim to have reduced their emissions
compared to 1993s level by 70%.
A fossile fuel free Växjö.

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