Sustainable Cities - Blog entries

Mind your behaviour

Fredrik Gyllenhoff — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:55:51 +0100

Wednesday February 24th was the kick off for DAC’s series of events following the opening of 3XN’s exhibition, Mind Your Behaviour at the Danish Architecture Centre. This night’s event took place at a fully booked DAC with over 130 participants ready to tune in on Kim Herforth Nielsen and Ulrich Knaack.

Density – a still underestimated environmental aspect

Georg Guensberg — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:29:44 +0100

Urban and regional planners know about the importance of density. No doubt about that. But do policy makers know, too? Well, apparently not, but that might change.

The deep economic crisis we are still facing is a chance to put density more into the spotlight of environmental thinking. And of course, the question how we can create sustainable cities is strongly linked to the density issue.

Get moving!

Fredrik Gyllenhoff — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:26:33 +0100

According to WHO/HEPA, 2/3 of the adult population in the EU, are not even close to being as physically active as they should. With 1 out of 5 Europeans labeled as “inactive”, the result is shocking. That’s 600,000 deaths every year in the EU, as the result of lacking exercise. That equals 5,3 million years that are wasted.

A waste of many good years that the people behind Streetmovement are set to change.

As green as it gets

Eva Bjerring — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:40:04 +0100

The other day I found a link in my inbox to a website on... grass?! The link was more specifically to a do-it-yourself grass clock developed on vertical garden concepts which immediately aroused my curiosity and launched an investigation of this new and to me unknown kind of 'green design'.

Frustrated after COP15?

Georg Guensberg — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:39:38 +0100

Don't be. Cities will be the driving force of real change.

There is no doubt that COP 15 was a disappointment. A lot of reflection has been made in the last few weeks on what the outcome means for international climate policy. Will there be another chance for saving the climate on UN-level?

Bike-ability: Cities for zero-emission travel and public health

Fredrik Gyllenhoff — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:50:17 +0100

Early this January, 13 million Danish kroner was handed over to the project 'Bike-ability: Cities for zero-emission travel and public health' at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen. The Danish Council for Strategic Research was the happy donator and the research project is a collaboration with 4 different universities and the Danish cancer charity, Kræftens Bekæmpelse, and two other institutions.

Smart Cities - when communication technology creates sustainable cities

Søren Smidt-Jensen — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:08:28 +0100

How can communication technology help to create more sustainable cities? This questions has not gained much attention, at least not in the debates that I am following. But my guess is that it’s about to change – in fact, some cities are doing serious investments in this field, typically cooperating with IT-giants like IBM, SIEMENS and CISCO. But what is it really about, ‘Smart Cities’, and are there already some front-runner cities?

European Green Capital - grab hold of your mayor

Fredrik Gyllenhoff — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:52:54 +0100

Your city now has the chance to become the European Green Capital (EGC) following previous winners Stockholm 2010 and Hamburg 2011.

A report from the Mayors Climate Summit

Fredrik Gyllenhoff — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:51:47 +0100

Mayors representing more than 80 cities around the world have been at the Mayors Climate Summit the last few days. Representing more than half the world’s population, these leaders have more than just a periphery responsibility.

Season greetings!

Fredrik Gyllenhoff — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:51:09 +0100

Dear readers of Sustainable Cities™ blog and newsletter!

A year full of exciting events and hard work is almost over and we are getting ready for a strong comeback in January with lots of activity and new players in the mix.

The Sustainable Cities™ staff is growing and next year we have a handful of exciting new guest bloggers.