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Kalundborg: Industrial Symbiosis - Waste makes resource

Maria Nørlyng Leal — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:56:47 +0000

Kalundborg is a medium-sized town on the north-west coast of Zealand, 105km from Copenhagen, home to 16,500 residents and host to the world's most well known example of industrial ecology; Industrial Symbiosis. The motivation for exchange arose in the early 1970s from a mutual effort to reduce costs by seeking income-producing uses for "waste" products.

Dongtan: The world’s first large-scale eco-city?

Maria Nørlyng Leal — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:52:25 +0000

In 2005, the Shanghai Industrial Investment Corporation (SIIC) hired the consultancy Arup to design a city which would exclusively use sustainable energy, be self-sufficient and reduce energy consumption by 66% in relation to its neighbour Shanghai. The plan is for Dongtan to house 500,000 people from rural areas.

Sutton: BedZED - Leading the way in eco village design

Malene Freudendal-Pedersen — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:13:34 +0000

If everyone in the world lived like the average North American, we would need five planets-worth of resources to subsist. Three planets would suffice if everyone lived like the average European but this is still a sure shot away from the one planet that we inhabit.

Växjö: Fossil Fuel Free City

Julie Abitz — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:32:34 +0000

When Växjö decided to be fossil fuel free in 1996, the city had already good experiences with using biomass in their district heating. When the municipality asked the transport companies, industries and firms in Växjö to join them in their mission, they liked the challenge too.