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Rethinking it: Winners of the 6th German Ecodesign Award
The prizes of the 2017 contest go to repair services, mobile applications to initiatives to fight food waste, energy-saving design products, concepts for resource-efficient and recyclable fashion and a vision for the opportunities which living plant construction provides.
More flower strips and fallow land needed for protection of insects and birds
Although such protection against the indirect effects of PPPs on biodiversity is required by EU and national law, its actual execution is inadequate.
Household appliance repair costs should be made tax-deductible
Our 7-point strategy against obsolescence recommends, that Household appliance repair costs should be made tax-deductible
Environmental availability of raw materials
The availability of raw materials is determined by more than technical-geological, economic and political factors alone: the environmental risks of mining also has an impact.
European Mobility Week: “Sharing gets you further“
Land take, air and noise pollution: these are just some of the major challenges which motorized transport brings to many cities in Germany.
Round Table Against Marine Litter goes into round two
North and Baltic Sea coasts of Germany continue to be polluted with waste – interim report presents measures against marine litter
Who has the best ecodesign in Germany?
On 11 September a panel jury of environmental and design experts made the nominations for this year's Bundespreis Ecodesign (German Ecodesign Award). Twenty submissions in the areas of architecture, energy, nutrition, home living, interior design, mobility and fashion can now hope to receive an award at an awards ceremony to be held 27 November.
Urban Mining
Why not tap the enormous sources of raw materials which we ourselves have created?
Diesel cars: Software updates are not enough for clean air
Trotz Beschlüssen des Diesel-Gipfels: NO2-Konzentration bleibt hoch
Federal employees continue to travel climate-friendly
Emission reduction credits (ERCs) from high-quality international climate change mitigation projects will continue to compensate the official travel by German federal employees. The Federal Government plans to purchase more than 235,000 ERCs which will then be cancelled. ERCs for emissions in 2015 were purchased earlier this year. The next compensation procedure for 2016 emissions will now follow.
Good indoor air quality is in jeopardy
The German Environment Agency (UBA) is warning of potential health risks as a result of staying in buildings which do not meet adequate European standards.