May 18, Sven Stremke will give an invited presentation at the Eco-Energy Town Symposium in Seoul, upon invitation by the Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. His talk will be on research conducted with NRGlab member Renée de Waal on three European communities that have transited to renewable energy sources (De Waal and Stremke, 2014) and more recent research with NRGlab member Dirk Oudes on sustainable energy transition at the...

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From October 15th till October 20th, NRGlab member Ilse Voskamp attended the Habitat III conference in Quito, Ecuador. Ilse presented the results of the Urban Pulse research at the conference exhibition, in a joint booth from AMS and Wageningen University and Research. Habitat III is the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, which is held once every 20 years (Habitat I: Vancouver, 1976; Habitat II: Istanbul,...

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April 27, Sven Stremke will give a presentation at a conference hosted by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation. The event is part of Landschaftsbild und Energiewende research program conducted by Technical University Dresden, Kassel University, HHP and Weihenstephan University of Applied...

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NRGlab member Paolo Picchi will present at the 2016 IFLA Congress in Torino. The conference paper by Paolo Picchi, Dirk Oudes and Sven Stremke was selected for oral presentation in the “Connected Landscapes” session. The paper focuses on the potential role of landscape architects in Locally based Renewable Energy Organizations with reference to the DEESD project of the NRGlab. Title conference paper: Local renewable energy...

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From 9 till 11 December NRGlab researcher Ilse Voskamp attended the Smart and Sustainable Built Environment conference (SASBE) in Pretoria, South Africa. There she presented selected results of the Urban Pulse research project (2014 -2015), one of the three kick-start projects of the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS). In her SASBE presentation, Ilse discussed what information on resource flows is needed by utility...

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