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Mònica Serlavós is a researcher at the Zoein Institute in Geneva and Director of the Zoein Foundation. She is a co-founder of the Swiss Association for Citizen Energy (ASEC), for which she currently serves as co-president.…
The Cantonal Council of the Canton of Lucerne (parliament of a member state of the Swiss Confederation) enacted a total revision of the Cantonal Energy Act. After collecting more than the 3,000 required signatures, a popular referendum on the law was demanded so that all eligible citizens of the canton of Lucerne could vote on the adoption of the new energy law in 2018. In this referendum, the law was finally approved by a majority of votes and thus adopted.…
Diego Fischer is committed to the energy transition and the expansion of solar power in Switzerland in a variety of capacities. As an engineer, he runs his own company that implements solar plants and provides energy consulting services. Furthermore, he is chairman of an energy cooperative, on the board of various associations for solar energy in Switzerland, and was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Neuchatel for the Green Party.…
forumE.ch is a freely accessible online platform on which practical questions about the Swiss energy transition are answered and discussed. Citizens can ask for and access practical information on the use of certain renewable technologies as well as contribute such information themselves or participate in more general discussions on the energy system and policies. As more contributions and discussions are added, a collectively built knowledge base for the energy transition in Switzerland is expected to emerge.…
A housing cooperative that follows a model of cooperative housing ruled by grant of use, were the property will always be collective, while use is personal. The model eliminates property speculation and profiteering. Members belonging to the cooperative have the ability to decide on juridical, legal and economic aspects and on the housing infrastructure itself. One of its main objectives is to give priority to environmental aspects, which is economically achievable through creating homes with a passive design or low energy consumption, with the local, decentralized and self-managed generation of renewable energy. Less total energy and materials are consumed by sharing major appliances and am…
Although other islands around the world are powered by solar or wind energy, El Hierro is the first to secure a constant supply of electricity by combining wind and water power with no connection to any outside electricity network.…
The project Coaches for Energy and Climate was funded by the Swedish Energy Agency and the European Regional Development Fund through the National Regional Fund Programme. Through the programme, the Swedish Energy Agency provided funding and capacity building for municipal Energy and Climate Advisors to specifically target small and medium-sized enterprises (energy use
The Sámi is an indigenous population that historically lives in an area that covers parts of Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Russia. This area is called Sápmi. In Sweden, the Sámi are recognised as a national minority and have their own parliament that concurrently functions as a government agency and an elected body whose mission is to promote vibrant Sámi culture and livelihoods. In response to the national government’s plans to develop wind power in Sápmi, the parliament adopted a position paper in 2009. The Sámi Parliament is critical of large-scale wind power development in Sápmi and stresses the need to reduce energy overall energy consumption, to localize energy production to where it is…
‘Three car-free months’ was a mobility pilot project carried out by Umeå municipality in 2019, during which the participants had to live their everyday lives for three months without using their cars. The municipality selected ten households with diverging numbers of children in different age groups to participate among the 170 applicants. The families got to borrow electric bikes, there were bus passes for free for the whole family, access to an electric cargo bike-sharing service and discounted access to a carpool.…
Climate Neutral Cities 2030 is an initiative that involves municipalities in testing new ways of working and solutions, learning from each other, and working toward the mission: to create cities that work well for the people who live there, that are good for the economy, citizens, businesses, and society and that are good for the climate. The initiative focuses on system innovation that is required to keep global warming below 1.5° and create a fair and inclusive transition. From the start of 2019, nine municipalities participated. From the autumn of 2021, the initiative was expanded to involve twenty-three municipalities and five national authorities. Climate Neutral Cities 2030 is run by t…
In 2017, young people from Oberegg and the surrounding area (Canton Appenzell-Innerrhoden) founded the new association "Jugend Pro Windrad" (Youth Pro Wind Turbine) with the aim of supporting efforts to produce electricity locally through wind turbines.…
The energy bank is a legally constituted association that promotes energy saving and efficiency for the benefit of those in a situation of energy vulnerability. This is done through pedagogy and transformative solidarity.…
TRIBE project is developing a new energy-efficient videogame that runs with real data from public buildings. It provides a “controlled training regime on energy efficiency, administered in a very motivational way”. The game includes different relevant aspects for improving energy efficiency in buildings.…
Basically, Green House is an experiential learning centre designed to encourage innovative and sustainable lifestyle techniques that are within reach of each of us.…
BEHAVE aimed to enhance the performance of energy-related behaviour change programmes by adopting a rigorously scientific approach to evaluating a wide range of recent examples and by developing an effective model for the design, implementation, and evaluation of this type of programme for use by policymakers, programme designers/managers, and consumer organisations.…
An educational program born in Segovia from the Centro Nacional de Educación Ambiental (CENEAM), now in 12 Spanish communities, is directed at families concerned about their environmental impact and their daily decisions and habits. The program seeks to help them by promoting autonomy in the domestic consumption of water and energy and helping them make more ethical purchases.…
A project initiated by a group of people from Granada (Spain) to create a portal for the support and dissemination of all existing initiatives that face current challenges such as climate change, the economic and social crisis, inequalities and dependence on fossil fuels and their derivatives. To do this, they have established mutual support and participation links with other related groups. They implement online courses and some training projects.…
The transition town in Girona (Spain) created a road map for a sustainable future of the city by proposing a number of changes in the areas of energy production, health, education, economy, and agriculture. The Sustainable Ecovila La Flor de la Vida is an innovative project of sustainable urban growth based on a natural geometric pattern. The concept of this sustainable Ecovila allows the development of an economy that respects human beings, where the project itself marks a new paradigm of economic efficiency. This geometric pattern is "The Flower of Life". It is an ancient symbol that has a perfect shape in terms of proportion and harmony. This harmonic proportion is what makes this project…
The project started in Spain in 1999 with the collaboration of a company from the T-SOL sector and Fundación Tierra, with the following objectives: Provide a response using low-cost, high-efficiency solar technology to the problem of domestic lighting in areas without electrification. More than 1,000 million individuals do not have access to electricity for lighting, having to use systems such as liquid fuels (kerosene, oil, etc.) that create air quality problems inside homes. - Design a portable solar lamp to withstand the harshest environmental conditions that provides the maximum amount of light possible. - Create a product demanded by the cooperating NGOs, given the lack of high-performa…
Aims to mobilize energy savings through the implementation of the 50/50 methodology in 500 schools and nearly 50 other public buildings from 13 EU countries (114 from Spain specifically). The nine-step methodology increases the energy awareness of building users and actively involves them in energy-saving actions. The schoolchildren learn how to be more efficient with energy and the importance of doing so and bring this information and influence back home to their families to create greater impact.…