Category: Human Powered Neighbourhood
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Life in the first climate-neutral neighbourhood in the Netherlands is largely determined by the weather and the seasons. Collage: Golnar Abbasi & Arvand Pourabbasi. Lees dit artikel in het Nederlands.
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The first carbon-neutral district in the Netherlands says no to modern healthcare, which is completely dependent on fossil fuels. Yet the inhabitants are just as healthy as other Dutch people.
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As the first carbon neutral neighbourhood in the Netherlands, Bospolder-Tussendijken is an outsider. But that does not mean that the residents are cut off from the outside world: they have a mobile phone and use the Internet. The difference is that the local communication network is not dependent on fossil fuels. Lees dit artikel in…
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It’s a sunny Saturday afternoon in 2030 and the residents of the first carbon-neutral neighbourhood in the Netherlands are flocking to the main shopping street. They do this on their own, without the use of fossil fuels or electricity. Lees dit artikel in het Nederlands. Collages: Golnar Abbasi & Arvand Pourabbasi.
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The former roof park in Bospolder-Tussendijken is teeming with life in 2030. It is the place where food and firewood are grown and stored. Lees dit artikel in het Nederlands. Collages by Golnar Abbasi & Arvand Pourabbasi.
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It’s 2030 and the 14,000 residents of the first carbon neutral neighbourhood in the Netherlands gather at the communal fires, where they cook and eat together. Lees dit artikel in het Nederlands. Collages by Golnar Abbasi & Arvand Pourabbasi.
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It’s an ordinary day in 2030. In Bospolder-Tussendijken, the first carbon neutral neighbourhood in the Netherlands, the residents gather on public squares, to brush their teeth, take a shower or a bath, wash their clothes, and hear the latest gossip.
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Lees dit artikel in het Nederlands. We are in 2030 and the Dutch neighbourhood Bospolder-Tussendijken (BoTu) is 100% carbon neutral. To radically reduce energy use, all household tasks are organised communally. Cooking, eating, doing the dishes, doing the laundry, showering, brushing teeth, going to the toilet: it all happens outside the individual household. Consequently, energy…
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Lees dit artikel in het Nederlands. We are in 2030. Bospolder-Tussendijken (BoTu), once one of the poorest neighbourhoods in the Dutch city of Rotterdam, has become completely independent of fossil fuels. The neighbourhood has achieved this without the use of expensive technology and infrastructure. Energy production relies entirely on locally available resources: human power and…
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Lees dit artikel in het Nederlands. In a new scenario, the Human Power Plant will convert an entire area in Rotterdam into a fossil fuel free society. Bospolder-Tussendijken (BoTu) is one of the poorest neighbourhoods in the Netherlands, and has been selected as a testing ground for the energy transition. Because it is not clear…
Human Power Plant 