This 4th Crosstalks book documents 100 tangible local initiatives from all over the world that fit into a constructive and holistic movement for social and ecological change. Drawing from a pool of personally driven research and bottom-up projects, the book singles out 100 cases in different, yet interrelated domains. The selection itself was motivated by scientific researchers, architects, artists, political thinkers and entrepreneurs who try to make a positive difference in our quest for a future of prosperity, freedom and fun without undermining nature and humanity.
Year: 2010 Languages: English Number of pages: 223 Binding: soft cover ISBN: 9789054876922 Price: 34,95 €View this book on Google books
1/ The Big Struggle Why does urban growth require the erasure of public space and nature? - Julien De Smedt
2/ Flooding Risk in Brussels Water retention capacity of geological units - Kevin De Bondt & Philippe Claeys
3/ School Food Revolution Food and sustainable city-regions: lessons from around the world - Roberta Sonnino
4/ Biomodd as a Paradox - Angelo Vermeulen & Diego Maranan
5/ Possible Futures for the European Parliament - François Schuiten
6/ MELiSSA Energy efficiency and life support in spaceflight and planetary stations - Max Mergeay
7/ Sailing Cargo around the Globe Doubling profits by protecting the environment - Leen de Baat
8/ Las Nubes From the good life to a better life - Stijn De Witte & Filip D'Hulster
9/ Energy: a Cultural Good - François Pachet
10/ The Limits of Population Growth - Paul Gerbrands
11/ Designing Low Energy Practices The effect of co-designing household appliances - François Jégou
12/ Fighting Climate Change The CO2logic approach - Antoine Geerinckx
13/ Physalia Positive energy amphibious garden - Vincent Callebaut
14/ Copenhagen was not a melting glacier: Three extreme climate propositions - Jean Paul Van Bendegem
15/ Rotor The re-use of construction and demolition waste-materials -Rotor asbl
16/ Laptops Unite! Supercomputer for climate simulation - Peter Hanappe
17/ Zeekracht A wind farm master plan for the North Sea - OMA
18/ Seamless Design - Danny Venlet
19/ Recentre Center for sustainable design - Natascha Rommens
20/ Prosperity without material growth - Dirk Holemans
21/ A passive & zero-emission village in former sand quarry: A case of sustainable urbanism in Walloon Brabant - Sebastian Moreno-Vacca
22/ Eco-design Tools Sustainable Product Development - Karine Van Doorsselaer
23/ Solar Cemetery - Sarah Vanagt
24/ Macrobiotics A sustainable way of life and eating - Mieke Pieters & Jan Vervecken
25/ Wind Controls Wind A music installation based on wind control - Walter Hus
26/ OPOWER Behavior-based energy efficiency: reliable, sustainable & cost-effective - Alex Laskey
27/ Enhancing intermodal transport A call for combining intermodal transport and electric vehicles - Cathy Macharis & Joeri Van Mierlo
28/ Circus Hotel Berlin Keeping the writing on the wall - Andreas Becker
29/ PLATOON Organization for Cultural Development - Tom Buschemann & Christoph Frank
30/ Carrotmob Using economy for a better ecology - Frank Delattin
31/ Sustainability Metering Tool for sustainable (school) construction - Luc Eeckhout
32/ Seenergy An interactive map showing energy activities - Olle Dierks
33/ The Case of Edmond A. A displaced system for alpha repair - Bartaku
34/ 'Green' means more than just money when choosing a college Finding a truly green campus may require some research - Kelly Vaughn
35/ Music Fund Music as an instrument for development - Lukas Pairon
36/ Assessing Sustainability Sustainability assessment - a tool to (re)orient energy transitions - Jean Hugé & Tom Waas
37/ Carpooling for Cargo TRI-VIZOR: The world's first cross supply chain orchestrator - Alex Van Breedam, Bart Vannieuwenhuyse & Sven Verstrepen
38/ Resilients - FoAM & partners
39/ Commercial Credit Circuit (C3) A financial innovation to structurally address unemployment - Bernard Lietaer in collaboration with STRO
40/ Sustainability and the Utah Experiment - Sven Gatz
41/ Global Warming The Dilemma of Social Cooperation - Dirk Helbing
42/ Eager To Know/Altijd Willen Weten - Alexander Nieuwenhuis
43/ Grow your own Food Market: A proposal with apartments, vegetable gardens and a wind turbine - Zwarts & Jansma Architects
44/ (Ant)ARCTIC Matters From Expedition to Exhibition - Dixie Dansercoer
45/ The Kaaba-abaak is storming - Speedism
46/ NoiseTube & BrusSense Participatory sensing for sustainable urban life - Matthias Stevens & Ellie D'Hondt
47/ The Connected Urban Development Program - Nico Villa
48/ Creative ecologies & participation: Le Son du Nous - Atau Tanaka, Jamie Allen, Kazuhiro Jo
49/ A plea for redundancy - Rudy Dhont
50/ University Hospital Brussels IT assisting to reach the green nirvana - Rudi Vandevelde & Marc Noppen
51/ OpenStructures A design research project by Thomas Lommée - Ils Huygens and based on a text by Thomas Lommée
52/ Decision Timing Model for inter-event times in human decisions - Josep Perelló
53/ Sustainable Dystopias - Stefano Boeri
54/ Colruyt Group Intermodal Transport: one step closer to sustainable sourcing - Yoeri De Frenne
55/ Art Basics for Children From art library to curiosity and autodidactic interaction - Gerhard Jäger
56/ IntelliGator A distributed energy control mechanism - Gerrit Jan Schaeffer, Maarten Hommelberg & Patrick Vanschoubroek
57/ The Climate Express Bringing people to Copenhagen and Copenhagen to the people - Michael Stevns
58/ Sustainability and Systems NOW - Takashi Ikegami
59/ Manifesto for responsible innovation - Jan Van Mol
60/ Flanders Smart Hub goes cleantech - Wouter Florizoone
61/ Unfinishable Markermeer - John Palmesino & Ann-Sofi Rönnskog
62/ Sensing the system Reducing moral distance from global climate change - Caroline Nevejan
63/ Poldermosque Pluricultural reality in a green, social and economic sustainable building - Cihan Bugdaci & Ergun Erkoçu
64/ Oyakudachi Stories - Lydia Giménez-Llort
65/ The Terror of the Sustainable - Rob van Kranenburg
66/ EMOVO Multi-disciplinary research and training center for energy and environmental technologies - Peter Van den Bossche
67/ AVERE/ASBE Back to the future - Joeri De Ridder
68/ Julie's Bicycle Taking the heat out of the music industry - Alison Tickell
69/ ChinaConduct Can the West learn from China? - Jeanne Boden
70/ Just freedom A deliberate move from energy efficiency to energy sufficiency - Adrian Muller
71/ Integrating Standards, Ecodesign and Users The ISEU project - Grégoire Wallenborn
72/ Move for Climate The best way of improving fuel efficiency is to use cars less - Els Heyvaert
73/ BAD/POWER - JL Again
74/ Picnik A call for friendly food - Annabel Meuleman
75/ Arpia If Beauty can save the World, can Art save the Planet? - Arpia
76/ Thirty Pilot Networks Promoting energy efficiency and climate protection in Germany - Wolfgang Eichhammer, Eberhard Jochem & Harald Bradke
77/ A Public Authority's Perspective on Transport & Logistics - Jacques Devos
78/ Territorial Connection Back to where the river flows - Bas Smets
79/ Future Railway Stations Heading towards the 'Architecture of Wonder' - Salvatore Bono
80/ ETAP New lights on old stereotypes - Christ'l Joris
81/ The Bella Center A zero-emissions lighting project for Copenhagen - Steven Scott
82/ Energy Efficiency in R&D Recycling knowledge across domains - Simon Dewulf
83/ Backcasting Techniques - Alistair Guthrie
84/ FOODMOOD The narrative facets of food - Alok b. Nandi
85/ Yin and Yang - Lulu Wang
86/ Ecotherapy and Ecopsychology A holistic, human ecological, psychological and philosophical approach to a society and planet in crisis - Dimitri Devuyst
87/ Drive Electric Reducing energy consumption in transport by a factor of 2 - Joeri Van Mierlo & Cathy Macharis
88/ DESIS Design for social innovation and sustainability - Ezio Manzini
89/ Shrinking Cities Urbanism vs. the Growth Paradigm: Shrinking Cities - Elke Beyer
90/ Which management for tomorrow's society? - Laurent Ledoux & Roland Vaxelaire
91/ 3E Driving the sustainable ambition of developers - Geert Palmers
92/ Case Study: Recycling Automobiles University education in 'Industrial Ecology' - Saul M. Lemkowitz
93/ Louvain-la-Neuve From a new university town to a regional center - Pierre Laconte
94/ Greening the IES Creating an environmentally friendly workplace Ólöf Söebech
95/ TeamTank 'Need it, work it, do it. Makes us stronger, faster, smarter.' Tine Holvoet & Curdin Tones
96/ Entropy Crisis A biochemist's view on the conservation and dissipation of energy Lode Wyns
97/ Alcohol-fuelled internal combustion engines De-carbonizing transport and securing energy supply - Jeroen Vancoillie & Sebastian Verhelst
98/ Biomimicry Nature's hidden recipes - Gauthier Chapelle
99/ Green ICT Nomadic Applications - Nico Verplancke
100/ Some Fundamentals from Physics Energy, Efficiency and Life: A Very Special Relationship - Nicolas Glansdorff