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Klaus Esterluß | Ideas

celebrating flickr, here are your pictures (to be continued…)

(Photo: Sylvia Santisteban)(Photo: Mika Huettner)(Photo: Balli)(Photo: Ahmed Hassan)
There are a lot of opportunities to present GLOBAL IDEAS in pictures. We have asked you, to give us some examples. Here are the first pictures we got in our mailbox. Thank you very much! We hope that those pictures are an inspiration for you. Send more to ideasforacoolerworld@gmail.com

Date

July 27, 2011

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Klaus Esterluß | Ideas

Dossier: The business of biomass

Valuable fertilizer, two man working in a garden

Biomass is derived from different plant-based organic materials. That includes so-called energy crops such as oil palms, soya or sugarcane as well as plant, household and industrial waste. Biomass can used in a variety of ways – for heating purposes, to generate electricity or to produce biofuels for vehicles and even airplanes. – Everything you ever wanted to know about biomass is now available in the latest GLOBAL IDEAS dossier! Read articles, see photos and watch our reports on the issue right here: http://bit.ly/GI_dossierBMEN

Date

July 26, 2011

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Klaus Esterluß | Ideas

GLOBAL IDEAS: Robin Chase, ITF

Robin Chase is the founder & CEO of Buzzcar, an peer to peer carsharing company. She is also founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the largest carsharing company in the world. She serves on advisory committees for the US Secretary of Commerce and Secretary of Transportation. Her statement for GLOBAL IDEAS is about the future of car sharing.

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July 26, 2011

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sumisom | Ideas

Solar Stadium

The Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron is world-renowned for creating futuristic, cutting-edge and popular designs, like the Tate Modern gallery in London. Now the company is working on what might be one of its most innovative projects yet: a new, eco-friendly football stadium.

The building will be constructed in Bordeaux, France, and serve as the new home for the Bordeaux Girondins team. And most importantly, it will be powered by solar energy! Using a photovoltaic pump, clean power will be distributed throughout the stadium and the surrounding area. Construction is expected to be done by 2016, just in time for UEFA European Football Championship play. And that’s a good thing, too, because the stadium can hold more than 40,000 fans!

What do you all think? Is this the future of football stadiums in Europe and beyond?

Date

July 25, 2011

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Klaus Esterluß | Ideas

Biomass briquettes in India

India produces millions of tons of agricultural waste each year but this material contains much more than just rubbish. The biomass can be used to generate low-carbon energy. That’s what one state in northern India has now begun doing. It’s producing briquettes of fuel from the biomass and selling it to local brick kilns. How the process is working you can see in our gallery.

Date

July 21, 2011

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