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Monday, 05 November 2012 |
 Promoting a more holistic approach to capacity development in the water and sanitation sector
By Andrea Pain and Dorothee Spuhler, seecon international gmbh
Water resources are under increasing pressure due to factors such as
population growth and urbanisation, rapid industrialisation, expanding
and intensifying agricultural production and changing consumption
pattern. In the future, climate change will only exacerbate the problem.
This development leads to water scarcity and conflicts worldwide and
seriously undermines progress towards achieving the Millennium
Development Goals.
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Ecology inspiring engineering - a functional approach |
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Monday, 15 October 2012 |
By Bastian Etter* and Andreas Schoenborn, Switzerland
 Good solutions require inspiration. Looking for it can be a tedious endeavour, as we all know. As a technical discipline, engineering relies on a high inspirational input, to quench its thirst for well-applied solutions. However, to find the fitting function, engineering needs to go beyond the inherent technology. In the case of ecological engineering, the employed technologies are claimed to be ecological. As a consequence, ecological engineers may find appropriate answers in ecology, and particularly, in ecological systems.
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New Book: Sustainable Rural and Urban Ecosystems |
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Monday, 24 September 2012 |
 Design, Implementation and Operation
The vision of a truly holistic ecological university was the aim of a joint German-Ghanaian program carried out at Valley View University (biggest private university in Ghana).
Gunther Geller (IOeV, Germany) and Detlev Glücklich (Bauhaus University, Germany), both directly involved in this project, now summarize their experiences in a "Manual for Practice and Study", published in June 2012 by Springer.
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Conference: Great Wetlands, Healthy Watersheds |
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Saturday, 22 September 2012 |
 The Wisconsin Wetlands Association invites interested professionals to submit a proposal for a symposium and/or a presentation at its 18th Annual Wetlands Conference, "Great Wetlands, Healthy Watersheds". Date & Location: Blue Harbor Resort, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA, February 12-14, 2013.
Call for symposia until Sep. 30, 2012
Call for oral and poster presentation until Nov. 11, 2012
See http://wisconsinwetlands.org/2013symposia.htm for details
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Transforming cities - the eco-tech approach |
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Monday, 03 September 2012 |
 By Bastian Etter, Switzerland
How can future cities become greener? How can we reconnect our urban living space to nature? What is green and what makes it green? Tempted by the idea of simply peeling off a city's concrete cocoon, to revert to its natural functions and forms, the International Ecological Engineering Society debated on visions and ways ahead during their symposium held at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in January 2012.
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Constructed Wetland on a Roof |
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Thursday, 30 August 2012 |
 Frank van Dien of the Dutch company ECOFYT took part in the Dutch Green Building Award 2012 with his remarkable project "Constructed Green Roof at Berkel-Enschott" - treating domestic wastewater on the roof of the building.
http://www.greenbuildingaward.nl/award1.asp?id=231
He writes about the project:
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Winners of "Reinventing the toilet" challenge |
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Thursday, 16 August 2012 |
In a move to promote new and affordable dry toilets, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation issued a challenge to universities one year ago. 22 universities took part. The aim was to
design toilets that can "capture and process human waste without piped
water, sewer or electrical connections, and transform human waste into
useful resources, such as energy and water, at an affordable price". In a press release of August 14, 2012, the winners were named.
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Mukura Forest – an almost lost treasure |
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Sunday, 22 January 2012 |
 Battle against many oddities by an IEES-related organisation.
The Mukura Forest is located within the Albertine Rift Region in Rwanda's Western Province, within the Congo-Nile crest. It used to be part of a continuous mountain forest from Nyungwe to the Volcanos Park. Today, this ancient forest range with areas of endemic species in Africa and the world is split in four important protected areas in Rwanda from south to north : the Nyungwe, Mukura and Gishwati forests and the Volcano Park.
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New Book: Sustainable Urban Environments |
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Tuesday, 13 December 2011 |
 The urban environment – buildings, cities and infrastructure –
represents one of the most important contributors to climate change,
while at the same time holding the key to a more sustainable way of
living. The transformation from traditional to sustainable systems
requires interdisciplinary knowledge of the re-design, construction,
operation and maintenance of the built environment.
The new book "Sustainable Urban Environments - an Ecosystem Approach" is edited by Ellen van Bueren, Hein van Bohemen, Laure Itard and Henk Visscher.
See http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/ecology/book/978-94-007-1293-5 for more details.
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