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The Week: PEFCR, ETS, INBAR, DDW, MVRDV, CO2

1 november 2017admin

Last week, was a week with some Aha moments, and forced to rethink a few issues. Among these a continued discussion in The Netherlands with Jan Willem van de Groep, the passionate protagonist of Nill Onthe Meter retrofits (NOM). Nothing… Continue Reading →

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Buildings construction from modified bamboo

27 november 2015admin

november 2015 Bamboo is a resource hardly known in the industrialized world, that can help sustain our use of materials: its biobased and has a larger yield per functional service as for instance wood. Besides, many developing countries have large… Continue Reading →

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NEW BOOK !
People vs Resources - restoring a world out of balance.

This SUMMER available in ENGLISH.
to be available here, in september

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Only when current energy-money-food institutions go from “ too big to fail” to “ too big to save”, will we have collapse and change …

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RONALD ROVERS:
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chair and organiser 1 st World conference Sustainable Building (SB2000, Maastricht)
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co-founder iiSBE, International NGO: int.initiative for Sustainable Built environment
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honorary member of the Chinese academy for Science and Technology, Wuxi, PRChina
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guest lecturing, in several Europen universities
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Book: Sustainable Housing, a conceptual approach , R.Rovers 2006 ISBN: 978-90-8594-020-3

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