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Embodied Land

EU: No Net land Take ?

6 februari 2023admin
no-net-land-take

A new regulation is in the making in Europe: No net land take. PBL ( NL environmental assessment agency) recently organized a meeting on the topic.[1] It’s an interesting approach and wording, but what’s really the point? First, there is… Continue Reading →

Embodied Land, EU, government, land, landuse, policies, regulations, urban

Where to buy 1 ha of sea …

2 oktober 2022admin
ocean-2

The other day I was thinking, I’m going to invest some money in land, since it has a stable value, or at least, has lasting ‘value’. But then I realized that this has mainly (for the time being) financial value,… Continue Reading →

agriculture, Embodied Land, land, Netherlands, ownership, policies

The ‘Solar Space’, per m2 of living area 2/2

13 augustus 2022admin
schaduw-gebouwen-aerial-shadow

Since we are in an energy transition , in which we completely switch to renewable energy, the energy at building level will mainly have to come from solar energy. We assume that, the more local energy the better, and a… Continue Reading →

0-energy, assessment, embodied energy, Embodied Land, energyneutral, indicator, land, landuse, solar energy

From EROI to EROLI: energy return on Land investment ? 2/2

8 mei 2022admin
landschap

In the agricultural project that I described in my previous contribution [1], which was initially about the EROI, the energy return on energy investment, I subsequently calculated the effects back to land’input’. But then the thought soon arised: would is… Continue Reading →

agriculture, assessment, biobased, biomass, Embodied Land, EROI, EROLI, food, labor, land, landuse, system boundaries

EROI and land use of potato crop – a pilot 1/2

25 april 2022admin
aardappeleters

In a recent project , ‘Verrijkende Landbouw’ ( Enriching Agriculture) [1], I was able to refine the theory and methodology of MAXergy, using Embodied Land as an indicator [2], thanks to a practical pilot. As follows. Agriculture needs to change.… Continue Reading →

agriculture, biomass, Embodied Land, EROI, food, labor, land, landuse, MAXergy

The Bionological House

7 maart 2022admin
treehouses

With vegetables, we’ve been doing it for years: most current vegetables never existed, in an autonomous evolutionary process. We as humans have slowly transformed them so that they grow the way we appreciate them, and want them on our plates.… Continue Reading →

agriculture, architecture, biobased, bionology, building, Embodied Land, future, housing stock, land, landuse, materials, prefab, technology

Carbon storage: the land-time relation 2/2

20 februari 2022admin
1-tree-island-lone-palm-tree-on-small-island-john-lund

There are many ways you can start “accounting” for CO2 (as comments on the previous article also showed), but at the end of the day what matters are absolute CO2 emissions, from whatever activity. And cutting down a tree and… Continue Reading →

agriculture, assessment, biobased, climate, CO2, Embodied Land, forests, future, housing stock, land, landuse, materials, resources

Golf – the decadence in our use of space

5 december 2021admin
golf-coesfeld-gc-duitsland-golfreizen-overzicht-holes

For a new book, I explore the space-time relationship of many human activities, as a measure of our system impact, and to see if there are alternatives that can do with less. Space time in the sense that the conversion… Continue Reading →

Embodied Land, future, land, landuse, policies, society, sports

light pole materials compared…

30 mei 2021admin
lantaarnpaal-lichtmast-landschap

I am often amazed at the amount of lights in the built environment, which only seems to be growing. Everyone thinks they have to illuminate everything. Driveways, stairs, gardens, anything you can think of has a light on it. That… Continue Reading →

Embodied Land, exergy, land, materials, MAXergy, resources

Half the agricultural land for biobased materials…

16 mei 2021admin
koolzaad4

Last week I published a letter in the Netherlands, in which I indicated that about 800,000 hectares of land would be needed for the construction of new homes. That’s how it works in a transition: We have to significantly reduce… Continue Reading →

biobased, building, embodied energy, Embodied Land, future, landuse, resources

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Form Follows Fysics - reinventing the built environment (2021)
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