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ETH-EiABC Workshop brochure published

20.08.2013 – The first phase of BuraNest, the Ethiopian model city project realized with the involvement of ETH experts, has been completed. We have supported a ten-day workshop for students of both ETH Zurich and the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Planning [EiABC] to analyse the implications of the project scientifically. Click here for the documentation of the workshop.

 

 

New Sustainability Report published

15.07.2013 - ETH Zurich publishes its second sustainability report. The report meets the GRI standard, which business circles recognise as one of the highest quality reporting standards. With this sustainability reporting, ETH Zurich has assumed a pioneering role in the academic environment and hopes other universities will follow its example. Further information

 

 

ETH Sustainability Summer School 2013 started

24.06.2013 - Today is the first day of this year's Singapur-based ETH Sustainability Summer School on "Future Cities". Within the framework on the Summer School, a group of 30 Bachelor, Master and Doctoral students will conduct two case studies on urban design and network design

 

 

Sustainability pioneer Reto Ringger at ETH Zurich

29.05.2013 - ETH Sustainability welcomes financial expert Reto Ringger within its event series "Pioneers in Sustainability" today. He is a "Pioneer in Sustainability" of his own type: as one of the first people in the world, Reto Ringger maintained that the financial sector should take over its responsibility for a sustainable development of our society.

 

 

Sustainability Expert Mathis Wackernagel at ETH Zurich

28.02.2013 – Mathis Wackernagel will today kick off ETH Sustainability's new event series Pioneers in Sustainability.

The event series is directed towards students at ETH Zurich and other universities. It allows students to meet and interact with pioneers from the field of sustainability.

 

 

Event: Socially and ecologically sustainable procurement

05.12.2012 - A socially and ecologically sustainable procurement system can help to protect limited natural goods and to guarantee a socially acceptable production in the countries of origin. But what are the requirements? And what do voluntary commitments bring? One event of the series "Sustainability Dialogue with Leaders and Pioneers" was dedicated to discussing these questions.?More

ISCN-Award: ETH Zurich honored for its underground storage system

21.06.2012 - Over the past five years, ETH Zurich has been developing a dynamic underground storage system at ETH Hönggerberg with the aim to make the campus as CO2-free as possible until 2025. Until today, 230 of the around 800 downhole heat exchangers ((bitte nochmal überprüfen lassen)) have been installed and two underground stations have been constructed to control the temperature of individual building complexes. Since April 2012, the first three buildings have gone on line. For this pioneering project, ETH Zurich was awarded by the International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN).

For more information, please read the related article in ETH-Life "Erdspeicher in Betrieb genommen (21. Juni 2012)". The article is available in German only.

 

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