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 Stories About: Austria AND placemaking
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Biomass in Austria: An adventure in pictures
The human-scale, renewable, domestic power systems reviving rural Austrian economies |
David Roberts |
16 Jul 2008 |
Gristmill |
| On a sunny Saturday afternoon in Salzburg, we took a field trip to a few examples of biomass in rural Austria. The country is over 40 percent forested, and over half of the forest is owned by small farmers with less than 40 hectares (just under 100 acres), so the government has put a priority on encouraging biomass use as a substitute for fossil fuels. I ... |
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| Topics: Austria, cogeneration, energy, energy efficiency, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Salzburg: the arrival
Observations from a freshly minted Germanic expert |
David Roberts |
10 Jul 2008 |
Gristmill |
| One of my favorite things to do when I go to other countries is to make wild generalizations about them based on the tiny sliver of exposure I get -- like if someone from India flew to, say, Poughkeepsie and reported back, "Americans seem to love cheese fries!" Today, I flew into Munich and took a shuttle to Salzburg, stopping ... |
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| Topics: placemaking, Austria (all these topics) |
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