Munich wants 100% of clean energy by 2025

Within 11 years, the third German city Munich, wants to stop relying on fossil fuels. The challenge is almost impossible â€" the Stadtwerke München, municipal electricity company, will produce 7.5 billion kilowwats hour of green energy, for a population of more than one million people â€" but the Bavarian town believe there can reach.

Among the various projects already underway to reach the goal highlighted by the installation of a central hidreléctrica installed on the river Isar. The centrla secured energy supply from clean source 4,000 houses in the town. And in Munich Zoo, elephant dung is converted into biofuel.

According to the sustainable planet the Stadtwerke München also has invested in renewable projects in other European countries, as a solar plant in Andalusia, in Spain, and in wind farms in the North Sea, between England and Scandinavia. The electricity produced in these places feed integrated network of Europe. Many companies and local merchants are also doing their part, by opting for clean energy along their electricity companies.

It is true that Germany is one of the most advanced countries in the world when it comes to sustainability initiatives and green technologies, but even this leadership will lead Munich for sustainable energy self-sufficiency by 2025.

Foto: Mihai Dragan / Creative Commons

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The world's scariest steps

If you have dizziness, do not read this article. Some of the main wonders of the Planet are hundreds of meters high, and are likely to be visited from sloping staircases and, sometimes, with few safety conditions.

The Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia, has an inclination of 70% â€" do not seem, admittedly â€" even the most adventurous traveller of the world must have some care to climb the Yosemite National Park in California, United States, with its 400 metres of ascent complicated.

Finally, in Machu Picchu, the tourists have to climb 182 metres of granitic rocks; While to get to top of Florli, in Lysefjord, Norway takes over next steps â€" 4,444, the Monumental Stairs, in Coimbra, are child's play.

1. Devil's Cascade, Ecuador

2.Machu Picchu, Peru

3. Janssen Observatory, France

4. great wall of China, China

5. Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain

6.Escadas Flørli, Norway

7. Time hindu, Malaysia

8. Duomo, Milan, Italy

9. Yosemite National Park, California, United States

10. statue of liberty, New York, United States

11. in Oahu, Hawaii

12. Angkor Wat, Cambodia

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Super Typhoon stronger than year comes to the Pacific

While there have been large tropical storm intensity already this year, the super Typhoon Vongfong currently underway in the Pacific, will be the strongest tropical storm recorded since the beginning of 2014.

With gusts to more than 482 km/h sustained winds and the 249km/h, is the most intense storm to rip through the oceans this year. Currently, Vongfong is listed in category 4, but forecasters indicate that can reach the dangerous category 5 in the next few days.

Last year, the super Typhoon Haiyan became one of the most intense tropical storms of the records. Since the beginning of the year already formed five super typhoons, but none with the intensity of Haiyan. When experiencing warmer waters later this week, the storm is expected to increase in intensity, heading to Japan, referred to the Inhabitat.

Last week, Hurricane Phanfone hit Japan, killing 50 people. Although October is hurricane season, in recent years the number and intensity of tropical storms have been increasing, as a result of climate change.

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The abandoned Sanatorium of Covilhã

In 20 years, the multi-faceted Portuguese architect Cottinelli Telmo designed one of the most iconic buildings of this phase of Portuguese life, the Sanatorium of Covilhã. Today, the building is rehabilitated and reopened to the public as a hotel, but Portuguese photographer John Gago photographed it before rehab, a work presented in the gallery below.

The building of Covilhã was one of the first Portuguese sanatoria, 11 a project commissioned by CP to treat his employees who suffered from tuberculosis. The venue has a wide connection to the clean, fresh air, ideal for those who suffered from this disease

Built between 1928 and 1936, the sanatorium was opened several years later, having worked for nearly four decades. After many decades closed, the building reopened this year as a luxury hotel, the result of an investment of close to $ 20 million â€" of sanitarium for railwaymen to a luxury hotel, a twist of fate.

Cottinelli Telmo continued to create buildings that today stand as highpoints of the architecture of a particular city-as the University City of Coimbra or pattern of discovery, for example. His work encompassed an enormous diversity, having still been film director, writer, poet, designer or musician. However, no work will mean something as esoteric as the sanatorium.

A degree in photography and Visual culture from the Instituto de Artes Visuais, Design e Marketing (IADE) in Lisbon, John the Stutterer has collaborated with newspapers and Public Destak and discovered the passion for photography among the Media Sciences studies.

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Lamborghini unveils its first hybrid car

In the past, the sports cars were synonymous with speed, luxury and money, but not of sustainability. However, this paradigm is changing and there are many State-of-the-art sports brands that begin to produce more sustainable models.

Now it is time of the Lamborghini reveal their first hybrid car: the Asterion LPI 910-4. The Asterion, presented at the Paris Motor Show 2014, is powered by the new plug-in hybrid system of Lamborghini, which combines a 5.2 liter V10 Engine with three electric motors.

In total there are 910 horsepower and requirements to make the Asterion LPI 910-4 in a top of the range sports car are all there: go to 100 km/h in three seconds, until it reaches a top speed of 320 km/h. The sustainable part lies in the fact that can travel up to 50 km in electric mode, more than most hybrids on the market, such as the Ford Fusion Hybrid and the Honda Accord Energi plug-in Hybrid. In electric mode it is possible to reach speeds of up to 125 km/h.

When Asterion LPI 910-4, Lamborghini showed no production plans, referred to in Inhabitat. But most likely between in production next year.

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Former oil Executive confirmed as the new European Commissioner for environment

Not even half a million people who signed a petition against Miguel Arias Canete managed to prevent the Spanish politician was appointed European Commissioner for environment. According to Green, the former Business Executive and shareholders of two Spanish oil companies benefited from a pact between the center-left and right-wing parties, which saw the former Prime Minister of Slovakia, Alenka Bratusek, excluded for the post.

However, and according to the site, the agreement meant that the words "sustainability, climate action and energy" were added to the functions of Frans Timmermans, who was appointed to the post of First Vice-President of the Commission and, in practice, is head of Cañete.

Like Green Savers announced in September, Cañete has shares of Ducor S.L. and Petrologis Canarias S.L. at the date of your last declaration of interests, in 2010. The appointment of the politician, who was Minister of agriculture in Spain, was criticized by several members of the Committee on the environment, including the German Jo Leinen.

More recently, a petition launched on Avaaz tried pressing the European Commission to rename your responsible for Environment folder, without success. "Today, MEPs have betrayed our hopes and put a ' head-to-head ' oil in front of Police European Climate," said Luis Morago, campaigns director of Avaaz. "The leaders of the Socialists and Democrats broke their promises and none heard European voters".

Yesterday, it is recalled, the European Union approved public funding for a nuclear power station at Hinkley Point, United Kingdom, allowing a whole new trend of building this infrastructure with public money.

Photo: José Loaiza / Creative Commons

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Chile: an eco-friendly hotel overlooking the volcanoes

Located in Isla Chiloe, a well-known Chilean Island North of the Patagonia, the hotel Espejo de Luna is of those who do not forget. In addition to its main building, the ecological and the restaurant were dug inside the hull of a ship. According to Inhabitat, the other four structures were built with local materials and designed to stop having a reduced environmental impact.

The complex consists of four wooden cabins of different sizes, as well as a boat-shaped restaurant â€" the one. To keep carbon emissions at low levels, the architects used local wood â€" the restaurant also seeks to use local produce wherever possible, avoiding unnecessary transport. The hotel also has mechanisms for saving water and energy.

The cabins have private bathrooms, kitchens and living rooms, offering breathtaking views of Corcovado Mountain and the volcanoes of Chaitén and Michinmahuida. Visitors can also rent bikes and go for themselves the nature trails.

The Espejo de Luna received sustainable tourism Seal issued by the Government of Chile, in 2013, but the management holds twice-yearly plans for protecting the environment and reducing the carbon footprint of buildings.

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