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Club of Amsterdam Journal, June 2012, Issue 149
Content Sustainable Energy – Initiatives & Reports. Next Event A nose for the futureClub of Amsterdam blogNews about the Future Jane McGonigal: Truths & Myths in GamingRecommended Book: The Very Hungry City: Urban Energy Efficiency and the Economic Fate of Cities The Global Information Technology Report 2012 Agenda Credentials Club of Amsterdam SearchSubmit your articleContactSubscribe Welcome to the Club of Amsterdam Journal. Half of humanity – 3.5 billion people – currently live in cities and by 2055 an estimated 75% of the world’s population will live in urban areas. Cities occupy just 2% of the Earth’s land, but account for over 70% of both energy consumption and carbon emissions.However, cities present the world’s population with the best chance of reducing our ecological footprint. Urban areas are uniquely positioned to lead the greening of the global economy through improvements in transport, energy, buildings, technology, water and waste systems, as well as producing a wide range of economic and social benefits. To achieve this, existing and new-build cities will have to adopt sustainable development strategies, including efficiency gains, innovative infrastructures and technological advancements in order to meet the demands of this rapidly growing urban population.– Sustainable Cities is being launched in June 2012 at Rio+20 – the United Nations Conference on Sustainable DevelopmentJoin us at the future of Urban Energy– Thursday, 28 June!…. interested in knowing more and sharing thoughts and ideas …. email us! Felix Bopp, editor-in-chief Sustainable Energy – Initiatives & Reports Initiatives How to develop a Sustainable Energy Action Plan The European Union is leading the global fight against climate change, and has made it its top priority. The EU committed itself to reducing its overall emissions to at least 20 % below 1990 levels by 2020. Local authorities play a key role in the achievement of the EU’s energy and climate objectives. The Covenant of Mayors is a European initiative by which towns, cities and regions voluntarily commit to reducing their CO2 emissions beyond this 20 % target. This formal commitment is to be achieved through the implementation of Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SEAPs). SETIS – European Initiative on Smart Cities This Initiative will support cities and regions in taking ambitious and pioneering measures to progress by 2020 towards a 40% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions through sustainable use and production of energy. This will require systemic approaches and organisational innovation, encompassing energy efficiency, low carbon technologies and the smart management of supply and demand. In particular, measures on buildings, local energy networks and transport would be the main components of the Initiative. Intelligent Energy – Europe The Intelligent Energy – Europe (IEE) programme is giving a boost to clean and sustainable solutions. It supports their use and dissemination and the Europe-wide exchange of related knowledge and know-how.Targeted funding is provided for creative projects putting this idea into practice Sustainable Energy Week Every year hundreds of organisations and individuals in over 30 countries take part in EU Sustainable Energy week by hosting Energy Day events and activities that promote energy efficiency and renewable energy sources. Reports Networks and buildings: Inventing a new quality of life The most highly industrialized countries have become aware of the challenges involved in energy and environmental efficiency in the construction sector. According to the International Energy Agency, this sector represents two-thirds of the solution for reducing greenhouse gases by a factor of four by 2050. bp-Imperial College Urban Energy Systems Project The BP Urban Energy Systems project at Imperial will identify the benefits of a systematic, integrated approach to the design and operation of urban energy systems, with a view to identify large reductions in the energy intensity of cities. Cities for Living 2010 The Veolia Observatory of Urban Lifestyles sheds some light on the environmental issues facing the world’s large cities.Research carried out for Veolia Environnement by TNS Sofres. Getting Smart about Smart Cities By Alcatel-LucentTelecommunications service providers are not playing a primary role in smart city projects. Their involvement remains limited, which means they run the risk of having to compete with utilities, cable companies, and other types of service providers, to provide information and communications technology (ICT) services. But by leveraging their assets in a proactive way and partnering with the key players in a smart city project, service providers can change their role from that of facilitators of other industry objectives, to that of strategic partners of the key industries and governments involved in each project. Sustainable Urban Energy Planning A handbook for cities and towns in developing countries By UN-HABITAT and UNEP.The main purpose of this handbook is to assist people who are working in or with local government to develop sustainable energy and climate action plans and implementation programmes. There can be no single recipe for all cities – so it is up to each local government to develop its own innovative and appropriate plans based on local resources and needs. Special Summer Event the future of Urban Energy June 28, 2012, 18:30 – 21:15Option: Guided Tour 17:00Location: Van Eesterenmuseum, Burgemeester De Vlugtlaan 125, 1063 BJ AmsterdamSupported by the Van EesterenmuseumThe conference language is English. The speakers and topics are:Laurens Tait, Associate Civil Engineer, ArupAdapting to a changing energy landscapeKim Taylor, Marketing Manager, The New MotionAttitudes towards mobility and the potential of EV’s in energy supplyPauline Westendorp, Co-founder, Wij krijgen KippenAmsterdam Zuid lives, works and moves on clean local energy before 2020!and our moderator Paul Hughes, Ten Meters of Thinking A nose for the future The International Fragrance Association (IFRA) was founded in 1973 in Geneva to represent the collective interests of the fragrance industry. Its main purpose is to promote the safe enjoyment of fragrances worldwide. As a global network IFRA acts as the representative of the fragrance industry, encouraging dialogue whilst promoting the safety and benefits of the fragrance industry’s products. Together with the industry’s scientific centre, RIFM (the Research Institute for Fragrance Materials), the IFRA team makes sure that the establishment of usage standards for fragrance materials is put into practice according to the available scientific recommendation, and that member companies comply with those standards. Self-regulation enables the IFRA standards to be adopted very rapidly by fragrance houses worldwide and by the industry as a whole. All of RIFM’s scientific findings are evaluated by an independent, scientific Expert Panel – an international group of dermatologists, pathologists, toxicologists and environmental scientists with absolutely no ties to the fragrance industry. The IFRA Code of Practice applies to the manufacture and handling of all fragrance materials, for all types of applications and contains the full set of IFRA Standards. Abiding by the IFRA Code of Practice is a prerequisite for all fragrance supplier companies that are members of IFRA (through their national or regional associations). Currently IFRA members supply 90% of the global market for fragrance compounds. Living Well with Your Sense of Smellby the Sense of Smell Instiutute, the research and education division of The Fragrance Foundation A 32-page exploration of the sense of smell that includes an overview of the anatomy and physiology of smell, the multi-faceted role of aroma in our daily lives and its positive effect on well-being, a brief history of the sense of smell and a comprehensive glossary of olfactory terminology. Club of Amsterdam blog Club of Amsterdam bloghttp://clubofamsterdam.blogspot.com Burning Issues: EducationBurning Issues: Resources: Water, Energy, Air, FoodBurning Issues: HealthBurning Issues: Climate Change / Sustainability (1)Burning Issues: Climate Change / Sustainability (2)Burning Issues: Economy / Stock Market / PovertyBurning Issues: Waste / PollutionBurning Issues: GlobalizationThe ultimate freedom: beyond timeLimits to KnowingSocratic Innovation News about the Future The Future of Retirement: Why family mattersHSBC’s The Future of Retirement programme is a world-leading independent study into global retirement trends. It provides authoritative insights into the key issues associated with ageing populations and increasing life expectancy around the world. Since The Future of Retirement programme began in 2005, more than 110,000 people worldwide have been surveyed. Global Cleantech Innovation Index report 2012Cleantech Group and The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) reveal a report on innovative cleantech countries of 2012.Which countries are producing cleantech innovation today? Which countries should we watch in the future? Unique insight into the sources of cleantech innovation around the world. What can countries do to promote cleantech innovation in their economies? Jane McGonigal: Truths & Myths in Gaming Video game designer Jane McGonigal argues that games are not a waste of time. In fact, she argues, “we need to look at what games are doing for gamers, the skills that we’re developing, the relationships that we’re forming, the heroic qualities that we get to practice every time we play, like resilience, like perseverance, and grit, and determination, like having epic ambitions and the ability to work with other players, sometimes thousands of other players at the same time.” Recommended Book The Very Hungry City: Urban Energy Efficiency and the Economic Fate of CitiesBy Austin Troy As global demand for energy grows and prices rise, a city’s energy consumption becomes increasingly tied to its economic viability, warns the author of The Very Hungry City. Austin Troy, a seasoned expert in urban environmental management, explains for general readers how a city with a high “urban energy metabolism” – that is, a city that needs large amounts of energy in order to function – will be at a competitive disadvantage in the future. He explores why cities have different energy metabolisms and discusses an array of innovative approaches to the problems of expensive energy consumption. Troy looks at dozens of cities and suburbs in Europe and the United States – from Los Angeles to Copenhagen, Denver to the Swedish urban redevelopment project Hammarby Sjöstad – to understand the diverse factors that affect their energy use: behavior, climate, water supply, building quality, transportation, and others. He then assesses some of the most imaginative solutions that cities have proposed, among them green building, energy-efficient neighborhoods, symbiotic infrastructure, congestion pricing, transit-oriented development, and water conservation. To conclude, the author addresses planning and policy approaches that can bring about change and transform the best ideas into real solutions. The Global Information Technology Report 2012 By INSEAD and the World Economic Forum Living in a Hyperconnected World INSEAD: “This is the third consecutive year Singapore has come in second in the Global Information Technology Report’s benchmark Network Readiness Index. The nation-state has its eye on the number one spot – occupied for as many years by Sweden – so much so that Singapore’s Infocom, Development Authority actually sent a delegation to Sweden last year to observe its best practices in ICT, and found that high broadband penetration in Sweden is a key component to that country’s success. Broadband penetration levels in Singapore are around 80 percent.” You can download the report click here Agenda Season Events 2011/2012June 28, 2012the future of Urban EnergyOption: Guided Tour 17:00Location: Van Eesterenmuseum, Burgemeester De Vlugtlaan 125, 1063 BJ AmsterdamSupported by the Van Eesterenmuseum Credentials Felix Bopp, Editor-in-Chief
Urban Tribes
Content Program Tickets Supporters Bios Location Ressources Contact Special Summer Event Urban Tribes – where is the magic? Open Round Table A Club of Amsterdam event in collaboration with MySTèR. Sunday, July 22, 2012: 15:00 – 17:00 Location: MySTèR, Christian-Rötzel-Allee 18, 41334 Breyell-Nettetal, Germany [near Venlo, Netherlands]Participation is free – you are invited to contribute a small donation at the event.Please register by sending an email to ticketcorner@clubofamsterdam.com The Open Round Table language is English. This Open Round Table is part of the Art Exhibition with Native American ArtistsTurtle Island Meets Europawww.myster.nl/exh/July 21 – August 3, 2012, 14:00 – 18:00 every day Contributions Bernie Harder, Canada A Fairy Tale Video Impressions Luc Sala: “In our day and age the old tribal awareness, once rooted in genetic and ethnic connections, is changing, people feel a tribal connection based on common cultural patters, shared expressions like music, literature, sports or just common interests. The internet and its social networking opportunities enhances this trend. So there are tribes of people interested and active in this or that hobby, activity or subject. A special kind of tribal awareness, and one that has deep roots in many indigenous cultures, is the shared feeling that a tribe shares a magical understanding, a sacred and to some extent secret core. We can call these the tribes of magic. This magical feeling goes beyond the religious, it has to do with the spiritual connectedness to the all, with nature, the earth, with the notion that we are all one.” Seth Godin, American entrepreneur, author: “A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea…A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.” From the preface to Seth Godin’s book “Tribes“: “The Latin word tribuere (of which the word “tribe” is derived) means to divide, share, assign, allocate (and the Latin “tribe” is the arrangement of people into groups). In short, each of us, to paraphrase Michel Serres, is the fuzzy intersection of tribes. This, by itself, is not new; what is new, though, is that each of us is now able to easily express this multiplicity via the Internet — to choose to belong to several tribes either as leaders or as followers.” Sunday, July 22, 2012 15:00 – 17:00Open Round Table with Ola Parcinska, Culture Specialist Luc Sala, MySTèR Robert Shepherd, Founder, Eduverse Khannea Suntzu, Second Life Extravaganza Aja Waalwijk, Artist, Ruigoord and more … Our moderator isArjen Kamphuis, Futurist, Co-founder, CTO, GendoYou are invited to participate – actively or by active listening! Participation is free – you are invited to contribute a small donation at the event.Please register by sending an email to ticketcorner@clubofamsterdam.comPlease let us know in case you intend to stay for dinner. There is an option to stay for a modest amount at the B&B.See www.myster.nl/benb.htm Ola ParcinskaCulture SpecialistPassionate about people and different cultures Aleks enjoys an international life style. Originally from Poland, she lived in France, Austria, and England before moving to the Netherlands and the multilingual city of Amsterdam. After a few years of working as a management consultant, Aleks moved into the cultural sector. Aleks worked with the Dutch Polish Foundation in Amsterdam and recently completed a job as a project manager for the research project on multilingualism in Europe, “Language Rich Europe” in the British Council Netherlands. Luc SalaMySTèR Luc Sala is a physicist and economist by training, but worked all his life in the media as entrepreneur, television maker, writer, journalist and publisher. He has written thousands of articles and a dozen books about many subjects, from ICT to the esoteric. His fancy is understanding information and how humans use information.www.lucsala.nlwww.myster.nl Robert ShepherdFounder, Eduverse Robert Shepherd is a graduate from the University of Toronto and the Ontario College of Art. He has been working with electronic media since 1978. His goal is to create more intuitive integration between abstract/synthetic worlds and the real world. In Feb 2008 he established The Eduverse Foundation to further his goals of promoting virtual environments for educational purposes. The Eduverse has had 3 symposia, initiated the “emocracy” project and the MEP (which looks to use SimCity as a mobile phone based educational platform), presented at the ibc, AR+RFID (The Hague), IDIAP and the Waag Society, acted as virtual educational consultant to surfnet and kennisnet, been involved with TEDxAmsterdam, The AMI consortium, FITC Amsterdam, Picnic, FiFi, Cinekid, Appsterdam , ESUG and the Club of Amsterdam. Robert has also taught virtual world strategies to educators from various universities in The Netherlands as well as setting up the University of Maastricht virtual design sim. His client list includes The ING Bank, IBM, NASA and Microsoft. At present he is working on developing an educational game event for Amsterdam and a project (together with STIMED) entitled The Visual Sound System (VSS) to help teach children to read and play music more intuitively.www.eduverse.org Khannea SuntzuSecond Life ExtravaganzaKhannea Suntzu is a blogger, ‘charting’ societal current trends with prevailingly sarcastic articles and comments. Interested in the full range of narratives ranging from Dystopian to Utopian, Khannea tends to ask those politically incorrect “taboo blind” questions that come back to haunt her. As a “card-carrying” critical transhumanist as well as LGBT rights activist, Khannea prefers the pronoun “she”, as the alternative would be just too boring. Khannea is a radical feminist and prefers women to be in charge for a century. Khani narrates developments in energy/resource depletion, the collapse of global democratic values, human rights, emerging technologies, gaming (game design) and what we collectively expect the future to become. She recently held a short keynote in Belgrade on the dangers of irreversible technological unemployment (and the resulting massive societal disparity), a favoured subject which she has characterized as “a potential existential risk”.Khannea is highly involved with ‘Second Life’, as she changed her real world name to reflect her registered Second Life Avatar. She regards SL as a “visualization tool”.Khannea is a Space Based Power advocate, a radical progress advance, and is very concerned about the surreal degree of over-extendedness in the industrialized countries of the world. She is a rather bitter critic of US foreign policy and our current forms of capitalism.In ‘spiritual’ matters, Khannea is inclined to dealing with the world with a Techno-Shamanic mindset, largely because that’s a good excuse to be lazy about complex technological minutiae. Aja WaalwijkArtist, Ruigoord Aja is born in 1952, working as a visual artist, teacher of Dutch language, performer and writer of songtexts. Involved in the village of Ruigoord, Zaal 100 (Amsterdam) and the Culturele Stelling van Amsterdam ( a growing network of cooperating free cultural spaces in and around the city of Amsterdam. Besides I am a member of the Amsterdam Balloon Company. At this moment participating in organising the Second Futurologic Symposium Free Cultural Spaces in Ruigoord coming august. I initiated e.g. the Urban Tribes Meeting in Christiania 2008, Danmark, and held a reading on the subject during the Boom-Festival in Portugal 2010.www.wittereus.net/aja Arjen KamphuisFuturist, Co-founder, CTO, GendoArjen is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Gendo. He studied Science & Policy at Utrecht University and worked for IBM and Twynstra Gudde as IT-architect, trainer and IT-strategy advisor. Since late 2001 Arjen has been self-employed, advising clients on the strategic impact of new technological developments. He is a certified EDP auditor and information security specialist. As a much sought-after international speaker on technology policy issues he gives over 100 keynote talks every year. Since 2002 he has been involved in formulating public IT-policy in the area of open standards and opensource for the government and public sector. Arjen advises senior managers and administrators of companies and public institutions, members of parliament and the Dutch Cabinet about the opportunities offered by open standards and opensource software for the European knowledge economy and society as a whole. Besides information technology Arjen also works on scenarioplanning and strategic assesments of emerging technologies sush as bio- and nanotechnology. With clients he investigates the social, economic and geo-political impact of science and technology.Arjen’s collumns and article’s can be found on his Gendo blog.Dutch: www.gendo.nl/blog/arjenEnglish: www.gendo.ch/en/blog/arjen MySTèRChristian-Rötzel-Allee 1841334 Breyell-NettetalGermany[near Venlo, Netherlands] Trainwww.ns.nlwww.bahn.de Amsterdam – Eindhoven – Venlo: 08:38-09:59/10:02-10:43, 10:38-11:59/12:02-12:43Venlo – Eindhoven – Amsterdam: 19:19-20:00/20:02-21:22, 21:19-22:00/22:02-23:22Den Haag – Venlo: 08:23-10:43, 10:23-12:43Venlo – Den Haag: 19:19-21:38, 21:19-23:38 Venlo – Nijmegen: 09:38-10:31, 11:38-12:31Nijmegen – Venlo 19:30-20:22, 21:30-22:22 Venlo – Breyell, Nettetal: 11:05-11:35, 13:05-13:35Breyell, Nettetal – Venlo: 18:24-18:56, 20:24-20:56Tickets: Only German vending machine! One-way – Cash coins 4.90 euro Mönchengladbach Hbf – Breyell, Nettetal: 11:25-12:24, 12:25-13:35, 13:25-14:24Breyell, Nettetal – Mönchengladbach Hbf: 18:24-19:36, 19:35-20:36, 20:24-21:36 Düsseldorf Hbf – Breyell, Nettetal: 10:48-12:24, 12:09-13:35, 12:48-14:24Breyell, Nettetal – Düsseldorf Hbf: 18:24-19:52, 19:35-21:08, 20:24-21:52 CarVenlo – Breyell[16 km]A73 to Venlo – then just past Venlo after crossing the Meuse/Maas the A74 (turns itself into A61) follow signs to Mönchengladbach and take the A61 exit Bruggen/Kirchenkalden Süd (Nr 3). Follow the road to Bruggen (221) and at the roundabout after about 400 meters turn left to Breyell. At the traffic lights and before the train track turn into the Christian-Rötzel-Allee, Number 18 is on the right side, 30 km speed limit.Parking in the direction of travel (required in Germany!). Cars can also be parked at the station (just drive through and turn left) Mönchengladbach –Breyell [29 km]Rheydter Straße/B230/B59 Turn left onto Fliethstraße/B230/B59Continue to follow B230Slight right to merge onto A61 toward VenloTake exit 3-Kaldenkirchen-Süd to merge onto B221 toward Bracht At the roundabout, take the 3rd exit onto Kölner Straße/B7Continue to follow B7 Turn right onto Christian-Rötzel-AlleeDestination will be on the right: Christian-Rötzel-Allee 18 RemarkIn car navigation systems Breyell 41334 is sometimes not recognized, also Nettetal, and Roetzel or Rötzel as input don’t work always; the address Schellberg is around the corner. AirportsMySTèR is in the middle of a number of airports. Dusseldorf is the biggest and easily reached via highway.Other airports in the area are Weeze, Mönchengladbach, Beek/Aachen/Maastricht Airport Related to this topic see also Club of Amsterdam Journal and for more events Agenda