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RENEWABLE ENERGY

 

 "Collection of Sustainable Energy Successes in Europe"

The publication describes more than 40 "good practices" in energy conservation and renewable energy all over Europe: successful campaigns and projects for increased energy efficiency and renewable energy. The cases are collected mainly by NGO-organisations in INFORSE-Europe (International Network for Sustainable Energy) - as part of their contributions to the ECO-Forum Energy and Climate Group. 

Edition 1998
The first edition "Collection of Sustainable Energy Successes in Central & Eastern Europe" was
published by INFORSE-Europe & ECO-Forum, June 1998. This collection was one of the NGO inputs to the Aarhus Conference of the European Environmental Ministers' Meeting in Aarhus, 1998. It is available in print from INFORSE-Europe, Denmark.
This publication was accompanied by a poster series exhibited at Aarhus '98 ECO-Forum, which is the NGO parallel event to the Pan-European Environmental Ministers' Meeting.

Edition 2002
The collection was updated with inputs from INFORSE organisations in 2002. This updated version is available online on this web page. In the following map you can see the cases from the first edition in 1998.

Training Centers Added in 2002-2008
Successful European training and demonstration centers and databases added to the collection. Some of these training and visitor centers are INFORSE members and mostly are visited by several thousands every year.

 

The version in 1998 was edited by: Gunnar Boye Olesen and Pia Østerfelt, Niki Fowler (text advise), INFORSE-Europe/OVE, Denmark. Electronic version was made by László Karas and Zoltán A. Nagy Green Spider Network (Hungary). The electronic version was updated by Abigáil Tascón García from Spain, trainee at INFORSE-Europe in 2006. The Training Center Section was updated by Sonia Béthencourt, trainee at INFORSE-Europe in 2008.

The 1998 Edition was done with Contributions from:

  • Eduard Gismatullin, Greenpeace, Russia
  • Emil Bedi, INFORSE-Europe/FAE (Foundation for Alternative Energy), Slovakia
  • Erzsébet Pálfy, E-misszió, Hungary
  • Evgeny Shirokov, Belarussian Division of International Academy of Ecology (BD IAE), Belarus
  • Günther Schwärzler, ÖAR-Energieberatung, Austria
  • Kestutis Navickas, Community Atgaja - Green Movement, Lithuania
  • Marciej Bartmanski, Ecobaltic Foundation, Poland
  • Nedelcu Codruta, Association of
  • Nature Lovers, ARIN, Romania
  • Petr Hlobil, Energy Efficiency Programme, Czech Republic
  • Tore Braend, FoE (Friends of the Earth), Norway
  • Vladimir Dvoretzky, Academic Youth Environmental Club, Bulgaria

    See table of contents and the introduction to the Publication "Collection of Sustainable Energy Successes in Central & Eastern Europe" in 1998.