The first event after the summer season will find YES-DC addressing the Empty Office Buildings problem in the Netherlands. More than 7 million square meters of office space are unused in the Netherlands, losing value, consuming energy while at the same time new office buildings are being constructed adding more materials and requiring more energy […]
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It’s an early Friday morning when two YES-DC vans depart from the city of Utrecht on their way towards Gent, Belgium. Goal of the day is to get to see some parts of the biomass supply chain that comprises an important part of the Belgium biomass capital that Gent is nowadays. Part of our program
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We are happy to invite you to the first excursion for this year! On Friday 6 July 2012, YES-DC will travel to Rodenhuize in Gent, Belgium to visit the 100% biomass power station, of GDF Suez and its subsidiary Electrabel. We will witness at first hand its high environmental performance, find out about the biomass
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On June the 21st, YES-DC organized together with NJR and the student organization STORM the Gasterra Energy Lab. The goal of this interactive evening was to come up with sustainable ideas that will be handed in the briefcase of “Duurzame Dinsdag“. The program started with a presentation by Quintel on the Gasterra Transition Model. This
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The "Sustainable Mobility in Developing Countries" congres held by YES-DC attracted many people which interacted lively with the speakers and with each other in the workshop sessions. To find out more click on the link to read the report.
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Win € 1,000 with your ideas for the energy transition! Do you have creative, innovative and practical ideas? Do you want to brainstorm with us about solutions that reduce energy consumption, promote alternative energy sources, reduce CO2 emissions and/or increase the efficiency of fossil fuels? Then join us on June 14 during the GasTerra Energy
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The event in short This event will be held in the beautiful Academie gebouw of the University of Utrecht. Mobility experts will tell you about their experience in developing mobility projects around the world. This includes experience in how to organise your city for new modes of transport, build the infrastructure and how to finance
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YES-DC looks back at a successful first event for 2012. On Wednesday the 18th of April, four speakers were invited at the Academy Building in Utrecht to introduce to our members the concepts of crowdfunding and crowdsourcing. All four speakers used the same words to describe the event’s key message: (Small investment in time or
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Dear members, You have recently been informed via email for the procedure of your membership fee. We would like to inform you that for new members pro rata rates apply on the basis of the calendar year 2012. The contribution for an annual subscription is 30 EUR ( 15 EUR for student-members).
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Let friends, family and fools pay for your great ideas The recent economic crises have shown us what enormous problems our generation is facing. Wealth can no longer be taken for granted, and financial institutes are just as vulnerable as everyone else. At the same time, social media has shown us how we are able
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