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Michael Burchert

@michaelburchert.bsky.social

🇪🇺 Educator, Speaker, Builder, Activist. Regenerative construction. That #strawhouse guy. Fixing mistakes @ built environment. Independent #Bauwende construction revolution advocacy, english & german word salad, enjoy! https://linktr.ee/michaelburchert

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Michael Burchert@michaelburchert.bsky.social · 8h ago

Wow, the article starts off straight away by highlighting the already - crystal clear - dead end we find ourselves in. With energy efficiency measures and conventional materials alone, it blows the budget (with it, our climate). Note that in the SMART pathway, new con fades out & reno takes over.

Abstract The European Union aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent by 2030 relative to 1990 and achieve climate neutrality by 2050. Yet, translating these targets into pathways for buildings and construction is challenging across diverse national contexts. We model building stocks for the twenty-seven Member States of the European Union and evaluate 4096 life cycle emissions scenarios, considering national capacities. Here we show that, over 2020–2050, achieving these targets would require avoiding 8.53 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, approximately ten years of emissions at 2020 levels. Mostly relying on improving energy efficiency and material production would exceed national capacities by 2.72-billion-ton, 32 percent of the required reduction. A combined approach that also reduces per capita space demand, applies circularity measures, and uses bio‑based materials could achieve an additional 2.19 billion tons within national capacities. For each country, we identify the strategies that maximize projected reductions to inform policy design.3 pathways, named HOPE, COPE, SMART
Martin Röck@martinroeck.com · 9h ago

🎉 New article @nature.com! Ever wondered how the European Union can effectively reduce and remove life cycle #emissions of building construction and operation and reach its #climate targets across Member States? Check this out! 👇 Available #OpenAccess - Free download via: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

New article: Context-specific life cycle emissions pathways for EU buildings and construction - Screenshot of the abstract and first page
Michael Burchert@michaelburchert.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Maybe it's just me, but I'm not hearing anything from politicians about the need to retrofit our buildings and change the way we heat them. Is this intentional, because dissatisfied people in precarious circumstances tend to vote for right-wing parties? Why are the 'social' parties complicit here?

Industrial building with lack of maintenance turned into art.
Michael Burchert@michaelburchert.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I was just thinking that still I have to talk to academics about 🐁 when we could already be building 12-story straw houses and retrofit half our housing stock for climate mitigation, adaptation vs heat and cold, for health and affordability.

Lorenz Systeme straw panel craned to insulate a swimming pool hall
Michael Burchert@michaelburchert.bsky.social · 11h ago

I’ve just switched on the air conditioning at 22 degrees Celsius – I usually only use it for heating. The house, which I’ve insulated myself with straw bales, maintains a temperature of 20–23 degrees throughout the summer without aircon and AI. It’s running to dehumidify the air for comfort.

old half timbered house house with earth infill and new windows, behind is a straw bale insulation. bike parked at the facadetruth window in the earth plaster, reveals a straw bale insulation behind curtainearzh plaster on straw
Akrotelm 🌾@akrotelm.bsky.social · 13h ago

Hallo #Berlin 👋, guckt mal, hier 👇 nen interessanter Job beim @nabu.de für #MoorMussNass & Politik. Ausschreibung auch hier: jobs.nabu.de/de?id=96a8aa

Tilmann Disselhoff@disselhoff.bsky.social · yesterday

Wir wachsen - damit auch der Moorschutz weiter wachsen kann 🙂💪 und zwar suchen wir im @nabu.de -Team Ecosystem Restoration zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine(n) Referent:in Moorschutzpolitik. 💧🌱📑 Zur Stellenausschreibung: linkedin.com/jobs/view/4448874891

Juraj Mikurcik@jurajmikurcik.bsky.social · yesterday

Parents are bracing for 40C // 104F temperatures in Slovakia 🥵 What can they do? In the short term, adapt (insulation, external shading, active cooling) In the long term, we need to stop burning fossil fuels 🔥 It's that simple.

weather forecast for Slovakia and Central Europe, with temperatures up to 40C
Michael Burchert@michaelburchert.bsky.social · yesterday

Of course, it’s insane to burn oil/gas in engines – that’s what most of the oil is extracted for. But think of all the petro plastic that ends up being incinerated to produce building materials, (which is a blatant lie to call this recycling) ...that could actually be replaced by renewable materials

Bunch of plant based building tech. Engineered timber parts on display for retrofitting. Bottom piece is a straw panel cube
Patrick Galey@patrickgaley.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW: The Big 5 oil majors raked in more than half a billion dollars every day in Q2, making it the most lucrative period since the height of the Ukraine-linked fossil fuel crisis of 2022 It's a wonderful time to be an oil baron. globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

Michael Burchert@michaelburchert.bsky.social · yesterday

And, as is the case every year, my 'minority view' is confirmed: we have an incredible amount of straw. So much, in fact, that we could insulate the whole of Europe against heat + cold in a climate-neutral way without having to grow anything extra, without competing for land, food, fossil nonsense.

Fully loaded straw bale trailer
Ursula K. Le Guin Bot@leguinbot.bsky.social · yesterday

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Michael Burchert@michaelburchert.bsky.social · yesterday

Of course, it’s insane to burn oil/gas in engines – that’s what most of the oil is extracted for. But think of all the petro plastic that ends up being incinerated to produce building materials, (which is a blatant lie to call this recycling) ...that could actually be replaced by renewable materials

Bunch of plant based building tech. Engineered timber parts on display for retrofitting. Bottom piece is a straw panel cube
Patrick Galey@patrickgaley.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW: The Big 5 oil majors raked in more than half a billion dollars every day in Q2, making it the most lucrative period since the height of the Ukraine-linked fossil fuel crisis of 2022 It's a wonderful time to be an oil baron. globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

Bunker Ballroom, male porn star@seej500.bsky.social · yesterday

Far-right-wingers aren't banned from Bluesky, obviously. It's just that the main thing they want to do here is be unpleasant to the rest of us, and we've proactively made sure they can't. That's not a bubble; that's civilisation ostracising deliberate assholes. That's NORMAL.

Michael Burchert@michaelburchert.bsky.social · 5d ago

My favorite product at the moment. An agricultural by-product is transformed in Europe into a high-performance insulation material using a simple mattress sewing machine from China. Fossil, linear economy hates this trick.