Der Beitrag Breakthrough erschien zuerst auf Tom Albrecht.

This is how good sustainable living goes

Text spoken by Tom Albrecht (5 min.)

Social

Democracy has citizens’ councils, citizens’ initiatives. People vote for democratic parties.

People pay cash and digitally.

The Western lifestyle respects planetary boundaries.

The work serves more self-made, repaired, forces less to earn money

People have time for work and care work in the non-formal system such as family, relationship.

People cultivate time and relationship wealth.

Self-help is promoted through education, craft is upgraded compared to study

Medicine focuses on quality of life style.

The artists receive a guarantee for their social participation.

The Internet is data-saving and powered by green electricity.

Ecology

The forest is rebuilt, rich in species, suitable for the climate. Forestry serves the CO₂ sink. The extracted wood stores CO₂ in buildings.

Agriculture is grandchild-friendly, builds soil life and nutrient humus, CO₂ is stored in the soil.

The bogs are wetted again.

One eats organic, whole foods, high fiber, vegetarian or vegan. Meat eaters eat only Sunday roast. Leftover food is “saved”.

The built-up landscape is unsealed.

The arable land is withdrawn from speculation as a livelihood.

Species extinction has stopped. The species are preserved.

The garden is rich in species, has meadow instead of lawn, serves the self-sufficiency.

The country is upgraded compared to the city.

The streams are renaturalized

Rainwater is infiltrated instead of drained, stored and reused.

Wastewater is separated from rainwater, its heat is recovered.

The toilet, where possible, is a composting toilet. Recyclable materials in sewage sludge are recycled.

The gray water and its heat from the shower and kitchen are recycled and reused.

Economy

The world economy is economically selective de globalized. (Hartmut Rosa)

Degrowth or post-growth has been expanded in Germany to include the perspective of climate-friendly global growth.

The Supply Chain Act shows transparency from source to consumer.

The goods are durable, repairable, modernizable, shared with community.

The waste is avoided, recyclables are kept in the circle, packaging is avoided.

Fewer fashion and status items are consumed. Clothing is more durable, recyclable or reusable.

The energy turnaround is complete. The sources are regenerative instead of fossil and nuclear, more decentralized. Consumption is more economical. The race against time “to become climate neutral”, is won.

The traffic happens on foot, by bike, by public transport. Motor vehicles are shared.

Traveling pays attention to resource consumption. Flying is done with green fuel.  Cruising has ended or is regenerative, avoiding waste in the process.

Urban mining supplies raw materials instead of importing them.

CO₂ is saved in construction, and wood as a building material is a CO₂ reservoir. The building stock is being modernized in a climate-friendly way instead of being demolished.

The buildings are zero or low energy houses, have solar panels on roofs, facades. Solar panels are located along highways, in fields above fields.

Housing is happening on less land.

The city is climate-friendly, green, roofs and facades are greened.

Urban trees are diversified, site and climate appropriate, have canopy closure

The lighting is done with LED, where you are or it is socially necessary.

The light pollution of the sky has ended, all stars are visible again.

Berlin, May 2023

This requires a large ecological handprint and a small ecological footprint.

Der Beitrag This is how good sustainable living goes erschien zuerst auf Tom Albrecht.

In the shop windows of WerkStadt Berlin, LED spotlights shine according to a mysterious choreography for a quarter of an hour each at changing times of day. “The light is on!” is an exclamation, with a reminder to turn off the electric light in an unused room. Christmas is the celebration of light, which is increasingly clouded by the effort to save fossil energy and expensive electricity. The installation celebrates and saves with light at the same time.

Der Beitrag The light is on erschien zuerst auf Tom Albrecht.

A withered fir tree with brown needles placed in the shop window is hung with 12 model cars. In our forests, trees are dying from drought caused by the climate crisis. At the same time, many people are attached to their accustomed lifestyles, and cars are a natural part of that. The cars on the tree represent the annual wasteful abundance of gifts that consume fossil resources, the CO2 product of which destroys our livelihoods. The traditional Christmas carol “O Tannenbaum” is now called “Oh Tannenbaum”.

Der Beitrag Oh fir tree erschien zuerst auf Tom Albrecht.

Swinger Installation, 2021, Storkow (M), roof hooks and steel pipe from scrap, welded, made to sound,  2,60 x 2,35 x 0,07 m

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Video, 1 min.

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Instruction

To-have-space

You can:

• go in,
• sit down on a chair “being” for three minutes, close your eyes and watch yourself see what you see,
• sit down on a chair “having” for three minutes, close your eyes and watch yourself seeing and
• write down what you have seen anonymously in the guestbook.

Being-Having-Room

• You can go in,

• sit three minutes on a chair “being”, close your eyes and watch yourself, what you see,

• sit three minutes on a chair “having”, close your eyes and watch yourself, what you see and

• may note what you have seen anonymously in the guestbook.

Result

Der Beitrag To-have-space erschien zuerst auf Tom Albrecht.

Remnants from construction, exposed to moisture by fate for many years, stored, rotted, discovered, estimated, cut and stacked into the Global Stack.

The view of him connects inside and outside, curiosity and interest. It is the look at the foreign that can attract.

A linking action with http://www.globalstacks.de/de/index.html.

Mounted wooden beams, different, remains from construction, exposed to humidity by fate many years, decomposed, discovered, valued, cut and stacked for Global Stack.
The view of him connects inside and outside, curiosity and interest. It is the view to strangeness, which can attract.

Der Beitrag Global stack erschien zuerst auf Tom Albrecht.

Created after the election of Trump as president of the U.S.

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LED on hot and cold water pipe with meters,  Power supply unit
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Storkow, 2018
Wooden block from felled willow, steel rod
20 x 40 x 170 cm

About the illusion of being a winner.

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Storkow, 2018,
Tree trimmings, carpenter’s nails,
1,80 x 0,30 x 0,30 m
Trying to fix the world.

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Storkow, 2015
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3.10 x 3.10 x 2.10 m

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With the artistic light installation Marktlicht in a vacant house at the market place in Storkow (Mark) I would like to increase the attractiveness of the historic market place through art that is generally accessible. Passersby might wonder what is suddenly happening in the house and stop.

Instead, the former Schleckerhaus at Markt 20 shines again with light in the windows. The theme is the story of the upswing, the vision of a lively marketplace in Storkow with residents, stores and people.

 

This installation is intended to help  revitalize the beautiful old market square. The rooms, which were dark for a long time, glow again stylishly in changing colours light and dark depending on the season with the beginning of dusk. The light choreography shows the life of a small family in the house on two days, where the man goes to work, the child to school and the woman runs a café. Passers-by can influence the show by pressing two buttons at the entrance. The light show begins daily at dusk and lasts for two hours. I developed and built the light installation. Ulf Reinhard programmed the lighting control. The photos show the test with two spotlights and the opening on 28.11.2019.

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