This from earlier this week, from the plains. While, on a hot summer day in Manhattan, car and bus engines run relentlessly (often without a driver present), and air condition blasts away so that the planet’s energy resources deplete faster than the battery level of my notebook (that is without the current power outages of course), Germans now build houses that get 50+ percent of their heating and hot water supply from solar energy panels on the roofs. At the same time the houses are built so that they stay cool in the summer *without* air condition. Best of all, this goes along with cool, modern architecture! Or look at this new building complex, next to a nature park, where (I’m told) some rare types of grass are being preserved.
But then, nature is so last century – and in the spring it even causes allergies…