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Follow up activities - YE In love with energy efficiency |
As a follow up of the Youth Exchange "In love with energy efficiency", many of the participants organised some activities back in their home countries.
Czech Republic
The employees and EVS volunteers of YEE office did ecomapping of their working space. They checked their interaction with the environment and problems linked with energy, water, waste, air, storage, etc. They created an action plan to solve try to solve the problems and decrease their negative environmental impact. Find out more here Mercedes Fioravanti
Participants of the Czech group visited places in their area run by renewable energies:
Mosaic House is an eco-friendly, design hostel in Prague's centre. It is the first hostel in the Czech Republic to use 100% renewable energies and 100% biogas. Its rooms are automatically heated depending on the occupancy, all lighting is energy-efficient, the bathrooms have low-flow toilets and rain dance showers. Moreover, Czech Republic's first grey water recycling unit with heat recuperation is located there. The waste water recycling system uses condensers that recoup heat energy from the inflowing grey waste water of showers and sinks. The recouped energy is used to preheat fresh shower and sink water to about 25°C. Solar panels and waste heat from cooling also aid in pre-heating fresh water. Ana Chetrari
Since 2006 the Czech Republic has seen a huge increase in the number of photovoltaic panels installed. Despite some controversies involving an ill-designed subsidy scheme and a contested takeovers of arable land for electricity production, the rate of renewable sources moved up. Recent technological progress in the field of storing surplus energy can allow grid operators to utilise renewable energy in a more stable manner, thus increasing a demand for it. Jan Řezáč
Kaprálův Mlýn is a centre of ecological education, that runs educational programmes for schools, is a scout base and a model house to measure efficiency of eco-technologies in use. Find out more at: http://www.kapraluvmlyn.cz/ Filip Werl
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