Joerg Altekruse at Sunny Side

As Financial Times Journalists Dan Clark, Steven Bernard, Sam Joiner and Justine Williams write yesterday: “The Financial Times has created a searchable dashboard of 197 countries’ historical emissions and future climate targets, providing information on the energy mix that indicates their progress on renewable energy. The database is in its sixth iteration, after being first…

Take a few minutes to read Financial Times’ Journalist Ian Johnston’s article (#GiftLink https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/44808d1c-c2fc-4513-bd74-02206d6d1343) and reflect: what does “ownership” of 3°Celsius of Global Warming mean for Luxembourg? . . . especially through the lens of Plurality-author by the renowned scholar and Taiwan Ambassador Audrey Tang. Question: How are we pro-actively preparing . . . with…

#ReimagineHowald Nine years of railway-transformation have brought Howald a major mobility hub. The Big Question: what kind of everyday place will this hub will pollinate? CFL – Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois’ Howald Railway-station now connects trains + trams + buses + people who park cars + people who pedal bicycles + people…

Last week’s EU Mobility Week gathering in Differdange gave us something valuable: an inspiring round-table discussion by Housing Minister Claude Meisch + Expert Katja Diehl + Mobility Manager for the City of Differdange Zenia Charlé + Director of Cluster4Logistics Luxembourg Daniel Kohl + LuxMobility Managing Director Patrick van Egmond = people who care deeply about…

We do not lack courage, intelligence or capital. We lack more useful mountains to climb. When I was much, much younger . . . I looked forward to Jeremy Clarkson’s columns in The Sunday Times. Jeremy then and now writes with panache, taking an engineering problem, a political absurdity or an ill-advised adventure and making…

Day 4 began at 6:29 this morning as I pedaled down Ville de Luxembourg’s avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt . . . followed rue Ulric into the Grund and climbed the cobblestones of the Montée du Grund towards the Ville Haute. I passed the Lëtzebuerg City Museum and the very old Église Saint-Michel before turning towards…

Yesterday, I participated in the GoGoVelo campaign while pedaling a bicycle in London. London keeps showing what happens when #ActiveMobility moves from niche to normal. Rental e-bikes seem to outnumber cars . . . and are everywhere. Cargo bikes, foldable Brompton Bicycles, commuters + visitors mix into everyday streets. Isaac Newton’s legacy shares space with…

Pressemitteilung Vom 28. August bis 20. September 2026 bringt die „CreatiVelo Earthbeat Tour“ Jugendliche aus Luxemburg, Rheinland-Pfalz und dem Saarland zusammen und gibt ihren Ideen und Zukunftsvisionen eine Stimme. Möglich wird die Tour durch das grenzüberschreitende LEADER-Projekt „Austausch über Grenzen“. Die drei LEADER-Regionen Miselerland, Moselfranken und Merzig-Wadern arbeiten darin gemeinsam daran, die deutsch-luxemburgische Nachbarschaftsregion als…

What becomes visible this spring, as one looks carefully enough, is not merely a sequence of events . . . but a sequence of scales: at the BNE Days 2026 in Luxembourg, the scale was national, pedagogical, almost deceptively modest. Yet the architecture was unusually ambitious. Three pillars . . . networking, training, youth. A…

Should “safety” be something that must be argued for . . . or should “safety” be simply there? There are moments when a country is asked a difficult question . . . and this time, the question has been formalized. Public Petition n°3984 https://www.petitiounen.lu/fr/petition/3984 is collecting signatures on the Chamber of Deputies Luxembourg website. Public…