Off-site students and champions of sustainability
IN-DOMUS’ “WELCOME TO MILAN!”
Due to climate change cities are in a critical situation: they cause most of the greenhouse gases, around 70% of the totale missions, and at the same time they can turn into the solution of the problem.
Investments in projects of low-carbon cities have significant advantages both for urban and rural citizens. A study of the New Climate Economy revealed that if cities invested 1 trillion every year into 11 low-carbon projects they would make 17 trillion dollars of financial value until 2050 just by direct energetic savings. The same study detected that the economic and social benefits of these investments will generate an improvement of citizens’ health, more jobs and that poverty and inequality will embank in time.
Milan too want to play a major role between the cities busy cutting polluting emissions and particularly with project Innesto (https://innestomilano.it/) they will experiment innovative measures, In-Domus couldn’t miss out.
Leader of Student Housing in Milan, In-Domus finds in its guests’ psycho-physical wellness the heart of its mission: thanks to the quality of the structures and to the wide variety of its services and organized activities, the objective will be to receive in Innesto over 300 italian and foreigners students, implementing inclusive policies at controlled prices and contributing significantly to the mitigation of climate changes.
How will we do it? Good news is that cities must focus their energies on three simple and concrete steps in order to result less impacting on the environment.
In-Domus: optimization, electrification and decarbonization of students’ houses
Most significant revolution often start from the youth and applying Carbon Neutrality strategies to the Student Housing Innesto will be ready to host a great community of students, as long as guests’ lifestyle is inspired by sensibility and attention in line with a modern climatic consciousness.
Hereafter the three steps to make together:
• Optimization: make a more efficient usage in every sector, mainly indoor and transports.
• Elettrify: replacing fossil fuels with electricity for all environments and means of transport;
• Decarbonize: use clean and zero-emission energy sources. Renewable energy, produced and consumed locally, also distributed to adjacent neighborhoods.
The momentum for the adoption of these and other important steps towards the ecological transition is involving many cities. Technological and economic changes are making these options more attractive, simple to use and accessible, thus convincing more and more citizens in this direction.
With the thrust of virtuous examples such as the In-Domus project applied to the reality of Innesto and that of technology and sustainable economy, we will reach a turning point beyond which zero-carbon urban infrastructures become the obvious choice, even for latecomers.
Images and 3D rendering: Barreca & La Varra, Wolf visualizing architecture
