Michael Burchert
@michaelburchert.bsky.social
🇪🇺 Educator, Speaker, Builder, Activist. Regenerative construction 🌳🌾🥦♻️. Fixing mistakes and bad habits in the built environment. Independent #Bauwende construction revolution advocacy, english & german word salad, enjoy! https://linktr.ee/michaelburchert
Pinned
Strohbau-Workshop bis morgen noch zum Sparpreis.
Dann aber immer noch ein Schnäppchen, weil ich euch persönlich an einem Tag:
* den "klassischen" Strohbau,
* die Strohelement-Vorfertigung,
* die Sanierung mit Strohballen zeigen werde.
Sowie Strohhäuser von S-XXL vor Ort.
biwena.de/index.php/ev...
Dann aber immer noch ein Schnäppchen, weil ich euch persönlich an einem Tag:
* den "klassischen" Strohbau,
* die Strohelement-Vorfertigung,
* die Sanierung mit Strohballen zeigen werde.
Sowie Strohhäuser von S-XXL vor Ort.
biwena.de/index.php/ev...
It'll be so great when I have to explain this to my child.
Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
It'll be so great when I have to explain this to my child.
Reposted by Michael Burchert
Israel attacked Palestinian water sources over 250 times in 5 years, data reveals. Armed forces & settlers used bombs, dogs, poison & machinery to attack people & infrastructure. It's "an important part of a genocidal strategy" says Pedro Arrojo-Agudo
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel attacked Palestinian water sources over 250 times in five years, data reveals
Armed forces and settlers used bombs, dogs, poison and machinery to attack people and infrastructure at key sites
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Israel attacked Palestinian water sources over 250 times in 5 years, data reveals. Armed forces & settlers used bombs, dogs, poison & machinery to attack people & infrastructure. It's "an important part of a genocidal strategy" says Pedro Arrojo-Agudo
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I have directly argued with sustainability reporting and due diligence in at least 2-3 EU-funded projects in order to strengthen companies / sustainability. It's not funny to get money for it while it is being weakened. But this is actually common in transformation projects. It's hard to stay sane.
🗳️ @europarl.europa.eu has voted to 'simplify' corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence.
Sounds technical but it's bad news.
Diluting rules designed to keep big business honest about its impact on people and planet will make it harder for consumers to invest their money sustainably.
Sounds technical but it's bad news.
Diluting rules designed to keep big business honest about its impact on people and planet will make it harder for consumers to invest their money sustainably.
Sustainability reporting and due diligence: MEPs back simplification changes | News | European Parliament
On Thursday, Parliament endorsed reduced reporting duties and due diligence requirements for companies.
www.europarl.europa.eu
November 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I have directly argued with sustainability reporting and due diligence in at least 2-3 EU-funded projects in order to strengthen companies / sustainability. It's not funny to get money for it while it is being weakened. But this is actually common in transformation projects. It's hard to stay sane.
Reposted by Michael Burchert
For 'simplification' read 'deregulation' + for 'deregulation' read removing all the rules that protect us from polluted air, water, soil, + just relying on those fine chaps at the corporations to do the right thing out of the goodness of their hearts
🗳️ @europarl.europa.eu has voted to 'simplify' corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence.
Sounds technical but it's bad news.
Diluting rules designed to keep big business honest about its impact on people and planet will make it harder for consumers to invest their money sustainably.
Sounds technical but it's bad news.
Diluting rules designed to keep big business honest about its impact on people and planet will make it harder for consumers to invest their money sustainably.
Sustainability reporting and due diligence: MEPs back simplification changes | News | European Parliament
On Thursday, Parliament endorsed reduced reporting duties and due diligence requirements for companies.
www.europarl.europa.eu
November 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
For 'simplification' read 'deregulation' + for 'deregulation' read removing all the rules that protect us from polluted air, water, soil, + just relying on those fine chaps at the corporations to do the right thing out of the goodness of their hearts
Reposted by Michael Burchert
As someone who now needs a kidney transplant myself (due to damage caused quite suddenly by an autoimmune disease), here’s some information about becoming a living donor 🥰
www.cuh.nhs.uk/our-services...
www.cuh.nhs.uk/our-services...
Living Kidney Donation
www.cuh.nhs.uk
November 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
As someone who now needs a kidney transplant myself (due to damage caused quite suddenly by an autoimmune disease), here’s some information about becoming a living donor 🥰
www.cuh.nhs.uk/our-services...
www.cuh.nhs.uk/our-services...
Reposted by Michael Burchert
Reposted by Michael Burchert
Timber and straw, modern efficient and sufficient village life as a co-benefit of CO2 storage.
www.scheicher.at/projekt/life...
Life Cycle Habitation Projekt by Architekten Scheicher
www.scheicher.at/projekt/life...
Life Cycle Habitation Projekt by Architekten Scheicher
December 23, 2023 at 9:11 AM
Timber and straw, modern efficient and sufficient village life as a co-benefit of CO2 storage.
www.scheicher.at/projekt/life...
Life Cycle Habitation Projekt by Architekten Scheicher
www.scheicher.at/projekt/life...
Life Cycle Habitation Projekt by Architekten Scheicher
Reposted by Michael Burchert
zero #concrete, low maintenance
#rammedearth building on stone /rubble foundation
1836, Weilburg, Germany by Wilhelm J. Wimpf
Manual from 1837: books.google.de/books?id=rzW...
Picture: Oliver Abels (SBT) CC-BY2.5
Still inhabited.
#rammedearth building on stone /rubble foundation
1836, Weilburg, Germany by Wilhelm J. Wimpf
Manual from 1837: books.google.de/books?id=rzW...
Picture: Oliver Abels (SBT) CC-BY2.5
Still inhabited.
October 12, 2024 at 5:02 PM
zero #concrete, low maintenance
#rammedearth building on stone /rubble foundation
1836, Weilburg, Germany by Wilhelm J. Wimpf
Manual from 1837: books.google.de/books?id=rzW...
Picture: Oliver Abels (SBT) CC-BY2.5
Still inhabited.
#rammedearth building on stone /rubble foundation
1836, Weilburg, Germany by Wilhelm J. Wimpf
Manual from 1837: books.google.de/books?id=rzW...
Picture: Oliver Abels (SBT) CC-BY2.5
Still inhabited.
Reposted by Michael Burchert
Linear height limits don’t just incentivize low ceilings, they also discourage lower-carbon construction like this. Squeezed between cutting 25% of a building’s floors or going to post-tensioned concrete, the choice is obvious even when max profit isn’t the goal.
Regulate by floor count, instead.
Regulate by floor count, instead.
Concrete is not T.I.N.A. (there is no alternative)
Stone-timber floor demonstration in London.
The alternatives to anthropocene construction are popping up everywhere now.
foto: Bamberger Natursteinwerke
www.instagram.com/p/DQpH6HGirD...
Stone-timber floor demonstration in London.
The alternatives to anthropocene construction are popping up everywhere now.
foto: Bamberger Natursteinwerke
www.instagram.com/p/DQpH6HGirD...
November 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Linear height limits don’t just incentivize low ceilings, they also discourage lower-carbon construction like this. Squeezed between cutting 25% of a building’s floors or going to post-tensioned concrete, the choice is obvious even when max profit isn’t the goal.
Regulate by floor count, instead.
Regulate by floor count, instead.
Reposted by Michael Burchert
I asked 20 future architects, who lives in a climate-friendly / insulated building? The answer was silence.
Then we tried plant and earth based external and internal insulation systems that even novices can use right away.
Look at vivihouse.cc for what is possible.
Then we tried plant and earth based external and internal insulation systems that even novices can use right away.
Look at vivihouse.cc for what is possible.
March 2, 2024 at 7:07 AM
I asked 20 future architects, who lives in a climate-friendly / insulated building? The answer was silence.
Then we tried plant and earth based external and internal insulation systems that even novices can use right away.
Look at vivihouse.cc for what is possible.
Then we tried plant and earth based external and internal insulation systems that even novices can use right away.
Look at vivihouse.cc for what is possible.
Reposted by Michael Burchert
Concrete is not T.I.N.A. (there is no alternative)
Stone-timber floor demonstration in London.
The alternatives to anthropocene construction are popping up everywhere now.
foto: Bamberger Natursteinwerke
www.instagram.com/p/DQpH6HGirD...
Stone-timber floor demonstration in London.
The alternatives to anthropocene construction are popping up everywhere now.
foto: Bamberger Natursteinwerke
www.instagram.com/p/DQpH6HGirD...
November 13, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Concrete is not T.I.N.A. (there is no alternative)
Stone-timber floor demonstration in London.
The alternatives to anthropocene construction are popping up everywhere now.
foto: Bamberger Natursteinwerke
www.instagram.com/p/DQpH6HGirD...
Stone-timber floor demonstration in London.
The alternatives to anthropocene construction are popping up everywhere now.
foto: Bamberger Natursteinwerke
www.instagram.com/p/DQpH6HGirD...
Shall we start to talk about innovation lag in the construction sector or just abstract about energy sources and ofsets?
Coal, oil, gas, and cement all contributed more or less equally to the rise in emissions in 2025:
November 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Shall we start to talk about innovation lag in the construction sector or just abstract about energy sources and ofsets?
Reposted by Michael Burchert
Truly remarkable: Poland used to be a climate laggard.
Today, wind and solar are increasingly replacing coal in the Polish electricity mix with almost 30% of all electricity generated to date this year from wind and solar.
In 2000 coal provided 95% of Polish electricity.
Today it is at 51%.
Today, wind and solar are increasingly replacing coal in the Polish electricity mix with almost 30% of all electricity generated to date this year from wind and solar.
In 2000 coal provided 95% of Polish electricity.
Today it is at 51%.
November 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Truly remarkable: Poland used to be a climate laggard.
Today, wind and solar are increasingly replacing coal in the Polish electricity mix with almost 30% of all electricity generated to date this year from wind and solar.
In 2000 coal provided 95% of Polish electricity.
Today it is at 51%.
Today, wind and solar are increasingly replacing coal in the Polish electricity mix with almost 30% of all electricity generated to date this year from wind and solar.
In 2000 coal provided 95% of Polish electricity.
Today it is at 51%.
Still doesn't look like a path to zero to me, we should replace this leadership.
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Still doesn't look like a path to zero to me, we should replace this leadership.
Reposted by Michael Burchert
My grandkids (hopefully, some day):
'Mom, dad, I'm biking to the library to scroll their microfiche collection on the "Mecha Hitler AI incident of 2025" ... yes! the moisture collectors are set and the salt batteries are fully charged ... see you at dinner!'
'Mom, dad, I'm biking to the library to scroll their microfiche collection on the "Mecha Hitler AI incident of 2025" ... yes! the moisture collectors are set and the salt batteries are fully charged ... see you at dinner!'
November 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
My grandkids (hopefully, some day):
'Mom, dad, I'm biking to the library to scroll their microfiche collection on the "Mecha Hitler AI incident of 2025" ... yes! the moisture collectors are set and the salt batteries are fully charged ... see you at dinner!'
'Mom, dad, I'm biking to the library to scroll their microfiche collection on the "Mecha Hitler AI incident of 2025" ... yes! the moisture collectors are set and the salt batteries are fully charged ... see you at dinner!'
Correct me if I'm wrong, but are the US turning the rapidly renewable material hemp (fiber, shiv,...) needed for the resource transition into a strange product for their existing addictive tendencies, and now there's the Trump thing on top of that?
Idiocy for Trump and the Republican Congress to outlaw the hemp industry -- I have to think this is going to cause considerable backlash within their base, especially if they think that they are locking up the bro vote. 1/
"The ban goes into effect 365 days after the spending bill is signed by President Donald Trump.
Trump supports the #hemp restrictions, an unnamed White House official told NBC News earlier in the week."
mjbizdaily.com/28-billion-i...
#Cannabis #MMJ
Trump supports the #hemp restrictions, an unnamed White House official told NBC News earlier in the week."
mjbizdaily.com/28-billion-i...
#Cannabis #MMJ
November 13, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Correct me if I'm wrong, but are the US turning the rapidly renewable material hemp (fiber, shiv,...) needed for the resource transition into a strange product for their existing addictive tendencies, and now there's the Trump thing on top of that?
The rope tightens around our necks. At first, our heads could still fit through easily. Before that, the noose could only be seen from a distance, but everyone knew it was there. What is next?
November 13, 2025 at 7:43 AM
The rope tightens around our necks. At first, our heads could still fit through easily. Before that, the noose could only be seen from a distance, but everyone knew it was there. What is next?
Concrete is not T.I.N.A. (there is no alternative)
Stone-timber floor demonstration in London.
The alternatives to anthropocene construction are popping up everywhere now.
foto: Bamberger Natursteinwerke
www.instagram.com/p/DQpH6HGirD...
Stone-timber floor demonstration in London.
The alternatives to anthropocene construction are popping up everywhere now.
foto: Bamberger Natursteinwerke
www.instagram.com/p/DQpH6HGirD...
November 13, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Concrete is not T.I.N.A. (there is no alternative)
Stone-timber floor demonstration in London.
The alternatives to anthropocene construction are popping up everywhere now.
foto: Bamberger Natursteinwerke
www.instagram.com/p/DQpH6HGirD...
Stone-timber floor demonstration in London.
The alternatives to anthropocene construction are popping up everywhere now.
foto: Bamberger Natursteinwerke
www.instagram.com/p/DQpH6HGirD...
Reposted by Michael Burchert
'Proximity to drilling wells, processing plants, pipelines + other fossil fuel facilities elevates the risk of cancer, respiratory conditions, heart disease, premature birth + death, as well as posing grave threats to water supplies + air quality, + degrades land.'
Other than that, great stuff
Other than that, great stuff
Exclusive by me: A quarter of the world’s population lives within three miles (5km) of operational fossil fuel projects, threatening the health of more than 2bn people as well as critical ecosystems, according to first-of-its-kind research.
@amnesty.org
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@amnesty.org
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel projects around the world threaten the health of 2bn people – report
Exclusive: ‘Deep-rooted injustices’ affect billions of people due to location of wells, pipelines and other infrastructure
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
'Proximity to drilling wells, processing plants, pipelines + other fossil fuel facilities elevates the risk of cancer, respiratory conditions, heart disease, premature birth + death, as well as posing grave threats to water supplies + air quality, + degrades land.'
Other than that, great stuff
Other than that, great stuff
Reposted by Michael Burchert
This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
Reposted by Michael Burchert
instructive guide to Parisian architectural styles (further below)
The latest iteration is the Haussman renovation of Paris, 1853 - 1870 (-> 1927) now considered 'old' archiecture, but was modern mass housing of its time.
(Similar "modern" styles in Berlin)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussma...
The latest iteration is the Haussman renovation of Paris, 1853 - 1870 (-> 1927) now considered 'old' archiecture, but was modern mass housing of its time.
(Similar "modern" styles in Berlin)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussma...
November 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
instructive guide to Parisian architectural styles (further below)
The latest iteration is the Haussman renovation of Paris, 1853 - 1870 (-> 1927) now considered 'old' archiecture, but was modern mass housing of its time.
(Similar "modern" styles in Berlin)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussma...
The latest iteration is the Haussman renovation of Paris, 1853 - 1870 (-> 1927) now considered 'old' archiecture, but was modern mass housing of its time.
(Similar "modern" styles in Berlin)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussma...
Reposted by Michael Burchert
California just passed a transformative zoning law poised to unleash a building boom. But it’s just the start. For @bloomberg.com I looked at the new YIMBY agenda
☑️ - Single-stair reform
☑️ - Building code reform
☑️ - Permitting & fees
☑️ - Design & aesthetics
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
☑️ - Single-stair reform
☑️ - Building code reform
☑️ - Permitting & fees
☑️ - Design & aesthetics
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Will the YIMBY ‘Holy Grail’ Deliver an LA Building Boom?
Supporters of the California zoning reform bill SB 79 say it will unleash a wave of multistory apartment buildings. In low-rise-loving Los Angeles, that could be a tall order.
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
California just passed a transformative zoning law poised to unleash a building boom. But it’s just the start. For @bloomberg.com I looked at the new YIMBY agenda
☑️ - Single-stair reform
☑️ - Building code reform
☑️ - Permitting & fees
☑️ - Design & aesthetics
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
☑️ - Single-stair reform
☑️ - Building code reform
☑️ - Permitting & fees
☑️ - Design & aesthetics
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
It's unbelievable that all this is happening in the land of Sesame Street.
November 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
It's unbelievable that all this is happening in the land of Sesame Street.