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The situation in Czech is not so bad. Even though the topic of green energy is not very popular in politics, according to the Biom’s map there are quite many biogas stations around the country. A positive fact is certainly that the majority of them is small-scaled so that they can use less material only from nearer distance. Furthermore Greg mentioned in his book ''Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy'' [http://books.google.cz/books?hl=cs&id=gJIyU-DWYPoC&q=had+the+largest#v=snippet&q=had%20the%20largest&f=false] that Czech “had the largest number of biodiesel production plants in the world” among only three had high production capacity . For our work is interesting that the biodiesel industry came here from better developed Austria and adopted the model of small farmers’ cooperatives. | The situation in Czech is not so bad. Even though the topic of green energy is not very popular in politics, according to the Biom’s map there are quite many biogas stations around the country. A positive fact is certainly that the majority of them is small-scaled so that they can use less material only from nearer distance. Furthermore Greg mentioned in his book ''Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy'' [http://books.google.cz/books?hl=cs&id=gJIyU-DWYPoC&q=had+the+largest#v=snippet&q=had%20the%20largest&f=false] that Czech “had the largest number of biodiesel production plants in the world” among only three had high production capacity . For our work is interesting that the biodiesel industry came here from better developed Austria and adopted the model of small farmers’ cooperatives. | ||
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Eisenerz, an old mining town in the center of the country, is situated in the middle of mountains, which means that it is quite isolated and on the periphery. From the presentation about a historical evolution of the town and current situation, which led Mr. Gerfried Tiffner, was obvious that most mining towns challenge similar problems. In Eisenerz was found the rich iron ore and later on followed by “iron rush”. Due to the rich iron ore it was possible to quarry on the open air. This process developed into today’s face of the place with dominating Ore Mountain. But the natural change is not the only one caused by mining. | |||
During the “iron rush” in the middle of 20th century many people came here to work so that the population grew up to 18 000 inhabitants. Later mining hand in hand with employment possibilities dropped down which caused unemployment and huge emigration of people – today’s population is less than 6 000 people and many abandoned houses. Therefore, the town had to tackle with aging population, unemployment and social changes.In Czech there are also towns with similar history; from really historical mining sites such as Příbram or Kutná Hora to present-day towns in the northwest of the country, such as Sokolov, Most or Chomutov. | |||
Mr. Tiffner focused in his presentation on social aspects of mining cities. He spoke about reemerging of traditional mining culture and its encouragement from side of local authorities. The traditional culture, present in the town during the last century, was distracted after the fall of mining and it has stand for many social problems – loss of traditional habits and lifestyle, weakened connection with the surrounding, negative psychological impact – as a result many people decided to move. Local authorities observed the trend and started to work on new identity of the town and its habitants in order to attract young people but also to build a relation between people and the place where they live. | |||
From own experience, Czech historical mining towns cosset the glory of old ages by traditional celebration, mining museums and overall presentation (mentioned Příbram or Kutná Hora). In contrary, towns with young mining history are rather ashamed for their history and the public opinion changes very slowly. On one side the destroyed areas are recultivated on very expensive cost so that the mining companies compensate for the damage of nature resources[http://www.cbks.cz/sbornikRackova03/sections/common/Vrablikova.pdf]. The recultivation of landscape gave rise to lakes, race course or new green spaces. Even thought mining companies during the recultivation pay attention to diversity[http://www.suas.cz/uploads/110170487247b2c8037de4b_07162_brozura_eko_su_mail.pdf], there are areas without functional ecosystem, the water ecosystem is still insufficiently restored and due to bad economical situation of region there is unused land.[http://fzp.ujep.cz/projekty/wd-44-07-1/dokumenty/aktivity/WD-44-07-1_A413.pdf] What wasn't involved into the effort is by Mr. Tiffner highlighted social aspect and belonging.[http://fzp.ujep.cz/projekty/wd-44-07-1/dokumenty/KNIHA_Revitalizace_II_cast.pdf] The industry in the region is mostly oriented on mining, situated in centers, middle and small-scale entrepreneurships are missing. In comparison with Eisenerz's, population middle age is lower but education is neglected (high rate of uneducated or primarily educated people). Well known is the fact that in the region if higher criminality.[http://fzp.ujep.cz/projekty/wd-44-07-1/dokumenty/aktivity/WD-44-07-1_A413.pdf] | |||