homes

• Homes of the 'future'--move in today.

Automobiles get a lot of attention in our quest to become a more efficient society. Ironically, it is not our cars, but our homes that have the greate...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2009, Janvier 2009

• Arrêt nº 9C 100/2009 de IIe Cour de Droit Social, 28 août 2009

Regeste Art. 82 lit. b, Art. 87 Abs. 1 und Art. 106 Abs. 2 BGG; Art. 10 Abs. 2 lit. a ELG; Beschlüsse des Regierungsrates des Kantons Neuenburg vom 22. Dezember 2008 und vom 16. Februar 2009 über die maximalen Tagestaxen für Bewohner privater Heime mit Anspruch auf Ergänzungsleistungen zur AHV und IV (EL); abstrakte Normenkontrolle. Als Teil der vom Regierungsrat des Kantons Neuenburg verabschiedeten "63 Beschlüsse betreffend die für jedes Heim individuelle Festsetzung der auf die EL-bezugsberechtigten Bewohner anwendbaren maximalen Tagestaxen" gehören die strittigen Beschlüsse zu einer für den gesamten Kanton gültigen Regelung der auf EL-beziehende Heimbewohner anwendbaren Taxen; sie sind daher als kantonale Erlasse im Sinne von Art. 82 lit. b BGG zu betrachten, gegen welche unmittelba...

... la IIe Cour de droit social dans la cause homes X., Y., W. et V. contre Conseil d'Etat de la Répu...

• A room with a view: global demand for homes for the aged far outstrips their supply. Swiss News looks at how one new health care facility seeks to serve its alpine region.

"From the windows of my room I can view a mountain panorama." says 87-year-old Georg Janett of his new 'home' in the mid-Graubunden village of Alvaneu...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2005, Janvier 2005

• Ordonnance sur la protection civile (OPCi)

.... 2 Les propriétaires d'hôpitaux, de homes pour personnes âgées et d'établissements médic...

• Recueil Officiel du Droit Fédéral num. 50, 13 décembre 2011
• Unique

• A home of your own: most expatriates in Switzerland rent their homes, but buying can be an interesting option. Swiss News looks into in the logistics of buying a house in Switzerland.

According to real estate specialists at Credit Suisse, purchasing a home in Switzerland has never been such a viable proposition. Historically low int...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2005, Janvier 2005

• Sublime Light

The title of [Tero Saarinen]'s work, "Borrowed Light," is derived from the Shaker notion of using "borrowed," rather than direct light in their homes. Borrowed light is an easily understood notion for Finnish people, who live in a part of the world where sunlight is precious and rare for a large part of each year.

• Nordic Reach
• Vol. XVIII Num. 13, Septembre 2005
• News

• Tourism director fights 'cold bed syndrome': St Moritz is a top destination worldwide but its popularity has a downside. Tourism director Hanspeter Danuser calls for measures to reduce the number of unoccupied homes in one of Switzerland's premier resort areas.

It is appropriate that our interview with Hanspeter Danuser takes place on a moving train. In 30 years on the job, Danuser has learned to keep it simp...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2007, Avril 2007

• Ugandan Coffee Growers

In Uganda, the Good African Coffee company, in conjunction with ITC, is demonstrating how public-private partnership can make a significant impact on low-income rural communities. About 85% of Ugandans are farmers, but only a small percentage of Uganda's gross domestic product comes from agriculture due to lack of access to markets, poor export strategies and crude farming techniques. In 2007 the Ugandan public and private sectors launched their National Export Strategy and identified organic production as a promising market opportunity for smallholders who traditionally had the most precarious livelihoods and lowest incomes. Following on from this, in 2009 ITC's Trade and Environment Program helped more than 2,000 smallholder coffee farmers, mostly women, to convert to organic producti...

...Or rather, into new homes, school fees and further investments in farming an...

• International Trade Forum
• Num. 4, Octobre 2009

• Arrêt nº 9C 153/2007 de IIe Cour de Droit Social, 15 novembre 2007

Regeste Art. 73 Abs. 1, Art. 73 Abs. 2 lit. c und Art. 75 Abs. 1 IVG (je gültig gewesen bis 31. Dezember 2003); Art. 100 Abs. 1 lit. b, Art. 101 Abs. 2, Art. 106 Abs. 2 und Art. 107 Abs. 3 IVV: Betriebsbeiträge an Wohnheime; Nachweis der Invalidität der Heimbewohner. Während bis Ende 2002 Arztzeugnisse zum Nachweis der Invalidität der Heimbewohner genügten, verlangt das BSV seit 2003 zusprechende Verfügungen der IV-Stellen für Renten oder Eingliederungsmassnahmen. Diese Praxisänderung ist rechtmässig. Der Umstand, dass erst auf den 1. Januar 2004 mit der 4. IVG-Revision in Art. 75 Abs. 1 Satz 3 IVG eine gesetzliche Grundlage für die Befugnis des BSV zur Regelung der Beitragsberechnung und der Einzelheiten der Anspruchsvoraussetzungen geschaffen wurde, ändert nichts an der Gesetzmässigk...

• Living Sustainable in Scandinavia

Ecovillages aren't exactly a novel phenomenon; they were already being built in the 1980's and 90's and in many parts of the world. The Scandinavian closeness to nature and a lifestyle that offers ample opportunities to lead a life that puts family and quality time outside of work on par with career and work does, however, generally make the Nordic societies a perfect fit for these 'new' living conditions. The main principle is to build houses as environmentally friendly as possible, using renewable energy whenever feasible, recycling garbage, and bringing human waste back to nature. There's often a social ambition in these ecovillages: share tools and machinery, and work together in order to leave as small a carbon footprint as possible. Add to that a desire to use locally grown produc...

... with locally produced energy, nursing homes, banks, and carpools. Self-subsistent households a...

• Nordic Reach
• Vol. 21 Num. 25, Septembre 2008
• News