Global Wind Day 2010

German Environment Minister Röttgen: Wind energy will play a major role globally.
“A breath of fresh air” is the slogan of todays Global Wind Day. The
campaign is aimed at raising awareness of wind energy and the important role it plays in renewable energy production. “Wind energy will play a central role in the carbon-free energy mix [...]

June 8th is World Ocean Day.

As a result of a United Nations General Assembly resolution passed in December 2008, World Oceans Day is now officially recognized by the UN as June 8th each year.
The concept for a “World Ocean Day” was first proposed in 1992 by the Government of Canada at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, [...]

Advertising: Print vs. Digital? – Part 2

I remember when I was about 16, I got a job in Munich, Germany to pass out fliers for events and businesses advertising. The company I worked for gave me a huge box of fliers, provided me with route info, where exactly to drop the fliers off and I got paid by the run regardless [...]

Books: Print vs. Digital? – Part 1

I’ve never been  a consumer. I can go past gift shops, clothing stores, tourist attractions, appliance and electronic stores, house ware displays and furniture stores, a jeweler or a pet store without a sigh and without ever feeling like I missed out on something because I didn’t go inside to buy stuff.
However, I do have [...]

BP declines help from Austrian company

As a remedy to the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico the federal government decided to use underwater oil dissolvers. All more or less biologically sound. The Austrian product Bioversal, which dissolves oil organically offered BP its help, but the oil giant declined.
See how oil gets dissolved organically on their website (German only)
http://www.bioversal-austria.at/bioframeset.html

There’s no place like home

I was born in Hungary, raised in Germany and now I live in Los Angeles where I work as an Actor, a Director and a Community Activist. Hollywood is a long way from Budapest but the current green revolution reminds me of the frugal and sustainable lifestyle I experienced as a young girl in Budapest. [...]

Audi Accelerates “Iron Man”

May 6 and 7 mark the theatrical debuts of “Iron Man 2” in North America and Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland. Already grossing over $100 million on 6,764 screens in some 53 countries, Robert Downey Jr. & Co. claimed the top spot in all but one and outpaced the May 2008 original by an average [...]

DIDGET Meters Diabetis on Nintendo

Bayer Diabetes Care, a division of Germany’s healthcare giant Bayer AG, introduced its DIDGET blood glucose monitoring system in the United States. In a unique twist that “combines play with purpose” for children with diabetes, the DIDGET connects directly to Nintendo DS and DS Lite gaming systems. The company says the goal is “to help kids [...]

PUMA Kick-Starts More Eco-Friendly Packaging

After what corporate communications called “more than ten years of successful implementation of its social and environmental standards” achieved under the puma.safe heading, the German sports and lifestyle company PUMA recently introduced “the next pivotal phase of its ambitious long-term sustainability program.” In the last five, the Herzogenaurach-based company further collected Environmental Key Performance Indicators [...]

Worldwatch.org bekommt Deutsche Seite germanwatch.org

“Lage der Welt”: Konsum plündert den Planeten
Bericht gibt Hauptverantwortung für Raubbau den Industrienationen
“Der Bericht zur Lage der Welt 2010″ ist nun erschienen (Bild: oekom.de)
Berlin/Washington DC (pte/19.03.2010/13:05) – Der exzessive Konsum, dem die Bewohner der Industrienationen frönen, plündert den Planeten Erde aus und trägt wesentlich zur Zerstörung globaler Ökosysteme bei. Zu diesem Schluss kommt der Bericht [...]

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