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. [...]

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 [...]

ThinkSwiss Scolarship for Climate Change

The Exchange tells the story of Katie Paige, a U.S. university student who received a ThinkSwiss scholarship last year to work on a research project at a Swiss university. This year ThinkSwiss will again select 15 talented and motivated U.S. students to study in Switzerland as recipients of the 2010 ThinkSwiss Research Scholarship. Interested? The [...]

Leonardo DiCaprio in NRDC PSA

Unlike the US, Germany has been a forerunner in striving to become the world’s first major renewable-energy economy. Scientists from the University of Kassel have proved in an experiment called Kombikraftwerk that Germany can power itself entirely by renewable energy!
Austria, granted a considerably smaller country than the US, has been going green for years and does not [...]