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Hamburg Helper E.U. has trash problem; Hamburg has trash solution		09 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 10:16 AM on 09 Jun 2008 The European Union is running out of landfill space and faces a looming trash problem. All member nations have been directed to reduce landfill-bound trash 35 percent of 1995 levels by 2020, but many nations have slim chances of meeting that target; Italy, Spain, Greece, and Britain currently send more than 60 percent of their rubbish to landfills. Hopefully, E.U. trash laggards will look to the e ...
Topics: European Union, Germany, Italy, news, waste (all these topics)

It's Only Biological Ocean seeding banned at U.N. biodiversity conference		30 May 2008	News
Posted at 10:08 AM on 30 May 2008 A 12-day United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity ended Friday with just a wee bit of progress toward salvaging the world's rapidly disappearing flora and fauna. Perhaps most encouraging: The 191 countries present agreed to ban the controversial practice of seeding the ocean with nutrients to encourage growth of carbon-sucking algae. In addition, Germany, which hosted the conferen ...
Topics: biodiversity, Bosnia, Congo, geoengineering, Germany, Indonesia, Malaysia, news, United Nations (all these topics)

Interview with solar champion Hermann Scheer	David Roberts	29 May 2008	Gristmill
NewScientist has a great interview with German Social Democrat MP Hermann Scheer, who chairs the World Council for Renewable Energy and has done as much as anyone alive to spread the word on solar power. Unfortunately, it's behind a subscription wall, so you can't read it. But have no fear! I'll post a big chunk of it below the fold: What did you do about it? Ten years ago, I called for a programme to install solar panels on 100,000 roofs in Germany, so that ...
Topics: energy, Germany, interview, legislation, politics, renewable energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Coal in Europe The enemy of the human race is set to wipe out Europe's meager emissions gains	David Roberts	28 May 2008	Gristmill
They're building a huge new coal-fired power plant in Holz, Germany, where there are already three. To fuel it, an open-pit mine that has scarred the fields outside town with a 31-square-mile hole will be moved west, swallowing up this village and nearby Pesch. Already, their neat cottages sit empty and boarded. That's just one of many planned for Europe: Plans are on the books to build 40 major coal-fired power stations across Europe in the next five years. G ...
Topics: coal, dumbassery, energy, European Union, Germany (all these topics)

The power of wind Wind energy ad wins Cannes award	David Roberts	24 May 2008	Gristmill
I think I've posted this before, but a quick search didn't turn it up. Anyway, this video, an ad for Epuron energy company created by the Nordpol+Hamburg agency, won the 'Golden Lion' in Cannes. Check it out:
Topics: advertising, energy, funnies, Germany, wind power (all these topics)

Loving the 'stache Tom Friedman on the need to invest in infrastructure and revitalize the U.S.	Jon Rynn	09 May 2008	Gristmill
Sometimes Tom Friedman drives me crazy, but he often has a good nugget hidden in the middle of his columns, like this one last Sunday: A few weeks ago, my wife and I flew from New York's Kennedy Airport to Singapore. In J.F.K.'s waiting lounge we could barely find a place to sit. Eighteen hours later, we landed at Singapore's ultramodern airport, with free Internet portals and children's play zones throughout. We felt, as we have before, like we had just flown from the Fli ...
Topics: air travel, Germany, international politics, politics, Singapore (all these topics)

Let them eat biofuel Food vs. fuel debate, German edition	Tom Philpott	21 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Defending her country's biofuel mandates in a time of global food crisis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently denied that turning food crops into car fuel affects prices.Those looking for reasons behind the recent spike in food prices shouldn't blame ethanol and biodiesel makers, she argued. Instead, look at how people are eating in the global south: If you travel to India these days, then a main part of the debate is about the "second meal." People ar ...
Topics: biofuels, energy, environmental justice, food, Germany, international politics (all these topics)

Taking Germany 100 percent renewable German scientists develop Combined Power Plant	David Roberts	08 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Via the The Sietch blog, some very, very cool stuff out of the University of Kassel in Germany -- the Combined Power Plant: The secure and constant provision of power anywhere and at anytime by renewable energies is now made possible thanks to the Combined Power Plant. The Combined Power Plant links and controls 36 wind, solar, biomass and hydropower installations spread throughout Germany. It is just as reliable and powerful as a conventional large-scale power ...
Topics: energy, Germany, renewable energy (all these topics)

Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Engines Automaker lawsuit against Rhode Island can go forward, and more vehicle news		02 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 2:14 PM on 02 Jan 2008 If news of states suing the EPA merely whets your appetite for vehicle-emissions news, here's more: Firstly, a federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit from automakers seeking to prevent Rhode Island from regulating vehicle emissions can go forward. Rhode Island officials are left wondering how their situation is different from a very similar lawsu ...
Topics: cars, China, climate, fuel efficiency, Germany, litigation, news, Rhode Island (all these topics)

It's Time to Face the Tax Germany's Social Democrats call for climate sanctions on U.S. goods		19 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 7:56 AM on 19 Dec 2007 Angered by what it sees as America's climate inaction and obstructionism, the Social Democratic Party in Germany has called for sanctions on imports of energy-intensive products from the U.S. "The U.S. is a major part of the problem. Levying special taxes or sanctions on energy-intensive U.S. products, such as steel and aluminum, which are exported to Europe, could ...
Topics: Germany, international politics, news, politics, United States (all these topics)

Get in the van It's not whether we can beat climate change with today's tools, but whether we can get moving	David Roberts	17 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Tyler Hamilton ran across some elaborate, multibillion-dollar plans for a carbon capture and sequestration network in Canada, geared around enhanced oil recovery. Naturally it was asking the government (read: Canadian taxpayers) to assume the bulk of the risk. Naturally it won't be done for well over a decade. Then he ran across something else: Then I read about a new law passed in Germany that, among other things, will require all new homes built in the country to ...
Topics: Germany, renewable energy, energy, climate (all these topics)

The good German German Chancellor Merkel focuses on climate change	Glenn Hurowitz	12 Sep 2007	Gristmill
In Germany, when the going gets tough, the tough go green: Chancellor Angela Merkel seems to have realized that, contrary to the song lyrics, sometimes it's quite easy being green. Mrs. Merkel has shied away from the biggest fight at home: the deep economic restructuring she advocated during her campaign two years ago. And on the matter of the suspected terrorist plot in the heart of Germany, she has remained in the background, apparently happy to cede the lime ...
Topics: Angela Merkel, elections, Germany, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Deutsche steinkohle ist kaputt Except that we still have to wait another 10 years	Ron Steenblik	10 Aug 2007	Gristmill
The German government on Wednesday cleared the way -- finally -- to phase out the mining of hard coal in Germany. As explained by this Associated Press article in the International Herald Tribune, the heavily subsidized German hard coal industry still employs about 33,000 people in eight underground mines. The plan is to phase out hard-coal mining starting in 2009, and for miners to receive compensation if they are laid off prematurely. Hard-coal mining 'has n ...
Topics: coal, energy, Germany (all these topics)

A case of the German weasels BASF CEO questions whether climate change is a problem	Kate Sheppard	27 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Interesting interview with BASF CEO J�rgen Hambrecht in today's Der Speigel, in which the leader of the world's largest chemical company questions the whole 'climate change is a problem' thing. He's also one of Angela Merkel's 'key advisers,' though we're hoping it's on topics other than climate policy. An excerpt: Spiegel: You say that what the government is calling for is completely unrealistic. What is realistic? Hambrecht: Realistic is what is doable without har ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Germany (all these topics)

The Brainstorm From Hell Delegates gather in Germany to picture a post-Kyoto future		08 May 2007	Daily Grist
The Brainstorm From Hell Delegates gather in Germany to picture a post-Kyoto future The ongoing effort to figure out what in blazes to do when the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012 is getting a boost this week and next, with officials from more than 160 countries gathering in Bonn, Germany, for a two-week brainstorm. The U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change bonanza, attended by more than 1,0 ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, Germany, Kyoto Protocol, news, politics (all these topics)

Biofuel bashing	David Roberts	03 May 2007	Gristmill
Now with a German accent! (h/t: Gristmill reader CJ)
Topics: biofuels, energy, Germany (all these topics)

And They're Off As ministers gather in Potsdam, Germans still fuming over speed-limit idea		16 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
And They're Off As ministers gather in Potsdam, Germans still fuming over speed-limit idea The G8 environment ministers are spending two days in Potsdam, Germany, chewing over the world's post-Kyoto possibilities with their developing-country counterparts. "We are going to speak about the barriers that have until now held back international climate-change negotiations and how to break them," said German eco-minister S ...
Topics: climate, G8, Germany, news (all these topics)

Merkel, May I? E.U., Germany duke it out over auto emissions standards		01 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Merkel, May I? E.U., Germany duke it out over auto emissions standards Once upon a time, the European Union proposed a carbon-dioxide emissions limit on all vehicles made or imported there. But Germany -- home of Volkswagen, BMW, DaimlerChrysler, and Porsche -- has yanked on the e-brake. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the country would not suppor ...
Topics: Angela Merkel, cars, European Union, Germany, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Tongue Wrestling In India, U.K., and U.S., climate change is cause for conflict		05 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Tongue Wrestling In India, U.K., and U.S., climate change is cause for conflict Climate challenges erupted all over the globe this week. In India, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told a group of 5,000 scientists that the developing world "cannot afford to ape the West in terms of its environmentally wasteful lifestyle," adding that India must invest in alternative energy ...
Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, George Bush, Germany, India, news, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Renate Gonna Take It Anymore An interview with Renate K�nast, Germany's Green Party chair	Michael Levitin	09 Nov 2006	Main Dish
As the U.N. climate-change conference heats up this week in Nairobi, Kenya, strategies to promote clean energy and slow global warming top the agenda for many nations -- not least of all Germany, which is Europe's biggest economy, a global leader in green technology, and the country set to take over the 12-month presidency of the G8 industrialized nations and the six-month Eur ...
Topics: climate, Germany, interview, politics (all these topics)

Touched by an Angela German Chancellor will focus on climate as she leads G8 and E.U.		02 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Touched by an Angela German Chancellor will focus on climate as she leads G8 and E.U. German Chancellor Angela Merkel intends to make climate change top priority when her country takes the reins of both the European Union and the G8 at the beginning of next year. Enviros are likely to welcome the leadership of Merkel, a former environment minister, after Russia downplayed global warming during its 2006 G8 presid ...
Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, G8, Germany, news (all these topics)

Beyond Kyoto A dispatch from a forward-looking climate conference in Germany		02 Oct 2006	Dispatches
Michael Levitin is a freelance writer based in Germany. Last week, he attended KyotoPlus: Escaping the Climate Trap, an international conference held in Berlin. � Monday, 02 Oct 2006 Berlin, Germany Imagine a trans-European "super grid" of renewable energy connecting solar parks in northern Africa to wind farms in Scandinavia. Consider the millions in savings -- in miles, in dollars, in tons of CO2 injected in ...
Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, Dispatches, environmental planning, Germany (all these topics)

Wal-Mart and culture	David Roberts	03 Aug 2006	Gristmill
This NYT piece about Wal-Mart's failure to fit in culturally in various of its international conquest states is just fascinating. Apparently wanting everything available in one place, at the lowest possible price, in huge impersonal stores is not a fundamental feature of human nature, but a cultural artifact. In Germany, for instance, the company is just giving up entirely. Trolling through the article, I pulled out these nifty tidbits: In Germany, Wal-Mart stoppe ...
Topics: business, Germany, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Feline Groovy German inventor denies using dead cats to make biodiesel		15 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Feline Groovy German inventor denies using dead cats to make biodiesel German inventor Christian Koch says he's patented a way to convert trash into eco-friendly, high-quality biodiesel fuel that costs one-fifth the going price of diesel in his home country. To produce the alternative fuel, Koch claims he uses waste including paper, textiles, and plastics -- but no dead cats. Got that? Koch is ...
Topics: animal welfare, Germany, news, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Nein Lives Germany says auf Wiedersehen to nuclear power, guten Tag to renewables	Michael Levitin	12 Aug 2005	Main Dish
For a people as addicted to order as the Germans, this country is floundering in uncertainty. The economy has sputtered to a post-World War II record 5 million unemployed. Chancellor Gerhard Schr�der's exhausted left-of-center coalition is close to coughing up the fall elections to conservatives. And soccer fans aren't even sure if their team can defend the country's pride when it hos ...
Topics: Germany, nuclear power, renewable energy (all these topics)

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