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Headline	Author	Published	Section
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 Schröder'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)

Silicon Dally Big demand for solar energy runs up against finite panel supply		05 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Silicon Dally Big demand for solar energy runs up against finite panel supply Global demand for photovoltaic panels is causing months-long delays and price hikes for would-be buyers in the U.S. American suppliers blame a weak dollar, shortages of raw materials, and swelling demand both at home and abroad. The worldwide solar-power market has grown about 40 percent annually in t ...
Topics: business, energy, Germany, Japan, news, solar voltaic power, United States (all these topics)

Pedi Cure Pedicabs catching on in Germany		03 May 2005	Daily Grist
Pedi Cure Pedicabs catching on in Germany Bicycle taxis, or pedicabs, have been thriving in Germany recently thanks to changes in national law, concerns about pollution and global warming, and a souped-up model dreamed up by former DaimlerChrysler project manager Ludger Matuszewski. The $9,000 German pedicabs -- rented to operators for about $8 a day -- are decked out with disc brakes, 21 gears, and an auxiliary rechargeable ele ...
Topics: Germany, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Ich Bin Ein Cowboy U.S., Germany agree on vague climate measures		24 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Ich Bin Ein Cowboy U.S., Germany agree on vague climate measures President Bush is on a tour of Europe, seeking ways to repair relationships with traditional allies that don't involve changing any U.S. position on any subject -- and that includes global warming. His stop in Germany yesterday to talk with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was a positive, if strained, affair, generating a declaration of cooperation on the ...
Topics: climate, Germany, news, United States (all these topics)

A Green and Pleasant Continent Europe's Green Parties Unite		23 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
A Green and Pleasant Continent Europe's Green Parties Unite Thirty-two national Green parties united on Saturday to become the European Green Party, predicting that a unified voice will gain them influence and votes in the coming elections. The Greens, now the first pan-European political party, will run under a common banner and with a common age ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, European Union, Germany, green living, Italy, political groups (all these topics)

Ding Dong, the Plant Is Dead Germany Shutters First N-Plant in Beginning of End of Atomic Industry		14 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Ding Dong, the Plant Is Dead Germany Shutters First N-Plant in Beginning of End of Atomic Industry Germany began its historic phaseout of all atomic energy by shutting down the first of 19 nuclear power plants today. The Stade plant, in a city of the same name, had been open since 1972, making it the nation's second-oldest atomic energy facility. Anti-nuclear activists celebrated i ...
Topics: France, Germany, Greenpeace, nuclear power, placemaking, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Hot Topic Heat Wave in Europe Leads to Nuke Plant Worries		12 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Hot Topic Heat Wave in Europe Leads to Nuke Plant Worries The withering heat wave in Europe, which is believed to have led to dozens if not hundreds of deaths, is now causing problems at nuclear facilities and other power plants. Government authorities in France and Germany have announced that they are relaxing rules to let plants pump warmer-than ...
Topics: climate, France, Germany, health, marine life, nuclear power, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Schroeder's Symphony		23 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Schroeder's Symphony German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats will remain in power by a narrow majority, thanks to a strong showing by his coalition partner, the Green Party. Commentators agree that the most remarkable achievement of the tight parliamentary elections belonged to Joschka Fischer, foreign minister and leader of the Greens. Despite the small size of the Green Party, Fischer consistently ranks as Germany's most ...
Topics: Germany, politics (all these topics)

Septemberfest		06 May 2002	Daily Grist
Septemberfest Now that France has re-elected President Jacques Chirac over anti-immigrant, anti-social protection, anti-environment Jean-Marie Le Pen, the attention of the European Union has shifted toward Germany, where general elections will be held in September and an equally strong rightward lurch is feared. To help prevent that shift, Germany's Greens spent the weekend outlining policies to battle resurgent conservative currents and ...
Topics: Germany, politics (all these topics)

Elephants: Never Forget		26 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Elephants: Never Forget A shocking 80 percent of wild elephants in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam fell victim to the ivory trade between 1988 and 2000, according to a report issued yesterday by Save the Elephants. The report blamed French, Spanish, Italian, German, Japanese, and Chinese tourists for driving ...
Topics: Cambodia, China, France, Germany, Indonesia, international government agencies, Italy, Japan, Laos, Nepal, Spain, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, wildlife (all these topics)

Danube Blues		31 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Danube Blues The Danube River in Europe may be blue, but it's not very green -- and its environmental problems are slated to get even worse, the World Wildlife Fund warns in a report being released today. More than 80 percent of the river's wetlands and flood plains have already been destroyed in the name of flood protection, agriculture, p ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, Germany, placemaking, rivers and watersheds, wetlands, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

The Throng Song		13 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
The Throng Song Throngs of environmental activists are protesting a shipment of nuclear waste making its way by train from France to Germany, and at least 100 have been detained by the police. The six containers of radioactive waste originated at a reprocessing plant in La Hague, in northern France, and will be stored in Gorleben, Germany, 375 miles away. At least 5,000 protesters are staging actions al ...
Topics: France, Germany, Greenpeace, health, nuclear power (all these topics)

Monkey Business		13 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Monkey Business Illegal trafficking in wildlife has become Brazil's third-most profitable illegal activity after arms and drugs smuggling, generating up to $1 billion annually. An estimated 38 million wild animals are stolen from the country's forests every year, according to a new report by the National Network Against the Trafficking of Wild Animals (RENCTAS). Eighty-two percent ...
Topics: Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Netherlands, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Swedish Neatballs		15 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Swedish Neatballs Sweden is setting the world's standard for balancing economic growth with environmental protections, according to a report released last week by the Swiss-based World Conservation Union (IUCN) and the Canadian International Development Research Center. The report used standards-of-living indicators such as quality of social services, ...
Topics: business, Dominican Republic, Finland, Germany, green living, Japan, Norway, Sweden, United States (all these topics)

Bahn Stormer		17 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Bahn Stormer German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder kvetched this week that taking steps to protect the environment was causing the cost of highway construction to soar. "I don't have anything against frogs," he said as he inspected a just-completed segment of a long-delayed highway, "but the expenditures we make for protecting the environment while building roads are enormous." Environmentalists ...
Topics: Germany, placemaking, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics)

Bonn Jour		23 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Bonn Jour Negotiators from 178 countries reached agreement today on how to tackle climate change, fleshing out the Kyoto treaty and leaving the U.S. isolated from the rest of the world. Margot Wallstrom, the European Union's environmental commissioner, said, "The rescue operation succeeded." In the final pact reached in Bonn, the E.U. held firm against efforts to weaken enforcement mechanisms for penalizing countrie ...
Topics: air pollution, Germany, ozone (all these topics)

Global Heartwarming		20 Jul 2001	Daily Grist

Topics: Germany, politics (all these topics)

A Bonn in the Oven		17 Jul 2001	Daily Grist

Topics: Germany, politics (all these topics)

Czech Your Nukes at the Door		17 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Czech Your Nukes at the Door Germany has asked the Czech Republic to shut down the Temelin nuclear power plant near the borders of Germany and Austria. Austria became nuke-free in 1978, and German utilities agreed last month to close their 19 nuclear plants within 20 years. The Temelin plant, which began operating last fall, has provoked major protests from local enviros, as well a ...
Topics: Austria, Czech Republic, energy, European Union, Germany, nuclear power (all these topics)

Non Bonn Jovial		16 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Non Bonn Jovial Delegates from about 180 countries began talks today in Bonn, Germany, to try to salvage the Kyoto treaty on climate change, even though the U.S. has withdrawn from it. The European Union is lobbying Japan not to follow U.S. President Bush's lead by rejecting Kyoto. But Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi yesterday downplayed the talks in Bonn, suggesting that negotiations sche ...
Topics: air pollution, Germany, Japan, politics, United States (all these topics)

Paper Chase	Josh Sevin	02 Feb 2000	Counter Culture
a 50 percent increase in worldwide paper consumption is expected by 2010 115 billion sheets of paper are used annually for personal computers 700 pounds of paper are consumed by the average American each year 10,000 trees are cut down annually in China to make holiday cards 3 cubic yards of landfill space can be saved by one ton of recycled paper 77 percent of paper is recycled in the Netherlands 67 percent of paper is recycled in Germany 52 percent of paper ...
Topics: China, Germany, green living, Japan, Netherlands, recycling, United States (all these topics)

Forty	Josh Sevin	12 Jan 2000	Counter Culture
percentage by which energy consumption in developing nations is expected to grow by 2010 percentage of written prescriptions that are either based on or synthesized from natural compounds found in plants and animals percentage of total paper used in Germany that goes toward packaging percentage by which one can reduce pollution from an older car by keeping it well-tuned dollars saved by replacing an incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent percentage by ...
Topics: Canada, food and agriculture, Germany, green living, lakes, Louisiana, marine life, pollution and waste, United States, wetlands (all these topics)

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