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Nicolas Hayek, the man who turned the "Swatch" into a success, has a very good point that biofuels still pollute the atmosphere and are not the solution. He now founded a new company, Belenos Clean Power, that focuses on hydrogen-powered cars.

According to the article, "Hayek believes a new generation of hydrogen-powered cars could be on the market within three years." Great news!

Read here the whole article:
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/search/Result.html?siteSect=882&ty=st&sid=91...

If bio fuel is created from grain or corn, it seems to me very unethical given the hunger that is still wide-spread across the world. The bio fuel with a future however is gas from manure and compost where it is a byproduct.

Two more links to the topic:
"Food price rises are mass murder":
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/Food_price_rises_are_mass... Read on...

Turn off the lights for one hour at 8 pm local time on March 29, 2008, as a statement about climate change. This "Earth Hour" has been originally created in 2007 by the WWF Sydney and is much more wide-spread in 2008. Read more here: http://www.earthhourus.org

"Overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love."

According to Peace Pilgrim, only the immature react to war with war. She walked for 28 years criss-crossing the United States in the name of peace, walking the talk. See her video here (duration: 1:02 h).  Read on...

This is very good news - we can have a renewable energy supply with the technologies of today! An ingenious team of German researchers has found a way to combine solar, wind and biomass energy into a network that overcomes the natural limitations of weather-dependent energy production. These are the key points: Read on...

In case you still think that Global Warming is a hoax (especially when looking at the deep winter conditions of January 2008 in the midwest of the United States), then contemplate the following picture which shows the European Alp's (still) largest glacier, the Aletsch glacier in 1900 and 2005:

 Read on...

After some problems created by the overwhelming response of all people interested, the web site Encyclopedia of Live finally went live. The goal is to create a Wikipedia of some sorts of all animal life on Earth in order to document biodiversity.

Check it out at http://www.eol.org .

Zurich's Federal Institute of Technology (the Swiss equivalent to the MIT) published a strategy paper last Monday that calls to "limit CO₂ emissions to one ton per person per year by the end of the century - if the planet's population increases to ten billion as foreseen." They want to achieve this goal with the three "E"'s:
Increased efficiency of energy conversion at all steps of the supply chain, the rapid introduction of renewable energies, and the increased consumption of electricity at the end-user level. Read on...

The renowned German computer mazagine "c't" is looking in its latest edition more closely in what is behind "Green IT" and feels that it is mostly still only an empty label. Read on...

Ever wondered about the impact of cosumerism to the world and how it came about? Then the web movie "The Story of Stuff" has some answers for you - highly recommended. In fact, this should be shown in every school.

Check out the movie at the website http://www.storyofstuff.com . Please make sure you have 20 minutes available to watch all of it. It's worth it.