Beautiful "Forests of the World" photo exhibit in Basel, Switzerland
Last Saturday, we had the great fortune to visit the "Forests of the World" photo exhibit in the museum "Fondation Beyeler", one of Switzerland's leading art museums. Read on...
November 2007
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Nov 20
"Major firms seek exemption from greenhouse tax"
Instead of looking for ways on lowering the CO2 emissions, 970 Swiss companies rather look for ways to not pay the greenhouse tax. They have it upside down....
Read the whole article at Swissinfo.ch:
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/top_news/detail/Major_firms_seek_exemption_f...
Nov 19
"Destination of 'recycled' electronics may surprise you"
From CNN:
"Most Americans think they're helping the earth when they recycle their old computers, televisions and cell phones. But chances are they're contributing to a global trade in electronic trash that endangers workers and pollutes the environment overseas." ... Read on...
Nov 18
"UN panel gives dire warming forecast"
From Yahoo News:
"Climate change imperils "the most precious treasures of our planet," he said, and the effects are "so severe and so sweeping that only urgent global action will do. We are all in this together. We must work together."
The whole article is unfortunately no longer available since Yahoo doesn't store the news forever. The orignal link was http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071118/ap_on_sc/climate_change_conference
Nov 18
Air pollution in Switzerland
One doesn't have to travel all the way to India to see the pollution. This picture was taken overlooking Lake Geneva, Switzerland, on a winter day when the air pollution becomes visible as a brown cloud.
Nov 18
Impressions from India
As mentioned before, certain impressions from a trip to India in 2004 lead to the first inspiration for this blog. This picture illustrates one of them.
The waste basket was open at the bottom and it said: "Keep Puttaparthi clean."
Nov 17
Welcome to this blog!
On a travel to India in 2004, I could see very clearly what the lack of waste management and non-degradable waste (such as plastics) can do to the environment. On the same trip, I also saw the pollution of rivers and the air. This was when the idea for this web site was born.
In the West, we have similar problems, but they are less obvious. Ever since Al Gore's "An inconvenient truth", we can no longer hide in ignorance. This blog reflects what concerns me these days about the environment and nature.
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