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Angela Merkel marks day the Wall fell and she took tea in West - Times Online

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:20:40 -0800

nice comment by a Brit :-)

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:47:09 -0800

another picture gallery - celebrate the day !

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:03:46 -0800

20 years ago - fall of the wall
A must-remember !

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:48:19 -0800

Yes ! Good one !
Please watch it.

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:10:20 -0800

Admirable !

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:50:38 -0800

Germany - the Wall - now and then. A very interesting photo gallery. Here are some examples:

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:59:25 -0700

So much easier to ignore the truth and to pretend that it doesn't happen....isn't it?

If I eat meat at all, I only buy it from organic farmers in the vicinity. But there is really so much delicious vegetarian food available, that meat is really not necessary at all.
The Moral Ferocity of Eating Animals

Perhaps you have seen the film Food, Inc. Maybe you have read the works of Michael Pollan. You may have heard of confined veal calves pumped full of antibiotics and collapsing in their own excrement; or seen the video of bushels of baby chicks, alive and cheeping, dumped into a grinder. Almost certainly, you have heard something about the terrible ways that we now treat farm animals in America, and you didn't like what you heard.

But if you still eat meat from factories -- and, Foer reports, 99 percent of meat eaten in the U.S. is raised and/or processed in factory operations -- you have not, by definition, absorbed the reality of factory farms. If you truly understood the nightmarish brutality of what happens inside these windowless animal jails and abattoirs that dot the American ruralscape, you simply would not eat this meat. Foer makes it clear that factory farming is the exceptional human activity that debases and destroys everything it touches: land, people, communities, and most of all, the innocents at the nexus, animals.
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Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:39:03 -0700

Good ! Just yesterday I read an article - more like a horror story - about what happens when we run out of plastic. So this is a gleam of hope that we'll be wise enough to find replacements before it happens.
Algae Used To Produce Green Plastics, Sans Petroleum

Algae-derived plastics could cut more than half of the petroleum currently used in traditional production

Algae have come a long way in our post-fossil-fuels energy situation: Now the same green scum that covers water and other surfaces could soon be enlisted to make biodegradable green plastics for your picnic cutlery.

That greener future comes courtesy of Cereplast, a California-based firm that has already made renewable plastics using starches from the likes of tapioca, corn, wheat and potatoes. The company says that algae bioplastics could eliminate 50 percent or more of the petroleum that usually goes into making traditional plastic. ...more

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:43:10 -0700

Maybe all the anger, confusion and dissatisfaction with the new V4 is only a ....

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:36:33 -0700

I wish these awards would actually make the recipients reconsider their doings. Fat chance though. After all, money and power games are much more important than the environment, aren't they ?
Rubber Dodo Awarded to Worst Human on the Planet

The CBD's Rubber Dodo memorializes the person who's done most to drive endangered species extinct. The 2007 winner was Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne. In 2008, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin got the dishonor.

"Under Winer's money-obsessed leadership, TAREX has become the poster child for unsustainable, endangered-species-killing sprawl. He specializes in finding massive, remote estates far from urban centers and turning them into a sea of condos, malls, golf courses, and resorts. There is good reason that even Wall Street commonly calls TAREX a 'real-estate vulture'." ...more