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The answer is blowing in the wind
Offshore Windpark Alpha Ventus. Photo DOTI/Matthias Ibeler/ddp On April 27th, exactly one week after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, Environment Minister Dr. Norbert Röttgen officially inaugurated...
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Leading German climate scientist on Fukushima: “A new basis of our...
In a just published interview under the title “We Are Looting the Past and Future to Feed the Present” with German news magazine Der Spiegel, leading German climate scientist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber...
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The Irrational Fear of Nukes – A German Perspective
As the rescue efforts at the Fukushima plant continue to stumble and fumble along, the discussion about nuclear energy has been in full swing around the globe. The week after the earthquake and tsunami...
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German Town Shows How to Achieve Nuclear Free Future
Yesterday I was invited by friends (thanks Kat & Deidre) to attend the ceremony for the 2011 Goldman Environmental Prize at the War Memorial in San Francisco. All 6 recipients were simply amazing...
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Freiburg, Germany: City of the Future. Part II: How to Build an Eco-Suburb...
Yesterday I posted Freiburg, Germany: City of the Future. Part I: Keeping What Works (a photo diary)– the first in a two-part series about Freiburg, a model for urban sustainability and innovative city...
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How to start your own renewable energy company…
Ursula Sladek, photo courtesy EWS This month’s issue of Resurgence Magazine features The Reluctant Rebels, an article I wrote based on my visit last summer with 2011 Goldman Environmental Prize Winner...
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Dear Conservatives: The train is leaving the station. You can hop on or stay...
Dear Conservatives, I’m writing you today to let you know that the train to the future is about to leave the station and a majority of Americans are already on it, seats taken and luggage safely stored...
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The Seeds They Are A-Changin’
The Matador Travel Network just published my piece about my German ancestral roots in the seed trading business and how it relates to California’s narrowly defeated Proposition 37 which would have...
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Biking the Solar Roofs of Southern Germany, to See the Change You Wish to Be
My mom and stepdad live in a small village between Lindau and Wangen in the Allgäu region of South Germany, not far from the Swiss and Austrian borders. It’s a long story of how they settled in the...
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Not all things medieval are backwards
Part of our human condition seems to be that we think we’re continuously getting smarter. The brain, that wonderful organ located somewhere between our ears, thrives on the notion that we’ve come a...
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The answer is blowing in the wind
Offshore Windpark Alpha Ventus. Photo DOTI/Matthias Ibeler/ddp On April 27th, exactly one week after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, Environment Minister Dr. Norbert Röttgen officially inaugurated...
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The European case for selfishness, or how to transform a burst of Bernie...
An article posted a few weeks ago at The Atlantic entitled What Americans Don’t Get About Nordic Countries by Finnish native Anu Partanen offers some great insights into Northern European democracies...
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Dear Conservatives: The train is leaving the station. You can hop on or stay...
Dear Conservatives, I’m writing you today to let you know that the train to the future is about to leave the station and a majority of Americans are already on it, seats taken and luggage safely stored...
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The Seeds They Are A-Changin’
The Matador Travel Network just published my piece about my German ancestral roots in the seed trading business and how it relates to California’s narrowly defeated Proposition 37 which would have...
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Biking the Solar Roofs of Southern Germany, to See the Change You Wish to Be
My mom and stepdad live in a small village between Lindau and Wangen in the Allgäu region of South Germany, not far from the Swiss and Austrian borders. It’s a long story of how they settled in the...
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The European case for selfishness, or how to transform a burst of Bernie...
An article posted a few weeks ago at The Atlantic entitled What Americans Don’t Get About Nordic Countries by Finnish native Anu Partanen offers some great insights into Northern European democracies...
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Germany under water: At long last, we are all in the same boat. And that’s...
With historic floods hitting one of the last bastions of perceived immunity against the effects of climate change, people in financially wealthy countries are finally forced to reckon with the global...
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Rest in Beauty, Wolfgang Ziegler, Trader of Seeds, Bulbs & Tubers
My uncle Wolfgang Ziegler passed away this week at age 91. I didn’t have a chance to get to know him more intimately until later in his life, but when we did connect it was deeply meaningful, as he...
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