Eco Guide

Top 5 Eco Trends for companies 2009

carity — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:46:31 +0000

Opportunities for companies providing environmental technology

• Higher fossil fuel prices due to oil shortage
• the Climate change will become clearer, although there are significant regional variations
• Increased water efficiency: In the year 2030, 50% of the population will suffer from water scarcity
• cold and electricity from heat loss and solar will be competitive
• Decentralization of electricity supply, including decentralized storage

Goodbye 2008!

carity — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:05:49 +0000

I wish everyone a nice celebration for todays New Years Eve!

Atmosfair – a contribution for travellers

carity — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:41:37 +0000

Here is something about a Berlin-based environemt project, which you can find on a lot of online travel portals those days – Atmosfair.

What is atmosfair?

Each flight contributes to climate warming. But if you want to travel to San Francisco from Europe, except of just letting it be there was no practical alternative. But if you are in a situation like this, you can do your contribution to climate protection by using atmosfair.

How does atmosfair work?

atmosfair allows air travellers to calculate the quantity of greenhouse gases caused by their flights and how much it costs to save these emissions elsewhere by investing in climate protection projects. With your donation atmosfair realizes solar, hydropower, biomass, or energy-efficiency projects which save the amount of greenhouse gases your flight has emitted before.

Eco News for autumn

carity — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:57:41 +0000

Expect a detalled review of the latest ecologic activiites for tomorrow!

Eco-tourism in New York

carity — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:16:02 +0000

The panorama of New york is truly a dream. But whatever meets the eye are stones, glass and concrete. This is New York, it`s the metropolis, the opposite of a rural idyll. But wait: Do I stray a little too much in stereotypes? Obviously yes, because there were news recently, the Big Apple would turn into a thoroughly green apple – and It starts already in the gastronomy:

Organic grocery stores open everywhere, restaurants are serving the booming organic food – and in Chelsea, the first Biohotel of the city will soon be opened. Marco Burlimann, Director of Food and Beverage at the luxury hotel Essex House, confirmed the boom in eco-tourism business: “There is a veritable organic trend in upscale restaurants.”

Further, around the abandoned elevated railway in the west of Manhattan opened a new park, for which the city administration will spend 180 million euros.

Clearely, this investment will pay off soon. Because even today, the most expensive New York roads are located around the Central Park. And so it is hoped that the current “greening plans” last and New York will get a whole new image in the future. It would do the city on the Hudson River certainly good.

Ecotrophea 2008

carity — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:56:29 +0000

There are still eleven days in which companies from the travel industry can apply for the coveted Ecotrophea 2008. This is announcecd by a press release from the German Travel Association (DRV) – which sets a deadline to 31 August:

This is – despite the new name- a very traditional and prestigious award, which this year already takes place for 22nd Time. Awards ceremony will be during the 58th DRV annual meeting from 13th to 15th November 2008. In the terms of participation we read:

To Apply Ecotrophea, persons, groups, organizations, businesses and municipalities are welcomed with their projects from all over the world. Decisive for the award is not the size of the operation, but the most effective, exemplary and innovative contribution of the project on sustainable tourism.

More information and detailed tender documents can be found on the website www.drv.de and in the Department of Environment & Culture.

The 11 Healthy Foods You Aren’t Eating

carity — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:01:27 +0000

…Nutritionist and author Jonny Bowden has created several lists of healthful foods people should be eating but aren’t. But some of his favorites, like purslane, guava and goji berries, aren’t always available at regular grocery stores. I asked Dr. Bowden, author of “The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth,” to update his list with some favorite foods that are easy to find but don’t always find their way into our shopping carts. Here’s his advice.

Beets: Think of beets as red spinach, Dr. Bowden said, because they are a rich source of folate as well as natural red pigments that may be cancer fighters.
How to eat: Fresh, raw and grated to make a salad. Heating decreases the antioxidant power. …

The value of photovoltaic electricity after the promotion period

carity — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:29:08 +0000

As been mentioned several times at the Smart Grids Week, which took place last week in Vienna, electricity from photovoltaic systems is particularly valuable due to the inverter technology which is good for the network. It is also a technology which has the largest increases -so the facility owners should not worry about the future income, because each network operator is going to to pay good money for this power - several industry representatives confirmed this already.

Environmental activists

carity — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:55:21 +0000

Environmental activists are people who feel the environment and the fight against environmental pollution effort. These are also actions of civil disobedience and often risking fines, sometimes even their physical integrity. For sensational environmental actions in this sense, especially the anti-nuclear movement and the environmental organizations Greenpeace and Robin Wood can be named.

Well-known environmental activists:

* Julia Butterfly Hill, Forest Protective woman of the U.S. environmental organization Earth First!
* Al Gore, former Vice-President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize winners 2007
* Monika Griefahn, a former organizer of the Greenpeace campaign against the chemical pollution of the North Sea, and later Lower Saxony Environment Minister
* Michael Hartmann, Car opponents from Munich and inventor of the Car and Street Walking
* David McTaggart, Long time Managing Director of Greenpeace International
* Wangari Maathai, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and founder of the afforestation project Green Belt Movement