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Germany Plans To Switch To 100% Alternative Energy By 2050

A new study issued by the Ger­man “Umwelt­bun­de­samt” comes to the con­clu­sion that Ger­many should be able to switch energy pro­duc­tion to 100% renew­able sources within 40 years. Inter­est­ingly the head of the agency, Jochen Flas­barth, states that this is doable with tech­nol­ogy that is avail­able today. Build­ing the nec­es­sary infra­struc­ture would need deci­sive action […]

E-Bikes Take Off In Europe

It is no secret that many cities in Europe are bike-friendly, with ded­i­cated bike lanes, paths solely for use by bicy­clists, and gen­er­ally a higher accep­tance of bicy­cle in gen­eral traf­fic. Still, if you are a per­son of the more lazy kind, the idea to work out just to get to work or do your […]

Low Sustainability Ratings For Oil And Gas Corporations

An Oekom Study look­ing at 27 lead­ing oil and gas cor­po­ra­tions rates orga­ni­za­tions regard­ing their sus­tain­abil­ity. The study’s authors granted that cor­po­ra­tions try to do the right things, how­ever over­all their activ­i­ties are not focused enough and lack tan­gi­ble results. On a scale from A+ to D-, the small Aus­trian com­pany OMV ranked first with […]

You Can’t Control What You Can’t Measure

I am still con­cerned about what’s going on with the oil spill in the Gulf of Mex­ico. Pre­vi­ous esti­mates were that 800,000l oil spill into the sea every day. Some sci­en­tists come to the con­clu­sion that it is more likely to be 10 times more! It seems to be con­sen­sus that right now nobody knows […]

Drill Baby Drill!

Will we learn before it is too late? Watch the mess off the Louisiana coast. On April 20th 2010 an oil rig exploded and took 11 work­ers down to the sea floor. Ini­tially it was said that there is no oil spill, then they said about 160,000 l (1,000 bar­rels) of oil spill into the sea […]