Many citizens will be annoyed by this proposal. At least all those where the postal service only delivered a long-awaited letter after a few days - and not the very next morning. The Federal Ministry of Economics wants to reform the postal law and could remove the requirement that 80 percent of the letters have to reach the addressee within one day. This is what it says in a key issues paper from Robert Habecks. Deutsche Post would then receive...
Many minerals can bind greenhouse gases and thus stabilize the climate. How this could be used against global warming. source site
Many minerals can bind greenhouse gases and thus stabilize the climate. How this could be used against global warming. source site
The chainsaws have already done a great job in the Fechenheim forest. The route has been cleared, the tree houses are gone. For more than a year, opponents of the Autobahn had prevented clearing here, and with it the expansion of the A 66 near Frankfurt. In the middle of the month, the police cleared the forest. "A bitter defeat," says Alexis Passadakis, one of the organizers of the resistance alliance against the further construction of the Autobahn. "But the...
For decades there was a stately maple tree at Adalbertstraße 55 in Maxvorstadt. It was felled in early October. "I'm still stunned by this," says Sabine Meier. She lives in one of the apartments in the yellow house. Her real name is different, but the tenant fears the consequences. The maple was almost 100 years old, she reports, and its felling changed the streetscape. "The horror on the whole of Adalbertstraße is great."The maple is one of more than 8,500...
Germany needs affordable, sustainable housing that is geared towards the common good. But the rising costs endanger precisely such projects. How can it still work?from Laura WeissmullerLess than ten euros rent per square meter - that sounded like an announcement last year that could hardly be kept. After all, the apartments should not be built just anywhere, but in the most expensive city in Germany. In the middle of Munich and then in a new wooden building, i.e. an ecologically...
Like a huge pear painted black and yolk yellow, the monster lies in a workshop in the northern Portuguese port of Aguçadoura, the interior full of rails and rods, cables and electronics. In the spring, the manufacturer, the Swedish company Corpower, wants to load the construction onto a ship and place it on four pillars anchored to the seabed off the coast. There the pear becomes a buoy, according to the plan: moved by the ups and downs of the...
Three climate activists are on trial again on Wednesday. The members of "Extinction Rebellion" (XR) demonstrated in April during the general meeting of the reinsurance group "Munich Re" on Munich's Königstraße for the immediate stop of all insurance for oil and gas projects and the exit from all investments in fossil energy production. The insurance company had reported her for trespassing, and the Munich public prosecutor's office had applied for penal orders. Some protesters had not accepted these.Open detailed viewProtest...
The end is always difficult. It's over, over, when it's so beautiful right now. Or at least could get better. The desire to stay a little longer seems to have been innate in people. Even children develop outrageous strategies to avoid having to go to bed in the evening. What is it like when all of humanity is to go? Billions of whinges. In any case, in Nele Stuhler's play "Gaia saves the world" the people have no desire to...
column by Heribert PrantlIn a democracy nobody is infallible - not the Federal President, not the Parliament, not the Federal Constitutional Court either. The phrase "Roma locuta, Causa finita" is a legal tenet in the Roman Catholic Church; Saint Augustine is said to have invented it in the 4th century. It says that one thing is done when the pope has spoken in Rome, the highest authority in the church: his decision is final, there is no more room for...
