The EU member states should now be able to pay subsidies to green industries more easily. But please be very targeted and please only to a very modest extent. source site
The sell-by date of your favorite yoghurt that you happily bought a week ago has passed. The banana is brown and the quark has been open in the fridge for too long. Often it all ends up in the garbage, for reasons that the food rescuers from the Ebersberg district cannot understand. It has existed since 2021, a sub-group of the international organization food sharingwhich has been committed to minimizing food waste since 2012 by saving food from the bin...
The extension of the district office in Starnberg, Upper Bavaria, has been awarded as the best building in Germany. The architects Auer Weber, who designed it, won the competition for the renowned DAM Prize 2023 in Frankfurt on Friday.The original building from 1982 was "a mixture of Bavarian boathouse and traditional Japanese architecture," is how Peter Cachola Schmal, director of the German Architecture Museum (DAM), described the building on the lake. The jurors found the harmony between the existing building...
A woman in a bathing suit jumps, no flies, through bright blue. The message is clear: this is where we head into the unknown. The cover picture doesn't just go well with Dana Spiotta's novel "Unpredictable", in which a middle-aged woman embarks on a radical new life. The symbolism can also be transferred to the new publisher, which has just published this novel as the first book: Kjona is the name of the small company that is beginning to change...
from Lea Hampel and Silvia LiebrichA tour of the supermarket is enough. The label "climate-neutral" is emblazoned on the "green-eared bunny" gummy bears from Katjes, and on the lid of some Hipp baby porridge, such as "ham noodles with tomatoes and carrots", it even says "climate-positive". And at Edeka, the goods end up in a paper bag that also has the word “climate neutral” emblazoned on it. Anyone who goes shopping today gets the impression: melting glaciers, rising sea levels,...
The Greens faction in the district council is committed to ensuring that the district of Munich makes the greatest possible effort to avoid waste. To this end, the district is to become a "zero waste community". "The zero-waste approach corresponds to the action plan of the European Green Deal, with which the EU Commission defined the circular economy for a cleaner and competitive Europe," says district councilor Helga Keller-Zenth from Oberschleißheim, co-author of the application. "Municipalities and counties play a...
from Silvia LiebrichWhat sounded like a crazy idea a decade ago has developed into a successful model: selling fair-trade chocolate and using the profit to reforest forests. "The Good Chocolate" is now available in many German supermarkets, and more than eight million trees were planted with the profits, one tree for every five bars. Behind the chocolate is not a confectionery company, but the environmental foundation Plant-for-the-Planet and its co-founder Felix Finkbeiner. "If someone were to suggest that to me...
The so-called reusable offer obligation states that to-go food and drinks must be offered in reusable packaging from January 2023. The Bundestag had decided in May 2021.What applies from January 1, 2023?From 2023, restaurants, bistros and cafés that sell takeaway food and drinks are also obliged to offer their products in reusable packaging. According to the Federal Environment Ministry, disposable plastic packaging in particular should be replaced. In the future, for example, corresponding reusable cups must be available for all...
For a long time, politicians were not interested in the misery of these animals. The federal government now wants to introduce minimum rules for the first time. This not only helps the animals, but also some owners. comment by Silvia LiebrichA visit to the farm or the petting zoo is a popular excursion, especially for many young families. Chickens, turkeys and ducks run through lush meadows, scratching and pecking. Pigs, goats and sheep can even be fed and stroked. The...
The so-called reusable offer obligation states that to-go food and drinks must be offered in reusable packaging from January 2023. The Bundestag had decided in May 2021.What applies from January 1, 2023?From 2023, restaurants, bistros and cafés that sell takeaway food and drinks are also obliged to offer their products in reusable packaging. According to the Federal Environment Ministry, disposable plastic packaging in particular should be replaced. In the future, for example, corresponding reusable cups must be available for all...
