Before Myanmar became a democratically governed country, the previous dictatorial government concluded an agreement with the state’s Chinese Power Investment Corporation (CPI): the construction of the huge Myitsone Dam. [1] With an altitude of 152 metres and a capacity of 6000 MW of electricity, it was planned to be the largest of seven dams at [...]
Lake Victoria is the second largest freshwater lake in the world. It is part of the three countries Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, and with its most northern extensions it reaches as far as the equator. [2] The Lake Victoria Fisheries Organisation (LVFO) confirms on its website that the fishery on the Lake ensures the livelihood [...]
Gorleben is a community in the north east of Lower Saxony in Germany. Gorleben has become famous: 1) nearby is an intermediate storage facility for nuclear waste and 2) the community resists. Almost 40 year’s, people has been protesting against the nuclear waste. At the beginning, Gorleben was chosen because of the proximity to the [...]
Gorleben is a community in the north east of Lower Saxony in Germany. Nearby is an intermediate storage facility for nuclear waste. Since 1995, 102 containers with German radioactive waste, which was reprocessed in France and England, were put there in storage aboveground. In addition, there is a pilot mine in the Gorleben salt dome [...]
The Norwegian company Green Resources has huge plantations of pine and eucalyptus in Uganda and Tanzania. They shall develop the region, provide new jobs, bring social and economic betterment and at the same time improve the climate. Sounds good, but we should have a closer look. The forestation happens on community lands, where people gain [...]
The CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) is established in the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. It declares, that countries and entrepreneurs are allowed to fulfill a part of their required emission reductions through climate protection projects abroad. One project that applied for this status is the set up of pine and eucalyptus plantations in Tanzania, which is [...]
We like good-looking, colorful fruits and vegetables in supermarkets, no matter what season it is. Bus what is the price for this? A lot of in Germany consumed fruits and vegetables are imported from Almería in Spain. There is an area of 350 square kilometer of greenhouses and plastic foil under which grow tomatoes, pepper, melons [...]
Every German eats on average 22kg tomatoes per year. Germany can only provide 6% of this amount, most of the tomatoes are imported, mostly from the province Almería in Spain. There is an area of 350 square kilometer of greenhouses and plastic foil under which grow tomatoes, pepper, melons and strawberries. Locals call this place [...]
There is no energy source in this world, which is damaging the climate in a more dramatic way than lignite. Germany extracts the worldwide biggest amount of it, a third in Lusatia. Well, not Germany, but big energy companies like Vattenfall or newly Energetický a Průmyslový Holding (EPH). There are many fatal effects for people, [...]
Nearly 10% of the German energy consumption is gained through lignite mining in Lusatia. In addition to four mining areas (Nochten, Reichwalde, Welzow-Süd, Jänschwalde), there are three power plants (Jänschwalde, Schwarze Pumpe, Boxberg) located in this region. The owner is always a big energy company. In September 2016, the Swedish enterprise Vattenfall sold the whole [...]
