On the German website of GREENPEACE one can read about GREENPEACE’s latest action against Japanese whaling ships in the Antarctic. They also have horrible pictures of slaughtered Minke whales.

The USA and the world economy are not only threatened with recession, but with a fundamental realignment of our mostly credit-based consumerist society. How long can this principle of an enormous supply of and demand for consumer...

I have spent the last few weeks writing up travel reports. In the near future, I shall publish all my travel reports here on my weblog. I would like to start with my first and oldest report, on my journey to the Sudan in 1995....

One weekend in July 2005, I visited an acquaintance in Freiburg. This gave me an opportunity to get to know the City of Freiburg in Breisgau a little. I spent the night in Colombi Hotel in the Old Town of Freiburg, which is...

The manager Douglas Tompkins founded the fashion house “Esprit”, and led it to success. He also founded “The North Face”. The New Yorker sold his shares in the companies and invested the resulting millions in saving the Chilean...

Extinctions in the animal and plant worlds are happening so quickly that I’m in danger of losing things to photograph in the near future. While surfing the internet I stumbled on the website of the "Alliance for Zero...

Orcas, also known as Killer Whales or Grampus, are contaminated in Norway with dangerous chemicals such as PCBs, pesticides and bromide fire retardants. Probes were taken from animals in the Tysford Fjord by the Norwegian coast....

via Zeit Weblog

My theory is that the up and coming economic powers, particularly China and the Tiger states, want to beat the western economic system with its own weapons. They flood the world market with the commodities which...

This month I’m reading the novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. I could read and reread this book, and would still not understand how people can follow orders to try and kill each other so vilely. The...

via Handelsblatt Blog

I don't think so at all. Of course, it isn't so sexy to watch tired-seeming federal bankers or economists from famous banks while they expound about economic interrelations. The content and statements are...