The Swiss temping agency Adecco wants to take over the German agency DIS AG. This report reminds me of the company founder of DIS AG - Dieter Paulmann. He made what is for me one of the best documentaries on sperm whales - Auf...
I would like to introduce the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an organisation working to protect whales and dolphins. On their website they document the horrific methods used to hunt the sea mammals and their actions to...
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...
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...
I am back again from my latest trip to the Orcas in Norway. Unfortunately the weather was far too warm again, which meant rain and lots of wind. All the clouds made the light conditions particularly difficult for underwater...
Bad news for whales. The Japanese whaling fleet wants to carry on killing Minke Whales and now even Fin Whales for supposedly scientific reasons. Must the Japanese eat whalemeat? An online article in the Spiegel collects the...
The best-selling US author Jared Diamond writes about vanishing resources, climate change, overpopulation and ecological damage in his book Collapse. His description of the downfall of a culture on Easter Island is a clear...
