Archive | September, 2009
Economics September 12, 2009

Sceptically yours, Bjorn Lomborg

A couple of years ago, just before some greedy banks were screaming out for bail-outs the developing world went through  what was known at the time “the food crisis”. I remember it was a boost for organic markets or for fair trade. In that context, I managed to squeeze out a phone interview from a […]

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Water February 23, 2018

A Forest Is A Levee

River Dora Riparia in Susa Valley is alpine however with particularities of plain running waters. “We are basically on a […]

Mountains February 16, 2018

Merano, A History Carved with Water

  In an unusual rain pouring cold morning Mayor Paul Rüsch, a rather non-political bonhomme, guided us through the history […]

Biodiversity January 3, 2018

How Hydropower Turned Hohe Tauern into a National Park

  Nature protection history and ecological hotspots started in the 1970s, says Florian Jurgeit, planner with the Hohe Tauern National […]

Biodiversity December 10, 2017

Is There Life after Skiing?

  Why do we have to ski all the time?, asks Dominik Siegrist, an actual avid skier and leader of […]

Economics November 18, 2017

Schladming against Floods

  Following the rains and massive floods of Elba and Danube in 2002, EU decided to take action. In 2007 […]

Carbon Trading September 2, 2017

Governments commit to strengthening cooperation on carbon markets

On 1 September 2017, high-level government officials from 25 national and subnational governments, including EU Member States, Mexico, the Republic […]