1. Newsletter VIII 2024 - February 18th to 24th - News+ On the death of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

    in a modern IT infrastructure. The project still has to be approved by the Bundestag. * Party ban in a defensive democracy AfD ban as capitulation: A spiritual change is needed. Wanting to ban the AfD means capitulating to it politically. Only through good politics and clear communication can it be defeated. Even the radical French right-wing populist...

  2. Newsletter L 2023 - December 10th to 16th - News+ The tail wags the dog and those on the right lead us by the nose ring “Back to the Future”

    decline after the climate conference Historically: Over 1.600 institutions with $41 trillion are pulling money from coal, gas, oil Fossil divestment works. While states fail to implement energy transitions, campaigns divert fossil fuel investments. About the story of a huge success. More than 1.600 institutions, including universities, pension funds and governments, representing approximately $41 trillion...

  3. Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy

    Campaigns" against oil-rich countries "that endanger the prosperity and future of our people." “The inappropriate and disproportionate pressure against fossil fuels could reach a tipping point with irreversible consequences,” it says. Therefore, any agreement at the World Climate Conference that would allow the further production and sale of oil, gas and coal should be prevented...

  4. Newsletter XLIV 2023 - October 29th to November 4th - News+ Uranium exports from Lingen to Russia violate EU law - study by the Greens justifies the possibility of a ban

    There is also something new in this matter: In 2014, the North Rhine-Westphalia state government ordered the evacuation of the current Castor camp in Jülich - the main reason: earthquake safety was not guaranteed. But now the turning point: Both NRW Economics Minister Neubaur and the responsible federal office BASE surprisingly announced that earthquake safety was no longer at risk. If that is the case, then...

  5. Newsletter XLIII 2023 - October 22nd to 28th - News+ Municipal utilities are leaving the Future Gas lobby association

    to raise your voice with all due severity. We've had enough of any kind of relativistic maneuvering. We see the suffering of the Palestinian civilian population and demand humanitarian aid, but we oppose using the suffering of the people in the Gaza Strip to relativize Hamas' terror and delegitimize Israel's self-defense. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle...

  6. Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years

    Eastern province near the border with Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, according to the informants... * August 25, 2008 (INES 3) IRE Fleurus, BEL http://www.greenpeace.de/themen/energiewende/atomkraft/belgien- radiation accident-more serious than expected Wikipedia Fleurus Radiochemical Industrial Plant - 2008 After completing a production process, three smaller collection tanks were...

  7. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    global warming of 1,5 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial times, but hopefully still within the much-vaunted two-degree target. If everyone made enough effort, the green transition could still be achieved before the planet becomes largely uninhabitable. But what if that's not true? When in reality control over the unleashed force of nature has long since slipped away? In...

  8. 1970 to 1979 - INES, NAMS and other events

    The inventory of spent fuel elements can be separated from each other using a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then be used again. That's the theory... July 16, 1979 (INES 3 NAMS 1,9) Windscale/Sellafield nuclear factory, GBR In a remote coring cave in building B30, 3,7 TBq of radioactivity was released in a fire....

  9. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    The first days of June 2023 are “by far” the highest data for this month. Accordingly, the global average temperature exceeded the 1,5 degree limit in the first week of June... * Energy transition | Decarbonization | Sector coupling Energy transition in rural areas: Why we need to think smaller sometimes Decarbonization of energy supply must also reach rural regions. The...

  10. Newsletter XXII 2023 - May 28th to June 3rd - News+ Political style in Germany Please, strengthen the AfD

    to maintain its manageable nuclear weapons arsenal somewhat independently. Critics therefore criticized the involvement of a Chinese state-owned company early on... * Namibia | Energy transition | green hydrogen | Colonialism Agreement with Namibia A “global blueprint for green hydrogen” A mega project for the global energy transition is to be launched in Namibia with German participation...

  11. Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?

    * Nuclear waste | streets | Florida What could possibly go wrong? Nuclear waste should end up on road surfaces A draft law in the US state of Florida proposes to use radioactive waste in road construction. The byproduct from the fertilizer industry is considered harmful to the environment and health. That's why the use of the waste product is actually banned in the USA. In Florida, roads could...

  12. Newsletter XV 2023 - April 9th ​​to 15th - News+ Traffic light climate, Switzerland as a role model and the better alternative to e-fuels

    would be diverted into a discussion about the restructuring of our energy system, the expansion of renewable energies, in order to really shape our energy system of the future."... * Energy transition | Lindner | Kini Jödler Lindner does not see a "realistic idea" in the comeback of nuclear power. Criticism of the end to nuclear power came from his party. For the FDP leader, the end of nuclear power is now...

  13. Newsletter X 2023 - March 5th to 11th - News+ Dangerous toxins: Which products contain PFAS

    300 people at a demonstration against nuclear power in Neckarwestheim About 300 people took part in an anti-nuclear demonstration in Neckarwestheim on Saturday. They called for a rapid transition to renewable energies. As a police spokesman said, the event was completely peaceful. With flags, signs and banners, participants protested near the nuclear power plant against...

  14. Newsletter IX 2023 - February 26 to March 4 - News+ 48 days until the last nuclear power plants in Germany are switched off

    Climate ignoramuses? How could it come to this point where we are running like lemmings towards the abyss? Do fossil fuel lobbies and corrupt politics have such a tight grip on us? Why the chance for a turnaround has never been better than it is today. A comment. Yesterday, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets again for the global climate strike. Not just in Germany, where 240 protest actions...

  15. Newsletter IV 2023 - January 22nd to 28th - News+ How the FDP politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann plays down her proximity to the armaments lobby

    Billion towards 30 billion euros. “And I assume that we will have 40 billion in backlog next year,” added the entrepreneur... * Climate Policy Protest | Energy transition blocked About politics and protest: Is this time still suitable for us? Everyone wants to save the climate – and wastes a lot of energy in the process. Here protest folklore, there green realpolitik. And in between:...

  16. Newsletter II 2023 - January 8th to 14th - News+ We have already won

    Opitz from the “Lützerath lives” initiative. The activists would have enough to eat and could stay in the tunnel for several days... * Climate crisis | Drastic measures | Avert climate collapse tipping point? This is only possible by doing without and reducing consumption. Robert Habeck and Olaf Scholz promise us that we can achieve climate neutrality without having to accept any loss of prosperity. It...

  17. Newsletter XLVIII 2022 - December 01st to 07th - News+ The New York Times and the new climate deniers

    could. However, the fire department was able to quickly bring the fire under control and temporarily restore power to the pumps. The case was only made public on television after the fall of communism in 1989. Just a few hours after the incident, Soviet authorities informed the IAEA, which later classified it as INES 3 (precursor to an accident, here...

  18. Newsletter XLVII 2022 - November 24th to 30th - News+ More garbage to Grafenrheinfeld: The Schweinfurt action alliance against nuclear power is concerned

    The inventory of spent fuel elements can be separated from each other using a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then be used again... * United States | Idaho | Atomic Research November 29, 1955 (INES 4) EBR-I research reactor, USA Partial core meltdown during a coolant flow test. Nuclear Power Accidents.pdf -...

  19. Newsletter XLV 2022 - November 08th to 15th - News+ Penalties for activists - And what about the climate?

    simply didn't do their job properly. Article 56 of the Basic Law reads: “I swear that I will dedicate my strength to the good of the German people, increase its benefit, prevent harm from it, preserve and defend the Basic Law and the laws of the federal government, conscientiously fulfill my duties and exercise justice towards everyone become. So help me God.” A...

  20. Newsletter XLIV 2022 - November 01st to 07th - News+ Do not fear progress and technology, fear capitalism

    presented as a step in the right direction while greenwashing your own government. But a look behind the scenes reveals a different picture. What are the chances of a climate change? (Part 2) The 27th climate summit in Egypt began yesterday. In the end we will probably hear again that small steps are better than none at all, that China, India and so on...

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