Each summer, the For Noise Festival takes place in the Pully heights.
The name of the event gives you an idea of the decibels involved and the screaming metal on offer. However, this isn’t the whole truth. Over three nights, the festival’s three stages buzz with today’s alternative music, while the movie room explores the creative dialogues that go on between DJs and VJs.

Location: Lausanne, Vaud
Link out: http://www.fornoise.ch/
Start date: 19 Aug 2010
End date: 21 Aug 2010

The AltaRock Energy project in California, north of San Francisco, to drill deep into the Earth’s bedrock and use the heat released as a renewable energy source, was abandoned Friday 11 December. The project has been seen as a key part of the Obama administration’s efforts to find alternative energy supplies. The move comes just a day after Switzerland’s geothermal project in Basel was shut down permanently, following earthquakes at the site in 2006 and early 2007.

Links to other sites: Alta Rock, New York Times