GenevaLunch » environment http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 25 May 2012 22:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Solar Impulse pilot clocks extraordinary 18 hours to Madridhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/25/solar-impulse-pilot-clocks-extraordinary-18-hours-to-madrid/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/25/solar-impulse-pilot-clocks-extraordinary-18-hours-to-madrid/#comments Fri, 25 May 2012 10:34:41 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70525 GenevaLunch.com Swiss pioneering plane hosted by Morocco as construction begins on world’s largest thermo-solar power plant LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – André Borschberg flew Solar Impulse for 17h 3min 59s Thursday 24 May, to land the experimental solar plane at Madrid’s Barajas airport. He flew from the Payerne aerodrome in Switzerland over the Massif Central towards the city [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/25/solar-impulse-pilot-clocks-extraordinary-18-hours-to-madrid/feed/ 0 Peruvian dolphin deaths due to “natural causes”, says officialhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/23/peruvian-dolphin-deaths-due-to-natural-causes-says-official/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/23/peruvian-dolphin-deaths-due-to-natural-causes-says-official/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 16:12:31 +0000 Paula Dupraz http://genevalunch.com/?p=70458 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Hundreds of dolphins washed up on Peruvian coasts earlier this year died from “natural causes”, and not from explosions in offshore oil exploration, says Fisheries Minister, Gladys Trevino. An earlier study by the environmental group Orca, which tested 30 dead dolphins found on Peru’s northwestern coast, suggested that explosions had caused the deaths. [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/23/peruvian-dolphin-deaths-due-to-natural-causes-says-official/feed/ 0 Bern calls for dialogue, integrity in commodities worldhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/26/bern-calls-for-dialogue-integrity-in-commodities-world/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/26/bern-calls-for-dialogue-integrity-in-commodities-world/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:49:34 +0000 Paula Dupraz http://genevalunch.com/?p=69516 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Greater transparency in the commodities industry and improved dialogue with the public and regulators would benefit all stakeholders, says Alexander Karrer, deputy secretary at the State Secretariat for International Finance (SIF). Karrer was speaking at an international conference on commodities in Lausanne 25 April. He encouraged people in the commodities business “to [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/26/bern-calls-for-dialogue-integrity-in-commodities-world/feed/ 0 Peruvian President accuses wildcat mining of mine collapsehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/11/peruvian-president-accuses-wildcat-mining-of-mine-collapse/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/11/peruvian-president-accuses-wildcat-mining-of-mine-collapse/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:19:21 +0000 Paula Dupraz http://genevalunch.com/?p=68859 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Peruvian President Ollanta Humala says informal mining was responsible nine miners trapped in a copper and gold mine following the cave-in of a horizontal shaft 5 April. The collapse follows violent protests last month in the eastern jungle province of Madre de Dios against government reforms targeting wildcat mining. Prison terms were [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/11/peruvian-president-accuses-wildcat-mining-of-mine-collapse/feed/ 0 Geneva will turn off its lights Saturday for an hourhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/29/geneva-will-turn-off-its-lights-saturday-for-an-hour/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/29/geneva-will-turn-off-its-lights-saturday-for-an-hour/#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:15:08 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=68417 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The city of Geneva is one of 30 in Switzerland that will join the worldwide Earth Hour project and turn out lights on public buildings Saturday 31 March from 20:30 to 21:30. This is the fourth year of Earth Hour, begun by WWF, designed to raise awareness of climate change and the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/29/geneva-will-turn-off-its-lights-saturday-for-an-hour/feed/ 0 Nyon’s rivers given space to head back to naturehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/12/nyons-rivers-given-space-to-head-back-to-nature/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/12/nyons-rivers-given-space-to-head-back-to-nature/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:07:29 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=67523 GenevaLunch.com NYON, SWITZERLAND – The Asse and the Cossy, two rivers that run through Nyon, are getting a tree-trimming this week, part of a larger project to return the waterways to a natural state. Helicopters were operating last week and will return to the job Tuesday 13 March to remove dense tree growth in the wooded [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/12/nyons-rivers-given-space-to-head-back-to-nature/feed/ 0 WWF wins twice, with wolves and windmillshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/15/wwf-wins-twice-with-wolves-and-windmills/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/15/wwf-wins-twice-with-wolves-and-windmills/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:55:12 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64704 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – WWF Switzerland is counting two environmental battles won this week. Its fight to see Valais respect the Bern International Treaty that covers the protection of wolves, an endangered species, resulted in a decision by the Sion district tribunal 13 December to condemn former cantonal councilor Jean-René Fournier to 60 days community service, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/15/wwf-wins-twice-with-wolves-and-windmills/feed/ 0 New tax on 5kg+ batteries applies in Januaryhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/07/new-tax-on-5kg-batteries-applies-in-january/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/07/new-tax-on-5kg-batteries-applies-in-january/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:20:13 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64542 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Batteries over 5kg will be taxed at purchase, rather than when they are recycled, starting 1 January 2012, says Bern. Household and small batteries currently carry a recycling tax, at purchase, but not larger ones, such as car batteries and industrial ones. The new system is designed to boost the rate of [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/07/new-tax-on-5kg-batteries-applies-in-january/feed/ 0 Swiss households’ Christmas lights: 4 weeks equal one town for yearhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/15/swiss-households-christmas-lights-4-weeks-equal-one-town-for-year/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/15/swiss-households-christmas-lights-4-weeks-equal-one-town-for-year/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:07:11 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63546 GenevaLunch.com WWF suggests ways to reduce electricity consumption but keep holiday lights GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss households, in the five to six weeks around the Christmas holidays, use electricity for decorative lights that is the equivalent of a small town during an entire year. Enough, says environmental group WWF: there are ways to decorate with lights [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/15/swiss-households-christmas-lights-4-weeks-equal-one-town-for-year/feed/ 0 Patent for broccoli, conventionally bred, set to go aheadhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/28/patent-for-broccoli-conventionally-bred-set-to-go-ahead/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/28/patent-for-broccoli-conventionally-bred-set-to-go-ahead/#comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:10:50 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62967 GenevaLunch.com This article is republished with permission from IP Watch By William New Revised EPO Patent For Conventional Broccoli Has Public Interest Ramifications GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A patent for a conventionally bred form of the common household vegetable broccoli appears to be on its way to acceptance by the European Patent Office following a change to [...]

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