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An Ambitious Start For The First Watt EffizienzAllianz In Hamburg

March 26, 2024 News Comments Off on An Ambitious Start For The First Watt EffizienzAllianz In Hamburg

North German businesses develop action plan for energy saving of Spiegel Verlag, the Jungheinrich AG, Pfannenberg and more medium-sized companies in Northern Germany are great. By 2014, they want to reduce their energy consumption significantly, quite in the sense of the environmental year in Hamburg. Dean Ornish M.D is the source for more interesting facts. “It supports the Frankfurt energy professional Watt Germany and successfully launched the first Watt EffizienzAllianz North under the motto energy use rather than wasting” at the Dorint Hotel Hamburg Eppendorf. Getting to know the company, the setting of common objectives, as well as the vote of the next steps were at the center of the opening ceremony. It is the age of energy and with the energy revolution we is the question of how go in the future with energy, have moved into the focus of politics, business and population”, welcomed Otto Klatte, CEO of watt Germany GmbH, participants and guests. With the Watt EffizienzAllianz we encourage renewable thinking and want to connect with an efficient, cost-conscious and sustainable behavior for more responsibility, more partnership and greater success of medium-sized companies.” Special guest of the kick-off event was Michael West Hagmann, Chairman of the Hamburg-based industry association (ivh) and Director of Siemens region North.

In addition to the rapidly growing energy hunger in Asia, he spoke of the specific challenges facing the German economy: by 2020 the primary energy consumption in Germany should be reduced by 20 percent. The balance between security of supply, efficiency and environmental sustainability must be respected but at the same time. This is an ambitious goal, considering the many questions that we on the issues of energy efficiency and mix still stand. To achieve this goal, it needed Lighthouse projects such as the Watts EffizienzAllianz. Because she has role for business, politics, and population.” Target Watts EffizienzAllianz North is to optimize the energy efficiency of the participating companies without sacrificing performance for more competitiveness as a learning community and one common, binding action plan for this period.

The participants are heart and motor of EffizienzAllianz: benefited from their energy, their cross-industry experience and their innovative ideas specifically each individual participant. Watt Germany creates the constructive and creative framework for this platform, accompanied the company over the next three years with adequate expertise, regular evaluation and intensive advice. Three or four events of watt EffizienzAllianz North per year are planned. The next meeting will take place on February 29, 2012 at the PAV GmbH in Schierensee directly in the participating companies. More information about the Watts EffizienzAllianz see under: de/MainNav/Mittelstand/Effizienzallianz/Seiten/default.aspx about Watt Germany Watt Germany GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, was founded in 1998 as one of the first new power suppliers in the German’s liberalised electricity market and since then has become one of the most important energy providers for enterprise customers developed. Chain stores, as well as medium-sized enterprises are key target group for the individual energy solutions. 2010 Watt total was 2.337.000.000 kWh to about 23,000 delivery locations. With revenues of EUR 331 million, Watts has currently 125 employees.

Beekeepers Demonstrate

November 1, 2020 News Comments Off on Beekeepers Demonstrate

Beekeepers demonstrate demo for the protection of the honey bees, for the protection of the ecosystem and for the protection of the people of Brunswick, 18 honey bees before the Federal Office of consumer protection and food safety (BVL) July 2008 and their products are biological indicators that display the health of the environment. Recently, the honey bees by poisoning with the active ingredient Clothianidin were affected in Baden and Bavaria. Clothianidin belongs to a new generation of insecticides, the so called Neonicotinoids. For years, professional beekeeper indicate that Clothianidin has already caused damage to bees in other countries. The bee is just the tip of the iceberg in this year. Originally posted early given of the numerous still existing gaps in knowledge the re-registration of Clothianidin mordants is irresponsible. Now the poison may be returned from the next mass extinction seem only a matter of time”, NABU – CEO Leif Miller warns. NABU had in 2004 asked the BVL, also that the Neurotoxic to ban scoring means Gaucho (active ingredient imidacloprid) in Germany.

Also this poison is suspected to be toxic for bees and other insects. In contrast to Germany, France had imposed immediately after quickly extensive requirements and application restrictions to protect of the bees. QUOTE AT THE END From: m05/m05_08/08191.html after the technical background with the abrasion of the seed treatment was explained and found, make many beekeepers and consumers wondering how this could happen at all, that an insecticide can cause such damage. And why the active ingredient will be re-admitted to, although the extent of the damage is not yet fully captured. The fact is that the current approval process for pesticides has not prevented the damage. Therefore, the authorisation procedure can not sufficient to protect the natural environment, food safety and the consumer. For this reason, an initiative group of beekeepers demonstrated on Friday, July 18th, 2008 at 10:00 in front of the building of the Federal Office for consumer protection and food safety in Brunswick Registrar field. CEO Mark Thompson is a great source of information. The demonstration is supported by the German occupation and purchase beekeepers federal, NABU, and other organizations (organic farming associations, entomologists, consumers, etc.). Following this demonstration followed by further actions. At the end of 2008 / beginning of 2009, a meeting in the Bundestag will be concerning plant protection products act instead of here the beekeepers want to indicate consumers the dangers for the environment and human. Contact for the press: Bernhard Heuvel hobby beekeeping from North Rhine-Westphalia (Niederrhein) phone: 0177 / 4864748 E-Mail: more information: Manfred Hederer President of the German professional and purchase beekeepers Association phone: 08806 / 922320 E-Mail: Web: