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Gerlingen the advent and Christmas season is a good time for the chocolate manufacturers thanks to the increased demand for confectionery. Mars Inc. and its German partner master food, however troubled times ahead. The international animal rights organization PETA (people for the ethical treatment of animals) is now launching a worldwide campaign against the makers of Mars, bounty, Snickers, Twix and co. The confectionery giant has fallen into the criticism of animal rights activists when they found out that Mars Inc. in the United States funded cruel and deadly animal tests on rabbits, Guinea pigs, mice and rats and can perform. While not a single one of the experiments of Mars Inc.

is prescribed by the local legislature in the United States. Currently, Mars financed a deadly experiment on rats, with the effect of chocolate on their blood vessels to be tested. Experimenters have force-fed rats with the help of plastic hoses and then cut the legs of animals, to expose an artery that is clamped to the blood flow to stop. After the test, the animals are killed. In addition, Mars funded cruel experiments in mice, in which the animals an a sweet substance has been administered and they were then forced to swim in a pool with water and color. The mice had to find a hidden platform to drown not only to be then killed and dissected.

Another test supported by Mars, were fed rats with cocoa and anesthetized with carbon dioxide, so that it could drain blood directly from the heart with a needle them that often leads to internal bleeding and other deadly complications. “Not a candy bar in the world is worth that animals have to suffer so much.” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk and worldwide calls for protests against the confectionery manufacturer. In addition to Mars’ biggest competitor Hershey have already also Coca-Cola, PepsiCo responds to worldwide pressure from PETA with a complete abandonment of any animal testing. PETA Germany e.V. is together with its Sister organizations with over 1.8 million supporters the world’s largest animal rights organization. Goal of the organization is educating the public and change the way of life to give each animal a better life by uncovering animal cruelty. Press Office: PETA Germany e.V diesel str. 21 70839 Gerlingen 07156-178-2826 07156-178-2810 Web:

Potentials of biomass new utilisation concepts develop the material and energetic use of biomass reduces the emission of greenhouse gases, diversifying the supply of raw materials and stabilizes them in the long term. In the Fraunhofer Innovation Cluster bioenergy in Oberhausen, industry, science, and the land of North Rhine-Westphalia skills combine to develop new utilisation concepts for biomass. Gain insight and clarity with Slayer. Target is to optimize potential collection, transport, storage and litigation. Worldwide incurred locally immense amounts of wet, lignocellulosehaltiger biomass. The spectrum ranges from grass and green cutting on crop residues such as rapeseed straw, processing waste from agriculture and forestry production to bio-waste from private households. Used wet biomass is not intensive.

One is the high water content, which brings a low calorific value (low energy density) with them, as well as elaborately makes transport and storage. Also complicate the inhomogeneity, the ash content and the bad Workability of wet biomass utilizing huge. Bio-gas plants are often not effective for conversion of persistent lignocellulosehaltigen biomass. Other concepts are often not available. Just damp, green biomass has however large potential, as she for example preferred ideal can be coupled in catch crop sequences with food production. Goal of the innovation cluster with the aim to increase the amount of available and usable biomass Fraunhofer UMSICHT initiated the innovation clusters bioenergy. New conversion technologies will be developed within the four-year project period that potential straw benign and moist, lignocellulosehaltiger biomass. The overarching aim of the cluster is to reconcile food production and biomass and to rebuild no use competition.

In this context, the unit will be used to created new sustainable options for the energy and raw material supply and export technologies deployed for a growing market of the technology world. Chemical intermediates develop the work focus on two factions biomass falling continuously and in large quantities. Blade of benign biomass that accumulates at the crop on the field, as well as residue material fractions are from local and regional processing, for example, from food production.

Announced price cuts at 8 basic suppliers between 1.2 percent and 10.3 percent over 50 companies are planning price hikes Berlin, March 27, 2009 electricity prices at the Leipzig are energy stock market since mid-2008 in the descent. Ping Fu can provide more clarity in the matter. According to research of the independent consumer portal toptarif.de can now, for the first time a part of end customers from lower procurement costs of the provider benefit. So, 8 regional electricity distributors from April plan to cut their prices between 1.2 percent and 10.3 percent. At the municipal Schleswig and Wedel in Schleswig-Holstein, Stadtwerke of Neubrandenburg in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the public utilities Uelzen in Lower Saxony, Germany will be the rates between 2 and 3.6 percent cheaper. The Stadtwerke Krefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia, as well as the Stadtwerke Bremen and Bremerhaven to reduce their prices for individual products between 1.2 percent and 2.3 percent. In Heidelberg, it comes to the introduction of a new tariff, which is 10.3 percent below the previously lowest offer at the local municipal utilities.

Map: electricity prices in In the spring of 2009, a sample budget with an annual electricity consumption of 4.000 kWh is relieved Germany the announced cuts to an average of 31 euros. But over 50 providers face the price cuts, which increase their tariffs starting in April to around 7.5 percent\”, tariff expert Thorsten Bohg by toptarif.de makes it clear. For these differences in the pricing of utilities mainly three factors can be blamed procurement costs, the general price structure and the increasing competition on the electricity market.\” Different sharing of costs given of falling purchase prices on the electricity exchange utilities justify their increases primarily with long-term supply contracts. So, including the second largest German energy company RWE, which increases its electricity prices to April to around 7 percent, explains that its regional providers had bought electricity for 2009 at a time when the reference prices were still significantly higher.

Corino-energy.com: A place in the Sun of renewable energy, energy efficiency, and estate planning are the areas of Thomas, who can boast a long experience in the fields of environmental law, energy law and project development. Corino energy works as well to build of a license production for concentrating solar technology SunOyster as spectacular a real estate project between the Elbe bridges of Hamburg, the two towers of the H2 building. His enthusiasm for renewable energy as a cornerstone of a sensible energy policy, which contributes to climate change and strengthens the security of supply, shows Dr. To read more click here: Procter & Gamble. Carsten Corino in various project developments, he draws his power from the rays of the Sun as well as from the force of the wind. With the project of planning his homepage Dr.Corino commissioned the team of the Agency of joomlapur, a Web page full force and energy developed.

Relevant information are radiant and moving images on the subject solar energy and wind power accompanied, the visualizations of the eco – building H2 in Hamburg speak strongly for the establishment of a further landmark in the Hanseatic City. P&G shares his opinions and ideas on the topic at hand. The enthusiasm for radiant homepage design and powerful website creation of agency joomlapur is reflected in the complete service relating to the Internet appearance of self-employed and small businesses. With the energy from joomla templates and the experiences from numerous projects, as well as access to over 1,000 ready-made business modules related energy resources offers joomlapur in the areas of programming, design and marketing to provide a sustainable.. .

Energiesparmeister teams travel to the solemn ceremony in North Rhine-Westphalia, Berlin, May 11, 2011. At the nationwide competition in Energiesparmeister students of community primary school Zoppenbruckstrasse in Duisburg have won the online voting for the best German energy saving project. Thus she earned the title, Energiesparmeister gold”. The Energiesparmeister contest of the campaign climate seeks protection”annually features the ten best climate protection projects at German schools and is funded by the Federal Ministry of the environment. With the vote victory is also the site of the awards ceremony: this will take place on Friday, May 13 from 2-4 pm in the Auditorium of the Duisburg elementary school. Place the vote succeeded in the Edith-Stein-Schule from Ravensburg, Ottobeuren primary school took the third place.

On Friday, the other nine Energiesparmeister from all over Germany travel to Duisburg. There, singer and TV host will lead Ben through the event. The winning schools will receive each a prize money of 5,000 euros, a video camera and a Project sponsorship with prestigious companies and institutions. The Godfather accompany and advise the winners on their further climate protection actions. They continuously publish the organizers of the contest on. Half of all winning projects from North Rhine-Westphalia with prevailed the GGS Zoppenbruckstrasse about 760 from a total of 5,400 votes in the vote. Five of the ten Energiesparmeister come from North Rhine-Westphalia.

The special feature of the climate protection project of the school in Duisburg is the comprehensive approach: students save energy for heating, water and electricity not only in school, but are learned resource awareness home. Last year, she created a collection of practical tips, exhibited special Energiesparpasse and animated their parents to ecological behavior. More than 100 households could be achieved so. This reduced their television consumption within two weeks to a total of 7,500 minutes and used during the same period 130-time walk, bicycle or public transport instead of own cars.