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For quite a few years now Berlin's Senate Department has been promoting a traffic planning project that takes the needs of pedestrians and cyclists seriously. Goethe.de talked to urban planner, Heribert Guggenthaler, about the new concept in traffic planning for the German capital.More ...

Consumers have power. The Internet portal Utopia.de means to show how they can use this power so as, if not to save the world, then at least effectively to improve it by „intelligent” consumption. In the meantime businesses have begun to sit up and take notice.More ...

Strictly speaking, I shouldn’t be writing this article on the computer: it eats up electricity.  More ...

The coveted World Heritage List includes 32 protected sites in Germany alone.  More ...

Interview with Dr Wolfgang Strasdas, professor of "sustainable tourism" at Eberswalde University of Applied Sciences.More ...

The up-and-coming trend is LOHAS, short for "Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability" – a way of living that is not about money and consumption but about health and the environment. More ...

Four German Towns have joined Città Slow as Trendsetters for Urban Sustainability. More ...

The Slow Food movement advocates the re-discovery and preservation of the regional manifold of tastes and awards ‘threatened' foods and dishes the emblem of the snail.More ...