In ihrem Kampf für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung lehnen viele NGOs die Verwendung von Holzpellets für den Zweck von Energiegewinnung ab. Organisationen wie Biofuelwatch machen Druck auf die Europäische Union damit die RED – Renewable Energy Directive (EU-Richtlinie für erneuerbare Energien) des Jahres 2020 die Verwendung von Pellets nicht mit aufnimmt. Für Biofuelwatch haben 115 Gruppen […]
On the 14th of June, a London apartment block by the name of Grenfell Tower, based in North Kensington, caught fire. In this horrible tragedy, 79 people are presumed to have died from the fire or asphyxiation, even though the fire brigade was tirelessly working on bringing the situation under control. Bringing a 24-storey building […]
As the sharing economy develops, the opportunities for cutting out the middle-man seem endless. After Lyft and Uber revolutionised personal transport, BlaBlaCar challenged public transportation and Airbnb overthrew our concept of monetising our own properties, Safarisource attempts to do the same thing with safaris. Launched at the INDABA tourism trade fair in South Africa on […]
As the call for sustainable solutions for climate change is constantly around, environmentalists are suggesting decreasing consumption. In order to reduce the level of CO₂ in the atmosphere, politicians intend to limit the total consumption, for instance by instituting Pigouvian taxes (punitive taxes).
“Uber is a transportation company”, says senior advisor to the European Court of Justice Maciej Szpunar. If the ECJ were actually to adopt the same attitude as the Polish legal advisor, then Uber in Europe could soon be what its service UberPOP is today: history. The EU’s court is implementing the same crackdown on the […]
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The Android-iOS competition that surfaced with the appearance of the smartphone is a wonderful example of how free-market competition puts down emerging monopolies. The first generation iPhone was released on June 29, 2007, revolutionised the mobile-industry for decades to come. In the third quarter alone, Apple, as a company that had never produced a firmware for […]
