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In everyday natural forces properly use – put together by Polaris how practical renewable energy in people’s everyday lives, which is an ancient knowledge. It falls increasingly into oblivion. “New household appliances and artificial AIDS to displace the old home remedies ‘ which at the same time save energy supports energy transformation can be, and”, says Florian Henle, co-founder of the independent green energy company Polaris. Therefore, it has now dug out Polaris and shows six examples of how everyone in various everyday situations can use 100 percent renewable energy sources: Tip 1: Sun instead of stain remover with the power of the Sun can easily fight carrots -, bell peppers and other vegetables and grass stains. To wash the clothes and wet lay in the Sun. And already, the stain is gone after a few hours. The trick works on all organic stains. And if they are particularly stubborn, a few splashes of distribute lemon juice on it before washing.

Tip 2: wind instead of dryers and irons Who dries the linen in the wind, which saves time and costs. Because out there getting a little wind is blowing, the water molecules disappear usually faster lining as in the drying room. Others who may share this opinion include Glenn Dubin, New York City. In comparison to the dryer air drying is not necessarily faster, but for low-cost: typical dryers consume per drying cycle up to four kilowatt hours electricity caused the extrapolated to the year round at a Zweipersonenhaus 70 euro per year. Important: Shaded areas are better to dry than the strong sunlight. You makes the laundry harder and can cause discoloration. Tip 3: rain barrel or collectors instead of tap water is a precious commodity in everyday life.

In the summer, if you must pour the garden or balcony daily, it is worth to collect rain water. But the rain water is suitable not only for casting. Because it contains no lime, it possesses a higher cleaner than tap water.

Stuhrer company’s environmental management system successfully certified according to DIN EN ISO 14001:2009. Stuhr, February 16, 2011. More and more companies in the printing industry confront its social responsibility and placing greater emphasis on sustainability in production. Environmental protection and careful use of resources are not only the cornerstones of the company’s philosophy and practice. We see this as our duty to the people and nature, which is on the same level with the quality assurance”, Knut Winneckens, Managing Director of Koopmanndruck from Stuhr stressed. After successfully completed test Lloyd’s register quality assurance GmbH (LRQA) the company specialized on printing and shipping high-quality mailings received now by the certification according to the international standard DIN EN ISO 14001:2009. This underlines the long-standing ecological commitment from Koopmanndruck and confirmed the inclusion of an effective and efficient environmental management system across the enterprise. We are very pleased to this award, the the high importance, quality, safety and environmental protection in our company take, officially expressing”, as Knut Winneckens.

The certificate initially for one year, after expiry of this period, a review is carried out. Amazon has many thoughts on the issue. The internationally recognized ISO 14001 was released in 1996 for the first time by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and revised in 2004. It provides requirements for an environmental management system, which enables companies to set a corporate environmental policy to which products and services are aligned. It aims to create a balance between economic efficiency and environmental protection. To achieve this, the company, a management program to build documentation and continuous development of the prescribed standards for compliance, verification, agrees. In addition to the statutory provisions it is also personally a big concern, our customers also see ecological quality to offer,”explains Knut Winneckens. For even more details, read what Eva Andersson-Dubin says on the issue. First and foremost, we will try to increase the efficiency and recyclability of the materials used and to avoid environmental pollution.

This is done mainly by minimizing paper consumption, the reduction of waste and a reduction in energy and water needs.” One of the reasons why the printing company LichtBlick refers to certified green power of energy provider since the beginning of the year. For the production facility in Stuhr, this means a CO2 reduction of 1,100 tons per year and highlights the sustainable environmental awareness of service provider. In 2008, Koopmanndruck was awarded with the quality label of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) for his commitment to the environment. It indicates that all of the company’s products marked with the appropriate logo come from best practice, ecological forest management. The construction of an on-site wind turbine in the framework of a pilot project is also planned for the coming months.

The independent energy broker HFO energy welcomed numerous dealers in court! The Hof/Saale-based independent energy broker HFO energy, held for the first time in October energy workshops. “We are pleasantly surprised by the high number of participants, it shows how high the interest in gas and electricity tariff negotiation is” informed Alexander Albert of HFO energy. At the HFO energy workshops various energy companies presented themselves such as NUON, Clevergy, switch, light look and TelDFax. “Our goal was that we perform not only product training, but a lively exchange of experience takes place between the participants in the workshop it.” says HFO energy CEO Alexander Albert. In addition to the issue of gas and electricity tariffs, the company Bioledex imagined. Bioledex deals with LED lighting.

According to the motto “The power not consumed, is the highest savings!” the participants through a demonstration of low consumption levels of LED lamps were very surprised. Straight for commercial customers, savings incurred by at least 60% on energy costs! “We round off positively our product portfolio with LED bulbs. Just for our sales partners we offer lucrative revenue in sales in this area “informed Alexander Albert of HFO energy. HFO energy offers a wide range of electricity and gas tariffs as an independent energy broker. Here, the company offers lucrative compensation models for its distributors. Due to the positive response, more energy workshops will take place in the future. More information will be announced on the HFO-energy homepage.

‘Green IP-Hotel’ relies exclusively on renewable energies in combination with Intelligent IP technology Hamburg, 07 July 2009 with the opening of the world’s first green IP-hotels in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf AMEDIA presents its new generation of hotels. Industry wide novelty: the hotel is operated exclusively with environmental energy (photovoltaics, geo thermal heat) that produce no CO2 emissions. The connection between modern technology and ecology is this concept in the foreground and the basis for an optimized service and high comfort. Environmentally conscious overnight is not unlike comfort and digital living, which demonstrate the AMEDIA hotels. They offer first class service, coupled with modern communication and entertainment at no additional cost. The youngest member of the family is the AMEDIA Hotel Hamburg-Ohlsdorf. All guests receive free access to high speed Internet access (Wi-Fi) and video-on-demand in the room and can make calls free in over 48 countries.

Another highlight is the in-house HD-TV Studio for worldwide HD video conferencing, which is also available free of charge at the disposal. Also two sample rooms with innovative intuitive initially operated room touch controller \”provided. Room or technical services, air conditioning and heating control and more business processes are controlled via the touch screen. The AMEDIA Hotel Hamburg-Ohlsdorf became the first international Green-all-IP real estate, smart IT technology with its 165 rooms and combines an ecological energy concept. Udo Chistee, President of the AHC International Consulting AG, explains: no matter whether business, cultural and event travelers, students, gamers and families with children. We all are becoming increasingly mobile and would benefit as possible at any given time phone, Voice over IP, E-Mail, Internet and multimedia applications. At the same time, but also our ecological awareness is growing. With AMEDIA, there is an answer to this challenge now in the hotel sector. Here we elaborate consisting of within the IP-immo Consortium, Closely together. partners of the high-tech, research / development, as well as the economic area\” Members in this group are the IVISTAR AG, power economizer GmbH, the Fraunhofer Institute as well as digitalStrom and the AHC International Consulting AG.

Selection for private consumers has tripled in the last year / change of the gas provider saves on average 169 euro Berlin, December 10, 2009 since 2006 consumers in Germany have the opportunity to switch their gas supplier. The contest to the end customer has but only significantly on business page this year ride. So toptarif.de has tripled according to current surveys of the independent consumer portals over the choice for private end customers in the last 12 months. End of 2008 gas customers in Germany able to vote in the average between 6 gas companies\”, explains by toptarif.de energy expert Thorsten Bohg. Currently the number of available competitors has increased to about 19.\” The density of competition in Hamburg and Baden-Wurttemberg, where more than 30 vendors to attract of the customers advertise is the highest. Much less competition, however, in large parts of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia, where in many places less than 12 service providers on the market.

Especially for the price, consumers can by the benefit, increasing competition on the gas market\”clearly Bohg. Although gas prices basic utilities nationwide are gone back this year by more than 20 percent, there is much greater savings for consumers as a year ago.\” So a sample budget can expect an annual consumption of 20,000 kWh gas when changing providers, with an average savings of 169 euro in relation to the most modest of local public utilities. According to the Federal Association of energy and water, but nearly 80 percent of all households with gas supply are located in the expensive prices of basic services. These tariffs are even 265 euros more expensive than the cheapest deals of competitors on average. 2008 there was, however, no cheaper alternatives to the regional distributors in many regions\”, so Bohg. The gas market compared with the intensity of competition in the electricity market is still in its infancy\”, continues Bohg.

So, roughly 40 percent of all household customers located according to the Federal Association of energy and water management (BDEW) in the expensive prices of basic services. The basic supply tariffs are local utilities in the nationwide average even once 6 per cent more expensive”Bohg makes clear. Cheap provider be even 192 EUR under the regional reference prices here in the middle.” Not only families will benefit from the increased competition of the electricity supplier. Also singles and small consumers can save with a change of power supply in many places over 100 euros. To gain market share, many providers give high discounts, which are independent of consumption”, explains Bohg. Exchange bonuses are not uncommon between 80 and 120 euros per customer in the this year’s Wechselsaison.

Last year the level was much lower between 30 and 60 euros.” Through consumer portals such as toptarif.de (www.toptarif.de/ power) or free service hotline 0800-10 30-499 consumers can be quickly and easily inform about alternatives in their region and free to switch to cheaper providers. The press release we hire appropriate evidence on request available. toptarif.de is the independent consumer portal of the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, for all common tariffs in Germany. It currently includes the categories of electricity, gas, DSL, investments, and insurance for legal protection, furniture, residential, private liability, car, keepers liability and is constantly being added and updated. The consumer can thereby with minimal free checking, whether there are cheaper rates for him, and, where appropriate, immediately change. The complete service of change of is completely free of charge for the consumer and the customer receives the original conditions of the provider, in some cases over toptarif.de in any case even additional, not available from the provider themselves bonuses and discounts. Media contact: Christina Salinas Tel.: + 49.30.2576205.28 Email:

The consequences of climate change come the world population dearly climatologists Potsdam Institute for climate impact research (PIK) fear that the climate target of two degrees is no longer. Instead of to cut greenhouse gases, the global hunger for energy produces more CO2. The world’s climate is faced with limited these quantities. Worldwide it had agreed before a couple of years to halve CO2 emissions by 2050. According to the PIK study 1000 billion tons in the atmosphere are likely to arrive until then. Just as it is conceivable that changed the climate only around two degrees. But in the last twelve years the world’s population has produced a third of the amount of respect to.

Therefore controls to plus currently on five degrees. That would radically change the human living conditions, because global warming is no longer manageable. Significant impacts of climate change are already noticing first warnings: currently ice researchers report a record melt of Arctic sea ice this summer. The more ice melts, the faster the climate will heat up. The consequences of climate change meet everyone and hence Germany. First events suggest how it might look in the future: in 2003, they recorded the hottest summer in the 500th history of Europe. While tens of thousands people died. A year ago joined the Elbe in Saxony on the shore.

The flood of the century 21 people in Germany cost lives and caused damage estimated at 8.6 billion euros. Also if the impacts of climate change do not stop, the worst effects are avoidable. That will only succeed if global measures against global warming are made. Because, according to the climatologists, the world population wears partly to blame on heat waves and strong storms of the last decade. Causes of climate change rising sea levels, global warming, desertification, climatic extremes and the extinction of species closely related to the increased concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.