01.02.2005

New information service now expanded

As of now, Öko-Institut also provides free E-mail newsletter in detailed English-language version

As of now, the Öko-Institut provides a new information service to an English-speaking readership. The Institute’s free E-mail newsletter is now also available in a detailed English-language version. Presenting selected articles, the newsletter gives a roundup of the current state of environmental research at the Institute’s three sites – Freiburg, Darmstadt and Berlin.

The topics of issue 01/05:

High Hazard: Genetic Engineering is based on outdated Knowledge
Biomass: Possibly the Future No. 1 Renewable
Biomass: An interesting Option for Developing Countries
Local-level Climate Protection – Munich takes the Lead
More protective Measures against Incidents
RARE Project goes online
Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing

This is just a selection of the topics covered by the first issue, which you can access at www.oeko.de/newsaktuell_engl.htm. The newsletter is published six times a year. It presents projects and findings from the research fields of infrastructure & enterprises, biodiversity, nutrition & agriculture, nuclear engineering & plant safety, sustainable products & material flows, energy & climate protection, environmental law, and transportation. You will also learn what the Institute`s position is in current environmental policy debates and what committees and commissions the scientists participate in.

Interested in the Öko-Institut’s English-language newsletter? Subscribe at www.oeko.de/newsletter_engl.htm. To read the German version go to www.oeko.de/newsaktuell.htm.

Contact:

Katja Kukatz
Newsletter editor in the Institute’s Department of PR & Communication
phone: Tuesday to Thursday ++49/761/45 295-16

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