This evening I am flying with Singapore Airlines to Singapore, and will stay there for two days in the Swiss Stamford Hotel. I will use the time for city photography, and try to portray the city of Singapore, especially by night....

The Swiss temping agency Adecco wants to take over the German agency DIS AG. This report reminds me of the company founder of DIS AG - Dieter Paulmann. He made what is for me one of the best documentaries on sperm whales - Auf...

I would like to introduce the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an organisation working to protect whales and dolphins. On their website they document the horrific methods used to hunt the sea mammals and their actions to...

Whilst browsing the internet, I have come across the book "Die Entdeckung der Faulheit" (published in English as "Hello Laziness") by Corinne Maier. She describes our current economic system from her point of view and relates her...

The USA and the world economy are not only threatened with recession, but with a fundamental realignment of our mostly credit-based consumerist society. How long can this principle of an enormous supply of and demand for consumer...

The manager Douglas Tompkins founded the fashion house "Esprit", and led it to success. He also founded "The North Face". The New Yorker sold his shares in the companies and invested the resulting millions in saving the Chilean...

via Zeit Weblog

My theory is that the up and coming economic powers, particularly China and the Tiger states, want to beat the western economic system with its own weapons. They flood the world market with the commodities which...

via Handelsblatt Blog

I don't think so at all. Of course, it isn't so sexy to watch tired-seeming federal bankers or economists from famous banks while they expound about economic interrelations. The content and statements are...

Bad news for whales. The Japanese whaling fleet wants to carry on killing Minke Whales and now even Fin Whales for supposedly scientific reasons. Must the Japanese eat whalemeat? An online article in the Spiegel collects the...

The best-selling US author Jared Diamond writes about vanishing resources, climate change, overpopulation and ecological damage in his book Collapse. His description of the downfall of a culture on Easter Island is a clear...