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Marrying 'eco' with 'logical' in Strasbourg

300 hectares of green spaces, more than 500 kilometres of bike route and the nature park of Vosges just nearby. The Alsatian capital definitely classes as one of Europe's ecological paradises, and we even find citizens who plan their weddings with a green visor. We sent a budding Sherlock Holmes through the city to crack its eco-crimes, because after all, Strasbourg is most famous in the European eco-crime scene for the second seat of the European parliament which it hosts, compromising the city's eco-balance. Read the following edition in a ten-month 2011 monthly series, ‘Green Europe on the ground’ (Image: (cc) njaminjami/ Flickr)

• Read the special edition Marrying 'eco' with 'logical' in Strasbourg
• Sherlock in Strasbourg: dial G for green crime
• MEPs are ‘carbon dioxide skunks’ going from parliament to parliament
• 'Green' weddings – a Strasbourg myth?
• Eco-architecture in Strasbourg: all hands on the deck

EU ban: death to the incandescent light bulb

The EU approved the phasing out of incandescent light bulbs by 2012, which use five times more energy

by Fernando Navarro Sordo @ // 19/12/08

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