Saturday, November 28, 2009

Connecting Ballast To Bulb

Landwehrkanal for whom?

Costly Sewer for fossil ferry ride?

is currently the Landwehr canal closed to navigation. On Maybachufer , where there plummeted in April 2007, the bank, with large machinery use the bank is being repaired. Observer of this spectacle now get an idea of why the trees on the banks of the 10.5 km channel should be a hindrance. On the blog of the association trees on the Landwehr canal You can read in great detail how much work (job creation measure?) ultimately makes a careful renovation. The mediation under the pompous title "Future of the Landwehr canal" is still running and no obvious Sustainable vision.
The idea of a master plan enjoyed great way agreement with the local ex Tiefensee and the city false development administration . Only nothing happens in this direction. There are still postcards with our demands to the address of the Governing Mayor of Berlin.

A proposal if a (federal international or European) Horticultural Exhibition to organize along the canal to the general appreciation of entire downtown areas, is now on the former Tempelhof airport be implemented.

With high costs are a critical eye in the mediation process the regular work of the water and shipping office of some citizens. Some call this procedure "citizen participation".
played for the then upcoming tree felling several hundred residents, is now the number of those who participate in the process to a few hard-working individuals shrunk.

Given the sheer number of problem cases

- Highway A100, senseless Spree development , tree felling , destruction of small gardens and cars settlements, eviction of occupied houses, castle walls and subway trains need no one, increasing displacement of tenants from the inner city districts, unemployment and precarious employment (including free checking originary office activities by the citizenry, also participation ) provides for the continuing plight of education, global warming, financial crisis, nuclear and fossil energy / climate crime , and last but not least, hunger, disease and wars in this world -

is the renovation of the Landwehr Canal in fact a side issue. (This list is not exhaustive)


So also the impending trial of the former office manager of the Water and Shipping Authority Berlin Brandenburg Hartmut Brockelmann on 02.12.2009 at 9.00 clock before the district court Königswusterhausen rather unimportant. A total of 655 suspected violations. In words: six hundred fifty-five . ZITTY reported it in the last issue. The superior authority, the WSD Directorate East has in Magdeburg, of course, heard nothing of all this.

The wild tree felling of 2007 are of course not part of the prosecution. The ugly concrete blocks which were allegedly made by him to secure the trees for several hundred thousand euros to the bank of the Landwehr Canal - and contrary to full-bodied announcements, there still are - are not part of the prosecution.

Political leaders, including as the Secretary of State Mr. Toerkel and his boss Mr. Minister Tiefensee, are looking forward now to their "well-deserved pension.

The new Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Stadentwicklung Ramsauer (CSU) is a tiny spark of hope. Through his years of membership of the Parliamentary Group of EUROSOLAR he has at least an idea of what potential the new technologies beyond End - of - offer pipe and what political conditions are necessary for it (see: Renewable Energy Law ).
It is not enough if the Chancellor climate conferences attended and sign international treaties, if the local ministries and administrations to hold on to the fun technologies and practices of the past.

Coalition Landwehrkanal for all!

demonstration
3 paddle parade
03/07/2010 13:00 - 17:00 clock between Urban and port Studentenbad on the Landwehr Canal in Berlin Kreuzberg. From February
found on the last Thursday of each month preparatory meeting held .

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