planet

• Drinking our waste: for many of our planet's poorest people, drinking water contaminated by human waste is a daily reality, causing widespread illness and death. Swiss aid and development cooperative, Helvetas, is addressing the lack of this most basic of necessities in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For 900 million people worldwide, the idea of "drinking our waste" is no joke. According to Helvetas, every eighth person has...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2010, Février 2010

• Martial planet.

Whoever has been spared by Saturn--the Greater Infortune--might still become the prey of his smaller companion named Mars, the Lesser Infortune. Astro...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2003, Juin 2003

• Arrêt nº 1C 270/2010 de Ire Cour de Droit Public, 22 juillet 2010

... de Bellevue, aux nos 5 et 7 du chemin du Planet. L'hoirie de feu Y.________ détient la parcelle n...

• Train karma: like a lot of people who live in Switzerland, I have a carbon footprint the size of a newborn baby's bootie. In order to leave the planet a better place for future generations, I recycle and almost exclusively use public transport. And it's worth noting that this has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that to do otherwise would cost me a boatload of money!(HUMOUR)

Having traveled so much on public transport I have begun to notice a few quirks about train travel in Switzerland. First, you must always sit facing t...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2007, Avril 2007

• Q&Amp;A

You are one of the first designers to use digital manufacturing. How has that affected the design world? There's a lot of benefits from this type of design, such as no storage and no transportation since everything's on a CD. Imagine you download an image of this glass, for instance, from the internet, and then you just produce it. You won't have to go to China and buy 12,000 glasses and ship them back home and sell only 6,000 and store the rest. See what I mean? The problem is that people are a bit slow to respond. Our entire planet is wired to a Henry Ford way of producing things, and it will take time to change that concept. But I know that what we're doing is something that's going to change the design world the way digital photography changed the world of photography or MP3 players...

• Nordic Reach
• Vol. 21 Num. 24, Juin 2008
• News

• Another world: drawing on a changed planet: Patrick Chappatte is one of Switzerland's best known cartoonists, contributing editorial cartoons to Le Temps, the Sunday edition of the Neue Zurcher Zeitung, the International Herald Tribune (IHT) and Swiss News.

September 11, 2001 has become a generation's John F Kennedy moment. Where you were, what you were doing on the day of the horrific attack on the Twin ...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2004, Mai 2004

• Patient Capital: A Third Way to Think About Aid

With enterprises ranging from drip-irrigation companies in India and Pakistan to a major manufacturer of malaria-preventing bed nets in Tanzania and women's hospitals and ambulance services in India, Acumen's US$ 40 million portfolio has created more than 22,000 jobs and had a positive impact on more than 30 million people in developing countries. At a time when the debate over foreign aid often pits those who mistrust charity against those who are wary of relying on the markets, Acumen Fund proposes a middle way termed patient capital. Patient capital works with smart subsidies to extend the benefits of a global economy to include all people. Acumen Fund has also developed successful public-private partnerships between entrepreneurs, governmental and non-governmental organizations, and...

... no more market-oriented individuals on the planet than low-income people. They must navigate markets...

• International Trade Forum
• Num. 4, Octobre 2009

• Mountaineers.

... first conquered the giddy heights of our planet. . ...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2011, Janvier 2011

• Guitar hero: around five years ago, avid guitar player Andy McKee started to post videos of his music on YouTube. Seventy-eight million views later, and he has come to be regarded as one of the world's finest guitarists. He'll be performing live at Moods in Zurich on May 7.

...Then suddenly, people all over the planet were checking them out. Without that success, it's...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2011, Janvier 2011

• Swiss Tuning Show in Geneva 28-29.05.2011--www.swisstuningshow.ch.

...Until 18.09.2011: For a Living Planet--50 years of the WWF . Locality: Swiss National Mu...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2011, Janvier 2011