Freitag, Dezember 24, 2010

Mittwoch, Dezember 22, 2010

The “puck” that gets hammered into a bottle



The SIGG bottle, made in the Swiss town of Frauenfeld, has been used by fashion designer Vivienne Westwood in her efforts to slow down climate change, because it is reusable.

It’s also being carried around in the Australian town of Bundanoon, which declared itself opposed to the sale of bottled drinking water on environmental grounds.

After a scare two years ago about the inner lining of the bottle having traces of bisphenol A (more commonly known as BPA), the company owned up and admitted making an error in communication.

Dienstag, Dezember 21, 2010

Freitag, Dezember 17, 2010

Mittwoch, Dezember 15, 2010

Wie sieht eine schöne Kuh aus? - How does a beautiful cow look like?



Même si le regretté Jean Gabin disait qu’il ne boirait du lait que «le jour où les vaches mangeront du raisin», le bovidé emblématique de la Suisse profonde a ses aficionados. Notamment dans la région du Simmental, qui a donné son nom à une race de vaches. Thomas Kern, photographe à swissinfo.ch, c’est rendu dans le Diemtigtal, une vallée locale, pour y mener l’enquête. (swissinfo - Thomas Kern)