Full Coverage: Europe

30.04.2006 London Sustainability Weeks (4-18 June) celebrate local projects that help make the city a cleaner, greener, healthier place. The campaign, timed to concide with World Environment Day (5 June), includes large outdoor festivals, pond dipping, nature walks, bike rides, business breakfasts and fair trade stalls.

29.04.2006 from Dvorak Uncensored blog:
A new windfarm, south of Glasgow, will produce enough electricity to power 200,000 homes. But what about the NIMBYs?

29.04.2006 Pokret DOSTA! organizira mirne proteste svake subote, javno se suprotstavljajući (ne)radu vladinih predstavnika/ca za građanstvo. Ovi protesti su reakcija na opće nezdravo stanje države i loš kvalitet života u BiH, a posebno se ističe da je protest i protiv nedavnog poskupljenja struje u BiH. I danas, 29. aprila protesti počinju na Trgu BiH Sarajevo u 12.00 sati.

29.04.2006 Shoqata ”Intelektualët e rinj, Shpresë“ (IRSH), Lëvizja MJAFT, në bashkëpunim me Bashkinë Shkodër si dhe me mbështetjen e Firmës „BERTONI“ si dhe Hotel Argenti - Velipoje do të organizojnë me datën 30 Prill – 1 Maj 2006 në plazhin e Velipojës në Shkodër, një aktivitet masiv rinor me moton:“Jeto i gjelbërt“.

28.04.2006 Aktivistët e paqes kanë emëruar Karvanin Kundërshtim për Paqe , i cili organizohet nga Rrjeti Rajonal i iniciativave për Kundërshtim të Ndërgjegjshëm (CO) në Evropën Juglindore do të fillojë udhëtimin e tij nëpër qytetet e rajonit të martën, më 2 maj dhe do të udhëtojë deri më 15 maj 2006. Karvani do të niset nga Shkupi dhe do të vazhdojë të sjellë më shumë kulturë paqeje nëpër qytetet e Prishtinës, Beogradit, Novi Sadit, Osijekut, Banja Llukës, Sarajevës, Mostarit, Shibenikut, dhe së fundmi në Zagreb.

28.04.2006 London's long-term average rainfall is lower than that of Istanbul, Dallas, or Nairobi, yet residents use more water than anyone else in Europe - 165 litres per person per day compared to 120 litres in other European cities such as Copenhagen and Berlin. Learn more about the issues on an evening Thames cruise on 11 May. The event will also see the launch of the "Ripple Effect", an online action campaign to encourage Londoners to do more about water conservation.

28.04.2006 COPENHAGEN, Apr 28 (IPS) - Before anyone can clean up the earth and its atmosphere, an administrative clean-up might be necessary in the house of those tasked with the cleaning job, a leading environmentalist says.

28.04.2006 Mary Kayitesi Blewitt lost almost her entire family in the Rwandan genocide and subsequently set up a fund for the 365,000 survivors who continue against the odds, haunted by memories and under threat from perpetrators now released from prison. To accompany the production of The Overwhelming at the National Theatre in London, on 27 June she will discuss the work of the charity and the continuing effect of the atrocities.

28.04.2006 Metamorfpzis Fondacija za održiva ICT rešenja potpisala je 26. aprila Memorandum o razumevanju sa Understanding with Commons Korporacijom, za uvodjenje CC licence u Makedoniju.

28.04.2006 While Creative Commons has entered, is practiced and regulated in the other countries in the region and the world - in Kosovo its application still depends on individuals' desire to push it forward.

28.04.2006 The Croatian Law on Copyright and Associated Rights was adopted in 2003, and is harmonized with the majority of international treaties in that area, as well as with EU directions and recommendations. This was confirmed through the screening of legislation in the area of intellectual property rights and copyrights, conducted under the auspices of negotiations on Croatian membership in the EU, in February of this year. The only objection on this Law refers primarily to the inefficient implementation.

28.04.2006 The copyrights in Albania are protected by law and is statutory in article 58 of the Albanian Constitution. On the other hand, Albania is signatory of a series of international conventions and treaties (the Bern, Rome, Geneva, Paris conventions) and member of OMPI (Organisation Mondiale de la Propriété Intellectuelle) as well.

28.04.2006 Zyrtarisht ka filluar vazhdimësia e projektit “Plani i veprimit për re-integrim në lagjen - 7 Shtatori” i cili vjen si rezultat i punës në projektin e para një viti, respektivisht projektit të zbatuar nga OJQ “Syri i Vizionit“ në partneritet me OJQ –të ”Vizioni-02”, nga Istogu dhe “Helping People in Need – HPN”, nga Rozhaja.

28.04.2006 Uprkos brojnim negodovanjima domaćih i medjunarodnih organizacija, predsednik Srbije Boris Tadić potpisao je Ukaz o proglašenju Zakona o crkvama i verskim zajednicama, čime on i formalno može da stupi na snagu.

28.04.2006 Centar za demokratsku tranziciju (CDT) pozvao je crnogorske političare da umanje negativni ton u predreferendumskoj kampanji i da afirmativnim stavovima doprinesu smanjenju tenzija i podela među građanima.

28.04.2006 Većina gradjana Crne Gore glasaće za nezavisnost na referendumu o državnosti zakazanom za 21. maj, pokazalo je istraživanje podgoričkog Centra za demokratiju.

28.04.2006 The Metamorphosis Foundation for Sustainable ICT Solutions signed, on April 26, 2006, a Memorandum of Understanding with Creative Commons Corporation, for legal porting of CC licenses in Macedonia.

28.04.2006 Fondacijata za odrzlivi informaticki resenija Metamorphosis potpisa, na 26 April, 2006 godina, memorandum za razbiranje so Creative Commons Corporation, za pravno ureduvanje na CC licencite (legal porting).

28.04.2006 Sweden is to push for European Union support for a UN moratorium on high seas bottom trawling, Environment Minister Lena Sommestad announced.

28.04.2006 The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development should demand effective environmental protection measures for oil spills from Shell or decline funding for its Sakhalin project in Russia's Far East, says a leading environmental group.