Melissa Dewberry enjoys doing crossword puzzles, walking her cat
and pondering ways to patch up the hole in the ozone layer.
Solar Energy Camps Environment – Nestled between Nuremberg and
Hamburg, the Harz Mountains in central Germany are having
difficulty overcoming their history as former site of Nazi labor
concentration camps, turned Soviet spy facility, after the fall
of the Third Reich. The region, which was once “famous for its
industry, culture and nature” now feels like “the end of the
world,” said Florian Kroeckel, who grew up there. “It really
needs the jobs as well as the cultural life to come back,” she
added. Meanwhile, renewable energy is having a similar problem
as well. Germany has invested “many billions of dollars into
wind and solar. But no amount of money can make the wind blow
nor the sun shine consistently.” Nonetheless, Berlin is still
determined to have 35 percent of its electricity come from
renewables by 2020, and a mind-boggling 80 percent by 2050, all
while phasing out nuclear, whi