Full Coverage: Europe

31.12.2006 from British Wind Energy Association:
BWEA have launched a guide on choosing and siting a small wind system, electricity savings, payback times, grant funding and how to contact manufacturers, aimed at consumers from the domestic, public and business sectors.

29.12.2006 Four Rwandans who settled in Britain were last night arrested in a coordinated operation after their home country sought their extradition in connection with its 1994 genocide.

29.12.2006 Efforts to develop cooperation between six industrial trade unions have advanced to a new phase. In mid- December the unions chose SAK’s bargaining department head, Lauri Lyly, to examine the options for future relations between the six unions. The main alternatives lie between a full merger and closer cooperation.

29.12.2006 from National Consumer Council:
A useful PDF report on the ‘greenness’ of renewable energy suppliers.

28.12.2006 from Christian Science Monitor:
The green lifestlye goes beyond cars in Vauban, with a wood-chip energy plant operating since 2002 and solar collectors and photovoltaic cells quite common in the town.

28.12.2006 The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in the Republic of Srpska and B.a.B.e., under the auspices of the Balkan Human Rights Network (BHRN), organize the “Situation with Sexual and Gender Minorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia”.

27.12.2006 from The Energy Blog:
The new, improved performance G-Wiz AC drive electric car from GoinGreen is now available for sale in London.

27.12.2006 OXO non-governmental organization presente, for the night year in a row, the “eco”-calendars and teachers’ manuals that will be distributed to pupils and teachers in pre-school and elementary education institutions in Macedonia.

27.12.2006 from Mur Crusto eco-farm blog:
The passive solar conservatory construction is underway, but what about the eco-cottage and the planning department?

27.12.2006 from WorldChanging blog:
Last month's pre-Budget statement by the UK government was heralded as 'green' when in reality, most of its measures were pretty puny. A mere £5 extra tax on flights, anyone? But one measure that was mentioned did get radical.

26.12.2006 Last Wednesday, December 20, the Constitutional Court ruled to annul the provision from the 2004 Law on the Rights of Veterans of the Homeland War and Members of their Families, which gave the right to veterans, their children and children of victims of war to direct enrolment in secondary and higher education institutions, provided that they passed the lower limit for necessary points in entry exam.

25.12.2006 The Serbian Consumer Association (APOS) announced the election demands of Serbian consumers, prior to the Parliamentary Elections, scheduled for January 21, 2007. APOS aims to promote and improve consumer rights during election campaign.

25.12.2006 from 10 Downing Street:
'We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Adopt Carbon Rationing and Contraction and Convergence.' Add your voice...

25.12.2006 Activists of Right to a City initiative and Zelena Akcija environmental organization demanded detailed information on the project to develop the Lower-City block in Zagreb, between Varsavska, Gunduliceva, Ilica, Preobrazenska Streets and the Petar Preradovic Square.

24.12.2006 from The BBC:
Britain's barnacles, limpets and seaweeds are moving north and east in response to climate change.

23.12.2006 The Dutch government has pledged $201 million to the UN Children's Fund to help ensure that children in conflict, natural disasters and emerging from crisis can go to school.

23.12.2006 from It's the Planet, Stupid! blog:
The idea is simply for anyone to find out just how dependent we all are on fossil fuels.

23.12.2006 from ecorazzi.com:
The 790 square-metre home on the England-Wales border will feature solar-powered heating, and insulation made of sheep’s wool plus a few 'trimmings'.

22.12.2006 Under the “Local Governance and Youth” project, the Youth Information Agency (OIA) will organized three training programmes (between December 19 and 23, 2006) dedicated to educate municipal officials charged with youth issues, youth counsellors and young people involved in various organizations, on development of local youth policies.

22.12.2006 The Spanish government has made the largest contribution by any country to the UN to help meet the Millennium Development goals by 2015.