This Sunday, from 11 am to 7 pm, the Brandenburger Tor will once again be dedicated to environmental, nature and climate protection at the 28th Environmental Festival of the GRÜNE LIGA Berlin. More than 200 exhibitors will be offering information and advice, hands-on activities and examples of changes in everyday life on Germany's largest ecological experience mile. The diversity ranges from environmental, nature and consumer protection, energy and transport change, to animal welfare, fair trade and ecological street food. Under the motto "Next Exit: Fair Transport Change", the reform of road traffic law, the fair distribution of public space and concrete measures for transport change will be the focus of the festival programme. All info at https://www.umweltfestival.de/

Over the next two years, the GREEN LIGA is tackling the controversial issue of single-family homes with the project "Using Living Space". The aim is to support people who want to make better use of their existing buildings. To kick things off, we want to get in touch with the interested members of the Liga network about this.

In order to see the meadows in the Osterzgebirge in full bloom and to preserve the biodiversity, these biotopes need annual care. Join us and enjoy 4 packed days in nature with culture and (neighbouring) language in the Eastern Ore Mountains: flex your muscles with meadow care, dance your laughing muscles singing around the campfire, discover delicious Bohemian cuisine, experience a neighbourhood festival at the border and much more!

The "Tour de Natur" wants to offer a cycling tour again this summer. The route will lead from Singen via Lake Constance and the Allgäu to Munich. The cyclists are expected to be on the road from 29 July to 13 August 2023. The project is still in the early stages of planning. People from the region who would like to support this year's tour can contact the organisation.

Polluter LEAG finally pays for sulphate contamination in Frankfurt's drinking water

Cottbus, 28.02.2023. The environmental network GRÜNE LIGA regrets that there will be no landmark ruling by the European Court of Justice on the Cottbus opencast lake for the time to come. LEAG and water supplier FWA have apparently agreed on a payment in millions, thus ending their legal dispute. Other proceedings concerning the Cottbus-Nord opencast mine, however, remain pending before the courts. The flooding of the lake continues to be interrupted repeatedly due to a lack of water.

"It was high time that the coal company, as the polluter of the sulphate pollution, at least pays for part of the consequential costs. Unfortunately, this avoids a fundamental clarification by the European Court of Justice as to what value drinking water extraction has over mining interests. In view of the foreseeable further consequential damage from its opencast mines, LEAG obviously wanted to avoid a court clarification." René Schuster of the GRÜNE LIGA comments on the reached agreement.