Entries from August 2006

August 9, 2006

Time for coal change

AT the height of the Cold War — when
Russia was one nation,
Germany was two, and more than three superpowers were developing nuclear weapons — Gerd Leipold did something spectacular.
          Together with a fellow Greenpeace volunteer, Leipold flew a hot air balloon over the Berlin Wall, starting from
West Germany to what was then [...]