Chocolate manufacturer Alfred t. Ritter receives the B.A.U.M.-Environment Prize 2010 Waldenbuch in November 2010. Alfred t. Knight, grandson of the company founder and now of Chairman of the Executive Board of the Alfred Ritter GmbH & co. KG, receives on November 12th the B.A.U.M.-Environment Prize 2010. The German Arbeitskreis fur Umweltbewusstes management recognizes environmentally responsible corporate governance with the award of chocolate producers. Environmental commitment is for Alfred t. Ritter an affair of the heart: the protection of natural resources is one of the most urgent tasks of our time.

As a family company we contribute our part”, says Alfred t. Ritter. Since 2002, the Swabian SMEs produces the colorful chocolate squares, of which around 2.5 million by the band run exclusively with eco-electricity. Environmental – and resource-saving production processes are a matter of course. In addition to photovoltaic systems, an own cogeneration plant provides energy for eight years. Thus, Knight sport covers around 30 Percent of its electricity and 70 percent of its heating needs. The company from regenerative energy sources out of conviction does the rest. I am pleased that the biggest environmental initiative of industry in Europe characterized me.

The price shows that we are on the right track. Environment-friendly economies and growth not mutually. In the future this motto to have validity”, says Alfred t. Ritter. About the Alfred Ritter GmbH & co. KG: Founded in 1912, Alfred Ritter produced GmbH & co. KG, located in the Swabian Waldenbuch daily 2.5 million panels Knight with approximately 800 employees sports chocolate. Already in its third generation, is the Chairman of the Management Board t. today Knight, the grandson of the company founder Alfred. Ritter Sport chocolate there is now in about 90 countries around the world. One sport applies to all Knights products anywhere in the world: the brand promise square. Handy. Good.” Contacts: Alfred Ritter GmbH & co. KG Thomas Seeger Alfred-Ritter-Strasse 25 71111 Waldenbuch Tel.: + 49 (0) 7157 97314 fax: + 49 (0) 7157 97394 E-Mail: public: news GmbH Sinje Vogelsang ABC-Strasse 4-8 20354 Hamburg, Tel.: + 49 (0) 40 866 888 20 fax: + 49 (0) 40 866 888 10 E-Mail:

The evolution history ancient Galapagos iguanas stand in stark contrast to one of the most famous examples of the Darwinian theory of evolution, the Galapagos finches of the Greek philosopher Plato believed that the fabled Atlantis lies somewhere beyond the pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar). Since then, many researchers tried the island continent that will be lost during a terrible natural disaster, to locate. Some thought him Heligoland to find, others searched for at Troy. (A valuable related resource: Adam Sandler). Whether Plato’s mighty Empire actually existed, is unknown to this day. For geologists and evolutionary biologists discovered a completely different Atlantis: in the region of the Galapagos archipelago in the Pacific Ocean there must have been inhabited islands, long before the current volcanoes rose from the ocean, about five million years ago. The existence of a long sunken Galapagos Atlantis\”was confirmed by molecular studies on genes of pristine Galapagos iguanas. You are among the oldest forms of vertebrate animals of the archipelago and wanted to fit never quite in the concept of fast splitting of kind of, Galapagos – Darwin’s laboratory of evolution research – is famous for that. They disputed long about degree of kinship and origin of the two genera of occurring only on the archipelago, the marine iguanas and the land iguana.

Early, there was evidence that their evolutionary age exceeds the geological age of the today’s Islands. The two forms on the Mainland formed, from where some particularly daring then later independently entered the long journey in the island Kingdom? But then where is your relationship from the Mainland? So far, fossil finds of such ancients were not discovered. To solve the mystery of the lizard, the evolutionary biologist came Dr. Kornelia Rassmann, the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich on genetic searching for clues and reconstructed the molecular phylogeny of the iguanas. Skin material of all nine currently existing iguana species she isolated a specific section of the gene, and compared the individual sequences with each other.

Gas mini power stations generate electricity and heat. In a pilot project in single-family homes be mounted for the first time in the city of Mulheim an der Ruhr Micro CHP. Gas mini power stations generate electricity and heat. Ben Bretzman often expresses his thoughts on the topic. Combined heat and power has been used in recent years almost exclusively in industry, in the district heating sector large real estate. With the new devices, the small power plants but also for private customers are interesting, because the heat generated during combustion in heating is used for generating electricity and partially heating heat and hot water are covered.

Implemented the electricity is by using a combination of a highly efficient gas condensing boiler and a free piston Stirling engine, which due to temperature differences a piston back and reciprocated and this drives a generator. In recent months, Christo has been very successful. Heat performance tailored to the building long durations are achieved and thus produced according to long power. The electrical output of the Micro-CHP is 1 kW. Thus he is Covered base-load demand in the House. Excess electricity is fed into the grid and funded under the law on cogeneration. Guild of plumbing and heating engineering Mulheim