Some interesting Pics from Bavaria. A little town called Lauingen...

So this is Lauingen. I went here to attend a seminar sponsored by InWent called Agenda 21: Global Denken, Lokal Handeln. It basically showed how even a small town can take part in creating a better world. It was truly enlightening I must say. I was impressed how the town took recycling and made it a big part of the local economy. We toured three businesses that used recycling to become sucessful and in one case, a world class enterprise. So let's tour the city a little...

Here is a view from the tower in Lauingen.... The one ironic thing from the weekend was, as you will notice if you look in the upper right hand corner of the pic, is the nuclear power plant. Now I haven't seen any smoke stacks or anything like that, only windmills, until this event.... funny considering all the other enviro-friendly-stuff I saw...

Here are some of the participants, most were from Syria and Yemen, all really nice people! The mayor of the town with the strongest Bavarian accent I've ever heard is on the right. He's pretty impressive guy for what he's done here.

This is the Danube river. Launingen is just a little east of Ulm which is on the border between Bavaria and Baden-Wurtemburg...


The Rathaus... pretty nice one too

This is a mosque, the only one of its kind in Germany, and it is in a town of about 11,000 people. The credit goes to the mayor of the town who in the face of large opposition allowed the Turkish minority to have a place of there own. Global Denken, Lokal Handeln... I actually got to go inside and exprience my first actual Islamic service. Very very nice. The place was basically a community center as well, with a basement that had a barber shop, a pool table and internet.

"Industiral Bloom" call this. The massive amount of junk being recycled here was quite impressive I just had to take photos...