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Archives for June 2010

Bear cubs in Bern charm the crowds

23/06/2010 by Ellen Wallace

By Tambako the Jaguar on flickr Tambako the Jaguar, a Neuchatel photographer who frequently visits Switzerland’s zoos and shares his beautiful photos of animals on flickr, visited the young bear cubs in Bern last week (18 June). The bears were born in December and are named Urs and Berna, but for now even the Baerengraben […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Baerengraben, bear cubs, bear park, Bern, Berna, Switzerland, Urs, zoo

New transport report shows it accounts for 37% Swiss energy use

21/06/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Neuchatel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – Use of transport by individuals has doubled in Switzerland from 1970 to 2008, but growing use of transport for merchandise shows an even more dramatic change, tripling in 30 years. The figures are part of a new statistical study of shifts in transport use in Switzerland, released Monday 21 June by […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Business, Scoiety, statistics, Switzerland, transport

Bicycle safety campaign begins in Geneva

17/06/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Geneva, Swizterland (GenevaLunch) – Bicyclists being stopped by the police will be a sight more frequent than usual next week in Geneva. In the wake of a series of bicycle accidents, including a fatal one, the police department has announced it will rev up its “PreDiRe Cyclistes” safety campaign from 21 to 25 June. The […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: bicycle safety campaign, bicycles, road safety

The curious use of Swiss in food names

17/06/2010 by Ellen Wallace

The case of the Lausanne cake By Ellen Wallace Swiss cheese, Swiss rolls and today I discover gateau Lausanne: foods that don’t seem to be part of the panoply of what we eat in Switzerland, but the world knows them as Swiss foods. This happens elsewhere, of course, with the classic example of Belgium’s fried […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Bo Friberg, Emmentaler, french fries, Gateau Lausanne, Goodluck Jonathan, Swiss cheese, The Professional Patry Chef

Funghi could reduce fertilizer use for rice

16/06/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – Scientists at the University of Lausanne have discovered that the third generation, or “grandchildren” of funghi they took from a field near Zurich could play a role in reducing the need for fertilizer for rice, allowing it to grow five times faster than rice produced today, with a little help from […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: fertilizer, Food news, funghi, laboratory research, Rice, University of Lausanne

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