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2025 Annual Oxford Animal Ethics Summer School - Call for Papers

2025 Annual Oxford Animal Ethics Summer School - Call for Papers

The tenth Annual Oxford Animal Ethics Summer School will be held at Merton College, Oxford, from 4-7 August, 2025 and the subject is ‘The Ethics of Captivity’.

The Summer School, organised by the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, is now calling for abstracts of possible presentations to be submitted by experts interested in speaking at the event.  

Billions of animals are kept captive worldwide every year. The range of confinements include the use of animals in agriculture

Compressor distributor in the Netherlands to become part of Atlas Copco Group

Compressor distributor in the Netherlands to become part of Atlas Copco Group

Nacka, Sweden, September 16, 2024: Perslucht Wilda B.V. (“Perslucht Wilda”), a compressor distributor headquartered in Woudenberg, Netherlands, will become part of Atlas Copco Group

Perslucht Wilda, founded in 1979, provides portable air compressors, generators, light towers and small electric compressors and associated services. The company has 9 employees.

“The acquisition of Perslucht Wilda provides an excellent opportunity to extend our direct network and presence with aftersales

Warm waters run deep: deep geothermal energy in Bavaria set for expansion

Warm waters run deep: deep geothermal energy in Bavaria set for expansion

 At the beginning of September, the Federal Cabinet of Germany launched the Geothermal Acceleration Act (GeoWG). It aims to reduce bureaucracy and accelerate the heat transition through faster and simpler authorizations. In theory, deep geothermal energy in particular could supply entire neighborhoods with constant heat that is inexhaustible, available at all times, and, above all, climate-friendly. In practice, however, this green technology is not used anywhere near enough in Germany