political element of one of the greatest paradigm shifts since the start of the industrial revolution: the shift from fossil and atomic energy supplies to renewable energy sources. Freiburg · Freiburg is a 900 year old city of under 250,000 people, perched in the wine growing region of southwest Germany · Citizens have high environmental awareness · Sunniest Region in Germany, Making it the "Solar Capital" · The Heliotrope (the world's first energy self-sustaining solar building) Germany and the Kyoto Protocol · Sets binding obligations on industrialized countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. · Between March 1998 and March 1999, 84 countries including Germany signed the Kyoto Protocol. · In March 2002, the Bundestag unanimously ratified Kyoto. In May 2002, the European Union submitted the articles of ratification for all 15 of its then member states.
impact on yields. Diseases Main article: List of sunflower diseases Greek myth In Greek mythology, a girl named Clytie fell in love with the sun god Apollo, and would do nothing but watch his chariot move across the sky. After nine days, she was transformed into a sunflower. However, the word "sunflower" and its cognates existed long before Helianthus annuus was brought to Europe, and it is thought that the myth (which is mentioned in Ovid's poem Metamorphoses) actually refers to heliotrope or marigold. Trivia · The sunflower is the state flower of the U.S. state of Kansas, and one of the city flowers of Kitakyushu, Japan. · The Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosa) is related to the sunflower. The Mexican sunflower is Tithonia rotundifolia. False sunflower refers to plants of the genus Heliopsis. · Scientific literature reports, from 1567, that a 12 m (40'), traditional, single-head,