In 2016, the Alpine Initiative handed over its archive (with annual reports and accounts, correspondence, files on actions and campaigns, topic dossiers and printed matter) to the Swiss Social Archives. The holdings can be consulted in the reading room of the Swiss Social Archive without any restrictions on use.
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The Alpine Initiative regularly draws the public’s attention to absurd transport by awarding the “Red Devil’s Stone”. In 2004, this little-coveted prize is awarded to Délifrance SA. Délifrance bread is produced in the Netherlands and then transported to Swiss shops where it is baked.
On February 8th, the Swiss electorate reject the Avanti counter-proposal with a majority of 62.8%; at a canton level the road lobby even suffers a 26:0 defeat. Shortly before the 10th anniversary of the constitutional article for the protection of the Alps, the Swiss thus clearly reject an undermining of the protection of the Alps. Contrary to a majority of the parliament, the Swiss people do not want to have anything to do with doubling the capacity of the St. Gotthard road tunnel. This success confirms the Alpine Initiative in its commitment.
On 6 October 2003, activists of the Alpine Initiative present Nestlé Waters (Switzerland) with the Red Devil’s Stone at the company’s headquarters in Gland VD. Nestlé Water is a worldwide leader in the marketing of water and generates vast quantities of absurd transport by making profits out of water.
On 6 October 2003, activists of the Alpine Initiative present Nestlé Waters (Switzerland) with the Red Devil’s Stone at the company’s headquarters in Gland VD. Nestlé Water is a worldwide leader in the marketing of water and generates vast quantities of absurd transport by making profits out of water.
The pre-1988 “Euro 0” category of lorries is no longer allowed to use the Mont Blanc and Fréjus tunnels nor, in the near future, the Brenner Pass. The Alpine Initiative demands that these foul polluting lorries are also banned across Switzerland.
Using the example of two regions in the Swiss canton Uri, economist Pia Steiner shows that a good transport network stops neither a population exodus nor job losses. The study was commissioned by the Alpine Initiative.
The Swiss supermarkets Migros and Coop transport their whipped cream up to 2,000 km to have it packaged into spray cans. This nonsensical transport wins the Alpine Initiative’s first “Red Devil’s Stone” award.
The Mont Blanc tunnel entrance is blocked once again to protest against its use by heavy lorries. The demonstration is supported by the Alpine Initiative.
The Alpine Initiative uses huge candles to commemorate the eleven people killed during the accident in the St. Gotthard road tunnel a year earlier.
During the night of Saturday, 11 August 2001, numerous warning and resistance fires are lit across the entire Alpine region from Vienna to Nice