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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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