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FRANKFURT, Germany – Germany’s automaking titans announced production cuts yesterday, as the global financial crisis rattled unabated across one of Europe’s key industries. General Motors Corp. (NYSE:GM) subsidiary Adam Opel AG, the German unit of Ford Motor Co. (NYSE:F), Daimler AG and BMW all announced reductions in Germany. GM said its other subsidiaries in Europe were also affected. Opel will stop production entirely at its Eisenach plant in eastern Germany for three weeks starting next week.”We’re feeling the effects of the financial crisis,” Opel spokesperson Andreas Kroemer said in Russelsheim. “People are holding on to their money and not ordering cars.”The company’s Bochum plant already stopped production last week, and Kroemer said the company expects to build 40,000 fewer cars than initially planned this year. Kroemer said the Bochum Opel facility would restart production in a few weeks. Kroemer said Opel plants in Kaiserslautern and Ruesselsheim weren’t affected yet. However, other GM plants in the U.K., Poland and Spain would be affected by the economic slowdown, and the company is in talks with officials at its plant in Antwerp, Belgium on whether to make reductions to the plant’s night shift capacity. A spokesperson said GM wants to stop production at U.K. facilities Ellesmere Port and Luton for 10 days each, but it was unclear how long it would halt production at a Polish plant in Gliwice. GM’s Opel facility in Zaragoza, Spain, would stop production for two weeks this month, the spokesperson said, while GM unit Saab has said for some time that it will reduce its Trollhaettan, Sweden, plant to just one shift. Munich-based BMW said yesterday it will send 20,000 cars originally intended for the U.S. market to Russia or China instead in light of weak North American sales, which meant cutting production by 20,000 cars. Ford’s German unit said it would curb production and lay off 204 part-time workers at its 6,500-worker Saarlouis plant in western Germany, while the company’s Cologne plant in the northwest of the country would continue production without changes. Stuttgart-based Daimler, maker of Mercedes-Benz and Smart cars, said it wants to keep production at a low level and adjustments could affect German facilities and Daimler’s Tuscaloosa, Ala., plant. No specific plans were outlined. This past summer, Daimler said it would stop production at its largest German factory, Sindelfingen, earlier than usual for the Christmas holidays. Production is to resume in January, but no date has been set yet. “It’s our general goal to keep vehicle levels at a low level,” Daimler spokesperson Florian Martens said. The story was different at Porsche, however, also based in Stuttgart. Spokesperson Albrecht Bamler said there were no plans to curb production and plants at Stuttgart and Leipzig are running at full capacity. Porsche produces its 911 model in Stuttgart and the Cayenne SUV in Leipzig. The situation for the short-term automotive market isn’t bright, said car analyst Paul Newton at Global Insight in London. “Early indications of West European car sales point to a wholesale slump across the major markets during September,” Newton wrote in a note to investors last week. Final numbers are not in, but he estimates September car sales fell 20 per cent in Britain, 25 per cent in Spain, 12 per cent in Italy and between five and 10 per cent in Germany. “The figures will send a shudder through the entire industry, as the slowdown in showroom traffic seen over the traditionally quieter summer months worryingly extends into the stronger selling month of September,” Newton wrote. “The major issue at the moment is the ripple effect of the financial markets on car sales.”

The traditional wedding is expensive, extravagant, and elegant expense to the bride and groom. The bride and groom will pay a large amount to create an elegant, romantic, and fairytale wedding. Now, the green weddings are entering the multi-million dollar wedding industry.

Green weddings show the awareness and responsibility to take care of our environment. Green is also known as environment friendly, or eco friendly wedding. Green wedding theme inspires the guests, relatives, and friends to their part on the environment.

Use recycled gold wedding band. The fair trade stores may sell recycled gold for wedding bands. Antique shows, auctions, and shops may also carry some lovely wedding bands.

Arrive in style with smart car convertible. The smart cars use a fraction of fuel against the conventional cars. Organize car pools for the guests. The car pool takes several cars away from the road and pollutants away from air. Set the wedding ceremony and wedding reception at close proximity. Hence, the guests have to travel less for the next itinerary.

Ask for the print shop to use recycled paper for wedding invitation. The recycle of paper and plastic campaign are very successful. The environment conscious society is recycling more than ever. The recycled papers and stationary are now widely available. For a paperless wedding invitation, the bride and groom may consider online wedding website.

Rent, or borrow the wedding dress to friends, and relatives. Rent or borrow the wedding dress allows the wedding dress to be reused or recycled. Sometimes, the eBay sells wedding dress in good condition.

The digital photography gets as great as the real camera. The wedding photographers can get the same results with digital camera. The advancement in digital photography allows the bride and groom to screen unwanted pictures. The bride and groom digitally check the pictures to be print for copy.

Reuse the wedding flowers on wedding. The wedding flowers from church may be used at the wedding reception as well. The wedding flowers that are available locally and seasonally reduce the fuel costs to be burn to travel the wedding flowers. Try to use organic wedding flowers to reduce the use of pesticides.

Serve dishes on a reusable and washable plates, spoons, and glasses. Thereby, we reduce the amount of natural resources to go to waste. If it is impossible to use reusable and washable plates, spoons, and glasses, the easily biodegradable plates, spoons, and glasses are excellent alternative.

There are caterers who specialize in organic dishes. Using only organic ingredients, the chef or cook creates the appetizing dishes for the wedding reception to enjoy. The organic wines, spirits, champagne, beer, soft drinks, and juices will quench the thirst of the guests.

Toss only biodegradable wedding toss such as paper, nuts, wheat, and rice. The nuts, wheat, and rice will feed the birds, and squirrels. Go on ecotourism for honeymoon. The ecotourism is also known as ecological tourism. Experience the adventure local culture, wilderness, flora, and fauna. Ecotourism promotes recycle of biodegradable materials, efficient use of energy, and conservation of water supply, rebuild of forest, evaluation of local culture, reduction of waste, education of ecosystem, reproduction of endanger species, and reversal of global warming.

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