Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Umweltschutz beginnt im Kleinen
English translation:
Going green starts with the small things
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Laurina
Aug 13, 2007 21:17
17 yrs ago
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German term
Umweltschutz beginnt im Kleinen
German to English
Bus/Financial
Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
environment
This occurs as a heading in a company brochure. In the text which follows, it is explained how the company in question does its bit for the environment by providing environmentally friendly technology for use in process engineering workflows.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how this heading could be translated?
By the way, I didn't choose "Envinroment/ecology" as the specific field for this expression as it doesn't involve specialized terminology. I hope that's OK.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how this heading could be translated?
By the way, I didn't choose "Envinroment/ecology" as the specific field for this expression as it doesn't involve specialized terminology. I hope that's OK.
Proposed translations
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Change log
Aug 14, 2007 09:36: Steffen Walter changed "Field" from "Other" to "Bus/Financial"
Aug 27, 2007 10:03: Steffen Walter changed "Field (specific)" from "General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters" to "Idioms / Maxims / Sayings"
Proposed translations
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Going green starts with the small things
Peer comment(s):
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Dr. Fred Thomson
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Steven Sidore
: terrific
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Siegfried Armbruster
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earthreptile
: or "with small steps."
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Andrej
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Mihaela Boteva
3 hrs
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Katarina Peters
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Ingeborg Gowans (X)
: good!
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Nicole Schnell
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Hilary Davies Shelby
: I am wondering if this suggests that they are not doing very much?//This is true, the German has the sense of "start small" too!
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Translators work with the texts as supplied. (Unless, of course, your name is Francis Lee and your clients give you carte blanche.)
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks! I have used your suggestion."
39 mins
Janis Auzins
Native in: Latvian 
Works in: English to Latvian, Russian to English, Latvian to English, and 23 more.
Environment protection is introduced in Bad Kleinen
Joke.
Peer comment(s):
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Katarina Peters
: Even as a joke, what on earth is this??//Ach so, Bad Kleinen! Very funny...
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What? It's a real place
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jccantrell
United States
United States
Native in English
United States
Was nicht ist, kann noch werden.
Native in: English (Variant: US) 
Works in: German to English
Related KudoZ points
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Think globally, act locally
Sounds like that is what they are trying to say. This slogan is pretty common here in the USA and refers to mostly environmental issues.
Peer comment(s):
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Rebecca Garber
: Good for the US. Doesn't exactly mirror the German, but works for marketing.
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Hilary Davies Shelby
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Helping others to help the environment
Based on "providing environmentally friendly technology" for other companies.
Nothing wrong with Andrew's suggestion - but there's no absolute need to mirror the German.
Windsave also won the Green Heroes 2006 award by the Green Organisation for "helping others to help the environment".
http://www.yorkshire-forward.com/www/view.asp?content_id=353...
Nothing wrong with Andrew's suggestion - but there's no absolute need to mirror the German.
Windsave also won the Green Heroes 2006 award by the Green Organisation for "helping others to help the environment".
http://www.yorkshire-forward.com/www/view.asp?content_id=353...
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