Chron.com 29 December 2011.

FELDHEIM, Germany (AP) — This tiny village in a wind-swept corner of eastern Germany seems an unlikely place for a revolution.

Yet environmentalists, experts and politicians from El Salvador to Japan to South Africa have flocked here in the past year to learn how Feldheim, with just 145 people, is already putting into practice Germany’s vision of a future powered entirely by renewable energy…

http://www.chron.com/news/article/All-eyes-on-German-renewable-energy-efforts-2430375.php