Welcome to Petite Planète Translations!

 
 

Craig Morris, M.A. directs the translation service. Born in New Orleans, he studied at universities in the US, France and Germany and taught at universities in the US and Germany, most recently as a lecturer for translation courses at the University of Freiburg from 1993-1998. Since then, he has been working full-time as a translator. He also covers environmental and energy issues and policies of the EU/US as a journalist. Some of his translations in the field of IT are published each workday at heise online, where he also publishes occasional reports. His work has also appeared in neue energie / New Energy, Refocus, Solar Today, Development and Cooperation, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Photon.

 

Maria Müller has a degree in technical translations from the University of Germersheim for English, Spanish, and French. After several years at a company in Munich, she switched to freelance work in 1992 and has since been working mainly for publishers and industry. She specializes in IT and telecommunications technology. In addition to translations, Ms Müller also creates market research reports, supports customers in copy editing, content revision, quality assurance, and the localization of multilingual content. She also writes articles and press reports on IT and telecommunications issues.

 

What Petite Planète offers:

  • Professional, high-quality translations using the latest translation tools.
  • The News site featuring articles and information on environmental issues and the latest technological innovations in the field of renewable energy. One special feature is the series of articles published in German at telepolis under the title Zukunftsenergien (Energy of the Future). The book Zukunftsenergien was published in March 2005 by Germany's premier new technologies publisher Heise Verlag based on this series.
  • An English edition localized for North American readers was published in August 2006 as Energy Switch.
  • In September 2006, Craig Morris edited a one-off magazine on energy conservation for consumers in German.

Special fields:

  • Energy, especially renewable forms (wind, micro-hydro, PV, solar thermal, biomass)
  • Mechanical engineering
  • Sustainable development
  • IT / Internet / telecommunications
  • Business, economics (contracts, annual financial reports, etc.)
  • Marketing
  • Botany / forestry

What does "Petite Planète" stand for?

Worldwide networking via the Internet allows us to work with associates in foreign countries. There is growing awareness that our planet is small and that we are all part of the whole, larger picture. Energy supply is crucial in this respect: energy consumption will continue to increase, even while resources and fossil energy sources are exhausted. And then there are the climate changes due to pollution. It is time to promote the development and implementation of new energy technologies and save energy.