Claus Kleber, one of the most popular TV news anchors in Germany and true anglofritzer, was sent out to Cali to do a piece about "America's other side - what California does better," which runs on ZDF tonight at 10.15 or watch it now in their mediathek.

Trends, lifestyle, progress: California shows the US and the world how it works. He takes a look at Stanford who bred Google and Apple; if you have 140.000 bucks or a scholarship of course. Silicon Valley gave the world the micro ship and personal computer.

A new green spirit is spreading in the Valley with a conservative governor, green is now profitable and gold for the West Coast. And it's especially pertinent for Cali, where the land has been exploited and water reservoirs are declining rapidly. It's slowly shaping the face of new American business. Investors who made money during the New Economy are looking for new ways to make cash. Remember the idea of free email? The power of ideas to bounce off open minded people who are willing to change and tackle challenges ahead has a unique dynamic there.

Growth needs to be sustainable though, also in the cities and architects are working on solutions that are already exported worldwide. The old American way of wasteful growth is dying. Do any US representatives in Bali know about this? Or that it might radically alter the dependence on oil or change hateful sentiments towards the States in the Middle East. Whoever thinks that there is only one American way à la Bush has few friends in California.

Kleber also took a visit to Buck's Restaurant, a meeting place for entrepreneurs and venture capitalists looking to change the world with technology. Others would argue that conservation is the more important side of coin, one that sounds all too familiar for Germans. And conservation can be fun too, take the electric Tesla, which costs you a conservative $98.000 or €66.000.