Culture Change: More vital news from Germany: besides the creation of a car free city (Vauban), Chancellor Merkel is holding Obama’s feet to the fire to do more to halt greenhouse-gas emissions — even as she faces domestic protest regarding sacrosanct coal power. Germany’s entire society enjoys a better quality of life than the U.S. thanks to generous vacations while using half the energy per capita used by U.S. citizens. But all is not well in Germany due to economic and demographic stress combined …