I have been reading and enjoying for some months the Business of green blog from the IHT. The RSS feeds of this blog are displayed on my sidebar. Today I was reading their latest article “Do low energy light bulbs work?” and I felt like giving my humble opinion on that matter and posted a …
Last night Arte, a Franco-German TV network, broadcast a documentary on two buildings in Karlsruhe, Germany, which comprise 64 apartments for low income people. The goal of this show was to demonstrate that energy efficiency and renewable energies can be implemented quite easily to collective housings. A very important thing was that the costs couldn’t …
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Last week, the United States announced that they are willing to mitigate global warming by setting voluntary goals. Meanwhile many countries – including the European Union – met within the United Nations to tackle the future of the Kyoto Protocol. So is it good or bad news ? As we will see in this article, …
I added last week a new feature to this website. This will enable you to keep reading this blog more easily. These three buttons which are now located in the Meta section of the sidebar under the line RSS feeds. If you are using a particular RSS reader like Netvibes or Google you can now …
Le secteur des transports est une des principales sources d’émission de dioxyde de carbone, il est donc important de trouver des solutions dans ce domaine. Alors quand Citroën présente lors du salon de l’automobile de Francfort un prototype qui émet moins de 80 g de CO2 par km, la nouvelle ne peut qu’être saluée. La …
This month’s astronomy article is on yesterday’s APOD (Astronomy Picture Of the Day) by the NASA. It features one of the most famous constellations, Cygnus. The star on the top of the image is Deneb, the brightest of this area and one of the three that constitutes the Summer Triangle. The full image is as …
The European Union will give a minimum of 50 million € (and up to 300 million) between 2008 and 2010 to developing countries. This will be done in order to enable these countries to cope with climate change related events and to reduce both local poverty and greenhouse gases emissions. Actions will notably include the …
The Blacksmith Institute, an environmental NGO from the United States, released this month a report on the 30 most polluted places on Earth. Of the top ten, two are located in China, two in India, two in Russia and another two in the former Soviet bloc. Among the locations is Chernobyl in Ukraine. As we …
Comme je l’annonçais précédemment, je voulais faire depuis le début de ce blog un article sur les émissions de gaz à effet de serre selon les différentes sources d’énergie. Afin d’être le plus impartial que possible, j’ai décidé d’utiliser trois différentes sources d’information. (MAJ le 18/09/07) Alors, quelle est la solution qui émet le plus …
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C’est le titre du dossier de Terra Economica ce mois-ci. M’étant enfin abonné à la version papier de ce fantastique magazine j’ai pu lire l’intégralité de cet article. 10 raisons d’espérer ? Oui car la prise de conscience prend lieu et la situation bouge dans le bon sens dans de nombreux domaines. Terra Economica le …
