On July 15th, the French Capital city launched an interesting public service that enables people to rent bikes to go from on point to another. This program, called Velib (a contraction of vélo, bike and Liberté, freedom) will comprise by the of the year more than 20,500 bikes dispatched in around 1,400 stations. Velib proves …
The World Wild Fund for Nature is encouraging the 10,000 athletes that will compete at the 2008 Olympic Games of Beijing to offset their carbon dioxide emissions. Each of all these athletes is due to emit an average of four tonnes of CO2 by flying to the host city. To what can be added the …
Brazil, the leading South American economy, plans to enrich uranium and to build possibly a new nuclear plant in order to answer to the local growing electricity demand. Last year Brazil achieved oil self-sufficiency and is now willing to launch a whole uranium enrichment program, in order to manage totally this part of the nuclear …
Sometimes, among the daily bad news, reasons to hope afloat. For instance today, the fact that the Aral sea is back after having been emptied by years of folly. This news were brought to me by the French daily Le Monde, a local paper called the Concord Monitor and the World Bank. This is indeed …
Last week, the French weekly Challenges translated a very interesting article from the magazine The Economist. It handled the climate change approach of the most populated US State with its nearly 36 million inhabitants. The Golden State alone would be the eighth world economic power. California is often mentioned as an example in the fight …
Selon un article publié hier sur le site du Figaro : “L’achat d’équipements destinés à récupérer l’eau de pluie pour un usage domestique donne droit à un crédit d’impôt de 25% des dépenses investies.” “(…) Ainsi, une famille de quatre personnes qui consomme en moyenne 120 m3 peut économiser 70 m3 d’eau potable par an. …
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The International Energy Agency (IEA) released on Monday a study on the middle term market for oil. According to the Financial Times and Les Echos, the oil prices aren’t due to decrease between 2007 and 2012. According to the FT : “In its starkest warning yet on the world’s fuel outlook, the International Energy Agency …
After a little bit more than six months of blogging, here is the hundredth article. This will be the occasion for me to show the evolution of this blog. At first, I was using a totally different theme for this blog. But as it wasn’t really satisfying me, I switched to Praca Redux I still …
I must be the last person interested by ecology and climate change to write about THE event of this week-end. The Live Earth concerts, which will be held tomorrow around the world (in New York, London, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg, Shanghai, Hamburg, Tokyo and Sidney) are due to “ trigger a global movement to solve …
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Le mois de Juin fut assez riche en évènements au niveau écologique. Vous trouverez ici un résumé des articles que j’ai publié ce mois-ci sur ce site. On notera notamment que le gouvernement fédéral américain commence à changer de position vis à vis du changement climatique et que les émissions de CO2 ont légèrement diminué …
