Sustainable development

Worth an article: my January 2009 tweets

Since I don’t have that much time to blog, I restrain myself to publishing here around 25 articles per month. However, many more great news are worth reading and blogging about. My goal being to provide you with the latest headlines and best researches on sustainable development, climate change and the world energy sector , …

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A US green New Deal ?

The brand new Obama Administration is more than willing to tackle the climate energy issue and it looks like a real green New Deal may occur very soon in the United States. After South Korea and Japan,  it seems that the United Nations’ advices are being heard by the world’s largest economy as no less …

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The many advantages of biking

TreeHugger recently wrote  a compelling article on the benefits of biking and I couldn’t resist sharing it with you, even less with such a brilliant illustration. Indeed, if the brightest mind of the 20th century rode one, why shouldn’t we ? Among the benefits are weight lost, slowed breathing and lower amounts of stress. Now …

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Food shortages to threaten half Mankind by 2100

According to a new study carried out by the University of Washington half of world’s population could face a food crisis by 2100. This may occur as rising temperatures would decrease crops yields in the tropics and subtropics. This is most worrying as the populations in these regions are growing at the fastest rate and …

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Trains, a brilliant solution for the 21st century

It seems that trains and other mass transit systems have a bright future in front of them. As climate change and energy scarcity increase, alternatives to cars and planes are sought. What if a new generation of trains could help in solving both problems ? TreeHugger dedicated lately a certain amount of articles to such …

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2008 in a nutshell

With some late I would like to propose you today a selection of my favorite articles published here in 2008. Since I wrote almost 250, selecting less than 50 of them was very hard. Last year was literally packed with stunning scientific discoveries and great initiatives – both global and local – to increase the …

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Towards sustainability: heating

Here is as planned my first article towards sustainability. Since heating is behind an important part of the energy consumption of buildings, this is where we begin. As insulation is quasi inexistent in most constructions they can be considered as thermal colanders. (expression coined by the French energy and environment Minister, Jean-Louis Borloo). So this …

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Certified Chinese forest reaches million hectares

According to a press release from the WWF a conservation program reached the mark of one million hectares of forests in China being certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). This is done to fight the important local illegal logging and improve the management of forests as they represent a strong defense against climate change …

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A 38 billion USD green New Deal for South Korea

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)  has been advocating for a global green New Deal to restart our economies and I reported that they are not the only ones to think the same. It seems that there is at least one country so far that listened to their voices and started to implement such a …

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Toward a new world war because of climate change? Part II

This is not exactly hot news as I already wrote more than a year ago about how the United Nations believe this to be true, but a new study brings further credence to this theory. Climate change and its many consequences such as decreasing snow amounts, rising sea levels and millions of refugees could become …

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