Sustainable development

Al Gore’s new plan : the WE campaign

It made the headlines of several US environmental blogs, Al Gore launched a $300 million advertisement campaign due to raise awareness on climate change. Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection indeed launched a three year campaign named We can solve it. Its ” ultimate aim is to halt global warming. ” With already over a …

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Skysails in action…

Some of you perhaps remember my article on Skysails, a towing kite for cargo shipping that enables to cut oil consumption by 10 to 35 percent. Well, the company released a video on Youtube that gives further explanations on this system, and the least I can say is that I find it totally great. I …

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UN tackling environment crime

The United Nations Environment Program released late last week an interesting article on what they call environment crime. Under this term, one refers to various things such as pollution of both air and water, the disposal of hazardous waste, as well as the trade of endangered species. All this increases the threats both Earth and …

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WordPress 2.5 released: blog updated in a blink

A new version of WordPress – the publishing system behind this website – have been released today and brings several improvements and changes over the older version As I just upgraded this blog, I will give here my comments on this new version and the ease it was for me to back up my files …

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Terra Economica – mars 2008

Au sommaire de Terra Economica ce mois-ci, on peut lire entre autres une série d’articles très intéressante sur l’isolation des bâtiments en France. Un sujet passionnant pour moi depuis que je m’ intéresse à ce sujet primordial depuis la rédaction de mon mémoire de Master. Terra Economica prouve encore ce mois-ci qu’un autre monde, plus …

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The three topics of the UNEP meeting in Monaco

The members of the United Nations Environment Program meet this week in the Principality of Monaco and many subjects were discussed about. From the launch of the Climate Neutral Network to the importance of climate change on marine life or the emerging green economy, there were very interesting news. I tackle below all these topics …

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Résumé de Janvier 2008

Le mois de Janvier 2008 fut assez riche en nouvelles spectaculaires au niveau de la lutte contre le changement climatique et le secteur de l’énergie. Je retiendrais de ce mois le fait que le prix du baril a atteint les 100 dollars dès le début de l’année et que l’Arctique fond plus vite que prévu. …

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Investing massively in climate change mitigation

By reading Al Gore’s blog, I came to a very interesting fact. Investors are more and more interested in projects that are due to mitigate climate change. As I was reporting earlier this month, renewable energies are witnessing a real boom of private investments and it seems it is only the beginning. I discovered while …

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Keeping on decreasing CO2 emissions by using the train

As I noted in the previous post, I have been lately quite a lot in trains to go to Paris and Besançon for my job research and leisure. Using the train enabled me to avoid the emissions of nearly 240 kilograms of carbon dioxide as if I had been going by car. I have to …

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Toward a new golden age for nuclear energy ?

I was relating earlier that renewable energies are witnessing a boom worldwide. It seems that nuclear energy might also face the same phenomenon with climate change mitigation. Nuclear has a seriously bad reputation for some ecologists, and this even if it is the second lowest greenhouse gases emitting energy solution. But with the crises of …

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