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 …
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 US Department of Energy recently released a 30-second TV advertisement featuring Pixar’s latest film, Ratatouille. This video urges people to turn to low consumption light bulbs and to a more energy efficient living in order “to power and secure America’s future”. I really liked this advertisement as the goal it is aiming at is …
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This was the question David Straham asked himself on his blog. I already talked about him when I reviewed his oil depletion atlas. (cf. Peak oil is near… around 2015 ! ) Unlike what one might think, the depletion of oil resources aren’t due to solve global warming, but is more likely to increase it. …
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Yesterday I added to the sidebar a few links that will allow you to find some reliable information on most energy sources. I propose here some of my bookmarks which give me an overview of the global energy market, renewable energies and nuclear power. In this article I give some explanations and comments on them. …
Everybody loves super heroes and personally I am quite partial to Wolverine. (indeed, what is cooler than a nearly invincible mutant ?) Now here comes Jiffy, a super hero created by the European Union in order to raise awareness on energy, water, earth and air issues. People via the Jiffy’s Eco-Quiz can test their knowledge …
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The book I review today is an excellent one on history, geography and sustainable development. Dr. Jared Diamond’s idea when writing it was to compile facts and figures about societies’ collapses and failures. This is done in order to allow us not to repeat the same mistakes done by the Maya, the Vikings in Greenland …
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The Astronomy Picture of the Day by the NASA is my daily meeting with the sky, its billions stars, galaxies and other nebulae. Most of the time, the images are just great. Today’s photo features the Tarantula Nebula and is really jaw-breaking. It was taken by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), located in Chile. You …
As I mentioned it there, the Chinese government is planting billion of trees. It seems that similar projects are under way in India and elsewhere. According to the United Nations Environment Program more than 10 million trees were planted on July 31st by 600,000 people in Uttar Pradesh. As deforestation accounts for a fifth of …
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