During my previous cultural break I was writing about a European “bandes dessinées”. This month, I would like to write on my favorite comics series, Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. As I bought last week The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, I would like to drop a few lines to show you how GREAT this […]
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After a week of work on the new design of this blog, I can say that most things I wanted to implement are already there. Off course, details like the navigation bar’s colours or the sidebar’s look itself need to be improved. There are still some minor bugs and corrections to bring, but to me
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Well, it has been a while I wanted to talk on water, scarcity and related topics. Water is a resource that we simply can’t live without. However, we use it more and more and not always in a good way. This article is due to give the main facts and figures for France.
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Last week a top member of the United Nations called Asia-Pacific countries to change their mode of economic growth in order to decrease the threat that the current one might lead to. If it was to continue, a growth at this rate might seriously endanger the countries themselves.
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As I wrote previously on this website an article on China and the pollution issues it is facing, I wanted to go deeper in this important problem. This is why I will exemplify with the case of the Hong Kong administrative region. Hong Kong (also known as HK) is a 6.9-million people urban area constituted
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In a previous post I was giving general information but not a lot of precise data. I take the opportunity here to give some more concerning carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. This summary reported a worsening in the climate change situation, and this for several reasons.
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Year 2006 broke several records for China. The first one is good news for this great country as its economic growth was of 10.7 percent, the most important for the past 15 years. The second one is very bad news as 2006 was the “darkest year” for pollution in the People’s Republic of China. The
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Due to computer hardware problems in my family (where I was staying last week) I haven’t been able to post my articles on Friday as I wanted. Their Hard Disk Drive crashed on Thursday morning and I do sincerely hope that they will be able to get their data back (and some of mine too
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The ADEME ( “Agence de l’Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l’Energie” ; or Agency for Environment and Energy Conservation ; an official body depending from the French ministries of Environment and Industry ; website ) urged last week French people to decrease their electricity consumption. This is done after that our country has seen
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I had time during the week-end to have a look at the summary for policymakers that was published last Friday by the IPCC specialists. This fourth report brings more precise data and reinforces the impression given by the third report that was published in 2001. During this time, climate specialists had time to study various
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