Today’s major event is the Nobel Peace Prize, which goes to the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and to Al Gore, for their tireless work on raising the public awareness on man-made climate change. This recognizes in perhaps the best possible way that global warming has to be fought against. The Nobel Committee was …
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Ce mois-ci fut pour moi l’occasion d’écrire en Français plus que d’habitude et de proposer un long article sur les émissions de gaz à effet de serre selon la source d’énergie utilisée. Les principaux évènements furent la réunion des pays de la région Asie Pacifique (APEC) et les préparatifs au sein des Nations Unies des …
For this month’s cultural break – with some late, again – I would like to talk to you about the latest Pixar animation movie, Ratatouille. I had the opportunity and pleasure to see it two weeks ago with Qat and his family. The least I can say is that we really enjoyed it. From the …
After nearly three days, this blog is back on the web, and fully working. As I upgraded to the newest WordPress 2.3 version, I took the opportunity to improve some things. This is done in order to allow you to browse this blog in a more comfortable, and to find quicker the data you are …
This week-end was held in Slovenia the seventh European Symposium for the protection of the night sky. This is the occasion to have a look at the lightning of our cities at night. As more lights mean more greenhouse gases emissions, we will have to reduce the amount of lightning to fight climate change. The …
Fifty years ago, on October fourth, 1957, the first human-made satellite begun its orbiting around our planet. This was a major event as it launched a race to space between the two super powers of this era, the United States and the USSR. (now the Russian Federation). The image of the day by the NASA …
I have been reading and enjoying for some months the Business of green blog from the IHT. The RSS feeds of this blog are displayed on my sidebar. Today I was reading their latest article “Do low energy light bulbs work?” and I felt like giving my humble opinion on that matter and posted a …
Last night Arte, a Franco-German TV network, broadcast a documentary on two buildings in Karlsruhe, Germany, which comprise 64 apartments for low income people. The goal of this show was to demonstrate that energy efficiency and renewable energies can be implemented quite easily to collective housings. A very important thing was that the costs couldn’t …
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Last week, the United States announced that they are willing to mitigate global warming by setting voluntary goals. Meanwhile many countries – including the European Union – met within the United Nations to tackle the future of the Kyoto Protocol. So is it good or bad news ? As we will see in this article, …
