The Indian conglomerate Tata is launching today the world cheapest car, the Nano. For the equivalent of 1,700 € (or 2,500 USD), Tata proposes a very energy efficient car. With a mileage of 70 miles per gallon (4 litres for 100 km), this car have a huge market potential as only seven million Indians own …
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Albeit the fact I consider myself as an ecologist and took various actions to decrease my greenhouse gases emissions, I never really did any calculations of my impact. But the New year’s day brought me an opportunity to have a look at my CO2 emissions as I went to Nancy by train and I avoided …
This is perhaps the most serious and most worrying news of the beginning of the year as Canada reported last year the most important ice melting ever witnessed. According to the WWF, summer sea ice in the arctic could disappear within six years, much faster than previously thought about. Temperatures at the poles rise much …
2008 will see many new records for oil prices as already yesterday the price did hit $100 per barrel at the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX). This represents both a record price and a psychological barrier as never before did the prices hit these levels. During the two oil shocks, the record was of $90.46. …
First and foremost I would like to wish you all a happy new year 2008. Hope this year will be great for you and full of good news in environmental topics. I begun this blog a year ago and wrote last year 200 articles and plan to write the same amount this year, so have …
