Day: July 17, 2009

Towards sustainability: going solar

Monday, September 28, 2009 / Sustainable development / 1 Comment

For the seventh part of this series – and after having tackled heating, electricity, water, transport, food and waste – I guess it is time for us to see how solar energies can benefit our lives. I mention solar energies as there are three possibilities : passive solar applications, which are the most basic, solar …

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Latest news from the Arctic

Friday, July 17, 2009 / Climate change / Leave a Comment

It has been a while I haven’t written anything on the Arctic. According to Bloomberg: “A Manhattan-sized chunk of ice may break away from a glacier in northwestern Greenland and fall into the sea within about two months.” Furthermore, to Reuters a US governmental agency released hundreds of highly detailed pictures of the Arctic quickly …

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