With a week late, I propose you my monthly cultural break which features today the famous anime series Cowboy Bebop. Two months ago, I was reviewing Cowboy Bebop the Movie and I wrote a laudatory article on it. At the end, I was mentioning my buying of the series limited edition box set. I had […]
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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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The United Nations met last week in Vienna and agreed on recognizing the target set by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). They thus made the first step toward action. The target agreed upon mentions a decrease of 25 to 40 percent of global greenhouse gases by 2020. This meeting was preparing the Bali
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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.
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Le journal Les Echos a publié la semaine dernière un article alarmant à propos des abeilles. Un phénomène d’importance du fait que ces insectes sont à la base de la pollinisation de 80 % des plantes dont nous avons besoin pour notre alimentation quotidienne. Il est ainsi vital de se préoccuper de façon sérieuse au
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Some time ago, I added to the sidebar the RSS feeds of the Business of green blog, from the IHT. It recently asked a question, what should the aviation industry do in order to limit its greenhouse gases emissions ? A question of importance, as air transportation is increasing in importance and so do its
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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
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My Belgian friend Qat recently wrote on his blog an interesting article on the forthcoming generation of photovoltaïc captors. These new solar technology is due to have a yield of 40 percent, a huge improvement as the current ones have a yield of “only” 17 percent. This news was originally reported by the magazine of
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