A major, major step forward

These are the words of British Premier Tony Blair on what was achieved concerning climate change at the G8. Indeed, the leaders of the G8 agreed on halving greenhouse gases emissions by 2050.

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The Green Wall of China

When the Chinese government has an idea, it goes forward fast and in a gigantic manner. So, in order to hold back the Gobi desert – a very important issue for cities like Beijing – the local government decided to plant million trees during the next 70 years. The Gobi Desert, extends itself from Southern

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Australia may be interested by nuclear energy

Yesterday on Le Figaro was a very interesting article pertaining to the Australian government’s interest for the cleanest energy source regarding greenhouse gases.

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Climate change at the G8 meeting this week

As you surely read or saw, the eight main world economies are meeting this week in Germany. One of the main topics is due to be climate change.

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En Français. Résumé du mois de mai 2007

Durant les premiers jours de chaque mois, je ferais à partir de maintenant un petit résumé des articles que j’ai publié le mois précédent pour vous permettre de voir les avancées dans les domaines climatiques et écologiques.

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A cultural break – May 2007

The book I will talk about this month was in my shopping list for some time and tackles astronomy in a very interesting way. I was mesmerized by the photos proposed.

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elrst.com is back, for good

If you wanted to access this website between last Thursday and this morning, you noticed it wasn’t properly working. As I just brought back my articles, everything is as brand new again.

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My choice of stabilization wedges

Pr. Socolow and Pacala, in their stabilization wedges theory and their website ( the Climate Mitigation Initiative ) invite people to pick up their own wedges to create their own solution. I chose mine and explain my choices.

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On Stabilization Wedges Theory – Details & comments

As I wrote on this post, I will give today the details on the 15 wedges as well as some general comments on the Stabilization Wedges Theory.

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A global response to cut the energy use of buildings

Read last week on IHT.com and in Le Figaro. Some of the world’s largest cities, with a few companies and banks are willing to decrease the energy consumption of large cities worldwide. This is indeed very good news.

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