As I just finished this book from the renowned founder of the Earth Policy Institute, I will give you my review of what I consider an essential reading on environmentalism. I consider it a must read as it brings not only solutions to most problems our Planet and Mankind are facing, but also hope for […]
Review of Plan B 2.0 by Lester R Brown Read More »
I read this month The Revenge of Gaïa, the latest book from one of the major ecological thinkers of our time, Dr. James Lovelock. This book is not optimistic as the author believes it is already too late to work on sustainable development and that we have to operate a sustainable retreat. I truly enjoyed
The Revenge of Gaïa by James Lovelock Read More »
As we are now near Christmas, and as I am willing to do a best of of what I read in the past months, I will outline in today’s article my favourite readings of 2007. From science fiction and comic books, to serious readings on sustainable development and astrophotography, I recommend you a dozen articles,
My selection of books I read in 2007 Read More »
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
Collapse, how societies choose to fail or succeed Read More »
This month I re-read The mysterious island, a fantastic book by French XIXth century author, Jules Verne. This is about six Northerns prisoners that flee Richmond during the American Civil War. Their escape is done by balloon and brings them to an inhabited island lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The book tells
The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne Read More »
Comme je l’avais promis à certains de mes amis, voici le commentaire du livre qui selon moi doit être lu par toute personne qui s’intéresse au changement climatique et/ou à la future crise pétrolière. Cet ouvrage, intitulé “Le plein s’il vous plaît” fut écrit par Jean-Marc Jancovici et Alain Grandjean et fut publié en février
Commentaire du livre Le plein s’il vous plait Read More »
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.
A cultural break – May 2007 Read More »
I have been reading for the past four months a great space opera book by Vernor Vinge, A deepness in the sky. It indeed took me some time to finish it, but it is one of the best, if not the very best Sci-Fi book I ever read so far. As I just finished it,
A deepness in the sky, by Vernor Vinge Read More »
Perhaps you noted the appearance since last Sunday of a new tab in the navigation bar above. The part, between About and Data enables me to be a little bit more personal on this website, that is my homepage and blog.
New tab in the navigation bar Read More »
During my previous cultural break I was writing about a European “bandes dessinées”. This month, I would like to write on my favorite comics series, Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. As I bought last week The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, I would like to drop a few lines to show you how GREAT this
A cultural break – March 2007 Read More »
