Just as Marguerite was complaining on her blog about the waste lying on the beautiful beaches of Hawaii, the United Nations are launching this week-end an initiative to tackle the problem. Indeed, today’s is the sixteenth Clean Up the World week-end and events are organized by the UN in over a hundred countries and is […]
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Today’s is the international day for the protection of the ozone layer. It is the occasion to celebrate the little shield above our heads that enabled life to appear on this planet. For this special day, the UN Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki Moon, wrote a most interesting article on why the protection of our
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According to the Daily Green, the US Congress should renew as soon as possible its tax credit for renewable energy companies and this for four different reasons. From high oil prices to the unemployment rate and from climate change to the unrest of some oil producing regions, there are several grounds for us to want
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After more than 19 months of writing on a blog called Sustainable development and much more, I just realized I never explained what exactly is sustainable development. Basically this term is about three intertwined things (see left): the environment, the society and the economy. This is written with a decreasing order of importance . In
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Last summer I wrote about how the WWF wanted partakers to the Beijing Olympics to offset their emissions as they traveled. I didn’t think about offsets anymore until today. But several things including a lengthy reflection, a post in the Business of Green blog and a comic strip from Climate Change Action drove me to
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For the past few months, I have been reading about this video without never watching it. After a comment on La Marguerite Blog, I decided to do so. In 20 minutes or so, I learned a lot about the true cost and life cycle of the stuff we buy year after year and how this
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According to a study carried out by IBM’s Institute for Business Value – Automotive 2020: Clarity Beyond the Chaos – and quoted by EcoGeek, all cars may be hybrid by 2020. This is reinforced by the fact that Toyota, the leading car maker and producer of the global success Prius (pictured left), has previously stated
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With the prices of raw materials and oil going up the roof, recycling becomes increasingly interesting. By reading Green with a gun I found some most interesting data on that topic. Kyle quotes there a great article from The Times and give us as well more note worthy data and thoughts. This reminds me that
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This week takes place in Stockholm the world water week. This is the occasion for me to focus on this vital resource for both Nature and Mankind. This is even more interesting as water scarcity crises are more and more frequent at a global level and as nearly half of the world population (2.6 billion
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It had been some time I hadn’t written about a UNEP project that is due to make our planet a better place. This time, the organization is targeting bees and other pollinating species. Indeed, they are threatened in many ways – from pesticides to habitat loss and degradation – as I was reporting it a
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