Al Gore, the former US Vice President and co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize with the IPCC, wants to take the opportunity of having a President that promotes change to repower America. To do so, he launched a new website and wrote a most interesting article in the New York Times which perfectly sums up […]
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The election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America represents to many people around the world a new hope on several topics including energy and climate change. He stated that we are living in “a Planet in peril”. This couldn’t be more true. Yet, with him at the White
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As the United States vote today to elect their next President – for a minimum of two hours on the East coast – a poll shows that Americans care more and more climate change mitigation. Brought to my attention by TreeHugger, this poll carried out by the Climate Group is encouraging as it notes that
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After several countries in Europe – Switzerland, Italy, the United Kingdom, France or Russia – it seems that the United States are also willing to build new nuclear plants. It is not entirely new as I was mentioning it earlier, but this times actual developments are witnessed. A most interesting article on Dot Earth sums
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Last weeks were horrendous for our financial institutions and economies. Many concerns arise in Europe and around the world over GDP growth which is due to be low in 2008 and 2009. What if building a greener and more sustainable world actually brought economic growth, millions of jobs and most important of all, hope of
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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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As I mentioned in a previous article, the US oil billionaire T Boone Pickens believes his country is the Saudi Arabia of wind energy. This may be true. But according to the Daily Green, America also has the potential of saving up to ten million barrels per day by doubling the fuel efficiency of all
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A short post to announce you that Marguerite published an article I wrote specifically for her blog. This is both a great pleasure and honor to see my humble work featured there. This occurs as her work is going up and up in the blogosphere as she begun writing for the Huffington Post. Her website
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Google is really interested in renewable energy sources. After putting millions in solar and wind energies, they are this time investing in harvesting the ground’s energy. Focusing this time on a specific technology called Enhanced Geothermal Sytems – EGS for short – Google is putting 10.25 million USD (7 million euros) on the table. EGS
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One of my favorite US environmental blog – The Daily Green – published today an interesting article with a lot of data on how Americans drive less and shift to smaller cars. With as much as 800,000 less barrels per day consumed in the first half of the year and decreasing miles driven for eight
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