PUBLIC MARKS with tag ecologie

Réchauffement climatique et mondialisation aidant, la circulation incontrôlée d'insectes se multiplie. Une étude coordonnée par l'INRA a montré que, sur la période 2000-2007, en moyenne 19 espèces nouvelles d'invertébrés, essentiellement des insectes, s'établissent en Europe chaque année. Le phénomène est en augmentation, puisque sur la période 1950-1975, le rythme d'immigration était estimé à une dizaine d'espèces par an.

Environment Minister Erik Solheim has proposed a new state regulation that forbids shopping centers larger than 3,000 square meters (nearly 100,000 square feet) from being built along highways in suburban areas.

We may not be living on a fertile world, an optimal environment for life; maybe we live on the galactic equivalent of a barren weed strewn city lot.

Congressman Bartlett and Peak Oil Revisited [Part 1]

Rendue publique le 2 juin, une enquête interne de la NASA a cependant conclu que "le département des affaires publiques du quartier général de la NASA avait traité le sujet du changement climatique de manière à réduire, marginaliser ou distordre les résultats des sciences du climat".

Eliminating paper tickets will save the equivalent of 50,000 mature trees each year and save the airline industry up to USD 3 billion annually.

LILYPAD is touted by Callebaut as a prototypical auto-sufficient amphibious city... a tenable solution to the rising water levels. In addition to providing housing for those displaced by the transforming land/water relationships, LILYPAD also produces sustainable energy for developed regions.

Interesting project. I'm always a bit worried with super structures which are not made of loosely joint small pieces in an organic way. Dinosaurs have disappeared because they were massive structure. In Malaysia, right now, there are big building towers not finished, massive concrete skeleton because of the turn down of the economy a few years ago.

Massive things get eroded like others, but the issue is that they are very hard to fix or remove when things go wrong. The superstructure itself is not sustainable.

TOKYO, June 2 - Japan's postal services system is looking to switch its entire fleet of about 21,000 short-distance delivery vehicles to zero-emission electric cars starting this business year, it said on Monday. "We're discussing the feasibility with automakers and battery makers to that end," said a spokesman at Japan Post Service Co, the mail delivery unit of Japan Post Group.

Japan Post will start switching all its 21,000 cars to electric vehicles this fiscal year to escape higher gasoline prices, the Nikkei newspaper reported today, without saying where it got the information.