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Friday 26 October 2007

Grenelle de l'environnement

French president ended up thursday the Grenelle de l'environnement which was a meeting with climate experts, NGO representatives, industry leaders... Its purpose was to try to elaborate an action plan together to fight against global warming. This may result in France to a series of useful measures, despite what we could be afraid of.

Recently awarded Nobel Prize, Al Gore suggested to organize a Worldwide Grenelle to fight this climate crisis.

Friday 21 September 2007

Love Earth

A new movie showing how rich is Nature will be in theatres on October 10th: Earth.

Elephants

Here is the link to the movie website.

Wednesday 22 August 2007

Honeybees' death = Human disappearing?

Currently, I regularly buy an economical newspaper, Les Echos. This monday, I read an article that completely amazed me. Its title was La mort des abeilles met la planète en danger (bees' death puts in jeopardy the planet). When I read it, I understood that the author was mentioning living species instead of the entire Earth.

According to quoted figures, between 60 and 90% of honeybees have disappeared in the United States, between 15 and 95% in France. This phenomenon is called colony collapse disorder. Bees go missing... 80% of vegetal species need honeybees for reproduction purposes though. Without them, no pollination, no fruits, no vegetables... If we want to focus on mankind, what will we eat? Broadly speaking, this means less vegetation, therefore less animals as well... The article mentions that Einstein had already pointed ou our dependancy towards bees.

There are several explanations for the colony collapse disorder. However no one is really sure which ones are right. This article (in French for the ones who understand and a similar one in English) should help us understand our relationship with the Nature and our obligation to protect the planet.

Saturday 11 November 2006

Quick press review on environmental articles

While the 12th International conference on climate is helding at Nairobi, press has recently offered us some interesting articles on this topic. Here are the ones I have found interesting...

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Thursday 12 October 2006

A movie to recommend: An Inconvenient Truth

Yesterday, with Anaïs and two friends, I watched An Inconvenient Truth. This movie is about global warming and I highly recommend it!

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