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Towards sustainability, a series of lifestyle tips
Posted by: on December 19, 2008 in Tags: blog, lifestyle, Sustainable development
2009 is due to be in many countries a recession year. This makes it the perfect occasion to embrace the tenets of sustainable development and consume less energy, water and so on.
This will save you money, preserve our environment and make you live a fitter life. A bright prospect called Towards sustainability, it is the title of the series of articles I will publish in 2009.
Each month you will find tips on a specific topic such as heating, water, transport… If that sounds exciting, please feel free to subscribe to read these articles. Continue reading »
One month to Christmas: green gifts ideas
Posted by: on November 25, 2008 in Tags: lifestyle, Sustainable development
In exactly one month it will be Christmas and it is most likely you will offer stuff to your loved ones. However you may be looking for something more environmentally friendly than the usual.
The Daily Green proposes us a list of more than a hundred ideas that will cover all possible needs and persons. From the green guru to the newbie or the kid, it is most likely you will find the right one.
If you want to offer a fantastic book on sustainable development, I recommend you Collapse by Jared Diamond. It will provide hours of most interesting reading. Read my review there.
You perhaps don’t know it but swimming is by far my favorite sport. This is to the point that I seriously consider having one day my own pool to daily swim a kilometer of breaststroke.
One of the problems faced by swimming pools - besides using a lot of water, an increasingly scarce resource - is the extensive use of potentially harmful chemicals like chlorine.
But the Daily Green provides us with great data and pictures on natural swimming pools, an alternative to their traditional counterparts. Continue reading »
Are carbon offsets a good idea ?
Posted by: on September 9, 2008 in Tags: Climate change, lifestyle, Sustainable development
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 write again on this topic.
My opinion hasn’t changed. People should decrease by themselves their greenhouse gases emissions. But offsets could be part of the solution for companies. Continue reading »
The story of stuff… a mandatory video ?
Posted by: on August 27, 2008 in Tags: Environment, lifestyle, Sustainable development, Video
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 excessive phenomenon endangers our planet and very survival.
I don’t agree with everything stated by Annie Leonard, but I believe nonetheless that it should be watched by all to better grasp the consequences of consumerism. Continue reading »
I remember that Meryn once stated that slow was a keyword of our future. It seems he was right as Treehugger published a most interesting article on that phenomenon.
With slow food, homes, cities, travels, flying (!), design, fashion and cars, my guess is that taking one’s time will indeed be a cool green thing in the quite near future.
The great thing with going slowly is that you consume less energy, and thus emit less greenhouse gases. A very nice idea. Continue reading »
