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I avoided a tonne of CO2 emissions this year
Posted by: on December 29, 2008 in Tags: Climate change, Personal, Sustainable development
This year I avoided the emission of more than a tonne of carbon dioxide - more likely 1,500 kilograms - by simply taking the train on various occasions like business or leisure trips.
Fast trains in France - like the TGV on the left - are powered by electricity, which is 90% low carbon. Relatively reliable, it is a pleasure to use them and work while going at 360 km/h. (200mph)
Thus, using public transportation systems fights climate change. Decreasing CO2 emissions is easy, we will see it with my Towards Sustainability series. Continue reading »
Daryl Warner Laux at Verda Vivo tagged me. To the rule of the game, I have to publish the rules, tag seven people, and let you know seven things about me.
This is a first for me as I never indulged before in blogging games. But it is the occasion to give a little personal touch to this blog and to promote blogs I wouldn’t otherwise.
I hope you will enjoy this post and and find my selection interesting. I look forward to reading your comments. Continue reading »
How I avoided 200 kgs of CO2 emissions in ten days
Posted by: on July 4, 2008 in Tags: Climate change, Personal, transport
Two weeks ago I took some vacations and visited my family near Nancy. Additionally, I went to the renewable energies fair in Paris. It was also the opportunity for me to have a most interesting meeting.
All this brought me to travel up to 1,600 kilometers (approx. 1,000 miles). By choosing the train instead of my Toyota Yaris, I avoided the emissions of up to 208 kilograms of carbon dioxide.
With this travel, I am reaching a total reduction of 800 kilograms of CO2 this year. I plan to reach a minimum of a thousand five hundred kilograms in 2008. Continue reading »
Today, after less than a year and a half of writing, I am publishing my 300th post on this blog. This happens as my 200th article was published on January 2nd.
I would like to take the opportunity to share with you some thoughts I recently had on writing and the experience it represents.
This reflection will bring me to Art, Jeet Kun Do and to another subject which is more close to my favorite topic here : energy. Continue reading »
Toutes mes félicitations !
Posted by: on June 17, 2008 in Tags: Personal
All my warmest congratulations on my sister Caroline as she became today a Doctor in Pharmacy. This is a great event for our family and we are all very proud of her.
This is reinforced as the jury awarded her this PhD with the highest honors possible, very good. Her thesis defense was very interesting and very well presented.
I understood most of it, and this even if I am not of the trade thanks to her ability to explain technical data in an easy to understand way. Continue reading »
Hello and welcome to the brand new version of my blog which brings several improvements in both aesthetic and practical aspects.
The first change is the top of the blog that now features Earthrise. I wanted this picture to be part of this blog as it combines my passions for the protection of the environment and photography.
Other major change, the right part of the blog - or sidebar - is now smaller to give more space to the core of the blog, my articles. Continue reading »
Turning a landfill into a beautiful garden
Posted by: on May 18, 2008 in Tags: Personal, photo, Sustainable development
Last weekend I visited a very nice garden in the Vosges, Les Jardins de Callunes [Fr]. It has the particularity to have been created where a landfill was previously.
It is impressive how Nature got back where previously stood waste of all kinds. Will we be able to turn all our landfills in such wonderful gardens?
This was also the opportunity for me to practice photography and I propose you a selection of the best pictures I took there. Continue reading »
Why dividing by four our CO2 emissions can be done
Posted by: on April 24, 2008 in Tags: Climate change, Environment, PersonalIt is said in France that we have to cut by a factor four our emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050 compared to 1990, and in a global scale by a factor two.
It might seem impossible. But the more I am thinking about it, the more I believe it actually can be done if both public and political will are here.
After more than a year of blogging, I outline a summary of all the eleven ideas I came across. Hope you will enjoy this article ! Continue reading »
Going to London City !
Posted by: on April 13, 2008 in Tags: Personal
I have been willing for now some time to go back to London, and this for two reasons. First, to go back in a city I truly loved to visit as a teen (my last visit there was in 1998).
The second, to have a look at the possibilities of me working there. My education was truly international and I am all to willing to give my career a similar orientation and a boost.
But, be sure that I will keep you posted as I already scheduled some great articles for next week. So stay tuned and enjoy. See you soon !
Etude sur le photovoltaique
Posted by: on April 3, 2008 in Tags: En Français, Energy, Personal, renewables, solar
Je n’ai rien publié ici durant la dernière semaine de février car je travaillais sur un dossier sur le solaire photovoltaïque suite à une commande qui m’avait été faite.
Comme c’est mon travail personnel je vous en propose l’intégralité. Il porte sur deux aspects : les principaux marchés et un comparatif entre l’éolien et le solaire PV.
Comme vous le verrez en lisant le dossier, la France diffère des principaux marchés ce qui compromet une trop forte expansion du solaire PV ici. Continue reading »
