Martina Preuss: Green IT and the climate

Publié mercredi 9 avril 2008 à 10h25
par martina dans Sauvons notre planète (vu 534 fois et 2 commentaires)

Climate neutrality, or, in scientific terms 'CO2 neutrality', describes processes by which the global CO2 balance remains constant (source: Wikipedia).

In my opinion this CO2 balance no longer exists – we need to bring back this balance before we can actually maintain it. In a time of increased environmental awareness, this worthy goal can nevertheless produce unusual ideas.

Our lifestyles are often careless: jetting off to remote countries, taking the car to go to the bakery around the corner, using the tumble dryer and all the other small things which makes life easy. These actions need no longer give us a guilty conscience. By spending a bit of money you can compensate for your polluting sins. For example, take a look at Atmosfair, Greenmiles, The Climate Company or My Climate. There are probably more such projects, especially outside Germany. Yet a study from Tufts University in Boston revealed that only three of thirteen such ‘compensation agencies’, including Atmosfair and My Climate, are actually recommended service providers.

When travelling by plane, Atmosfair can help you obtain a cleaner conscience. You can pay when you book, but also calculate and compensate for your CO2 emissions later. When...

Tags: blogueur de la semaine, changement climatique, CO2, CO2, électricité, electricity, énergie, energy, environnement, green-IT

Dossier: IT_climate_DE.pdf

EU and RUSSIA

Publié mardi 4 mars 2008 à 04h16
par frederic.vareillas dans L’UE dans le monde (vu 475 fois et 10 commentaires)

Hi,

Dmitri Medvedev has just been chosen by 70 % of the Russian voters to become next President of Russian federation (with Putin as Prime Minister).

1/ This election has been only PARTLY democratic but a vast majority of the people in Russia are supportive of Putin's policies and are behind Medvedev (more than 60% of th total Russian population. So, Medvedev IS representative of the russians as much as Bush is representative of the americans.

2/ Russia has 10000 nuclear warheads targeting western Europe because of the American project of an anti missile "shield" (!) in Poland and Chzec Republic.

3/ America is a debtor nation , diving into a great depression, with no cash or oil left,

whereas Russia is on the rise : A new middle class, Oil, Gas, Coal, Gold, Diamonds, A new banking, trading, commercial and economic booming system.

4/ (and most important) : Look at your geographical maps : Kaliningrad, Saint Petersburg, Moscow and most of the big Russian cities ARE in EUROPE.

5/ A bit of history : The forefathers of the white Russians where the "Varegs", Vikings coming to the region of Moscow around the tenth century A.D.

Russians Are europeans, and live mostly on the European continent.

That is to say : Most of the modern european Russians have SWEDISH ancestors : Sweden happens to be a member of the U.E. and is getting ready to join the € zone and the Schengen agreement.

6/ USA are...

Tags: conflict, development, energy, fair trade, Multilareralism, neighbours, peace, Russia