Figures: In 2007, in California, 725 millions of dollars have been invested in the solar, the aeolian, the biofuels, the hydrogen cars or even the energy effectiveness. Three times more than in 2005. In the USA, one billion dollars have been invested on the solar energy during March and April 2008. (Source: Le Journal du Dimanche)
Book: For an enlightened catastrophism (Jean Pierre Dupuis)
Quotation: "The true compassion, it is not throwing a coin to a beggar ; it is understanding the necessity to reorganize the system which produces beggars." Martin Luther King
Figures: According to a study undertaken by the Ademe in 2007, 82% of the French are conscious that it will be necessary to modifyour ways of living in an important way to prevent the greenhouse effect increase. (Source : Ademe)
Figures: The world will counts 1 billioncomputers in 2008, the double in 2015, a growth which generates millions of tons of electronic waste each year, and involves a strong consumption of electricity.
Figures: In 2005, after having used approximately 110 billion tons of oil, so much more than the resserves known in 1970, we have approximately 140 billion tons of reserves, without counting the oil reserves known as "non conventional" (Source: manicore.com)
Quotation: "Planet can provide for the needs of all but not for the cupidity of some." Gandhi
Website&blog: Calculate, compensate for and reduce your CO2 emissions: actioncarbone.org
Figures: 2,56 tons of CO2, it is the emission of dioxin per passenger in a Paris New York round trip by plane. To compare, a gasoline car of average capacity displacement is emitting 2,7 tons of CO2 each year for a distance of 12.000 km (Source: La Tribune 11/24/07)
Figures: 8 millions of people die every year in the world because of the lack of water.Unhealthy watermakes ten times more deaths than the current wars in the world. Moreover, water is very unequally distributed on our planet.South America is holding the quarter of the world reserves whereas 6% of the world population lives there. On the other hand, 60 % of the Earth inhabitants live in Asia which is only holding the third of the reserves. (Source: Nouvelles Clés)
Book: Reluctanly Businessman- (Yvon Chouinard, François Lemarchand)
Quotation: "I am certainly only one. But I am one. I cannot do everything. But I can do something.And the fact of not being able to do everything does not authorize me te refuse to do what I can do." Edward Everett
Figures: In urban environment, 82% of the transports are done in private cars, 12% in public transport, 3% with motorized bicycles and .3% with bicycles. (Source: croissance-verte.com)
Figures: December 11th 1997: Adoption date of the Kyoto Protocol(Japan). Tools are planned in order to fight against climate warming . At June 6 th 2007, 176 states out of 194 recognized by UNO were on the way or had began to ratify it. (Source: La Tribune 11/24/07)
Figures: In Spain, the government has decided that any new construction, individual or collective should support a part ( 30 % to 70 % according to the region), of its sanitary hot water needs with thermic solar panel.
Quotation: " Virtue can be learned more through examples than through speeches or books. The best educational method is the action ! It is necessary talk about those who are doing well : the heroes or more simply the people who are an example. We need them ! " André Compte-Sponville
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