The Vergnet group, only one French aeolian industrial company, exports since 1993 in the Southern countries a 40minuts folding wind mill in case of cyclone warning. This technology is essential everywhre where the traditional and complicated wind mills cannot be installed. In 2007, 500 wind mills are installed throughout the world for an annual production of 150 000 MWh.
The sun bathes the ground of a colossal and unlimited radiant energy flux on a time scale of humanity.There are several billion years that the photosynthetic organisms , benefit from this energy, convert it into chemical energy, (sugar, proteins, lipids) and are at the basis of all the ecosystems in the sea environment and in the continental environment.
Energies known as fossil (coal, oil, gas) are derivatives of this biomass formed several hundred of millions years ago.They allowed humanity to reach its level of current development. But these energiescan be depleted and their combustion generates gases with greenhouses effect whose fast release in the atmosphere modifies today the climate and disturb the human activities. A new energy system is to be built and this project which is starting, is a real opportunity for employment and ecological business.
To re-use one's detergent containers while buying in bulk it is what offers Andree-Lise Lemieux in her ecological maintenance products stores in Quebec. Depuis 15 years, the Nettoyants Lemieux give to the consumers the choice of reducing their waste and consequently the wasting. Established in the great area of Montreal, a first shop opened in June 2007 in the regional capital.
The signatories states of the Kyioto Protocol have difficulties to achieve their goals. However, in Switzerland, more than 1800 companies already obtained a reduction of the carbon dioxide emission of 15%.This result has been possible thanks to the Energy Agency for Economy(Aenec) which was created in 1999 to accompany the companies in a energy consumption reduction step. « An exemplary action and encouraging figures» , Cyrill Studer, from Greenpeace is happy to say.
While the debate on the GMO is intense, many are the farmers who turn to more respectful techniques of the environment and particularly of the ground. Born in Quebec and imported in France by Jacky Dupety, farmer in Lot rameal fragmented wood (BRF) is one of them. By the simple spreading of branches or residues of crushed hedges,it allows to fertilize adry and compact ground like the one of Jacky Dupéty in causses of Quercy. Since the the experiment of the BRF in 2004, lthe man cultivates on hisformely arid and barren field marrows, pumpkins, tomatoes and melons...