Really important issue to me… for other Local Lingo related articles to the climate change and global warming issues.
WWF & global warming
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World Global Trends 2
A few months ago, you might have been through a previous post about Hans Rosling . If you haven’t been through this yet, please just do right now.
This Google statistical tool hereunder (on gapminder.org) will provide you better ideas about how the world developped itself.
You can perform comparisons with the indicators you are interested in between any countries of your choice. From “Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Tons per Capita” to “Life Expectancy, Years”, you can have a clear evolution of those nations along the years.
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the real environmental cost of travel
Have you ever wondered what would be the real environmental costs of a travel ? Hereunder is the presentation of a Firefox plugin that could be useful to you if you feel concerned to climate change issues.
and maybe add this plugin on your Firefox browser. For more info, visit the following page
If you don’t have Firefox yet, you can download it for free by clicking on the button hereunder :
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Earthships house - green or not green ?
I strongly believe this current global warming event will influence our cross-cultural and international relations. For the first time in history, after World War 2, the whole earth community will have to find out a common agreement having an impact on everyone’s life. Each human being is part of the problem and the solution.
From a Marketing point of view, “green labels” are hot ! Many in the very short future, will claim direct “green” benefits, especially when the citizen will be fully aware of what’s going on.
As a citizen-consumer, you should always bear in mind the following when examining a product claiming such “Green” statement :
- In which material is the product ?
Is it a polluting one ?
Will it become a polluting waste ?
Is the process to produce it more polluting than the pollution it will save the earth from ?
What about the comparison with a standard non-green item ? Read the rest of this entry »
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Ocean, African Rainforest petition…
no comment… witty…
There is as well this petition about the Congo forest (discovered on PunkPrincess website). Timber industry overthere is just looting the forest, local population being just powerless to stop such tragedy,… even during peace situations, Congo bleeds. Read the rest of this entry »
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