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Efficacité énergétique. Pourquoi ? Comment ?
Pour faire la différence dans votre organisation, économiser et faire un geste concret pour l'environnement, tout en réduisant le gaspillage et les excès.
Vous souhaitez implanter une démarche de développement durable dans votre entreprise? Pour vous faciliter cette démarche, consultez la section Le développeme...
Les batteries seraient un élément clef pour développer le marché du stockage de l'énergie, selon une étude du groupe Xerfi.
Via Hubert MESSMER @Zehub on Twitter
The Game Changing Development Program seeks to identify and rapidly mature innovative/high impact capabilities and technologies for infusion in a broad array of future NASA missions.
NASA X explores a new composite cryotank and a revolutionary Exoskeleton, called X1. Both of these game changing technologies will help not only NASA, but people here on Earth.
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Via Chuck Sherwood, Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
Résistance à l'insuline entraînant des diabètes de type 2, hypertension artérielle pouvant provoquer des maladies cardiaques ou encore asthme chronique : les méfaits de la pollution automobile sont nombreux et dramatiques. Pour la première fois, une étude lie pollution automobile et résistance à l'insuline (qui entraîne des diabètes de type 2). (...)
Via Pascal Faucompré, Nessy du Loch
The Microsoft data center campus in Quincy, Washington illustrates the evolution of data center design from huge concrete shells to compact modules sitting outdoors on a slab.
As cities become more conscious of their environmental and social impact, smart growth has become a ubiquitous umbrella term for a slew of principles to which designers and planners are encouraged to adhere. NewUrbanism.org has distributed 10 points that serve as guides to development that are similar to both AIA’s Local Leaders: Healthier Communities through Design and New York City’s Active Design Guidelines: Promoting Physical Activity and Health in Design. Planners all appear to be on the same page in regards to the nature of future development. But as Brittany Leigh Foster of Renew Lehigh Valley points out, these points tend to be vague; they tell us “what” but they do not tell us “how”. 10 Rules for Smarter Smart Growth by Bill Adams of UrbDeZine San Diego enumerates how to achieve the various design goals and principles that these various guides encourage.
Via Lauren Moss
Of all the cosmic bodies studied in the long history of astronomy and space travel, the one that got the least attention was the one that ought to matter most to us—Earth. That changed when NASA created the Landsat program, a series of satellites that would perpetually orbit our planet, looking not out but down. Landsat was built for public monitoring of how the human species was altering the surface of the planet. The space agency, along with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), has accumulated a stunning catalog of images that, when riffled through and stitched together, create a high-definition slide show of our rapidly changing Earth, which for the first time date all the way back to 1984. These Timelapse pictures tell the pretty and not-so-pretty story of a finite planet and how its residents are treating it — razing even as we build, destroying even as we preserve. Visit the article link to see an exclusive timelapse of climate change, deforestation and urban sprawl unfolding as Earth evolves over 30 years...
Via Seth Dixon, Lauren Moss
The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported on Friday, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for millions of years. Scientific monitors reported that the gas had reached an average daily level that surpassed 400 parts per million — just an odometer moment in one sense, but also a sobering reminder that decades of efforts to bring human-produced emissions under control are faltering. The best available evidence suggests the amount of the gas in the air has not been this high for at least three million years, before humans evolved, and scientists believe the rise portends large changes in the climate and the level of the sea. “It symbolizes that so far we have failed miserably in tackling this problem,” said Pieter P. Tans, who runs the monitoring program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that reported the new reading. Ralph Keeling, who runs another monitoring program at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, said a continuing rise could be catastrophic. “It means we are quickly losing the possibility of keeping the climate below what people thought were possibly tolerable thresholds,” he said. The new measurement came from analyzers high atop Mauna Loa, the volcano on the big island of Hawaii that has long been ground zero for monitoring the worldwide carbon dioxide trend. Click headline to read more of this article and access hot links to others in the series--
Via Chuck Sherwood, Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
Have you ever wanted to go back in time to see what the planet looked like in yesteryear? Today, Google working with TIME magazine, NASA and the U.S.
Via DashBurst, Steven Hughes, ABroaderView
Lydia Nicholas: Planning for the future predicted by our current data leaves us vulnerable to unexpected derailments.- Prediction can feel like shining a torch forward into the terrifying, dark unknown. The narrower and more focused the beam, the brighter the light, and the more detail can be perceived – but only along that one thin pathway. The light may help you prepare for tricky patches ahead, but it cannot reveal or protect you from everything. Unforeseen obstacles or events may force you to take an alternative route and encounter dangers in the surrounding dark. With an unfocused wider torch beam, you'll see less detail about any particular area, but will be able to see the dangers and advantages of a wider range of paths. Perhaps you would even have the chance to make an informed choice about which way to move forward?
Via Wildcat2030, Flora Moon
Grocery delivery services like those provided by Safeway, FreshDirect, Amazon and Google can slash carbon dioxide emissions by 20 to 75 percent compared to individual household trips to the market, according to researchers at University of Washington...
New research suggests that the price of lithium-ion batteries could fall dramatically by 2020, creating conditions for the widespread adoption of electrified vehicles in some markets. A McKinsey Quarterly article.
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Les métiers de l'ingénierie bougent. Ceci n'est pas un slogan surgit des années…
Via éco-Tom
Smart grid, smart city, smart meter, et leurs déclinaisons françaises, réseau, ville et compteur intelligents, sommes-nous subitement entourés par des technologies devenues capables de réfléchir par elles-mêmes ?
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Dans un contexte de changement climatique, de crise économique et de dégradation croissante de l’environnement, il est urgent que la communauté internationale fasse plus et mieux avec une utilisation plus efficiente des ressources naturelles de la Terre. Pour mettre en œuvre les actions nécessaires qui inaugurent un avenir plus durable, le Programme des Nations Unies pour l’Environnement (PNUE), qui assure le secrétariat du Cadre décennal de programmation concernant les modes de consommation et de production durables (10YFP), a lancé aujourd’hui le Portail mondial pour la Consommation et la Production durables.
Via blueQUEST, www.blue-quest.fr, Pierre Wouters
En ligne, gratuit et ouvert à tous, le projet "Giving with purpose" souhaite former les philanthropes de demain.
Non, la philanthropie n'est plus ce pré carré réservé à une élite fortunée. Une nouvelle formation entièrement en ligne et gratuite propose désormais à chacun d'endosser le costume d'un vrai philanthrope.
Cette idée est née dans la tête de Doris Buffett, sœur aînée du célèbre philanthrope américain Warren Buffett, et co-fondatrice de la fondationLearning by Giving (L'apprentissage en donnant).
Baptisée "Giving with purpose", littéralement "Donner avec un objectif", cette formation accessible à tous propose d'enseigner les rudiments du don aux organisations caritatives et de donner les clés pour renouveler le visage de la philanthropie.
Finally… After almost 50 years of dependence on foreign sources to meet our growing energy needs, our country is finally in a position to begin reversing the trend. Through advances in drilling technology, discoveries of new oil and natural gas reserves and swift progress in the renewables sector, the United States is setting a course for energy self-sufficiency. The complex story of energy in America and making it relevant to an increasingly distracted public remains one of our biggest challenges as energy industry communicators. In the information economy, there’s a lot of loose change. Content that lacks context. A rapidly growing punditocracy. An immense amount of noise. Someone has to break through. In the spirit of this endeavor, we created the United States of Energy map, the first data visualization piece of its kind to comprehensively detail our nation’s vast and diverse energy portfolio...
Via Lauren Moss
Never-fail military microgrids are breaking new ground in distributed energy management. Now one of them is getting connected to the grid at large. That’s the news from Fort Bliss, Texas, where the U.S. Army and Lockheed Martin cut the symbolic ribbon Thursday on the first Department of Defense grid-tied microgrid. The project, started in 2010, uses renewable energy (a 120-kilowatt solar array) and energy storage (a 300-kilowatt battery system), as well as the base’s existing backup generators, and ties it into a miniature grid via Lockheed’s Intelligent Microgrid Control System. It’s not the first DOD project to combine on-site power resources like solar, batteries and backup generators into a self-sustaining, islanded grid unit -- in other words, a microgrid. In fact, the military is leading the charge in microgrids, given its need for fail-safe, always-on electricity supply, particularly when the bigger grid blacks out, no matter what the cost. But Fort Bliss is the first Army microgrid project to hook itself up to the utility grid, which opens a new realm of possibilities, as well as challenges, for the system. That’s because, while the Fort Bliss microgrid is helping the Army meet its carbon footprint reduction and efficiency goals, its core purpose -- or “tactical utility,” as Fort Bliss spokesman Major Joe Buccino said in Thursday’s release, “is its ability to allow us to operate off the grid.” Click headline to read more--
Via Chuck Sherwood, Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
A common refrain, from skeptics to allies alike, is that renewable energy is a great idea, but not feasible because oil, gas, and coal will always be cheaper.
Via Willy De Backer
May 10, 2013 Common Dreams IN 'MARCH TOWARD DISASTER' WORLD HITS DAILY 400 PPM CO2 MILESTONE Levels of atmospheric CO2 have never been this high in human history; will 'rise in carbon be matched by rise in climate activism'?... http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/10-5 May 10, 2013 AL GORE : 400 PPM
Yesterday, for the first time in human history, concentrations of carbon dioxide, the primary global warming pollutant, hit 400 parts per million in our planet's atmosphere. This number is a reminder that for the last 150 years -- and especially over the last several decades -- we have been recklessly polluting the protective sheath of atmosphere that surrounds the Earth and protects the conditions that have fostered the flourishing of our civilization http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-gore/carbon-dioxide-400-parts-per-million_b_3253361.html?ref=topbar April 3, 2013 - Scripps Institution of Oceanography
WHAT DOES 400 ppm LOOK LIKE? THE KEELING CURVE http://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/what-does-this-number-mean/ April 17, 2013 Reuters
CLEAN ENERGY PROGRESS TOO SLOW TO LIMIT GLOBAL WARMING: REPORT http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/17/us-carbon-energy-warming-idUSBRE93G05A20130417?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews May 10, 2013 Huffington Post Green ATMOSPHERIC CO2 DAILY CONCENTRATIONS SURPASS 400PPM MILESTONA - NASA http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/10/atmospheric-co2-concentrations_n_3253757.html?utm_hp_ref=green April 29, 2013 Huffington Post Green ATMOSPHERIC CO2 TO PASS MAJOR MILESTONE Scientists monitoring global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations report that, for the first time in human history, CO2 levels could soon rise above 400 parts per million for a sustained period of time in much of the Northern Hemisphere.... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/29/400-ppm-atmospheric-co2_n_3179617.html May 9, 2013 Guardian Environment
METEORITE CRATER REVEALS FUTURE OF A GLOBALLY WARMED WORLD http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/09/meteorite-crater-global-warming ARCTIC OCEAN 'ACIDIFYING' RAPIDLY' - HIGHEST LEVELS IN 55 MILLION YEARS - ARCTIC TO BE -ICE-FREE IN TWO YEARS http://sco.lt/6qm61h April 24, 2013 USA TODAY
CARBON DIOXIDE NOW AT HIGHEST LEVEL IN FIVE MILLION YEARS http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2013/04/24/carbon-dioxide-keeling-curve-global-warming/2110445/ April 8, 2013
CARBON-DIOXIDE LEVELS ARE AT THEIR HIGHEST POINT IN AT LEAST 800, 000 YEARS http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/08/carbon-dioxide-levels-are-at-their-highest-point-in-at-least-800000-years/ April 22, 2013 Climate Space
TO RECLAIM OUR FUTURE, WE MUST CHANGE THE PRESENT. OUR PROPOSAL FOR CHANGING THE SYSTEM AND NOT THE CLIMATE http://climatespace2013.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/to-reclaim-our-future-we-must-change-the-present-our-proposal-for-changing-the-system-and-not-the-climate/ May 9, 2013 Reuters
WOMEN ARE 'KEY DRIVERS' IN CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION http://www.trust.org/item/20130509115923-g3z4e/?source=shtw April 2013 ELDIS PROTECTING CARBON TO DESTROY FORESTS??!! : LAND ENCLOSURES AND REDD+ http://sco.lt/7DYN17 February 21, 2013 - Redd Monitor
REDD Plus or REDD “Light”? BIODIVERSITY, COMMUNITIES AND FOREST CARBON CERTIFICATION http://www.redd-monitor.org/2013/02/21/redd-plus-or-redd-light-biodiversity-communities-and-forest-carbon-certification/ THE CURSE OF INDUSTRIAL, CHEMICAL-BASED FERTILIZERS http://sco.lt/7oRwsT THS SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION IS UPON US. CAN HUMANS SURVIVE? http://sco.lt/630INt
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Energy Efficiency or Dirty Digital Footprints? Looking at "Green" Websites ...
Via Jonathan Caines
Increasing America’s domestic energy production is something most of us can agree on, but it seems there is a fork in the road as to how to get there.
A NASA-led modeling study provides new evidence that global warming may increase the risk for extreme rainfall and drought. (NASA climate models project wetter wet and drier dry.
Via SustainOurEarth
April 30, 2013 CSRWire Talkback - Giles Hutchins Bios – life. Mimicry – to copy. ... Einstein famously said ‘Look deep into nature and you shall find the answer.’ ... Time To Transform? It has become patently clear to many that business is undergoing a metamorphosis. Due to a perfect storm of social, economic and environmental factors, organizations have little option other than to seek out opportunities in these volatile times, adapt and evolve to what the book The Nature of Business refers to as “firms of the future” – businesses more akin to living organisms than mechanistic monoliths designed for the Industrial Era. These firms of the future can take inspiration from nature at all levels within their strategies and operations. For instance: ... http://www.csrwire.com/blog/posts/827-the-evolution-of-business-creating-firms-of-the-future-through-biomimicry Janine Benyus: WE ARE SURROUNDED BY GENIUS - WHOLE SYSTEMS DESIGN BY NATURE http://sco.lt/86AYWv COMPANIES THAT MIMIC NATURE OUT-PERFORM THOSE THAT DO NOT http://sco.lt/76twrB CORP 2020 Pavan Sukhdev on THE NATURE OF VALUE AND THE FUTURE OF CORPORATIONS https://joinmosaic.com/blog/mosaic-conversations-pavan-sukhdev-nature-value-and-future-corporations August 15, 2012 The Nature Of Business
'SUPERORGANIZATIONS‘ - LEARNING FROM NATURE'S NETWORK http://thenatureofbusiness.org/2012/08/15/superorganisations-learning-from-natures-networks/ IN NATURE, A MYRIAD OF LESSONS FOR EFFECTIVE SUSTAINABILITY LEADERSHIP http://sco.lt/6ZQKht January 8, 2013 Guardian Sustainable Business
HOW A SENSE OF SACRED CAN HELP SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/sense-sacred-sustainable-business-buddhist September 20, 2012 Share The World's Resources
GRADIDO: NATURAL ECONOMY OF LIFE http://www.stwr.org/economic-sharing-alternatives/gradido-natural-economy-of-life.html BUSINESS AND HUMANITY ARE NOT SEPARATE FROM NATURE http://sco.lt/8gLwmH VIDEO: "ENOUGHNESS: Restoring Balance to the Economy" http://sco.lt/55TwvJ
WHY CHOOSING NATURE WILL ONLY ADVANCE HUMAN SOCIETIES http://sco.lt/6odAoL
MIMICKING NATURE: ORGANIZE LIKE ANTS TO MOVE MOUNTAINS http://sco.lt/6oK1uj MONEY REALLY DOES GROW ON TREES http://sco.lt/68WAIz March 1, 2013 Guardian Sustainable Business THE CONUNDRUM OF THE HEART - SUSTAINABILITY http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/conundrum-heart-sustainability April 3, 2013 Conservation International
PROTECTING NATURE IS CRITICAL TO MAINTAIN BUSINESS AND GLOBAL SECURITY - "Nations and businesses cannot last if the resources that they depend upon are unpredictable." http://blog.conservation.org/2013/04/protecting-nature-is-critical-to-maintain-global-security/ Jan 9, 2013 WHY THE ECONOMY NEEDS NATURE http://www.scoop.it/t/environmental-and-human-health/p/3994804262/why-the-economy-needs-nature April 4, 2013 WRIInsights
ALIGNING PROFITS AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY http://insights.wri.org/news/2013/04/4-lessons-environmental-sustainability-every-corporation-should-learn?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=worldresources&utm_campaign=twitterfeed 2012 IN RETROSPECT: AN OPEN LETTER TO HUMANITY, FROM MOTHER EARTH - Danielle Lanyard CSR Wire http://www.csrwire.com/blog/posts/638-2012-in-retrospect-an-open-letter-to-humanity-from-mother-earth BANKRUPTING NATURE: DENYING OUR PLANETARY BOUNDARIES - Yale Global Online http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/bankrupting-nature-denying-our-planetary-boundaries TECHNOLOGY, HUMAN BEINGS AND THE FATE OF THE EARTH : A SOCIAL CRITIQUE OF MODERN LIFE - State Of Nature http://www.stateofnature.org/?p=5856 >> AN URGENT MEMO TO THE WORLD - The Natural Eye Project - http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/an-urgent-memo-to-the-world/
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