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Pour un développement durable et pour l'efficacité énergétique. «Pour ce qui est de l’avenir, il ne s’agit pas de le prévoir mais de le rendre possible. » Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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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. Delete the scoop?
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May 21, 2013 Guardian Sustainable Business - Guardian Professional
True collaboration is hard work but a small group of systems thinkers, mappers and innovators could make all the difference.. The reason systems experts are so valuable is that they not only understand the inter-connection of issues, important in itself, but also recognise the power of group dynamics and of finding ways to encourage groups with competing interests to find common ground.... ...we need to recognise we don't really understand any more the complexity of the current system, or how it dynamically evolves over time. We also have no prototypes for an alternative system so have no clear sense of where we are exactly aiming for.... http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/blog/systems-experts-scale-and-speed-sustainability
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May 10, 2013 Forbes WHY CSR? THE BENEFITS OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY WILL MOVE YOU TO ACT http://www.forbes.com/sites/devinthorpe/2013/05/18/why-csr-the-benefits-of-corporate-social-responsibility-will-move-you-to-act/
NATURE'S CEO: MARK TERCEK SAYS CONSERVATION IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS http://sco.lt/6TQC8X
May 14, 2013 Guardian Sustainable Business
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Vous souhaitez implanter une démarche de développement durable dans votre entreprise? Pour vous faciliter cette démarche, consultez la section Le développeme... Delete the scoop?
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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 Delete the scoop?
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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.
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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). (...)
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"Cette étude, comme le précise The Atlantic, est la première du genre à connecter l'exposition à long terme à la pollution automobile avec la résistance à l'insuline chez l'enfant. Reste à savoir si ces effets persistent si l'enfant déménage dans un lieu moins pollué, et surtout si ces réactions persistent jusqu'à l'âge adulte... Ce n'est en tout cas pas le seul impact connu de la pollution automobile sur la santé. Ainsi, comme nous l'évoquions il y a quelques semaines, la pollution automobile pourrait être responsable de 14% des cas d'asthme chronique chez l'enfant. Un impact comparable à celui du tabagisme passif. C'est ce qui ressort d'une étude menée dans 10 grandes villes européennes et publiée dans la revue European Respiratory Journal." Delete the scoop?
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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.
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"With the latest phase of its data center in Quincy, Microsoft is getting out of the air conditioning business and deploying thousands of servers inside factory-built modules, which can be installed in days and allow the company to reach new heights of energy efficiency. The ITPACs take advantage of the natural environment in Quincy, allowing cool air to flow through the modules and cool the servers powering the Azure cloud." Delete the scoop?
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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 Delete the scoop?
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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 
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I suggest you watch to see the spatial patterns emerge!
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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.
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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
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"... releasing more than a quarter-century of images of Earth taken from satellites in space, all compiled for the first time ever into an awesome interactive time-lapse experience! Google believes "this is the most comprehensive picture of our changing planet ever made available to the public." Delete the scoop?
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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 Delete the scoop?
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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... Delete the scoop?
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"In a report on the Electricity Market Reform published today, the Committee on Climate Change presents new analysis showing that there are significant economic benefits from investing in a portfolio of low-carbon technologies through the 2020s rather than investing in gas-fired generation." Via Willy De Backer
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"A failure to commit to this would be to bet on a low gas price world, which could lock out the much higher benefits from portfolio investment in low-carbon technologies in more likely scenarios. It would be a wager on an outcome that is the opposite of most expectations. Even if the proposition were true, and a low gas price world were to ensue, cost savings due to investment in gas-fired generation through the 2020s would be very limited." Lord Deben, Chairman of the CCC said:“This Report shows that there are significant benefits and very limited risks from investing in low-carbon technologies. It factors in the potential benefits of shale gas, which could play a useful role in meeting heat demand. It shows that the cost-effective route to the 2050 target involves investment in a portfolio of low-carbon technologies in the 2020s. However, in order to secure maximum economic benefit for the UK, it is crucial that the Government gives certainty to investors by legislating to chart a clear course well beyond 2020. Only then will we be able to insure against the risk of much higher future energy prices; enhance Britain’s energy sovereignty; and protect ourselves against dangerous climate change.”
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(...) Parmi les "60 nouveaux métiers, l'ingénierie se taille la part du lion avec une dizaine de nouveaux métiers. Ingénieur en biotechnologie, ingénieur cloud système, de nouvelles nomenclatures apparaissent, mais c'est évidemment du côté de l'ingénierie "verte" que ça pousse le plus, du fait de nouvelles normes françaises et européennes, et de changements de comportements sociaux. Delete the scoop?
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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 ? Via deguilhem yannick
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Pour Carlos Moreno, chercheur spécialiste des systèmes complexes, « smart » renvoie en fait à la conjonction de trois éléments distincts : le faible coût et la mobilité des moyens de communication,« l’ubiquité de l’information » qui consiste à trouver plusieurs usages à la même information,la capacité à « croiser ces informations pour pouvoir mieux piloter, contrôler, paramétrer ».Delete the scoop?
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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 Delete the scoop?
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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. Delete the scoop?
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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 Delete the scoop?
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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.”
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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
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The price of renewable energy has always been the false debate. If political and economic elites would have understood the real challenge of finite energy, the price tag would be the least of their worries. The REAL problem with renewables is the non-renewable scarce resources you need to produce, manufacture and deploy them. Delete the scoop?
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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
April 3, 2013 - Scripps Institution of Oceanography
April 17, 2013 Reuters
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
ARCTIC OCEAN 'ACIDIFYING' RAPIDLY' - HIGHEST LEVELS IN 55 MILLION YEARS - ARCTIC TO BE -ICE-FREE IN TWO YEARS http://sco.lt/6qm61h
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April 22, 2013 Climate Space
May 9, 2013 Reuters
April 2013 ELDIS PROTECTING CARBON TO DESTROY FORESTS??!! : LAND ENCLOSURES AND REDD+ http://sco.lt/7DYN17
February 21, 2013 - Redd Monitor
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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May 8, 2013 Guardian Sustainable Business Only when we integrate making money with a sense of purpose and fun can we reach a more sustainable footing, writes Jo Confino,,, http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/blog/sustainability-joy-power-of-fun
May 7, 2013 Environmental Leader
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Although interest in sustainability is expanding to include a wide range of areas, an analysis of 40 leading “green” websites indicates that digital footprints are often overlooked. At the end of April, the World Wide Web celebrated its 20th anniversary, and while the Internet is often considered to be more environmentally friendly than traditional communications channels, this supposition is subject to a number of caveats. Delete the scoop?
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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.
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"The phrase “energy independence” is misleading and should not be confused with isolationism or the ability to ignore events shaping world energy supplies. Producing more domestic energy, whether through renewables or natural resources, may help the U.S. improve its geopolitical bargaining position but only in the context of an energy interdependent system. Furthermore, an interconnected global economy means that the energy security of America’s allies and trade partners is vital to its own well-being." Delete the scoop?
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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
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"In response to carbon dioxide-induced warming, the global water cycle undergoes a gigantic competition for moisture resulting in a global pattern of increased heavy rain, decreased moderate rain, and prolonged droughts in certain regions," said William Lau of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and lead author of the study. Delete the scoop?
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"While the impacts differ, the principles that underpin sustainable management, and sustainability reporting are equally applicable to organisations of all sizes. Whether you’re dealing with a medium sized business or a very large listed business, a degree of transparency around key sustainability measures is increasingly important for many stakeholders."