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Mini-theme : Major scientific theories called into question    Maxi-theme : Is Mother Nature out of control ?    Mini-theme : The debate over Genetically Modified Foods    Maxi-theme : Sustainable development and solidarity action    Mini–theme : The Vancouver Olympic Games    Mini-theme : DNA reveals some mystery on King Tutankhamun    Mini-theme : The most famous carnivals in the world    Mini-theme : Piracy in the Indian Ocean    Maxi-theme : Human Rights in 2010    Mini-theme : Concorde in court for manslaughter charges    Mini-theme : The success of 3D movies    Mini-theme : Computer innovation    Mini-theme : The internet generation    Mini-theme : Remembering Auschwitz 65 years after its liberation    Mini-theme : Haiti, history of a beleaguered country    Mini-theme : Security in Air transport    Mini-theme : The African continent by the 2010 World Cup    Mini-theme : Talking about dictatorship    Mini-theme : Dubai, the city of excesses    Maxi-theme : How the European system will be working in 2010?    Mini-theme : The difficult situation in Afghanistan    Mini-theme : Spatial tourism    Maxi-theme : Women in the Middle East    Mini-theme : The new president of the United States    Mini-theme : Death penalty in the world    Mini-Theme : The Berlin Wall    Mini-theme : Malaria disease    Discover the fascinating expeditions aiming to explore and understand our planet, the Earth    Mini-theme : Radiation all around    Mini-theme : The video games, a popular distraction    Mini-theme : China, 60 years of Communism    Mini-theme : 1st Man on the Moon Anniversary    Mini-theme : Wall Street fraudster Bernard Madoff    Mini-theme : Drug consumption in the world    Mini-theme : Alternative energies    Mini-theme : The whales    Mini-theme : Hunger in the world    Mini-theme : The 65th anniversary D-Day landings    Maxi-theme : Holidays are coming!    Mini-theme : European Union    Mini-theme : Cannes Film Festival    Maxi-theme : New technologies are part of the daily life    Mini-theme : Post-Apartheid South Africa facing new challenges    Mini-theme : The swine flu outbreak    Mini-theme : Water resources at stake    Mini-theme : The origin of man    Mini-theme : The 7th art    Mini-theme : The high cuisine in the world    Mini-theme : The G20 summit    Mini-theme : Earthquakes    Mini-theme : The Polar Bears    Maxi-theme : Towards the emergence of new values in the world ?    Maxi-theme : Art in all its forms    Maxi-theme : A world of sensations    Maxi-theme : Great european challenges    Maxi-theme : Health in the XXIst century    Maxi-theme : The challenge of water    Maxi-theme : Spain, Authentic modernity    Maxi-theme : What is Great Britain known for ?    Maxi-theme : Endangered species    Maxi-theme : The Olympics' biggest hits    Maxi-theme : Women around the world    Maxi-theme : Tobacco on the ropes    Maxi-theme : Obesity and hunger in the world    Maxi-theme : Evolution of climate change

Monthly theme: Maxi-theme : Sustainable development and solidarity action

Worldwide actions for a sustainable development and solidarity.

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Organic products take off in France Organic food is really taking off in France. Forty-six percent of French people put at least one organic produce in their shopping trolley a month during 2 ...

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Exploration Tara Oceans expeditions to map effects of climate change on marine life.

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The Solar Impulse Solar-powered plane made its first test-flight in December.

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Cereplast, a greener alternative to plastic It looks like plastic, and feels like plastic, but is not the plastic that environmentalists love to hate. Cereplast products are made from organic resins, ...

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The carbon cycle Explanations about the carbon cycle.

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French prisoners go organic Organic is all the rage across France -- even in its prisons, where one community of inmates is now raising its own pesticide-free produce and putting it u ...

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Spain's 'guardian angels' help cut prison suicides In a bid to reduce suicide attempts in its prisons, the city of Leon in northern Spain has created a team of "guardian angels", detainees who watch over th ...

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New Norway power plant uses salt to make electricity Norway unveiled the world's first osmotic power plant on Tuesday, harnessing the energy-unleashing encounter of freshwater and seawater to make clean elect ...

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Climate: CO2 emissions Pollution in figures.

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Canadian firms tout 'green' Christmas trees Going "green" has never been so festive as in westernmost Canada where two start-ups are offering an eco-friendly Christmas tree rental service for the hol ...

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Apocalypse Cow: Can vegan celebs save the planet? On Ecorazzi.com, self-proclaimed provider of green gossip, Paul McCartney and other green celebs offer meat-free Christmas recipes while Cate Blanchett mus ...

03/12/2009   See

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Harnessing the power of salt, Norway tries osmotic power After wind, sun, currents and tides, a company is preparing to make clean electricity by harnessing another natural phenomenon, the energy-unleashing encou ...

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Peru's 'cloud catchers' harvest water A new innovation is helping Peru's most isolated communities -- nets which "catch" clouds in the country's Andean heights, soaking up precipitation to be c ...

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French anti-poverty organisation Emmaus turns 60 Emmaus, France's biggest NGO fighting poverty across the world, is 60 this year. The organisation was founded by Catholic priest Abbé Pierre who was a thor ...

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May the best solar house win During the US Deptartment of Energy's October Solar Decathlon competition, 20 international teams of university students are competing to design, build, an ...

09/10/2009   See

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Fashion's green future: sustainable fabrics Pesticides in cotton growing, chemical-laden dyes and huge energy consumption make the textile industry a big burden on the environment. But fabric makers, ...

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Organic products boom in Poland Across central Europe, the demand for organic products is rising. The industry is still a long way off from the boom in Germany, France and Britian, but as ...

15/09/2009   See

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Superheroes, here we come! There is a superhero inside each one of us, ready to save the world. That's the positive message promoted by Superheroes Anonymous, an American group of co ...

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Oil-rich Brunei to have solar power plant Brunei, one of the world's top oil and gas producers, is venturing into alternative energy with the construction of Southeast Asia's largest solar power pl ...

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The Uninsured queue for free health care Traveling medical clinics have never been so popular in the United States. With at least 45 million Americans uninsured -- more than 15 percent of the popu ...

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Americans in need to feed themselves on the rise The number of Americans needing financial help to feed themselves is on the rise. The latest figures show 37 million people in poverty in the US in 2007, u ...

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North American bands playing to greener tune Playing instruments made of naturally fallen trees, packaging albums with recycled materials and fuelling tour buses with biodiesel are just some of the wa ...

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Sahara to Europe solar power plan welcomed A 400-billion-euro (560-billion-dollar) plan to pump solar energy from the Sahara to Europe has received a warm welcome while experts urged power groups to ...

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Screens replace greens for South Korean golfers Park Joong-Soon raised his putter triumphantly after sinking a five-metre birdie on the final hole and pocketed his winnings from friends -- all without le ...

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Athens residents fight to preserve parks Athens is already one of the most densely built cities in Europe, and its inhabitants are engaged in a tug-of-war with authorities to win more green space. ...

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How to develop solar energy? As the climate heats up, the world is grappling with how to produce cheap energy from renewable sources. A Californian company has found a way to offer cut ...

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Renewable energy helps rehabilitate lives Ex-convicts in Los Angeles are being given job training to install solar panels, preparing for them for entry in the growth industry of green energy. Vi ...

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Brazilian town turning human waste into clean energy High in the cool hills of eastern Brazil, this tourist hot spot also known as the Imperial City is attracting worldwide attention thanks an innovative sche ...

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A Washington, DC luxury hotel goes green High society hotel guests choosing not to change their sheets or towels, 19th century chandeliers outfitted with energy-saving bulbs: the Willard, one of W ...

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Argan oil throws Moroccan women a new lifeline Prized for its anti-ageing properties, argan oil is used in cosmetics the world over. Its popularity is giving women who produce the oil in southwestern Mo ...

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Empire State Building to turn green New York's iconic Empire State Building is getting a green make-over as part of larger efforts to make the city's skyscrapers more environmentally friendly ...

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Empire State Building becomes green giant The Empire State Building is switching its windows, all 6,500, as part of a retrofit meant to transform the tower, scene of King Kong's last stand in the H ...

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Environment : Radiation all around ELECTROSMOG, domestic radiation all around.

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Greening the Central American skies One regional airline is defying the aviation industry’s reputation for causing negative environmental impacts by going carbon neutral, and taking measures ...

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Europe's biggest wind farm planned in Sweden Plans to build the biggest wind farm in Europe are underway in Sweden after winning approval from a local county administrative board on Monday, officials ...

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The greening of banking Wind turbines in Europe, micro-credit in Africa, organic mango-growing in Asia -- Dutch bank Triodos only finances sustainable projects. The bank's returns ...

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Argentine cooperative makes books from cardboard It is a small miracle happening in the middle of a crisis: Argentine cooperative "Eloisa Cartonera" manages to publish exquisite, unique books from cardboa ...

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The Pelamis wave energy converter One of several systems that use the motion of ocean surface waves to generate electricity.

24/03/2009   See

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Singapore-made biofuel to run cars in Europe and North America Diesel made from palm oil, vegetable oil and animal fat in Singapore may soon be powering cars in Europe and North America, Finland's Neste Oil said Friday ...

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Green spaces narrow health gap between rich and poor The rich live longer than the poor but the gap narrows substantially in cities where there are plentiful parks, woods and playing fields, according to a st ...

07/11/2008   See

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Going geothermal in Kenya With Kenya's energy supply capacity dangerously close to its limit, the country is embracing geothermal energy - a green alternative to fossil fuel and whi ...

09/10/2008   See

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Economic downturn 'a chance to invest' in green energy: Gore The global economic downturn and the crisis in the US financial markets offers the chance for investment in green energy, former US vice-president Al Gore ...

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German firm to extend Asia's largest solar power plant A German firm said Wednesday it has signed a deal to extend a South Korean solar energy plant which is already Asia's largest. Conergy said in a stateme ...

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Cars : Alternatives to petrol List of vehicles using renewable energies (hybrid car, electric car, natural gas, fuel cell, solar energy).

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Africa's deserts could supply solar electricity to continent Solar power from Africa's deserts could supply all 600 million citizens currently without electricity and even export power to Europe, a green energy confe ...

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Cars using alternative energies Several solutions have been developed to reduce petrol consumption or to replace it by other another form of fuel.

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Norwegian island runs on wind power, even when all is still How to keep the lights on when all is still and the local windmill won't budge? A small Norwegian island testing a way to store wind-generated energy for c ...

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The main polluters The world main polluters.

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Wind power breaks records in Spain Wind power is breaking new records in Spain, accounting for just over 40 percent of all electricity consumed during a brief period last weekend, the countr ...

26/03/2008   See

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Coconut power Six to 10 coconut can produce a litre of oil: processing on the Marshall Islands.

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Green cities : Stockolm is ahead Ranking based on social and environmental criteria.

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'Green living' in the Netherlands Energy-neutral houses, homes that put more electricity back into the grid than they take out... in the Netherlands, architects and towns are seriously look ...

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