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This month, music lovers throughout France are getting a real treat: a series of ten concerts, featuring mostly up and coming French artists. One catch, there’s no cash entry fee: you just have to bring an old electronic to recycle. French 18 to 30 year olds are among the country’s biggest consumers of electronics, but aren’t too big on recycling. The European Recycling Platorm in France first conceived of the Recycling Party in 2009 as a game-like way to teach youths about the importance of recycling their electronics. For the third edition, ERP France has partnered with online music platform BuzzMyBand, and the...
We are all in some way or another attached to Brasil: whether it be the beautiful women, the beaches, the drinks, the music, the energy…I’m very connected to Brasil having spent some time living abroad in South America. When I learned that the environmental community in Sao Paulo is protesting over a project to improve traffic that is taking over thousands of trees at the margins of the Tiete river I thought I’d share. Protestants say that the work is only going to improve speed by little while spending too much money, and that the new ways will be obsolete when...
President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that he plans on introducing a carbon tax to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in France. That’s right, a straight-up carbon tax: polluters will have to pay 17 Euros ($24.64 US) per ton of carbon emitted. And that includes not only businesses but individual households as well. More details after the jump....
Over at Yale Environment 360, David Owen (who’s a staff writer for The New Yorker, by the way…) lays out some stats as to why New York City should probably get renamed the Big Green Apple: 1. The average Manhattan resident consumes just 90 gallons of gasoline per year — a figure Owen reminds us that wasn’t the norm in the rest of the nation since the 1920s (!). 2. New Yorkers consume far less electricity than everyone else in the United States: 4,700 kWh per year versus 11,000 kWh on average in the rest of the country. I even think that NYC stat...
Early yesterday morning, millions of New Yorkers received a very special edition of the New York Post. 2000 volunteers got together to pass out the “fake” paper that detailed the lethal effects of global warming within the next few decades. The paper was created by The Yes Men and a coalition of activists as a wake-up call to action on climate change. You might remember The Yes Men from earlier this summer when we reported how they were planning to fix the world. Although the 32-page New York Post isn’t, everything in it is 100% true, with all facts carefully checked by a team...
Obama has been noticeably quiet on the topic of climate change so far. Sure, he spoke up a little to support the climate bill, but most of the encouragement was made privately to House Reps and insiders. With the climate bill barely passing in the House, its counterpart now languishing in the Senate, and many unsure of what, exactly the president’s thoughts on climate change are, maybe it’s high time for a big, rousing speech. And he’s got one planned for the end of the month–will it help unite Americans around the cause of fighting climate change? Obama is of course well...
Here’s a sobering thought for your Friday morning: Mongabay reports a new study by the Population Reference Bureau shows that by 2011 world population will hit 7 billion people. That’s just twelve years after it hit 6 billion, and 24 since it hit 5 billion: As you may very well be aware, population growth is being driven nearly entirely by the developing world — despite signs in parts of Asia population growth is slowing. In particular, African population is growing most rapidly. The entire continent now has a human population of one billion, with the PRB predicting that in will...
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