Posted in IT, ambiente, cooperation, cooperazione, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energia, energy, enviroment, green, health, international organization, network, ngo, ong, pace, peace, resource, risorse, salute, security, sustainability, technology, tagged agassi, auto, automobili, battery, better place, car, cars, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, electric car, energia, energy, exchangeable battery, network, nissan, oil, renault, renewable, renewable energy, renewable fuels, shai agassi, sustainability, sustainable energy, transport, transportation, zero emission on March 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Better Place is a project of Shai Agassi, he said a mission, to achieve sustainable transportation, global energy independence and freedom from oil. Better Place does not makes cars but embraces a joint venture with Nissan – Renault which are building zero-emission electric cars and exchangeable batteries.
Better Place network will provide [...]
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Posted in ambiente, cooperation, cooperazione, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, enviroment, green, resource, risorse, sustainability, technology, tagged ambiente, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, enviroment, green, risparmio, save, spare, technology on February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SPRANQ creates ecofont: “Appealing ideas are often simple: how much of a letter can be removed while maintaining readability? After extensive testing with all kinds of shapes, the best results were achieved using small circles. After lots of late hours this resulted in a font that uses up to 20% less ink. Free to download, [...]
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Posted in ambiente, ecologia, ecosostenibilità, energia, lobby, pace, politica, risorse, salute, sicurezza, tagged 133/2008, 23bis, acqua, articolo 23 bis, d.l. 112, decreto legge 112, finanziaria triennale, privatizzazione, tremonti on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In tutto il mondo, Paesi ricchi e poveri, è in atto da tempo una lotta fondamentale tra la società civile e le compagnie private (come le francesi Vivendi Environment, Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux e Saur o la tedesca Rwe/Thames water) contro la privatizzazione delle risorse idriche e per rivendicare il diritto [...]
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Posted in ambiente, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energia, energy, enviroment, green, health, international organization, ngo, ong, resource, risorse, salute, sustainability, tagged acqua, ambiente, biodiversità, carburanti, cibo, CO2, cooperation, degradation, degrado, depletion, development, diversity of life, earth, ecologia, ecosistema, ecosistemi, ecosystem, ecosystems, enviroment, fiber, food, forest, fuel, impoverimento, incentivi perversi, legname, life, ma, millenium development goals, natural resources, nature, povertà, resources, risorse naturali, social ecosystem assessment, sustainability, sustainable development, sviluppo, water, well-being on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) was called for by the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2000. Initiated in 2001, the objective of the MA was to assess the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being and the scientific basis for action needed to enhance the conservation and sustainable use of those systems and their [...]
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Posted in ambiente, ecologia, ecosostenibilità, ong, risorse, salute, tagged acquisti, agricoltura, alimenti, ambiente, biologico, consumo critico, costi, ecologia, equità, equosolidale, gas, gruppi di acquisto solidale, guida al consumo critico, imballaggi, locali, prezzi, qualità, solidarietà on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale (GAS) sono gruppi di acquisto che partono un approccio critico al consumo e che vogliono applicare il principio di equità e solidarietà ai propri acquisti. I criteri che guidano la scelta dei fornitori (pur differenti da gruppo a gruppo) in genere sono all’insegna della qualità del [...]
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Posted in ambiente, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, enviroment, health, resource, risorse, salute, society, società, sustainability, tagged agricoltore, agricoltura, biologico, cibo, cost, ecologia, ecologico, farmer, farmers' markets, farmland, farms, filiera corta, grande distribuzione, green, greenmarkets, inquinamento, km 0, locale, locally-grown, market, mercati del contadino, mercato, natural, naturale, naturally, piccole imprese, piccoli agricoltori, pmi, production, qualità, risparmio, sano, spesa, stagionalità, sustainability, territorio, wholesale on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Farmers’ markets, sometimes called greenmarkets, are markets, usually held out-of-doors, in public spaces, where farmers can sell produce to the public.
Farmers’ market produce is renowned for being locally-grown and very fresh. People argue farmers’ markets allow farmers to pick produce at the peak of flavor, preserve the nutritional content of fresh [...]
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Posted in ambiente, cooperazione, ecologia, ecosostenibilità, energia, salute, tagged ambiente, anidride, anidride carbonica, casa, CO2, eco, ecologia, ecosostenibilità, effetto serra, elettrodomestici, enel, energia, inquinamento, lampadine, riscaldamento, risparmio, sostenibilità on November 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
L’Enel propone l’ecodieta per abbassare del 20% ogni anno le emissioni di CO2 uno dei principali responsabili dell’effetto serra. “La vera rivoluzione non è cambiare il mondo” è lo slogan della campagna di sensibilizzazione verso l’ambiente. Visitando la casa virtuale è possibile calcolare il proprio livello medio di produzione di CO2 [...]
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Posted in ambiente, enviroment, health, international organization, people, salute, science, tagged agenti, agents, alchool, benzene, cancer carcinogen, cancro, epstein-barr, factors, fattori, formaldeide, health, helicobacter pylori, hepatitis, hiv, iarc, monographs, nickel, oms, papiloma, rischio, risk, salute, smoke, tumore, who on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is part of the World Health Organization. The IARC Monographs identify environmental factors that can increase the risk of human cancer. Scientists classified agents as to their carcinogenic hazard to humans in accordance with the Preamble to the IARC Monographs:
Group 1: The agent is carcinogenic to humans.
Group [...]
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Posted in ambiente, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, enviroment, resource, risorse, science, sustainability, tagged clima, CO2, ecologia, effetto serra, IPCC, nature, riscaldamento on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nature ha pubblicato uno studio tedesco secondo cui nei prossimi 10 anni avremo una temporanea diminuzione delle temperature dovuta al raffreddamento delle correnti atlantiche, evento che avviene naturalmente ogni 60-70 anni. In termini di tempi del pianeta dieci anni non sono che un battito di ciglia, dal 2020 le temperature riprenderanno a salire come previsto [...]
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