Terra eco

Environmental challenges of the chilean mines

Benjamin Cliquet — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 15:06:38 +0200

Third and last article about environmental issues in Chile… This country is the biggest producer of copper in the world and I was curious about potential damage that this exploitation would cause on the environment. Once more, Maria-Teresa Ruiz-Tagle, who was my professor of Environmental Economics at the Universidad de Chile, helped me to understand the main issues on that topic. Two years ago I wrote about the exploitation of tar sands in Canada and the most incredible was the quantity (...) - Greenings from Earth !

The Chilean crisis of energy

Benjamin Cliquet — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 23:13:21 +0200

Welcome back for this second article about Chilean issues. We'll try today to shortly explain the reasons and possible solutions of what some people call the Chilean energy crisis. Maria-Teresa Ruiz-Tagle, researcher and professor at the Faculty of Economics in the Universidad de Chile (she was also my professor of Environmental Economics), answered my questions on this topic in June… Chile suffers currently from very high prices of energy and that affects people and, above all, companies' (...) - Greenings from Earth !

Chile is learning how to recycle

Benjamin Cliquet — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:25:35 +0200

Buenos días ! [Oh yeah, 5 months in a spanish-speaking country, and now I can say « hi » in Spanish, that's impressive…] Let's go for a very few and new articles on this blog. Two years after finishing my trips in Finland, Canada, Romania and Denmark, I'm back from one semester at the Universidad de Chile, in Santiago (studies of economy, with one class of environmental economics), and I have two interviews of university professors in my luggage thanks to which I should be able to write about a (...) - Greenings from Earth !

What I know, what I think I know, what I don't understand and what I hope

Benjamin Cliquet — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:16:40 +0200

Between Hamburg and Copenhagen, crossing the North Sea and observing the many wind farms, it's with inspiration and a bit of nostalgia that I wanted to take stock of this year. After giving the floor to experts met in France, Finland, Canada, Romania and Denmark soon, I decided to be more selfish this time and give free rein to my convictions, my bitterness and my enthusiasm. Here are the results of a year travelling and meeting the diversity of environmental problems and solutions developed. An unusual report, a review of my ideas that evolved during my travels, my meetings and my reading.

Terra eco

Environmental challenges of the chilean mines

The Chilean crisis of energy

Chile is learning how to recycle

What I know, what I think I know, what I don't understand and what I hope

In Kalundborg, some G. Pauli's ideas applied without G. Pauli

Christiania by its inhabitants

Why Denmark is green ?

When the river navigation goes against the protection of the environment

The Danube, an international polluted river

From Vancouver to Galati

Vancouver takes care of its footprint

"Gravity in the mountains moves the water for us"

Waste management : transatlantic comparisons

Building the future

Gardening in Vancouver

"Greenest City" : marketing strategy or clever ambition ?

The role of cities in global policies

Vancouver lets people express themselves

Vancouver shows its ambitions

Oil sands, "not a disaster"

There's enough space for everyone !

A city built for transit system

Green economy : how to build it

Which urban forests for Vancouver ?

Forests have to adapt to economic and ecologic changes

Drinking water threatened by ocean tides

Ask your questions about Vancouver being the Greenest City by 2020

Public transport, not for North America ?

The complementarity of hydro and wind power in Quebec

The Quebecois against the albertine bad example

Canada, late for Kyoto

What I will remember from Finland...