Environmental challenges of the chilean mines 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. 24/09/2013

The Chilean crisis of energy 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 (...) 17/09/2013

Chile is learning how to recycle 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 (...) 17/09/2013

What I know, what I think I know, what I don’t understand and what I hope 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 (...) 9/08/2011

In Kalundborg, some G. Pauli’s ideas applied without G. Pauli As I found the ideas of Gunter Pauli (Belgian entrepreneur) just great, here is, as a last article before a very special blog review, a summary of "Upsizing" by Gunter Pauli and I associate it with the example of an “industrial symbiosis” in Kalundborg, (...) 4/08/2011

Christiania by its inhabitants As I was in Copenhagen, I went to Christiania. I had been told it was a hippie neighbourhood and a no-law zone. I met a few inhabitants. 22/07/2011

Why Denmark is green ? Why is Denmark often considered as a model of sustainable development ? Thanks to their wind energy, but not only... 21/07/2011

When the river navigation goes against the protection of the environment Let’s talk again with Petruta, who explains here how and why the navigation on the Danube is an important environmental and maybe diplomatic issue. 2/07/2011

The Danube, an international polluted river I finally got back to my blogger activities that I missed so much. I interviewed Petruta Moisi, retired and founder of the NGO ECCG (Eco-Councelling Center Galati) for which I worked five weeks in Galati, Romania. In this first of my two articles, Petruta talks about the main environmental (...) 26/06/2011

From Vancouver to Galati Last April, I left Canada, ending a 3-month stay in the Maple Leaf territory. One month in Québec, two in Vancouver, here are my impressions... 17/06/2011