BART system starts issuing bans against passengers
Source: Big News Network
Bart :: France | updated 2013-05-06 15:13:19 -0700 | green-news
California have to officially be on their best behavior beginning this Monday: a new law that lets transit police ban unruly passengers, troublemakers and even protestors starts this week. San Francisco/Oakland area as part of one of the largest mass-transit...
Flooding plagues eastern France
Source: United Press International
Dijon :: France | updated 2013-05-04 11:38:27 -0700 | green-news
Officials in eastern France ordered evacuations Saturday after torrential rains hit the Burgundy region. Some residents of Dijon were ordered out of their homes to escape the rising waters of the Ouche river, which overflowed its banks, after a month's...
Chinese River's Fate May Reshape a Region
Source: International Herald Tribune
Neuilly :: France | updated 2013-05-04 11:24:47 -0700 | green-news
The Chinese government stunned environmentalists this year by reviving plans to build a series of hydropower dams on the upper reaches of the Nu, one of the Asia's wildest rivers.
OM Group inks deal to sell its Ultra Pure Chemicals units in three countries
Source: Crain's Cleveland Business
Paris :: France | updated 2013-04-29 14:56:08 -0700 | green-news
The producer of specialty chemicals said the sale is expected to close before the end of June,.
New research suggests Earth's core much hotter than once thought
Posted by: arkar
Paris :: France | updated 2013-04-26 23:58:48 -0700 | green-news
Basic science lessons from school have always taught us that the planet Earth, though covered in oceans and land masses and enveloped in an atmosphere, is essentially a ball of iron, around which exists all this rocky and living mass....
France cuts domestic CO2 emissions by 14 percent since 1980
Posted by: Robert Myles
Paris :: France | updated 2013-04-26 13:16:20 -0700 | green-news
New figures released by the French national statistics office show the French reduced their domestic CO2 emissions by almost 14 percent over the 30 years between 1980 and 2010. The recent figures contain some revealing facts pointing to price increases...
Energy efficiency expert: A sole CO2 target for 2030 would be dangerous (Interview)
Source: Euractiv
Paris :: France | updated 2013-04-24 23:35:59 -0700 | green-news
Bernard Laponche is an engineer who helped to develop the first French nuclear plants before becoming alarmed by the potential risks of the technology. He has since worked as an energy efficiency consultant for several countries including Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria,...
Cannes: LevelK Takes Finnish Doc Hit 'Tale of a Forest'
Source: Hollywood Reporter Film
Cannes :: France | updated 2013-04-24 08:15:41 -0700 | green-news
The lush look at the woodlands of Northern Finland has become the country's best-selling documentary...LevelK will introduce the film to international buyers at the Cannes film market next month.
Monsanto vs. Mother Earth: Join the millions who have already signed the petition to take back ...
Source: Natural News
Paris :: France | updated 2013-04-24 02:28:24 -0700 | green-news
The world's most evil corporation, Monsanto, has taken a new interest in conventional food crops, which the company is currently trying to seize ownership of in Europe by exploiting a little-known loophole in European patent law. And a petition created...
French companies unveil second generation floating wind-turbines
Posted by: Robert Myles
Brest :: France | updated 2013-04-24 03:28:38 -0700 | green-news
French companies Nass & Wind and naval defence contractor DCNS recently presented details of their next generation floating wind turbine development programme at the Thetis Marine Renewable Energy show held in Brest on April 10 and 11. During 2012, advances...
Peak farmland" is here, food crop area to fall
Posted by: kjang07
Paris :: France | updated 2012-12-19 09:35:18 -0800 | green-news
The amount of land needed to grow crops worldwide is at a peak and an area more than twice the size of France can return to nature by 2060 due to rising yields and slower population growth, a group of...
Energy transition on the go in France
Posted by: Energy_2050
Paris :: France | updated 2013-03-19 15:51:47 -0700 | green-news
A national debate will be launched later this year to discuss France's 'energy transition'. The results of the debate will be used in formulating a new energy policy bill in mid-2013. Meanwhile, the directors of the country's nuclear power plant...
Researchers develop packaging that you can eat
Posted by: arkar
Paris :: France | updated 2012-06-16 15:58:18 -0700 | green-news
A walk down any street will reveal the numerous garbage cans and waste bins that dot cities in an attempt to keep them clean. Of course, these result from the countless refuse that people dispose off every day from cans...
CBI seeks inquiry into Rs 120-crore ?scam? by...
Source: Indian Express
Pau :: France | updated 2012-06-23 19:31:56 -0700 | sports-news
CBI seeks inquiry into Rs 120-crore scam by FCI officials '+google_ads[i].line2 +' '+google_ads[i].line3 + ' The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sought directions from Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday for registration of a preliminary inquiry against unknown officials...
The solar market in France: still a positive outlook for 2011
Posted by: ElectricalEfficiencyMag
Paris :: France | updated 2012-04-19 07:24:19 -0700 | green-news
Total photovoltaic capacity grew tenfold between 2008 and 2010: targets for 2012 set by the Grenelle Environment Forum (1100 MW power) will already be widely exceeded in the coming months. But this successful kick-start has caused the French Ministry of...
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