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'Biodiversity, it's now or never' by Julia Marton-Lefèvre (IUCN)

Actualité GoodPlanet — 2010-02-26T15:12:15Z

Our food comes from supermarkets, our water from the tap, and our medicine from the pharmacy. One button is normally enough to heat or cool things ; one flush to start decomposing our waste ; one remote control to find cultural or spiritual inspiration. Or so it often seems. It is easy to forget that all of this, without exception, comes directly or indirectly from nature. The fundamental realities of our life on earth have not changed.

6 billion Others – Scientists talk

Actualité GoodPlanet — 2010-02-16T08:24:45Z

Global warming is no longer a hypothesis but a fact. The phenomenon is global and affects various aspects of our world and our lives, so scientists from diverse disciplines have worked to gain the most complete understanding of it. These scientists have written thousands of pages of articles and/or technical reports ; but being interviewed by the 6 billion Others' team, they summarized the critical points in one or two minutes.

Our organic waste recovery as agricultural compost project in Madagascar has been validated

Actualité GoodPlanet — 2010-02-15T10:22:50Z

Our project of organic waste recovery as compost for agricultural use in Madagascar, supported by Action Carbone in partnership with the NGOs Tananamadio and Gevalor, has been validated by Bureau Veritas according to the VCS label (Voluntary Carbon Standard). This validation, rewarding a long-term work on the field, makes this greenhouse gas emissions reduction project, the first one in Madagascar to be validated by VCS label. It will allow the reduction of 150 000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent in the next 10 years. Before launching the project, waste was stored in air in a landfill, and methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, was emitted. The production of compost from waste can reduce these emissions.

Overcoming the Copenhagen Failure by Joseph E. Stiglitz

Actualité GoodPlanet — 2010-02-04T11:43:23Z

Pretty speeches can take you only so far. A month after the Copenhagen climate conference, it is clear that the world's leaders were unable to translate rhetoric about global warming into action.The failure of Copenhagen was not the absence of a legally binding agreement. The real failure was that there was no agreement about how to achieve the lofty goal of saving the planet, no agreement about reductions in carbon emissions, no agreement on how to share the burden, and no agreement on help for developing countries.

The Gold Standard officially registered two biogas tanks' construction projects in India and China, funded by GoodPlanet.

Actualité GoodPlanet — 2010-01-25T09:18:29Z

The team of our Action Carbone Programme is pleased to announce the Gold Standard registrations of our biogas tanks construction's projects conducted with NGOs "SKG Sangha" in India and " Initiative Development" in China. These international recognitions reward several years of fieldwork and attest that these projects promote sustainable development. The biogas tanks in place allow our beneficiaries to benefit a renewable energy to adress their energetical lighting and cooking needs while significantly reducing their impacts on climate change and immediate environment.

CNN "Burning Bio-char" coverage on our "Terra preta" project in India

Actualité GoodPlanet — 2010-01-15T15:38:32Z

Our “Terra preta” project in India aims at promoting an innovative technology to produce and bury biochar to sequester carbon and improve soil fertility. This project distributes improved domestic cookers, and also carbonises agricultural waste through a process known as pyrolisis. The second branch of this process is the resulting production of so-called biochar, which is burried in the agricultural soils to achieve fertility gains. We are glad to work on these issues with the Indian-based NGO GEO. Find out more in this recent CNN coverage

A 6 billion Others exhibition in Burma

Actualité GoodPlanet — 2010-01-11T15:59:53Z

On the 9th of January, a 6 billion Others exhibition has been launched at the Rangoon ‘Alliance française' in Burma. It will last until the 17th of January. A 17 thematic movies selection, the project making-of and the mosaic film as well are shown to the public. You can also discover the video interviews of thousands of men and women from all around the world sharing thoughts about their lives, their fears, their will and much more. You as well, get involved in the project and leave your own testimony on www.6billionothers.org

'Ecoligical debt in Africa' by Andrew Simms

Actualité GoodPlanet — 2010-01-07T16:27:32Z

The elephant is still standing. And, still dead. Around its feet glisten hundreds of coins thrown by museum visitors. They could be wishes made on the soul of the departed animal. Or, small gestures of recompense in lieu of the fate of the land that was once its home. Room after room is full of animals stuffed and perched rigidly against crudely realised backdrops of African forest and grassland. Another long room surveys Africa's global economic contribution, maps on the wall dissect and label each country, tagging them like the worn, stuffed big cats and apes, and fish pickled in jars. This is Africa as a cornucopia of natural wealth to be mined, harvested, picked, squeezed and taken.

What can YOU do to fight climate change ?

Actualité GoodPlanet — 2009-12-09T10:07:54Z

The Copenhagen summit just ended. On a more individual scale, what can you do in your daily life to lower your own carbon footprint and fight climate change ? Through our program Action Carbone, companies, institutions and particulars have the opportunity to measure and reduce their carbon footprint, funding projects with high environmental, economic and social benefits in energy efficiency or renewable energies' fields to avoid GreenHouse Gas emissions at their source.

Get a better climate change uderstanding

Actualité GoodPlanet — 2009-12-09T10:05:00Z

Being ‘green' requires more than simple will. It requires a clear knowledge of nowadays environmental issues. This is why we created GoodPlanet Info, a website to know all about the main challenges for the planet including climate change. 2000 pages of scientific articles, debates and editorials by the best specialists, put into perspective by current events, videos from all over the world and a big interactive world map presenting the state of the environment in the world. We also just published “2 degrees too high”, a book to understand everything on climate change that can be readen for free on GoodPlanet Info as well.