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Atypical commuting
There are several ways to commute. By foot, by subway, by car, by bicycle, by bus, or by a mix of these. By tramway or boat, by skateboard, by motorcycle or scooter too.
As a resident of Quebec Cit
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Chronic inflation: still insufficient to deflate short-termist illusions?
In April 2001, I was still 15 and knew very little about USA politics. Yet it took a single misleading and high-stakes declaration from its then-president brushing off the Kyoto Protocol to put him at
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Crhypeto propelling Malaysia and Argentina towards gold medals, squeezing every last bit out of Earth
Today's greatest challenges
Preserving our non-renewable natural resources from being wasted
The climate crisis
(and a few more)
What we can do
Minimizing negative externalities
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Dyson sphere
I remember being halfway through high school when I had the idea of optimizing solar energy by putting panels around the Sun and relaying the energy to Earth. I did not promote the idea a lot at the t
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From Climatic Disruption to Ashes to Further Climatic Disruption
The ongoing wildfire season in Canada has been unprecedented. Even though the worse has been in the West for a while, this week, we're seeing smoke in Quebec city again, and there's a new smog warning
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Individual action
A lot of what we hear about environmental damage mitigation is about individual action. Don't eat endangered fish . As for the climate crisis, ''Don't eat beef, Don't eat meat, Don't throw paper in
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La décarbonisation du carbone, ou l'écoblanchiment de l'énergie fossile
Quelle stratégie un pays comme le Canada, devant des précipices démocratiques, environnementaux et économiques, devrait-il choisir? Simplement adopter le ((wpf:Principe pollueur-payeur|principe po
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Le vrai défi Hilo : dépasser les incitatifs pervers
Les effets pervers sont innombrables. Il est ainsi bien connu que l'utilisation d'antibiotiques en agriculture rend l'humain beaucoup plus vulnérable aux bactéries en raison de
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The recycling symbol: the modest origins of a symbol which largely lost its meaning in a throwaway society
Grist has published a long but excellent article by Kate Yoder titled How the recycling symbol lost its meaning . But that article
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The Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age... and the Lead Age?
Minerals have shaped human (pre)history. A few million years after the Stone Age came the Metal Ages . Copper allowed the Copper Age and the Bronze Age, after which
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Unprotocolary protocolist
As a progressive and free (not to say atypical) spirit, I am nonconformist. I have always had difficulty with P rotocol .
But as a computer scientist, as a champion of open standar
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Urgence aux pôles, urgence au Parlement
Le dérèglement climatique n'a rien de nouveau, à notre échelle de temps. Mais malgré tout ce que j'ai déjà lu à ce sujet, j'ai trouvé intéressant (et encore plus effrayant) [https://lactuali
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