On French territory alone, nearly 1,000 coastal communities are exposed to the risk of marine submersion and the cost of the damage caused by storms increases with each phenomenon. In order to help communities limit damage to coastal infrastructures in the event of a storm, a
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Precious resource, the water will run out. And, faced with the risk of drought forecast for this year 2019, after the rather severe drought of 2018, the Ministry of Ecological and Solidarity Transition wants to put in place a number of preventive and indispensable measures in France, as concern is being felt. Indeed, the
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MADE.com, the digital brand of design furniture, launches MADE Labs, its technological innovation laboratory. Objective ? To promote a unique brand experience, both online and in the brand's showrooms. A launch that is in line with the latest technological innovations offered by MADE.com to its customers because this platform
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The Société du Grand Paris presents the "Horizon 2030" pavilion at the first Biennial of Architecture and Landscape in the Paris Region (Bap!) From May 3 to July 13, 2019 in Versailles, the "Horizon 2030" pavilion will showcase the ambition and projects of the Grand Paris Express in terms of architecture,
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What if architecture could be thought and designed to foster and promote mental and physical well-being within living and working spaces? An innovative approach that could well lead to new architectural thinking. Plato's ideas on universal beauty and geometric proportion,
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How can we revive a maritime freight industry whose particularity is to combine historical traditions with modern progress? This is the interest and curiosity of the TOWT project which is about to set sail with the lugger "Grayhound", despite the uncertain waters of the Brexit ... The merchant navy under sail
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The relationship between the French and their public services has always had an air of "je t'aime, moi non plus". There are too many, not enough... A troubled relationship with peaks of discontent that can be heard today on every street corner, in every square...
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See you Saturday March 30th for Earth Hour - 60 minutes for the planet! And this year, for the first time, the WWF is organizing a live talk show between 8:00 pm and 8:35 pm at the foot of the Eiffel Tower (1). Scientists' alerts are multiplying to highlight the unprecedented decline
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It is well known that spring arrives with its desire for changes: cleaning, storage, decoration, ... It is therefore the time to take advantage of the latest innovations in terms of painting. The latest one is based on algae. Portrait of these new materials, which are called bio-sourced and which are moreover
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75 % of jobs today require mastery of digital skills. Job seekers are therefore not all equal when it comes to finding a job. On Wednesday 13 March, Emmaus Connect inaugurated its 12th digital solidarity space in France in Strasbourg, in the presence of Mounir Mahjoubi, Emmaus' Secretary General.
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En matière d’information entre les droits de l’homme et l’environnement, l’accord d’Escazù signé en mars 2018 est un exemple réussi d’accès du public à la justice climatique dans la zone Amérique latine / Caraïbes. Alors que la communauté internationale réfléchit aux options possibles pour renforcer l’effectivité du droit international de l’environnement
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Digital technology has become the new theatre of international conflicts between states but also with industrial players, as Edward Snowden revealed in his time on the surveillance practiced by the NSA. This is a new challenge facing states, economic actors and citizens themselves,
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It will be a technological revolution with major social and cultural impacts that the arrival on the market of autonomous cars will bring. The result will be real business opportunities, even for companies that have not yet forged any apparent links with the automotive industry, such as Alphabet's autonomous driving subsidiary, Alphabet
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This Friday, March 8, 2019, Energy Observer, the first hydrogen ship around the world, will be relaunched in Saint-Malo after a long optimization project. The technical objective of this project is precisely to test, validate and make reliable technological innovations under the harshest conditions, which will be those of
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Camouflage does not mean invisibility and yet this is what soldiers have always aspired to in order to better surprise their enemies... Taking their inspiration from the famous camouflaged animal, the chameleon, Nexter's weapons industry researchers are developing a highly technical skin capable of reproducing the colours and
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Alors que vient de s’ouvrir le SIA – Salon International de l’agriculture – ce samedi 23 février à Paris, les portes des Rencontres internationales de l’agriculture du vivant se sont refermées à la Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, avec le résultat des Trophées de cette édition 2019. Ces Trophées de
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Et si l’agriculture française devenait le premier fournisseur d’énergie renouvelable ? Car les enjeux liés à l’énergie, aux Gaz à effet de serre (GES) et au changement climatique interpellent de plus en plus les agriculteurs. Toutefois, les agriculteurs qui possèdent une quantité suffisante de déchets n’ont parfois pas les ressources financières
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The innovative architectural projects presented on January 17th for the 8th edition of the Fondation Jacques Rougerie 2018 international architecture competition had to be in one of these two universes: SPACE, a field of technological developments and applications that are essential for the future of our civilization (which has been the subject of
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For the past three months, France seems to have been bewitched by the Yellow Vests movement. At first, the demonstrations, the occupation of roundabouts, the emergence of new figures, attracted the sympathy of a majority of our fellow citizens. But as time went by, the movement shrank like a skin of sorrow, leaving only a few of our fellow citizens with a sense of belonging.
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To wage the climate war, you need money, and a lot of money. Where do you get it? In the pockets of populations, citizens already in great economic distress, or peoples threatened with the end of their world? To try to win the climate battle, we need 1,000 billion
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