The city of Lyon has revealed its Oxygen Plan, an initiative to improve air quality across the urban territory. The plan was conceived as a response to an ever more critical issue, since an estimated 40 000 deaths per year are due to air pollution in France, as well as many forms of cancer and other illnesses. In a survey conducted by the city authorities, 83% of the city residents...
Among the large number of startups present at Cleantech Forum in 2016, one venture particularly stood out – Electroad, an Israeli startup that aims to make us reconsider our concept of electricity-based public transportation. The size of battery needed to power a bus would take up a huge amount of space, would weigh one-third as much as the bus itself and would cost half the...
April 1st sees the start of the neighbourhood composting week, an event sponsored by ADEME, the French Agency for the Environment and Energy Management. The aim of this initiative is to promote local composting through the organization of events in many municipalities in France. At the time of publication, nearly 300 events are planned in more than 150 municipalities, giving a total of around 1,000 hours of accumulated animation....
