Paris International Agriculture Fair
The international fair of agriculture 2011 give you rendez-vous at the Porte de Versailles, in the South of Paris, 19-February 27, 2011. This exhibition fair organized annually is the largest agricultural fair France, and is a huge hit to the general public.
The international fair of agriculture, the first edition took place in 1964, became in time a popular event that exceeds and much, the only professional public: 650 000 visitors in 2010, including 93 000 professionals and more than 400,000 families.
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Categories: Events Tags: Agriculture ministry, Environment, Ministry of Agriculture
Plants Combat Pollution
Last year was a “pretty good” one for Phytorestore, according to CEO Thierry Jacquet. This small company is the French market leader in a promising, but still marginal sector, phytoremediation, or more simply, using plants to mitigate pollution.
In Response to the Cold
“Cold” waves are episodes of cold weather characterized by their persistence (at least two days), their intensity and geographic scope. To allow everyone to adapt its movements and activities, weather France offers detailed meteorological vigilance card.
Categories: Living in France Tags: Asthma, Common cold, Disaster/Accident, Environment, Frostbite, Injuries, Medical emergencies, Medicine, Mountaineering, Weather
More efficient housing energy
As a result of the round table on the environment, many relating to energy, in the heart of public policy, devices are now available to individuals.
Categories: Property Tags: Business/Finance, efficient, energy, Energy conservation, Environment, housing
Timber Frames and Conditions The World
Land is made up of different types of terrain largely by the situation of the soil, boulders and the timber. It could be as woodland, as mountains or mountainous, as desert or rolling flat-lands.
Yet land without trees, like the Nullabor (no timber) plains in Australia, is bare except for salt shrubbery, some local flora and animals. Furthermore, being waterless, these plains are very hot, unproductive and unwanted.
Land with lots of timber is fruitful, cool, humid, appealing and also substantially alive. Whenever we remove the trees from this type of territory what exactly are we all doing to the earth?
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Categories: Environment Tags: Australia, Biology, Deforestation, Environment, Forestry, Geography and ecology of the Everglades, Land use, Mangrove, Natural environment, Nature, Plant, Soil, Tree
Anthrax Polluted Heroin Alarms France
The French health ministry released an alert on Tuesday just after eight individuals died and seven became ill in two European countries through using heroin contaminated with anthrax.
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Categories: News Tags: Anthrax, Disaster/Accident, Environment, France, General Directorate for Health, Germany, Heroin, Law/Crime, Livestock, Scotland, substance, Zoonoses
Extreme Toilets in France
Living in France, you get used to the idea that toilet facilities are not always what you might expect. As many seasoned motorists will know, a trip down the autoroute will expose you to some of the extremes.
Categories: Environment, Utilities Tags: designer, energy, Environment, France, Human waste, Imperial College, London, Sanitation, Sewerage, Toilet, urban infrastructure, Viginia Gardiner, Virginia, Waste, Waste collection, Waste management, Water