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The diesel engine
Diesel engines are more efficient, more reliable, easier to repair, and more polyvalent than gasoline engines. Diesel engines produce combustion particles, but their ecological footprint can be reduced through the use of filters and additives. Like all combustion engines, they pollute, but they are the most efficient — meaning they use less fuel and emit…
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Chicken or Pork nuggets
Don’t buy industrial nuggets. Make them yourself; it doesn’t take any longer than defrosting them, and it’s very simple. They are made with chickens fed type 2 corn. The meat is minced and mixed with flour made from the same corn and high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), which is also derived from corn. The breading…
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Tasty and healthy
“Food is our first medicine”. Hippocrates There’s too much sugar and water in low-quality food. The community pays for the care associated with the illnesses this causes, while the agri-food industry are subsidized with community money to be cheaper. Poor-quality food costs the community far too much. We should be subsidizing good-quality, environmentally-friendly and worker-friendly…
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Hydrogen-powered aircraft
Which is better, the plane or the train? The plane pollutes more, but it’s faster, more convenient and cheaper than the train. Trains are expensive in terms of infrastructure and space: stations, rails, track maintenance, etc. Oil lobbies compete with nuclear lobbies. Yet aviation and ecology can be reconciled. Hydrogen-powered aircraft pollute less than trains.…
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Retirement pensions
Why should we pay pensions higher than average incomes to people who have earned their money by polluting without any solidarity with the rest of the people or with future generations (oil, nuclear, pharmaceutical industries, banks, etc.)? If they earned more than the average salary when they were working, they were able to invest their…
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Free public transport
Free public transport can be a way of getting more people to use it, and of developing it further. This enables us to fight pollution, limit road infrastructure, limit the use of cars and thus ease traffic congestion, give greater independence to young people, the elderly and others who can’t get around by car, and…
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Fund
According to the latest International Monetary Fund (IMF) report on energy subsidies, “fossil fuels account for 85 percent of all global subsidies,” and reducing these subsidies “would have lowered global carbon emissions by 28 percent and fossil fuel air pollution deaths by 46 percent, and increased government revenue by 3.8 percent of GDP.” – Global…
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Sun Cream
Différences entre écran solaire minéral et filtre UV chimique – ecocentric: https://www.ecocentric.fr/blog/index/billet/14446_filtres-solaires-nanos Hawaii approves sunscreen ban in an effort to save coral reefs – TreeHugger: https://www.treehugger.com/ocean-conservation/hawaii-approves-sunscreen-ban-effort-save-coral-reefs.html La crème solaire est-elle vraiment efficace ?: https://youtu.be/LF6qK6j3vco Which sunscreen should you choose? – Mary Poffenroth – Ted ed: https://youtu.be/JX8rv_natkw To check if your sunscreen is good for your…
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Healthy Hair, The advice of a Wookie for hair
To be adapted to your hair type. Shampoo: 1 beaten egg (optional)+ 2 scoops of neutral washing gel (for instance Hipp Gel lavant: https://www.migros.ch/fr/product/513245000000). Leave for a minute and then rinse with cold / warm water to avoid cooking the egg. You can also use a natural shampoo (for example: Alepia shampoo with organic argan…
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Patterson
The Most Important Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of – Mental Floss: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/94569/clair-patterson-scientist-who-determined-age-earth-and-then-saved-it