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Today's featured article

Grow your own lily of the valley
Is this the only option for Mother's day?

May is a month with plenty of occasions to wish to buy and offer flowers...

Starting with May 1 when French speaking countries traditionally offer lily of the valley.

But let's remember what the huge amounts of flowers grown intensively imply for the environment and for some poor local populations!

Learn more...


Tips

Décharge sauvage de Montvendre.jpg

If ever you happen to stumble on a dump spot while having a walk in the countryside or in the forest, you can easily take action and join the World clean up 2012 movement!

Use the site's digital tools to alert and raise awareness, convince people to join and help sweep the planet!

The more events, the healthier our planet!

Remember the motto :

Act local, think global. Learn more...

Today's featured picture

Solar oven for cooking. Homegrown vegetables can be cooked for free, no food miles, no fossil fuel ; as we prepare and wash the vegetables outside, we can water the garden plants with this water and dump the peelings in the compost bin (everything being at hand) : a minimum impact on the environment and the reward is ... it's so very tasty! no fat in the vessel and the savours mix wonderfully!

Solar oven for cooking. Homegrown vegetables can be cooked for free, no food miles, no fossil fuel ; as we prepare and wash the vegetables outside, we can water the garden plants with this water and dump the peelings in the compost bin (everything being at hand) : a minimum impact on the environment and the reward is ... it's so very tasty! no fat in the vessel and the savours mix wonderfully!

Did you know...

Hybrid vehicles are an intermediary solution between conventionnal vehicles and electric vehicles. The idea is making the thermic motor run with a slightly harder charge than necessary, and use this extra energy to charge batteries.

Trick and easy way

Let's see how to insert an image in an article. First of all, it must be uploaded on Ekopedia's Base. Then, you use the Ekopedia syntax to reveal it.

A few examples:

· [[Image:Keyboard.jpg]] will post the original size.
· [[Image:Keyboard.jpg|200px]] imposes a size.
· [[Image:Keyboard.jpg|200px|right]] forces aligning right.
· [[Image:Keyboard.jpg|200px|right|A keyboard]] adds a legend.
· [[Image:Keyboard.jpg|200px|thumb|A keyboard]] creates a frame on the right.

Privilege images free of rights, and good quality.
Do not forget to make a description of the image.

Observation

More than one century of industrial development, economic growth and intensive exploitation of nature has led us to a world where we can travel cheaply to anywhere in the world, import food, clothes and materials from any country, yet we are slowly destroying the very earth which keeps us alive. Despite increases in automation, we are working harder and harder, and neglecting our home lives to fulfil the demands of industry. The brave new world promised to us by technology has not arrived. Instead it has led to an increased gap between rich and poor within most countries and between countries. Cultures once unique and distinct are slowly merging into variations of Western popular culture. Languages and species are dying out. The outlook is gloomy! We have a very strong responsibility to the future which we will create. If we wish to provide a better environment to our children (and ourselves), we will thus have to modify our ways of life and our manner of consuming. Currently, to provide for his needs, Humanity must call upon the industry of consumption.

« We must define the techniques together allowing us to build a better world. » 
Jean-Luc Henry, President of the Ekopedia Foundation

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