Every building I’ve been in here has terrible energy efficiency: cold, damp, often you can see the outside world through gaps between windows and walls. Property renters have no incentive to improve energy efficiency (because tenants foot the bill) and there aren’t even well-known ways to recycle energy efficient lightbulbs (try bringing one back to the shop where you bought it). No, I’m sorry, Brussels as a Green Capital is a joke.

And that’s not to mention the longest hours of traffic jams in Europe and levels of pollution that the EC considers illegal.

I mean, if you want to include the big forest south of Brussels proper as part of Brussels Capitale, then I may as well include the whole of the green belt – no, why not the whole of the north Atlantic, – as part of London.

If all our buildings were built to PH standards we could dispense with all fossil fuel use in our buildings for ever and enjoy high standards of comfort and internal air quality. We would also have eliminated fuel poverty entirely.

The cost? Negative: it is self financing over the lifetime of the building in energy savings alone. Surely even a tea party headbanger could warm to that, non?

It would be good if both the article and the critique contained data.

this kind of green initiative benefit who exactly? in my view mostly green activists and other watermelon-politicians (socialists who are green on the outside) who can make much ado about nothing (like this article). it is easy to be “solidaire” and green when you spend public money without counting….

it is no surprise to see that you should praise the marxist-minded “économie solidaire” currently being enthusiastically implemented. you sweep under the carpet that it is costly, ideologically motivated and totally fails to deliver growth and jobs. the inconvenient truth is that this kind of initiative (passport or whatever) is diverting effort to save our floundering economy.

your analysis is superficial and not backed up with facts (debt levels, job created). but eh, what’s to stop you praising a progressive prime minister (and former mayor of Nantes) who will go down in the history of our Republic as one of the worst! ….

the good news is that when he falls from ministerial grace he can always recycle as SG of the paleolitic Socialist International like Papandreou, non?

On local level we call it mafia, on international level foreign policy, on domestic level we call it national security. No matter how we call this mafia practices transfered wealth from Americas, Asia, Africa into western world. Dot.

Next for Mali is imperialist colonization. There is natural resorces in this part of Mali, something what western imperialist needs. See documentary Stolen Kosovo. Hollande is war criminal who started war in conflict with all international documents and treaties.

It is commonly understood that Propaganda is usually employed to garner citizens’ support for current political objectives. But, these need to be placed in the proper context, in order to make them appear justified within the greater scheme of things. This fact has long been recognized, and therefore, since the eighteenth century, there has been a concerted effort to consolidate the media, in order to ensure a perception of reality, that was commensurate with the objectives of the powers that be.
http://www.thedyinggod.com/

The truth is said in one of the movies form series: Why powerty? Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty.
In this documentary is said the truth similar to Livingston in The Dying God that western civilization is created myth. The thruth is that until 15th century western europe was by god forgotten part of the world. All was changed by tip of a gun. And that’s still in efect.

From the invention of the decimal system in mathematics to the noble philosophy of ahimsã, Hindus have contributed their share in all fields of knowledge and learning. Over five thousand years ago, when Europeans were only nomadic forest dwellers, ancient Hindus had established a civilization, known as the Harappan culture, in the Indus Valley, the northwestern region of India. When much of the world was still sunk in sleep, people of the Harappan culture were conducting trade workshops in weaving, bead-making, pottery, dying of fabrics, and metallurgy.
http://veda.wikidot.com/do-you-know

Actually, if you look at wikipedia R1A DNA distribution you can see that Vedic part, Northwest India belongs to R1A DNA. And it runs thru Asia to Baltic where Lithuanian language is Sanskrit itself, as once were all Slavic languages.

The western world knows that the sun is setting on it unless they can continue to grab and exploiut Africa’s resources to benefit the west and not Africa. The western world was so disproportionately rich, its wealth depends on other areas disproportionate poverty.

I have seen and heard a lot the imperialist explanation in Mali. I still wait for the slightest piece of evidence.