Karakoroum (Mongolia)

• Eco-gesture Office

I select my suppliers. Some of them get ISO 14001 for their environmental management.

ISO 14001 is an international standard that specifies a process for controlling and improving a company's environmental performance. This means that you identify elements of your business that impact on the environment and gain access to the relevant environmental legislation. And you produce objectives for improvement and a management program to achieve them, with regular reviews for continual improvement.

"What do a Del Monte Guatemalan banana plantation, the Toronto airport, a Guinness brewery in Dublin, and the IBM Corporation have in common? They are all registered to ISO 14001". You wanna know more? click here: http://www.homestead.com/iso14001/ISO14000World.html

The site of Dallol (Ethiopia)

• Eco-gesture

I make inquiries about the environment to institutions, associations, professionals... and I share the collected informations with my family and friends circle, teachers, children...

Bazaruto Island (Mozambique).

" The Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed "
Mahatma Gandhi ( 1869-1948 ),
Patriot and Philosopher of India

• The value of goods and services provided by ecosystems is equivalent to twice annual value of human goods.

Tanganyka Lake (Tanzania).

• The Earth is the only known place of the universe where the water comes in liquid form. It covers 71% of the planet. More than 97% of that water is salty and less than 3% is fresh water, if that! The bigger part is held prisoner by ice polars. Thus, the usable water by the man represents less than 1% of the whole water of the planet.

The Nutcracker Bird

The bird who planted trees.
Tireless bird, the nutcracker bird spend his time to plant pin trees on the mountains pastures (Asia and Europe ). Due to his powerful beak, he shells pine cones to extract purple seeds that he is crazy about. He buries them in anticipation of winter, but sometimes he forgets them and from the seed appear suddenly a tree!.

The Cape of Good Hope ( South Africa ).

" There is no point for man in gaining the moon if he ever lost the Earth "

François Mauriac ( 1885-1970 ).

French writer

• More than 80% of the earth's surface is under the human influence ( facilities, urbanization or farms activities ) and there are no more territories really virgin.

Aqua Azul ( Mexico ).

" Forest precedes the peoples; desert follows them "

François René de Chateaubriand (1768-1848)

French writer.

• More than 50% of original forests of the planet have been destroyed and, over remaining forests, only a little part is now protected effectively.

Don't flush our forests and wildlife down the toilet

Did you know that everyday about 270,000 trees are flushed down the drain or end up as garbage all over the world?

Every time you use a toilet roll or other tissue products you might be directly contributing to this environmental destruction.
Tissue products, such as toilet paper, handkerchiefs, kitchen towels and napkins cannot be recycled after their use, for understandable reasons!

So it is important to ensure that the tissue products you buy contain a high level of recycled content.

GREEN: On the right track

YELLOW: Showing some encouraging signs

RED: Needs substantial improvement

Source: WWF

Flight Delta with migratory birds ( France ).

" The library of life burns and we don't even know the titles of books "
Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian political woman.

• 25 to 50% of animal and plant species could disappear before the turn of the century. 1 amphibian out of 3, 1 bird out of 8, 1 mammal out of 4 are in danger.

The Aleutian islands; The Four Mountains archipelago

Eco-gesture:
I avoid the disposable and I use dish towels, sponges to save up and generate less waste. Cleaning-wipe for a single use generate 3 to 6 times as much waste as traditional products.

Nenetz in the Tundra (Siberia)

Over one century, between 1900 and 2000, the number of cities of more than 10 million of inhabitants has gone up from 150 million to 3 thousand million, ie 50% of the world population.
The first five cities the most populated are: Tokyo, Mexico, New-York, Sao Paulo and Shanghai.

Little girl Unas; Larye village (Papua)

" The biodiversity is a symphony of the Living in which every species play her score. It's up to mankind to guess his one to raise the music of the world without a dissonance."
Bernard Boisson, photograph writer.

6 thousand million of humans beings in 2005, 8 thousand million in 2030, 10 million of known living species and only ONE planet.