Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and ecology. What is EcoCoin?

Sustainable development: are crypto-currencies becoming “eco-friendly”? Decrease in their ecological impact and example of an ecological cryptocurrency with the Eco Coin Bitcoin has often been criticized by environmentalists because of its high cost in electricity. But in 2020, many solutions centered around virtual currencies now make it possible to combine ecological responsibility and blockchain. […]

Bitcoins: recharge an electric car and pay in cryptocurrency!

 Bitcoin is indeed this cryptographic currency that has taken trading platforms by storm and destabilized stock market experts for the past ten years, and since then, other virtual currencies have emerged such as Ethereum Classic, the one of the 10 most traded cryotocurrencies, Litecoin or Ripple. A concept at first glance completely virtual which does not affect in […]

Green finance is gaining ground in France

Green finance, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary today, is attracting more and more players, from companies to States, wishing to appropriate this major climate financing tool. Almost ten years after the first green operations carried out in 2008 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank, the success of loans intended to finance […]

Broken prices and low cost. Economic blessing or danger?

Low Cost: aided by considerable technological progress over the past two centuries, economic strategies have been guided by insatiable "capitalist" challenges, always more demanding in terms of profits and always justified by the intervention of the invisible hand (1) "supposed to optimize for the greater number the result of choice responding to […]

The stakes of a new development model

After several centuries when science, the model of economic development and the technological developments which resulted from it have enchanted and made dream the world, at least the Western world, here is that a thousand pitfalls have arisen so that these "progress" have become questionable, subjects with caution, because of their serious impact with irreversible consequences […]

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Energy Label: improve information on energy performance and product durability

Energy label: The UFC has just published a study on the performance and durability of products which are a growing concern for consumers. While the revision of the Energy Label Directive is still underway at European level, UFC - Que Choisir publishes the final results of a qualitative survey (1) which highlights the very […]

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Opé2017, participatory platform against planned obsolescence

Please find below the press release from the UFC relating to the launch of the Opé2017 participatory platform against planned obsolescence! Decided to include the issue of organized obsolescence in the programs of candidates for the 2017 presidential and legislative elections, seven associations (C2C Community, DemocracyOS, GreenIT.fr, Halte à l'Obsolescence Programmée (HOP), Les Amis de la [ …]

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Ma-Bonne-Action.com, solidarity marketing, humanitarian and charitable

Econologie.com presents Ma-Bonne-Action.com, a solidarity, humanitarian and charitable marketing initiative by Laurent Berthelot. An Ulule campaign has just been launched. Explanations. Take back control of your data and make it a good deed. Choose: when, what and how to receive the good deals that concern you. For each advertisement viewed, you fund associations for free. " Do you want […]

Economy: from a certain prosperity to a gradual austerity

Economy and Society: from a certain prosperity to progressive austerity or from the welfare state to the police state. The political debate is largely confined to the sole domain of the management of the conflicting interests of the various social categories, through political formations supposed to ensure sufficient compromises for the maintenance of the social structure. Most of […]