This is pretty sad, I had to go all the way to the New York Times to read about an initiative going on in my hometown, Paris, France. Admittedly, we French(wo)men are somewhere on the other side of weird. But when you keep this in mind, the latest campaign to make the city “greener” doesn’t seem that offputting. Parisians are [...]

Yesterday Eric Schmidt – Google’s CEO -, in its way back from Berlin, was in Paris. He met with the French president – Nicolas Sarkozy – and also announced new Google’s projects for the firm’s development in France. Schmidt announced the creation of a R&D center in Paris, an European cultural institute – in Paris too I guess -, more investments into [...]

Since I noticed what heat Paris Metro creates – especially when metros stop with heavy brakes usage, or even when it’s running on its track – I thought that it would be a very interesting source of energy. Well, few days ago I read some articles which exposed a project, in Paris Metro, to use the warmth generated in our subway to [...]

M. and I really like to talk about Haussman and Napoléon. I’m quite sure everyone knows Napoléon, but Georges Eugène Haussman is not that famous – especially out of France. Georges Eugène Haussman was born in 1809, He has been prefect of  Seine – of Paris – in 1853, during Napoléon III’s reign, the French ruler of that time – who re-established [...]