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Taiga Company. Blog - www.lesgueulescassees.org. Après 2 mois d'activité le succès de l'initiative ne se dément pas et elle ne cesse de surprendre par l'ampleur qu'elle semble vouloir prendre au fil des semaines.

Blog - www.lesgueulescassees.org

Il y tout d'abord l'accueil incroyable des consommateurs qui ont montré par leur adhésion immédiate que la démarche avait du sens. La mobilisation sur les réseaux sociaux, les messages de soutien reçus chaque jour, le ralliement unanime autour de la démarche a montré un signe fort qui a permis à tous de croire que ces "gueules cassées" devaient retrouver une place en rayon. En magasins les ventes sont partout un succès et les responsables s'étonnent même d'une adhésion aussi rapide de leurs clients pour ce qu'ils attendaient plutôt comme une démarche en simple test au départ. En quelques jours seulement les clients ont acheté et surtout très vite racheté. 100 articles de presse et 100 nouveaux magasins en 15 jours Plus de 100 nouveaux magasins se sont mobilisés lors de cette dernière semaine pour distribuer les produits.

Terra eco. World Leaders Forum Dubai - Annual Meetings. Sustainable Man. Blog. Articles - Alternative Energy Shift - AltEnergyShift. Blog - Sustainable Man. We're your online guide to making conscious choices that help people, animals and the planet. Sierra Club. Sunset Green Home Blog — Sunset Green Home. Naturally, having lost our home due to flood, we've spent a lot of time thinking about water.

Sunset Green Home Blog — Sunset Green Home

But lately, we've also been thinking about fire safety. While our house was rendered uninhabitable by Hurricane Sandy’s storm-surge induced flood waters, 135 homes in Breezy Point, NY and several in Greenwich, CT were destroyed by fire in the same storm. According to the U.S. Fire Administration (a division of FEMA), "More than 3,400 Americans die each year in fires and approximately 17,500 are injured. An overwhelming number of fires occur in the home. Building codes mandate the installation of smoke detectors, and the Sunset Green Home is going the extra step of having them tied into our home security system's central monitoring service. In terms of economics, Newport Partners’ 2013 Home Fire Sprinkler Cost Assessment report examined 51 homes in 17 communities and found that the average system cost was $1.35 per sprinklered square foot (down from $1.61 in 2008).

Stay tuned. My Blog. 7 Blog Posts You Didn’t Read — But Should — in 2013. If I’ve learned anything in my four years managing CI’s blog, it’s this: blog views can be unpredictable.

7 Blog Posts You Didn’t Read — But Should — in 2013

Obviously good content is crucial, but sometimes a great post — one that’s interesting, timely and a unique source of information on an important issue — just doesn’t get the attention I’m hoping it will. Aerial view of an island near Samoa. (© CI/photo by Haroldo Castro) As a follow-up to last week’s list of our 10 most popular blogs of 2013, here are seven posts you may have missed this year — blogs that may give you a little more insight into the many ways in which the health of nature (or lack thereof) impacts all our lives. 1.

In Samoa and Fiji, Natural Forests Help Limit Cyclone Damage Before Typhoon Haiyan, there was Cyclone Evan, which devastated several Pacific islands in late 2012. 3. 4. 5 Years Later, Peruvian Farmers Reveal New Attitudes Toward Forest Protection Margarita Mora is struck by how much has changed in Peru’s Alto Mayo region since her last visit. Le blog de la Consommation Collaborative.