Tag: sobriety
“Making sobriety accessible to all”
HASAs the effects of climate change become more and more evident, calls to consume differently are now encountering strong resistance. The National Rally (RN) thus garners hundreds of thousands of…
Water: sobriety is accelerating in France, the financing of infrastructure in question
Water consumption fell by 3% to 4% in 2023 in France, the result in particular of the sobriety efforts of businesses and individuals (AFP/Archives/Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD) Water consumption fell by 3%…
Sobriety and discretion: the next TGV unveils its new dress
The TGV M presented at the Alstom Belfort factory, Monday April 29, 2024 (AFP/FREDERICK FLORIN) A train with a sober aesthetic, dressed all in white, as opposed to the flashy…
In the Paris region, two sports centers for Paris 2024 designed under the sign of sobriety
The Adidas Arena, at Porte de la Chapelle, in Paris, in March 2024. ALAMY STOCK PHOTO Placed under the sign of energy sobriety, the Paris 2024 Olympic Games have been…
from sobriety to committed innovation
Businesses. In 2024, [la troisième édition de] the national low-carbon strategy, known as “SNBC-3”, should require companies to intensify the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The objective of a 35%…
Alcohol: these young people who turn towards sobriety
For one month, The January Challenge encourages people to temporarily stop drinking alcohol to question their consumption. But more and more twenty-somethings have already chosen daily sobriety, far from the…
“We must reestablish in France a culture of sobriety, repair and reuse”
LClimate disruption imposes social choices on us. If we want to lead our ecological transition while preserving our prosperity and our freedoms, we have no other choice than to move…
An advertising campaign promoting sobriety triggers irritation among traders
“Black Friday” at a store in Nantes, France, on November 21, 2023. STÉPHANE MAHÉ / REUTERS The Commerce Alliance is not letting up. On Tuesday, November 21, this federation requested…
Winter time: “end of candle” savings or incentive to sobriety?
The switch to winter time, during the night from Saturday to Sunday, has responded since last winter’s energy crisis to the need to reduce electricity consumption (AFP/Archives/JOEL SAGET) “Budget” savings,…
Thermostats, windows: the government wants to make sobriety “long-term”
The government announced on Thursday a series of new measures intended to make the energy savings initiated last year in the midst of soaring prices “long-term” (AFP/Christof STACHE) Aid for…
“Far from generalizing practices of sobriety, the oil shock of 1973 led on the contrary to a headlong rush”
D‘endless lines of cars in front of American gas stations; Dutch motorists banned from driving on Sunday; petrol ration tickets distributed to the British. So many restrictions and calls for…
Withings launches a more accessible hybrid watch, all in sobriety
Withings has unveiled its new ScanWatch Light hybrid watch, a hybrid watch focused on health, but without temperature measurement or electrocardiogram. The Withings ScanWatch Light // Source: Withings Three years…