Greece Photovoltaics on cars and clothing: Solar panels from the printer are about to be mass-produced Stergios Logothetidis (2nd from right) and his research team want to mass-produce semi-transparent photovoltaics. It is intended to generate electricity on window panes, cars and clothing, for example. ©Organic Electronics Technologies Researchers in Greece want to mass-produce photovoltaics using 2D printers. The "third generation" solar panels are significantly thinner than conventional systems and at the same time flexible. You can even attach them to...
Anyone who freezes while biking has done something wrong. The selection of high-quality and functional cycling clothing is huge (and not necessarily expensive). What cycling clothing must be able to do in winter and what should not be missing under any circumstances. As trite as it may sound, there is no such thing as bad weather. There are only bad, or better: inappropriate, clothes. And that also applies to cycling. Apart from the dangerous black ice or a knee-high blanket...
Edit of January 12, 2023: While an RN bill must be examined in the National Assembly, Brigitte Macron said she was "for wearing a school uniform" in an interview with Parisian. The school uniform thus returning to the front of the stage, we offer you the rereading of this article.The debate on the “uniform” at school seems inexhaustible. After Xavier Darcos in 2003 then 2009, François Fillon in 2016, it is the turn of Jean-Michel Blanquer to speak out on...
In the Slovenian town of Ptuj, winter has been driven out a few days before Ash Wednesday every year since 1960 in the form of a noisy carnival parade. The legendary figure, who stands for old customs and new hype, is the Kurent, a wild figure, larger than life, who, dressed in sheepskins and equipped with magical powers, paves the way for spring. The Slovenian writer, poet and translator Aleš Šteger has invented a no less wild story around this...
Many children and families in Ukraine will experience Christmas and the winter months without electricity in freezing cold shelters, apartments and basements. So that some of them have it better, the winter aid of the "RTL Foundation - We help children". Send an SMS with the password "Winterhilfe" to 44 8 44. (10 euros/SMS + costs for sending the SMS, if applicable). You help immediately with 10 euros.source site-3
Another unexpected consequence of the war in Ukraine. H&M announced on Wednesday the elimination of 1,500 jobs worldwide, as part of its savings plan announced in September. “The cost and profitability program that we have started means that we are reviewing our organization and we are aware that our colleagues will be affected,” said the CEO of the Swedish clothing giant, Helena Helmersson.At the end of September, the world number 2 in the sector announced a new plan aimed at...
The Minister for Ecological Transition and the Secretary of State for Ecology published a committed opinion piece this Thursday in West France. They want to convince consumers to pay more attention to their clothing purchases, in particular by creating an eco-score by the end of 2023.Textile, a very polluting industryJust like the nutri-score of food, ranging from A to E, the eco-score will allow you to assign a score to each item according to its impact on the environment. "We...
Green is always more fashionable. And you have surely noticed it, the ready-to-wear brands (and their marketing teams) have understood this well. "Conscious choice" at H & M, "Join Life" at Zara, or even "In progress" at Jules: a survey by our partner l'UFC-What to choose devoted to this subject, mentions brands that push the "green" claim to the limit by offering their own "eco-responsible" range.The latter hope to seduce the consumer by marketing clothing made from “more responsible”, “recycled”...
The French buy 60% more clothes than fifteen years ago and keep them for half as long, according to the Ecological Transition Agency, which coordinates the European Week for Waste Reduction, devoted this year to textiles. Whereas “fast fashion” has a deleterious social and environmental impact, initiatives are taking the opposite view of this fashion based on overconsumption.This is the case of the Toulouse start-up Menone, created by two former students of the Ville Rose business school. Laurianne Aune and...
armed forces Lined up for the march into the faux pas: soldiers were given camouflage clothing in size "SS" Bundeswehr soldiers during an exercise in Ostenholz © Ronny Hartmann / AFP According to the "Bild" newspaper, soldiers in the Bundeswehr should work on their camouflage clothing at the weekend - a label with the size "SS" must be removed. Thousands of soldiers apparently recently received a set of new camouflage clothing. A little later a so-called decision of the Ministry...
