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Radio Ethic celebrated its 6-year birthday and commitments to sustainable and ethical change on the occasion of a Live Ethic, in partnership with the FNAC of the Principality of Monaco.

To celebrate this anniversary, and more particularly, to join the French Week on Sustainable Development, Radio Ethic had invited, on April the 7th, 2011 at the FNAC in Monaco, several guests reknown for their commitment in this area in the Principality. For the occasion, the journalist Stéphanie Raynaud received a panel of Monegasque organizations commited in the field of sustainable development and environmental preservation, with a red thread for the interviews: the lasting change.

The participants of this Live Ethic were:

-His Excellency Bernard Fautrier, CEO of the Foundation Prince Albert II of Monaco.
-M. Jean Pierre Rous, President of Monaco convivum Slow Food.
-Ms. Virginie Lelarge, founder of the IMEDD (Mediterranean Institute for Market Research and Sustainable Development).
-M. Stéphane Sette, manager of the shop Génération Planète devoted to the sale of ecological and alternative products, to the collection of specific waste such as mobile phones, coffee capsules, CDs and DVDs …
-Ms. Catherine Durand, an active member of the NGO MC2D.

Through the experiences and the actions of each participant, Radio Ethic  wanted to contribute in this lasting change in the Principality, showing that there are initiatives to move towards sustainable development, with actors commited in Monaco.

To listen to the Live Ethic and discover the lasting change in the Principality of Monaco: Listen to the Live Ethic on Radio Ethic (interviews only in french).

As a partner of Radio Ethic, the Mediterranean Institute for Market Research and Sustainable Development is pleased to wish a happy sixth birthday to the web radio dedicated to the lasting change in the Principality of Monaco, and wishes Radio Ethic to continue to raise awareness and provide information on good sustainable initiatives.

** Radio Ethic is a monegasque web radio dedicated to sustainable change, resolutely positive in the tone, commited in corporate social responsibility, with concrete actions in the field of environmental preservation.
Radio Ethic was created in 2005 by Jean and Evelyne Tonelli. Since then, Celine Merrichelli and Stéphanie Raynaud joined them.

Website : www.radioethic.com

The NGO MC2D has organized on the 24th of February 2011 in collaboration with the Cityhall of Monaco, a Green Thursday on energy efficiency and renewable energies. Aurelia Delclos, from the Monegasque company Enoléo (www.enoleo.com) was present and shared this event with the Mediterranean Institute for Market Research and Sustainable Development, and Internet users.

This Green Thursday on energy efficiency and renewable energies aimed to address several themes:

The annual consumption of the Principality of Monaco is 500 GWh. 97.5% of the energy consumed is imported from France by the RTE, while the rest comes from the combustion of waste, provided by the Monegasque Sanitation Company (Société Monégasque d’Assainissement, GDF SUEZ Group).

The Climate and Energy Plan of the Principality reflects two issues :

- Securing the power supply (blackout risk)
- The fight against climate change.

Following the United Nations Framework Convention and the Annex A1, the Monegasque Government is committed to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 8% by 2012, compared to rates of 1990, then to an ambitious 30% reduction of GHG emissions by 2020 and 80% by 2050. The Principality of Monaco holds its commitment to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. To achieve these objectives, the Government of Monaco has banned fuel oil heating in new buildings. Indeed, fuel oil accounted for one third of the emissions of the principality. Secondly, actions for waste recycling can reduce the amount of waste incinerated annually.

The next steps in this section are:

1) Limit the consumption peaks.
The amount of electricity consumed at any moment is equal to the amount of electricity generated instantly. Electricity as such can not be stored. Indeed, in case of a peak of demand at a time T, if the maximum power is less than the flow of electricity consumed instantly, then it follows the collapse of the network.
2) Improve the overall energy efficiency of buildings (better insulation).
3) Reach 20% of renewables in energy consumption.

The Monegasque Government is specifically committed in areas of energy efficiency:

In 2009, the Principality of Monaco was overflown by a twin-engine airplane equipped with an infrared scanner, at an altitude of 3 600 meters, with the goal of achieving an aerial thermography to measure the heat loss of all buildings, scoring this action in the Climate and Energy Plan of the Principality. The results were reported in the early 2011.

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The Principality of Monaco finally supports the network Ecowatt Provence Azur (http://www.ecowatt-provence-azur.fr/), whose mission is to educate the population at consumption peaks (especially in winter, the most cold days and the summer hottest days). By registering on this website, users are notified by email or text message, of the need to reduce their consumption, thus contributing to concrete action to control energy efficiency.

Focus on Edenergie :

Since October 2007, the SMEG (The Monegasque Electricity and Gas Company) proposes a new offer to its clients: contracts for the sale of certificates of renewable origin to ensure that the electricity volumes equivalent to those consumed were produced from a renewable energy source.
Unlike fossil fuels, renewable energy sources can be renewed fast enough to be considered inexhaustible on a human scale of time. Renewable sources of energy: wind, solar, geothermal, wave, tidal, hydro, biomass, landfill gas, gas stations, sewage treatment plant and biogas.

EDENERGIE : Certificates of renewable origin

The managers of the electricity networks deliver electricity independently of guarantees of origin to producers of renewable energy. The SMEG is the owner of guarantees of origin, then the SMEG may provide certificates from renewable sources to its clients for all or part of their consumption. These certificates specify:
The production equipment and their power installed capacities.
The volume of energy produced by these production equipments.
The renewable origin of the energy used.
The share of this volume whose rights have been sold and reserved exclusively to the client.

The SMEG offers several packages based on maximum consumption levels, which enables its clients to committ in Monaco for sustainable development.

References :

Web Site of the Monegasque Goverment : click here .
Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d’Essais : http://www.lne.fr/thermographie/
SMEG : www.smeg.mc

SMA : www.sma.mc

Participate in an action for energy efficiency…

Release written in collaboration with Aurelia Delclos, Enoléo company. www.enoleo.com

A franco-monégasque initiative to encourage the energy management

The Mediterranean Institute for Market Research and Sustainable Development signed the Charter ECOWATT Provence Azur, an initiative from the Electricity Transmission Network (RTE) and its partners, the Prefecture of Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur, the Conseil Général of the Alpes-Maritimes, Conseil Général of the Var, the Principality of Monaco, ERDF and ADEME, to rise awareness to the risk of power outages. 
Indeed, the Region Provence Alpes Cote d’Azur and the Principality of Monaco are regularly faced with risk of powers interruptions during electric consumption peaks in the winter. 
The initiative for RTE and its partners is based on the website www.ecowatt-provence-azur.fr. 
"Ecowatt Azur Provence, le bon geste pour l’énergie" is a mobilization campaign to control the electricity consumption. 
This innovative and original operation, based on the web site www.ecowatt-provence-azur.fr, which triggers "alerts" in the spirit of green, orange, red or black days, by Bison Fûté in France, aimed at ÉcoW’acteurs. 
This device uses moderation in consumption of electricity, relayed by email and SMSand it is based on the mobilization of all citizens. It prolongs the experiment launched in 2007 with the web site www.securite-electric-paca.fr. All the inhabitants, and also local authorities, businesses and NGO’s are invited to mobilize in favor of controlling power consumption, by joining the community of ÉcoW’acteurs and relaying information. Communities, businesses, and NGO’s are also encouraged to engage in the process by signing the charter ECOWATT Provence Azur. 
The Mediterranean Institute for Market Research and Sustainable Development materializes his membership ECOWATT in three ways, first by relaying information on the initiative ECOWATT in Monaco and PACA, through this article on IMEDD Infos, in French and English, the second, by the fact of indicating the signature by the IMEDD of the Charter ECOWATT in the area of our web site called "The Corporate Social Responsibility of IMEDD", and third, by encouraging companies in the Principality, and PACA to join this action and to allow their employees to participate in ECOWATT, on behalf of their company. 
The Mediterranean Institute for Market Research and Sustainable Development supports ECOWATT because this action is a concrete initiative concerning a federation of men and organizations for energy management, whose goal is to make each act, at critical moments of energy standpoints.

For more information, please connect to….

Réseau de Transport Electricité : Click here
Télécharger le dossier de presse Ecowatt : click here
Brochure "Mobilisez-vous" : click here

The partners of Réseau de Transport Electricité :
Préfecture de région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
Conseil Général des Alpes-Maritimes
Conseil Général du Var
Principality of Monaco
ERDF
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For several months, the IMEDD (Mediterranean Institute for Market Research and Sustainable Development) regularly attends to the conferences called “les Jeudis Verts” (Green Thursdays), organized by the Monegasque NGO MC2D in collaboration with the Town Hall of the Principality of Monaco.

As part of Green Thursdays on January the 20th, 2011, the theme of the eco-responsibility of the purchases was approached by three key players involved in the issue: - Catherine Durand, from the NGO MC2D - Celine Merrichelli, Radio Ethic, a web radio supporting all types of social actions - Jean-Luc Puyo, the head of the technical services (city of Monaco).

During this conference, Catherine Durand explained that the eco purchase is still on a niche, and many labels and logos help consumers to make  choice when shopping.

These labels and logos involve many sectors, agriculture, textiles or even wood. They allow product traceability from producer to consumer.
For Catherine Durand, for good food consumption, a consumer should be well informed and learn to develop his senses!

Then, Celine Merrichelli, communication assistant and journalist at Radio Ethic presented the committment of the web radio, which is to promote all good initiatives for sustainable development. She follows in particular, the theme of the eco-responsibility of households consumption.

To navigate among these many labels, Celine Merrichelli advises consumers to get more information. On this purpose, the website, ”mes courses pour la planète” (shopping for the planet in english), provides Internet users, an information guide on eco-labels: http://www.mescoursespourlaplanete.com/medias/pdf/mini-guide-des -labels.pdf.
When shopping, to eco-consume, these labels and recognition of a biological entrepreneurship, are information to detect eco-products in supermarkets. To go further, it is also possible to consume through local markets, the AMAPE in France, as example.
In general, three data should be checked for responsible consumption, the product is seasonal, its origin is close and it has biological growing.

Finally, Jean-Luc Puyo, the head of the technical services of the city of Monaco, presented the environmentally responsible purchasing policy of the City Council of Monaco, which is based on a process and different tools, which accompany public purchasers in their purchases. At the Monaco Town Hall, the idea is to encourage suppliers to become more responsible, especially taking into account the social and environmental issues in their services/products, and to educate its personal to eco-responsibility (via a guide for an eco-friendly behavior in the administration). The process of purchasing at the Monegasque Town Hall is part of an ambitious environmental policy.

The next Green Thursday of MC2D will be on February the 17th, 2011, and will be about energy efficiency and renewable energies, with the intervention of the SMEG (The Monegasque Electricity and Gas Company).

Reminder:

* A label is awarded by an independent structure supported by a state, which certifies compliance with strict specifications in terms of sustainable development.
An “ecological” approach is the one which certifies industry regarding sustainable development, according to a specification, and is not certified by a state.

* The Mayor of Monaco has committed the Town Hall in a dual certification process: ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 (environmental and quality standards).
http://www.vivremaville.mc/dossier.php?numNum=17&numDos=63

* The Green Thursdays of MC2D have the ambition to educate people and businesses to sustainable development, and promote exchange of know-how and experiences.
http://www.jeudisverts.mc/

*Radio Ethic  is an internet web radio, dedicated to sustainable development and human values. The tone is resolutely positive and the radio chooses to promote all initiatives that contribute to sustainable development. http://www.radioethic.com