However, in the uncertainty that now holds us back, there is one certainty: what we are experiencing - and are about to experience - is indecipherable with the software of the world before us. Impossible to invent a new human society with these references! The challenge had already been posed during
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The pandemic confronts us with reality, our interdependencies, our vulnerabilities. It reminds us that it is futile to believe in world domination. Our rightful involvement lies in the art of composing, negotiating and resonating. So it all starts with consideration. To consider this virus, what it does to us.
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The current events linked to the global spread of the coronavirus should provide an opportunity for personal and then collective reflection on what is known as globalisation, which is merely a consequence of the unbridled technical and economic growth of the last fifty years. Today, nature is reminding us to
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Rendre le monde indisponible, by Hartmut ROSA - Edition La Découverte, January 2020 - 144 Pages Dominating the world, exploiting its resources, planning its course... The cultural project of our modernity seems to have reached its culmination point: science, technology, the economy, social and political organization have made the
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Unsung genius or false prophet? In the era of climate change, the sixth mass extinction, ecological transition and greenwashing, it becomes urgent to read, or reread, an author known only to specialists, and even more unjustly ignored than his friend Jacques Ellul. The former head of
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Petit manuel de justice climatique à l'usage des citoyens, by James Kenneth Boyce - Préface et traduction d'Éloi Laurent - Edition Les liens qui libèrent (LLL), 16 January 2020 Recent demonstrations of social exasperation have shown that a significant part of public opinion rightly refuses to accept the ecological transition
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L'économie de la nature d'Alain Deneault - LUX Editeur, septembre 2019 - 142 Pages The expression "économie de la nature" appeared in the vocabulary of science in the 18th century long before the neologism "ecology" came to us, more than a century and a half later.
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Release of the book "Apartheid and the Animal - Towards a Policy of Connectivity" by Estienne Rodary
Editions Wildproject - Collection " le monde qui vient ", September 2, 2019 - 340 Pages
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Biomim'expo, the major annual gathering of actors and stakeholders in biomimicry and innovations inspired by life, returns for a 4th edition, on 11 September 2019 at the Paris City Hall, and on 22 October at the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie. The event has become the
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Biodiversity is undergoing massive and rapid erosion: 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction according to the latest IPBES report. Among the main causes is the artificialisation of land caused by urban sprawl and diffuse constructions, which destroy natural habitats and ecological continuities. It
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(Re)créations nature - Petits ateliers avec les plantes des bois et des prés de Doris Fischer - Edition Terran, March 2019 - 256 Pages Holidays are literally like playing hooky! And the readiness to learn for a prosperous life and a rapprochement with nature. Let's forget about tools and
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A l’occasion de la 6e édition de la Semaine de l’Amérique latine & des Caraïbes – France, la Maison de l’Amérique latine à Paris inaugure deux nouvelles expositions qui placent l’Amérique centrale à l’honneur à travers deux artistes de deux différents pays et générations, David Solis, originaire du Panama, et
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Human activity poses risks that have not yet been properly assessed to these complex communication networks that are the odours of nature. Agricultural processing industries, agricultural activities and livestock breeding produce large quantities of volatile organic compounds that mix with natural sources. To aggravate
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See you Saturday March 30th for Earth Hour - 60 minutes for the planet! And this year, for the first time, the WWF is organizing a live talk show between 8:00 pm and 8:35 pm at the foot of the Eiffel Tower (1). Scientists' alerts are multiplying to highlight the unprecedented decline
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L’édition 2019 du concours Capitale française de la Biodiversité sera lancée dans les prochains jours avec pour thème : « Climat : la nature source de solutions » La neuvième édition du concours Capitale française de la Biodiversité mettra en avant les actions de communes et intercommunalités françaises de toutes tailles en
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On the initiative of the F-M deputies. Lambert and M. Laqhila, a colloquium is being held this February 7 at the National Assembly to question how "Accounting can serve the environmental and social transition". The political and democratic stakes are enormous because accounting is the fundamental language of organizations. But..,
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Augustin Berque is an eminent French geographer and philosopher, who has made a major contribution to the revival of landscape thinking. He has made his own research and suggestions on the harmonious coexistence between nature and man, based on the concept "the Earth as our environment fūdo". This year, the
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La comptabilité fait toujours office d’épreuve de vérité. Face à l’urgence du vivant, elle interroge nos conventions, nos calculs, notre rapport au monde. Nous sommes aujourd’hui acculés à une urgence : maintenir le vivant qui garantit l’habitabilité de la Terre. Répondre à cette urgence oblige à identifier dans nos
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Morphine and codeine painkillers, taxol (anticancer), artemisinin (antimalarial) or aspirin... All these drugs have the particularity of having been discovered in plants or being derived from them. In fact, even today, as for millennia, the environment still provides us with most of the compounds that enable us to treat ourselves. To identify
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