Otobong Nkanga offre à voir des images qui révèlent une forte puissance d’évocation. Une grande diversité de supports et de matériaux donne forme à des œuvres inspirées de la terre, de ses ressources surexploitées et des histoires qui en découlent. Son art se situe au croisement des constructions du temps
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Empreinte écologique et biocapacité – Bien vivre avec une seule planète, de Mathis Wackernagel et Bert Beyers – Global Footprint Network – Edition Terre vivante, janvier 2021 – 288 pages Si nous gérions notre compte bancaire comme nous gérons nos ressources naturelles, nous serions en faillite depuis longtemps… Nous dépensons
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Depuis 2019, TEK4life a travaillé avec un réseau d’acteurs concernés par les plastiques et publie ce 9 décembre un rapport intitulé : « Vers des plastiques écocompatibles ? A la recherche d’une gestion écoresponsable de la fin de vie des plastiques ». Pour mettre en discussion les « points chauds
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Et si on sortait du modèle « extraire-produire-consommer-jeter » en réparant ou en achetant des objets de seconde main à petit prix grâce aux 155 Ressourceries présentes partout en France ? C’est une évolution déjà en cours et nécessaire de la société contemporaine pour polluer moins et réduire les dégâts
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France's mineral resource potential is largely undervalued to date. The country is home to significant resources of rocks and industrial minerals as well as numerous metals (tungsten, antimony, gold, lead, zinc, germanium, copper, lithium and molybdenum). These metals and rare earths include
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A growing number of citizens are looking for new alternatives to their consumption patterns. They are becoming aware that this can become a political act. Because the act of buying is a way of voting economically and participating in changing the world. Alternative consumption can be a way of changing the
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What if we had found "the cheapest and most ingenious way to combat the global warming that is impacting forests today"? It is in any case the bet of a young American engineer, Topher White, who, with the help of his startup RainForest Connection (RFCx) located in
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Solar energy, in its various forms, could supply not only the bulk of the world's electricity, but also more than two-thirds of the world's primary energy production, according to several recent scientific studies, and would be unrivalled in terms of competitiveness. This energy transition would halve our
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Eau de Paris presents the second edition of the "Innovation Challenges", a call for innovative solutions conducted in partnership with the Richelieu Committee, on the occasion of the ChangeNOW summit. The five challenges launched will make it possible to develop concrete responses for a sustainable city and territories. This 31st January 2020,
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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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The association Envol Vert and the All4trees community, in partnership with 16 environmental organizations (1) are launching the Zero Footprint Forest Pact for 2020 municipalities. For the municipal elections of 2020, this Pact proposes to the electoral lists to become forest ambassadors, integrating six objectives, accompanied by twenty-two measures
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Harold Vasselin's latest documentary "Gens des blés" will be released on DVD on September 5, 2019. It is a story of wheat and Man. Pierre is a biotechnologist, Florent is an organic farmer, Isabelle is an agronomist. Each of them works on the creation of new wheat, but they do it in a different way.
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Reducing global warming and improving the carbon balance; designing, creating and producing ecological and sustainable products, committing to the sustainable use of resources by using recyclable raw materials... all these are challenges to encourage the use of bio-sourced materials. So can bio-sourced materials be recognized as a "value"?
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Zéro Pollution, Un ultime défi pour l'humanité, by Yannick Roudaut Editions La mer salée, November 2016 - 180 Pages Put an end to the denial of nature and move on to the next world. Air, water and soil pollution, climate change, biodiversity degradation, respiratory diseases, cancer... pollution is a major threat to the environment and to humankind.
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How can urban and peri-urban wastelands be reclaimed? The Orée association presented in their guide "On the road to the circular economy", published in July 2016, an urban agriculture project offering an innovative solution based on the circular economy model. The current linear economic model - "extract, produce, consume,
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About 15 kilometres south of Tel Aviv, standing on a footbridge above two concrete tanks the size of football fields, I watch the water pouring in from a huge pipe emerging from the sand. The pipe is so big that I could walk through it standing upright, if I had to.
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Comment développer une chimie « verte » ? Utiliser la biomasse, une source de carbone renouvelable, comme matière première, tel est le moyen choisi par un réseau unique en son genre inauguré le vendredi 13 mai à l’université de Poitiers, Increase. Avec comme questionnement central : « Quelles sont les ressources
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The objective of the negotiating session taking place in Geneva from 8 to 13 February 2015 is to "clean up" and clarify the text agreed by the Parties at the end of COP20 in Lima in December 2014. It seems necessary to delete
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