More than 60 local collectives of inhabitants from all over France mobilized against projects for shopping areas or e-commerce warehouses sent this morning an open letter to the President of the Republic. One week after his speech at the Citizen's Convention for the Climate during which he
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La petite République de Saillans, une expérience de démocratie participative, by Maud Dugrand - Edition enquête la brune au rouergue, February 2020 - 180 Pages In mars 2014, as the National Front makes a historic breakthrough in the first round of municipal elections, Saillans, a small town in 1 300 inhabitants in
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Des énergies citoyennes, un foisonnement d'initiatives dans les territoires, by Patrick Norynberg - Editions Yves Michel, October 2019 - 274 Pages This book is a testimony on the emancipatory practices of collective intelligence which are sometimes numerous but little known. Within the framework of innovative approaches and co-construction, Patrick Norynberg,
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La revanche des villages, by Eric Charmes Edition Seuil " La République des idées ", January 2019 - 112 Pages The opposition between town and country is outdated. Attracted by the dream of "the city in the country", peri-urban dwellers now account for a quarter of the French population. In some cities, they
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The Yellow Vests crisis has brought to light a deep divide between town and country. The inhabitants of the cities would be opposed to the inhabitants of the fields by different, even antagonistic, lifestyles and socio-economic levels. But does this cleavage correspond to a reality? For Eric Charmes, sociologist
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How to "Govern and Innovate in the Real Digital City"? The question comes back to a report published on 25 April 2018, in the form of a "handbook", produced by the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) and the FING (New Generation Internet Foundation), which focuses on the capture of
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Despite the innovation, coffee has always been the first social network in the territories. So what happened to the 600,000 bistros that existed in France in 1960? By 2016, there were only 34,000 (1). And today, 26,000 of the 32,212 French towns and villages no longer have any coffee.
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Crisis of confidence between citizens and their representatives, difficulties for the latter to carry out their public service missions, mistrust in the face of programmes that do not or no longer correspond to collective aspirations, nor to the realities on the ground, ... The list is long for the widening gap.
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What if what the media is telling us about the decline of public services is wrong? This is what a report by the Observatoire des multinationales, the association that monitors the CAC 40, reveals, not to play the stock market, but to measure its ecological and social impact. The desire to put an end to
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With the recent installations of the offices of AB Tasty, Verteego, etc., a new strong trend is emerging beyond the 86 companies set up in 2016 by Nantes Saint-Nazaire Développement: more and more start-ups and digital companies are choosing regions to set up their IT offices,
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Faced with the crisis of confidence in a hyper-industrialized and globalized food supply, the territories have mobilized strongly. They are a scale that makes it easier to create coherence between overly segmented policies (agriculture, health, environment, education, etc.), to create synergies between actors, transparency, the
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Every year on February 2nd, the whole planet celebrates wetlands: The 2017 edition of World Wetlands Day is dedicated to the role of these exceptional territories in disaster prevention. As every year on the same date since 2001, French citizens will be made aware of the importance of wetlands in the prevention of disasters.
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On Wednesday 14 September 2016, the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (EESC) adopted an opinion on "The contribution of biodiversity jobs to ecological transition", presented on behalf of the Environment Section by Allain Bougrain Dubourg. This opinion is based on known deposits
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Around the world, a growing number of researchers and policymakers recognize that the standard economic indicators that still guide public debate are both misleading horizons and distorted compasses. GDP,like the conventional economic indicators it is the banner of, is losing at a rapid rate of
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On the occasion of the signature, on 22 July, of 100 new positive energy territories agreements for green growth, the Ministry of Ecology published a new brochure entitled "La France exemplaire. Les territoires en action": 32 pages covering the main actions of these labelled territories.
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