Frédéric Morand's blog

Le but du salon (2ème édition) est de sensibiliser et d'informer le visiteur en lui faisant rencontrer des interlocuteurs qui mettent en avant des actions s'inscrivant dans une démarche de développement durable.

3 jours : vendredi 21, samedi 22 et dimanche 23 novembre 2008, à Tours & Taxi. Infos sur les conférences, les animations, les expositions - et les places gratuites :

http://www.planetattitude.eu

Paul Stamets loves mushrooms.

Not only in his plate but in many places where sustainable development is at stake and particularly where humans need to:

Digest

UK Chief scientists warns that food crisis will strike before climate change: Treehugger (03 July 2008). Prof. John Beddington offers an agenda for changing our food habits from farm to fork.

Another argument for change.

At the UN last month, Bill Clinton gave an unforgiving critique of global food policy: 'We blew it':

'Food is not a commodity like others. We should go back to a policy of maximum food self-sufficiency. It is crazy for us to think we can develop countries around the world without increasing their ability to feed themselves.'

The IDIS Foundation-City of Science (Naples, IT) together with Member of European Parliament Pia Elda Locatelli, cordially invite you to the GAPP Final Conference:

European Parliament,
Brussels, on November 4th, 2008

GAPP is a two-year project funded by the European Union (involving Italy, Portugal, Poland, Netherlands, Denmark and Belgium) meant to explore gender differences in the choice of a science career.

Le Ciné-club Millénium de Bruxelles : "le documentaire comme technologie humaniste".

Le vendredi 3 octobre 2008, le ciné-club Millénium ouvrira ses portes à l'Espace Jacqmotte, 139 rue Haute, 1000 Bruxelles. Le cinéclub Millénium est une initiative de Millénium Édition et de la CTB, l'agence belge de coopération au développement.

Grist interviews Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikia Green: an online encyclopedia addressing topics and people from a green perspective.

Apparently this aim is distinct from that of existing green resources such as Ekopédia, the Québecois online encyclopedia specialising in practical solutions for alternative lifestyles.

Grist reports on Will Allen who has been awarded a generous 2008 MacArthur fellowship for his pioneering work as founder and CEO of Growing Power Inc. Growing Power is a NGO helping people from any urban background to produce healthy food sustainably at home - that is, in town.