Benoît Thévard
Benoît Thévard holds an Energy Engineering degree from the école des Mines. After working in the aeronautics industry for many years, he decided to switch careers as he become aware that he was not in a future sector. After receiving his degree, he spent many years in an eco-village in Quebec that for almost twenty years, has been preparing for life in the post-oil era. Since returning to France, he has been running the blog www.avenir-sans-petrole.org, conducting research activities on the resilience of territories and travelling throughout France to inform citizens, elected officials and companies, via conferences, of society’s necessary and urgent transition. He is also a member of the prospective association, Next World, as well as Zéco SCIC, an ecological construction cluster in the Centre of France.
Should we try to find a replacement for oil?
Manifesto
The Momentum Institute met for the first time on the 10th of March 2011, the day before an earthquake struck Japan and unleashed the nuclear catastrophe we know as Fukushima. The twofold catastrophe that engulfed the inhabitants of the northern part of Honshu Island was both local and global. It demonstrates the fragility of the [...] More >>>>
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Dennis Meadows Forty years after “The Limits to Growth”
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Club of Rome’s report , Dennis Meadows discussed the challenges of forging ahead into a sustainable future at “Perspectives on Limits to Growth: Challenges to Building a Sustainable Planet”. More >>>>
Post-Fukushima Food Resilience
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Local Dollars, Local Sense
In response to the magnitude of the energy, environmental and economical crisis that strike the United States, the Post Carbon Institute has recently undertaken the production of a series of community resilience guides. More >>>>