Thomas Gueret
Thomas Guéret is a public works engineer, specialized in controlling energy and the fight against the greenhouse effect in France and worldwide. He is currently at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He was a member of the Inter-Ministerial Mission on Greenhouse Effect (MIES, in the Prime Minister’s office) between 2000 and 2004 and worked at the International Energy Agency from 2004 to 2007. An ecologist campaigner, Thomas Guéret is also a founding member of négaWatt and for ten years, was the president of the Résistance à l’agression publicitaire (R.A.P.) Association.
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
Only 39% of calories consumed by the Japanese come from local production, the remaining 61% are imported, often from far away.Japan has one of the world’s lowest levels of food self-sufficiency. More >>>>
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 >>>>