Yves Cochet
Yves Cochet is a former Minister of Land Use Planning and the Environment (July 2001 –May 2002). He is currently a Paris Member of Parliament for the Green Party and President of the Left Democrat and Republican Group at the National Assembly. Following his studies in Mathematics, he worked as a teacher and researcher at the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Rennes in 1969. In June 1971, he received a PhD in Mathematics after successfully defending his thesis on formal languages. In the 1980s his research focused on the neural network theory. He has been an ecology campaigner for forty years, and has participated in anti-nuclear protests and delivered many lectures on energy, climate disturbance and degrowth. He has also published Quelle transformation de la société ? (with Jean-Christophe Cambadélis and Gilbert Wassermann, Éditions de l'Atelier, 1995), Stratégie et et moyens de développement de l'efficacité énergétique et des sources d'énergie renouvelable en France (La Documentation française, 2000), Sauver la terre (with Agnès Sinaï, Fayard, 2003), Pétrole apocalypse (Fayard, 2005) and Antimanuel d'écologie (Bréal, 2009).
The Collapse : catabolic or catastrophic ?
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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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 >>>>