
Yves Cochet

Yves Cochet was minister for territorial planning and for the environment under PM, Lionel Jospin. As a green activist for the past forty years, he has been a European MP for the European Green Party until june 2014 after spending almost twenty years as a parliamentary at the French national assembly. With a PhD in Mathematics, he also holds a teacher-researcher position at the national institute for applied sciences based in Rennes (1969-1997). His research is focused on the theory of neural networks. He has namely published “Stratégies et moyens de développement de l’éfficacité énergétique et des sources d’énergie renouvelable en France” (Documentation française 2005), “Sauver la Terre” (with Agnès Sinaï, Fayard, 2003), “Pétrole Apocalypse” (Fayard, 2005), “Antimanuel d’Ecologie” (Bréal, 2009), “Où va le Monde ?” (with Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Susan George and Serge Latouche, Mille et une Nuits, 2012).


The Next Thirty-three Years on Earth
The Green Party (Les Verts in French), the first unified political ecology organization, was created thirty-three years ago. As of today, this party’s representatives have been elected to nearly all of France’s elective offices, and all for close to nothing. From an ecological stance, the geo-bio-physical state of France – of Europe and the World […]
Preserving our Societies in the Face of the Collapse
After the collapse, will people still form societies, in the absence of governments? And, if so, how will they contain the violence internal to the group they will have formed? A substantial majority of human beings live in States, meaning a territory and population under the rule of a single political power able to define […]