Alice Le Roy
Environmental activist, Alice Le Roy is a journalist and teacher. She currently teaches urban ecology at the IUT of Bobigny (Paris 13) after being an environmental advisor for the “Mairie de Paris” (Paris city council) for ten years (2001-2010). She is the co-author of the documentary “Ecology: those catastrophes that changed the world” (Ecologie : ces catastrophes qui changèrent le monde – 2009) and of the book “Shared gardens: utopia, ecology and practical advice” (Jardins partagés : utopie, écologie, conseils pratiques – Edition Terre Vivante).
Agenda
Les séminaires de l’Institut Momentum ont lieu une fois par mois. Ils sont ouverts au public dans la limite des places disponibles. Ils portent cette année sur les voies de la réparation d’un monde dégradé et sur la préparation à l’effondrement.
Brèves
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.
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.
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”.
Europe facing Peak Oil
Benoît Thévard, an energy engineer member of the Momentum Institute, published a study entitled ” Europe facing Peak Oil”. Peak Oil is the period of time when global oil production starts to decline due to the depletion of the exploitable resources.