One day in 2005, Rob Hopkins, an ordinary British citizen, started knocking on his neighbors’ doors in the small town of Totnes, where he had just settled in. He was proposing that they come together to organize nothing less than a new, locally based economy. A new model, the Transition Town, harnessed resources at hand and modeled a new way of life: no longer expect food to arrive from the other side of the planet at great fuel costs, but instead create short food supply chains and cultivate all the available land (gardens, rooftops, municipal parks); no longer complain about pollution, but rally fellow citizens around a project of local renewable energy cooperatives; no longer rail against the banks and the stock markets, but adopt a local currency that enriches the community. His experience has been successful not only in Totnes; it has spread to 1,200 cities in 47 countries. Each of the Transition Towns are transforming their communities, without fanfare, without outside funding, making them more autonomous and more resilient to the crises looming ahead―a network of oases offering a wealth of solutions. Hopkins’ charisma and his story spur us all to become the best we can be. He has revived a sense of hope, buried under years of resignation and the disillusionment of “economic realism.” The saga of the Transition Towns movement inspires us all to take action and tap into the unimagined capacities we all have to promote change.

The Transition Starts Here, Now and Together

Business & Money

HOPKINS, Rob

Astruc, Lionel

Economics

Actes-sud

An icon worldwide for the ecological revolution and a leader of the alter-globalization movement, Vandana Shiva has made teaching by example the basis of her work. Walking the back roads of India alone in the late 1980s in search of traditional seeds threatened by industrial agriculture, she returned leading a procession of 500,000 demonstrators – farmers and activists – and with a network of 120 seed banks in place. Her initiatives have borne fruit on five continents and her legal proceedings against multinational corporations have earned her numerous awards, including the Right Livelihood Award – known as the “alternative Nobel prize”. Wrapped in her timeless sari of artisanal cotton, she calls upon each of us to become that “little nobody” who can reverse current trends. A doctor of quantum physics and philosophy, she lives up to her name: the god Shiva is also known for his fierce character and as a protector of life. Her history is marked by commitment, body and soul, to a country currently torn by an intense war for raw materials. Why is a major paradigm shift likely in the coming years? What role should we play? How does abundance for some and scarcity for others result in the loss of food sovereignty for everyone? What is ecofeminism and how does it represent a major opportunity, for men as well as women, and for the planet? This series of interviews alternately addresses both the major challenges of today and the epic journey of this successor to Gandhi.

Vandana Shiva: Creative Civil Disobedience

Reference

Le cercle vertueux

SHIVA, VANDANA

Hulot, Nicolas

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Emblème de l'accumulation de richesses et géant de l'informatique, Bill Gates est devenu en quelques années une icône de la philanthropie. Mais en réalité ses opérations philanthropiques s'apparentent à un outil au service des multinationales les plus nocives pour l'environnement, la santé et la justice sociale et parfois également au service des intérêts économiques de Bill Gates lui-même. 
Première publication sur ce sujet en France, ce livre en apporte la preuve en suivant, depuis leur source, les flux financiers qui alimentent les actions dites « caritatives » de la fondation Bill et Melinda Gates.\nFrom the Back Cover\nEmblème de l'accumulation de richesses et géant de l'informatique, Bill Gates est devenu en quelques années une icône de la philanthropie. Mais en réalité ses opérations philanthropiques s'apparentent à un outil au service des multinationales les plus nocives pour l'environnement, la santé et la justice sociale et parfois également au service des intérêts économiques de Bill Gates lui-même. 
Première publication sur ce sujet en France, ce livre en apporte la preuve en suivant, depuis leur source, les flux financiers qui alimentent les actions dites « caritatives » de la fondation Bill et Melinda Gates.

L'art de la fausse générosité: La fondation Bill et Melinda Gates

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