Permaculture design in Chalo Saint-Mars (Essonne, France)

Permaculture design in Chalo Saint-Mars (Essonne, France)

The site and the project A permaculture project always begins with the desire of a person or a group. We met Ese, the project owner, in the summer of 2015. Interested in permaculture, she expressed her desire to apply this approach to a new design for the domain she...
Tea Jury at Emeishan 2017 Tea and Culture Fair (Sichuan, China)

Tea Jury at Emeishan 2017 Tea and Culture Fair (Sichuan, China)

A thrilling experience   In June 2017, I was invited by the Tea Committee of the China Association for the Promotion of International Cooperation to be part of the tea jury  of the Emeishan International Tea Contest for Asia-Pacific. This jury was to select the...
Biodiversity: a common challenge

Biodiversity: a common challenge

Biodiversity is the diversity and variety of life. A permanent source of creativity, many of us see it as a distant topic from our economic and social activities. However, most of these activities, and our common welfare depend at one level or another on the...

Fairtrade cotton looking for a new start

Participation of the entire sector Fairtrade, the main fair trade label, organized the International Forum of Fairtrade and fair-organic cotton in West Africa, in Paris on 15 March 2016. All the industry players were present for this edition: Representatives of...
Biodiversity: a common challenge

The importance of biodiversity explained in 3 minutes

Biodiversity is the fabric of life, the variety and diversity of species and ecosystems, and the relations beween them. The Vancouver Film School students produced an excellent film to explain visually in 2 minutes 40 secondes  Biodiversity, and its links to human...