In an imaginative workshop, the team of Transition Ferney-Voltaire take you on a journey to the future of Ferney-Voltaire.
We will build our plan for the future of our town, with lots of creativity and happiness.
It will affect all subjects, as transport, employment, health, education, food, solidarity, skills etc..
The results will be taken to the opn space workshop for Agenda 21 at Fort l”Ecluse on the 21st of June
The next Café Vert will be held next Monday, the 26th March. We will do more of an “open forum” style meeting which covers more topics at the same time, so if you have questions, ideas or something you’d like to discuss, this is for you! Some of the topics planned for this month include resilience, Shale Gas in the Pays de Gex, the Green Film Festival, Transition 2012 and probably more.
Everything starts at 19h45, at the salle du Preau, next to the Mairie in Ferney-Voltaire, behind the line F bus stop.
We will not be in a café but we will have tea and coffee. If you can bring a cup that will help.
Entry is free as usual, but we will have a hat for a collection as we have to pay for this room.
On resilience:
Resilience is the ability of a material to recover from a shock, insult, or disturbance.
It has more specialized meanings referring to organizations, soil, ecology, energy and more.
| Schedule 2012 | ||||||||||
| Date | Time | Film | ||||||||
| 10/3/2012 | 18h15 | Severn | ||||||||
| 10/3/2012 | 21h00 | L’homme aux serpents
Discussion: avec le réalisateur Eric Flandrin “La surconsommation détruit la plnète. La crise économique actuelle pourrait-elle la sauver? Comment?” |
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| 11/3/2012 | 15h30 | Arrietty
Film Familial |
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| 11/3/2012 | 17h30 | Inside job
Discussion: avec Paul H. Dembinski, directeur de l’observatoire de la finance, auteur de “Finance, service ou dictature?” |
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| 11/3/2012 | 21h00 | Cleveland vs Wall-Street | ||||||||
| 12/3/2012 | 18h30 | Into eternity
Discussion: avec Frédéric Marillier, ex-responsable des questions nucléaires Greenpeace, directeur d’enercoop Rhône-Alpes. “Le nucléaire après Fukushima et la gestion des déchets” |
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| 12/3/2012 | 21h00 | Gas Land
Discussion: avec le collectif “STOP Gaz de Schiste dans le Pays de Gex” “Gas de schiste dans le pays de Gex, menace imminente” |
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| 13/3/2012 | 18h30 | Taste the waste ** | ||||||||
| 13/3/2012 | 20h30 | Small is beautiful **
Discussion: avec Christophe Golay, Co-coordinateur du projet sur les droits économiques, sociaux et culturels à l’Académie de droit international humanitaire, conseiller juridique de Jean Ziegler de 2001 à 2008 “La faim dans le monde et le droit à l’alimentation” |
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| 14/3/2012 | 18h30 | Cultures en transition + Wake-up
Discussion: avec l’association Eco-Pratique “Pic pétrolier, changement climatique et crise économique, que peut-on faire dans le Pays de Gex?” |
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| 14/3/2012 | 21h00 | Dirt ! | ||||||||
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French documentary film directed by Eric Flandin
The film features a hero whose mission is to save his country from destruction of its ancient forests with snakes for allies, advancing to the very depths of Colombia both forbidden and inaccessible.
This film has received numerous awards and mentions, including a special mention at the first camera prize, the “Rencontres Internationales du Documentary” in Montreal and an honorable mention at the International Award for Best Documentary, Cineambiente in Turin.
Japanese animated film directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, studio Ghibli (Princess Mononoke, The Moving Castle, Totoro my friend …)
The story is about a sick boy, Sho, come for a few days with her aunt in an old house. He will have a surprising encounter with a small chapardeuse, Arrietty, a genuine little elf living with his family under the floor of the house. Humans must remain ignorant of the existence of petty thieves, and the budding friendship of two teenagers will be sorely tested.
Festival website is
American documentary film directed by Charles Ferguson
Through extensive surveys and interviews with major players in finance, politicians and journalists, the film traces the emergence of a rogue industry and reveals the relationships that have corrupted the political, regulatory authorities and academia, as part of the financial crisis of 2008. The film won the Oscar for best documentary film in 2011.
The festival website is
French documentary film / Switzerland directed by Jean-Stéphane Bron
The film features a mock trial that the city of Cleveland, United States, Ohio, instituted against 21 Wall Street banks whom they blame for the foreclosures that are devastating the city. The trial should have taken place according to counsel for the city of Cleveland, but the procedure had been blocked by legal arguments raised by a team of lawyers in the pay of the banks.
The film won the Audience Award, Paris cinéma 2010.
The festival website is http://www.festivaldufilmvert.fr
You can click on the picture to download the poster for printing
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The next Café Vert will be held next Monday, the 24th October. The theme will be “Living without a car in Ferney-Voltaire – possible?”
We will share our experiences of living without (or with less use of) a car, and I am looking forward to hearing your stories.
Everything starts at 19h45, at the salle du Preau, next to the Mairie in Ferney-Voltaire, behind the line F bus stop.
We will not be in a café but we will have tea and coffee. If you can bring a cup that will help.
Entry is free as usual, but we will have a hat for a collection as we have to pay for this room.
The Ferney-Voltaire in Transition team will be at the Organic Market on Sunday the 9th October from 9am to 5 pm.
If you’d like to know why prices keep rising, why pollution keeps increasing; if you prefer quality over quantity, come and meet us to discover what we can do here in Ferney-Voltaire.
We’ll be showing :
We need you! If you have 30 minutes to give us a hand, you will be welcome. If you can help on the stand, please fill out the Doodle here
After my first year with photovoltaic solar panels on my roof, I’ve supplies 2505 kWh of electricity to the grid.
At a purchase price of €0.58 per kWh that makes a grand total of €1452,90 in one year. Not bad, and well on the way to amortize the costs of installation within 7 years.
So far, so good.
The next Green Café will be held this Monday, 26th of September at 19h45
It will not be at the Café du Soleil, after the noise the last few times. We will do other events in the Café du Soleil.
Therefore the format will be a little different. We will not be in a café but we will have tea and coffee. If you can bring a cup that will help.
Entry is free as usual, but we will have a hat as we have to pay for this room.
The Theme is eco-entrepeneurship. In the context of Transition and Economy, how will we work in the future and even today. What skill, what jobs can we do locally and ecologically?
Will we start with a 15 minute film by Majora Carter, then a brainstorming session with post-it notes, then discussion. If you have questions, experiences or ideas to share, they will be most welcome.
We hope to see you there.
Tim Anderson from the SEL du Lac will explain how complentary currency systems work – including other systems than the SEL.
The meeting will take place on Monday 22 August from 18h00 to 20h00 at Ornex, in the small room behind the Mairie d’Ornex.
The more that come, the more questions and the better we’ll understand…!
Car-sharing can be arranged…
Finally, if you are not 100% at ease in French you don’t need to worry, as the presentation can easily be bilingual.
Cheers,
Dominique
Organised by the SEL du Pays du Gex
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