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Severn, the voices of our children VF (passages in English with subtitles)

Feb 272012

French documentary film directed by Jean-Paul Jaud (director of “our children will accuse us”)

Severn Cullis-Suzuki speaks at the age of 12 at the UN conference in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992 to deliver a speech on the environment and sustainable development. In 2009, Severn is a young 29 year old woman about to give birth to her first child. The film offers a look into the discourse of Severn in 1992 with the vision as it relates to the world in 2009. The film highlights positive initiatives, conducted across the globe.

It will be shown at 18h15 on Saturday the 10th of March at the Cinema Voltaire.

La site web du festival est www.festivaldufilmvert.fr

Into Eternity VOST

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Feb 222012

Finnish documentary film directed by Michael Madsen

Burying nuclear waste four hundred meters underground in a shelter that will confine it for 100,000 years. This is the subject of this documentary: the Finnish project Onkalo (the cache). Nothing that man has built has withstood even a tenth of that time, claims the director. The immense project, which has already been running for several decades will only be operational in 2020. The shelter will store Finland’s nuclear waste from the next 100 years before being sealed. The film questions the ability to keep this temple prohibited and sealed for a thousand centuries.

This film will be shown at 18h30 on Monday the 12th of March.

The Festival’s web site is www.festivaldufilmvert.fr

Gasland VOST

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Feb 212012

American documentary film directed by Josh Fox

This documentary highlights the lies, misinformation and contamination associated with hydraulic fracturing required to extract shale gas.
This film was nominated for an Oscar for best documentary in 2011.

GasLand ( bande annonce VOST ) par guiderapide

This film will be shown at 21h00 on Monday the 12th March.

The Film Festival’s web site is www.festivaldufilmvert.fr

Small is beautiful VF

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Feb 192012

French documentary film directed by Agnes Fouilleux

Where are we going? The subtitle says a lot about the uncertainties that are the legacy of industrial agriculture with its litany of evils: rural depopulation, ill health, soil contamination, confiscation of seeds and food crises. The director calls for an awakening of conscience for a return to common sense and moderation, and to return the land to smaller, human-sized farms, friendly to both people and the environment.

This film will be shown at 20h30 on Tuesday the 13th of March.

The Film Festival web site is www.festivaldufilmvert.fr

Voices of Transition VF (but parts in English and Spanish STfr)

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Feb 182012

Voices of Transition – trailer (english) from Nils Aguilar on Vimeo.

Dirt! VOSTfr

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Feb 172012

U.S. documentary film by Gene Rosow and Bill Benenson

The richness of the soil is featured in this documentary which portrays the life of earth’s most valuable and underrated source of fertility, from its creation to its current degraded state. Soils have a significant environmental, economic, social and political impact and these issues are explored in this film narrated by Jaime Lee Curtis,. Experts from around the world link the fate of humans with the state of the land and illustrate some of the ways our necessary reconnection with the soil can start.

This film will be shown at 21h00 on Wednesday the 14th March, in English with French subtitles.

Permaculture Workshop: design your garden – 19th February

Posted by Paul on January 24, 2012 at 18:54 5 Responses »

Jan 242012

Feel like re-doing your garden in a more ecological manner? Without pesticides, or fertiliser? Grow some food? Comme and see us to take part in garden design in a permaculture style: pretty and productive at the same time.

You don’t have a garden? No problem? We also have ideas for balconies, and even house plants.

And if you would like one, the Mairie is giving you a chance with their family gardens project.

We holding a permaculture workshop on Sunday the 19th of February from 14h00 – 1800 at the Salle du Preau, behind the line F bus stop “Ferney-Mairie”.

We’ll share our knowhow, our designs, and even our seeds, in a great atmosphere.

Bring your garden plans, or even just photos, your ideas for plants to grow, as well as sheets of paper, pencils and pens, and a cup for tisane or coffee.

Very Important! Indicate north on your plan!

Entry is free as usual, but we will have a hat for a collection as we have to pay for this room.

Green Café: Shale gas, Green Film Festival, Transition 2012 and more

Posted by Paul on January 24, 2012 at 08:14 No Responses »

Jan 242012

Hello,

the next Café Vert will be held next Monday, the 30th January. 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 Shales 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.

First Public Forum for Agenda 21 by CCPG

Posted by Paul on January 12, 2012 at 22:34 No Responses »

Jan 122012

Christmas Green Café: Tuesday 27 December

Posted by Paul on December 23, 2011 at 08:00 No Responses »

Dec 232011

Hi,

The next Green Café will take place on Tuesday the 27th of December. The thème will be open, to celebrate Christmas and to discuss the last year and the next year, by the fireside, for those who are celebrating Christmas locally this year.

Everything starts at 19h45 as usual in the salle du Préau, next to Ferney-Mairie, behind the line F bus stop.

This time we will do a “buffet canadian”, so please bring any left-overs from Christmas, and bring any friends or family if they are staying with you!

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.

Cross-Border Forum in Geneva

Posted by Paul on November 29, 2011 at 21:04 No Responses »

Nov 292011

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Our cross-border area
What development model do we want?

The current development of the urban area France-Vaud-Geneva is increasingly criticized, and that from several points of view, because it deepens inequality and sharpens social tensions. On both sides of the border, a two-tier society is developing, a pretext for xenophobic manipulations. The economy, too focused on finance and international markets, does not meet the needs of the region, does not offer jobs to local job seekers and could be dangerously brittle over time. Finally, this development model does not allow us to prepare our region to the fundamental challenge of the energy transition imposed by climate change, depletion of oil and the ending of nuclear power.

The official agglomeration project, despite the positive side, is not up to the challenges. This is why a broad coalition of environmental groups, social, population and labor offer this forum to make proposals converge to a different model. We must give ourselves the means to control fiscal and regulatory growth and shift economic activity towards meeting the needs of the population, affordable housing, energy conservation and renewable massive development of cross-border public transport (trams and trains), local agriculture and services. The treatment of social issues (unemployment, exclusion) is unworthy of our rich city.

The Forum, part of a long-term thinking, aims in particular to warn people of the town and to challenge our elected officials, who are invited to join this collective to participate in the development of proposals.

Maison des Associations - access

13.30: Welcome
14h:00 Debates on the future of the city
18.30: Drinks and country buffet