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.
The loss of biodiversity is accelerating; malnutrition affects a billion people around the world as waste in the North peaks; the 2008 financial crisis that is dragging on and on, oil that is scarce and potential drilling for shale gas that directly threatens the Pays de Gex; nuclear dangers made ??more concrete by the accident of Fukushima …
With many signals of weakening ecosystems and of the ecological and economic challenges ahead we should be prompted to redirect our society towards a truly sustainable development.
To raise public awareness of these issues, the association Eco-Pratique is organizing on March 10 to 14 at Cinema Voltaire in Ferney-Voltaire, the very first French edition of the Suisse Romande Green Film Festival.
To this end, ten films will be presented across five themed evenings (biodiversity, finance, energy, food and waste, agriculture and transition); a “family film”; involved stakeholders, directors and regional actors will discuss with the public and answer questions.
More Information at :
http://www.festivaldufilmvert.fr
http://eco-pratique.org/category/festivaldufilmvert/ (trailers and schedule)
L’association Eco-Pratique
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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13.30: Welcome
14h:00 Debates on the future of the city
18.30: Drinks and country buffet
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Hello,
the next Café Vert will be held on Monday the 28th November. The theme will be “Permaculture. What is it and how can we apply it in Ferney-Voltaire?”
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.
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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
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.
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