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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 :

• Practical examples of comfortable, lower carbon lifestyles .
• Information on using the recycleing containers with the help of  SIDEFAGE
• Information on the Agenda 21 project here in the Pays de Gex