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Environnement - Une playlist sur Dailymotion Dailymotion Sign in Environnement Playlist created by Mediapart | 19 videos Six questions pour le climat (Mediapart ,UCJS) III Create a Videozap Create a Videowall Create a Jukebox Grid List now playing Six questions pour le climat (Mediapart ,UCJS) III By Mediapart Six questions pour le climat (Mediapart ,UCJS) I Chicago Green 1 Chicago Green 2 Cop 15 live: à la gare de Cologne Conférence de presse inaugurale du sommet de Copenhague. Les Etats-Unis, un obstacle pour Copenhague ? Ouverture de la Cop15 2 Le Charbon mandchou - Mediapart 1 Le fleuve poisson d'Harbin - Mandchourie Mediapart déforestation à Xiao Xing An Ling - Mediapart Réponse du G77 au texte danois, Copenhague, 8/12/09 Su Wei sur Tod Stern (Copenhague) Aosis (général) , Copenhague, 10 décembre Aosis, conférence de presse (G77) Réaction du G77 au projet d'accord de Copenhague (19/12/09) Bernaditas Muller, 14/12/09, Copenhague Interview de James Hansen (Mediapart) Added by Mediapart 4 years ago Marché du carbone et fiscalité écologique? 189 views

Field to Farm Vidéo (streaming) - Notre pain quotidien Des images valent parfois tous les discours. Quand je regarde Notre pain quotidien, ma première réflexion est de penser que cette devise à été écrite pour ce film documentaire. Ici, en effet, pas d’artifices, pas d’effets spéciaux. Pas de musique, non plus, donc pas d’ambiance ou d’effet provoqué, pas de dramatisation. Pas même de commentaires ou de narration ! Des images. Précisément où le consommateur n’a aucune chance de pénétrer. Filmées en plan fixe, les images donnent une impression de distance par rapport au sujet, de froideur presque clinique. Deux thèmes sont abordés par Notre pain quotidien : Le premier et principal de ces thèmes est la production de nourriture telle qu’elle est aujourd’hui massivement effectuée, c’est à dire de manière ultra-intensive, dans le but de réduire les coûts, et de maximiser la production et les profits. Dans une moindre mesure, le film nous montre la place des machines dans cette production alimentaire via l’automatisation à outrance.

Story of Change Over the past several decades, many environmental and social change efforts have come to reflect the centrality of shopping in our culture, suggesting change can be made—or is even best made—through alterations in our individual consumption patterns. These efforts—buy Fair Trade or organic, use a reusable bag, screw in a CFL lightbulb—are a great place to start, but they are a terrible place to stop, ignoring the real source of our power: coming together as engaged citizens. In The Story of Change, released in July 2012, Annie Leonard argues that it’s not bad shoppers who are putting our future at risk; it’s bad policies and business practices. If we really want to change the world, we have to move beyond voting with our dollars and come together to demand rules that work. Credits The Story of Change was created and released by The Story of Stuff Project and produced by Free Range Studios. Show full list of credits

Building StrawBale Houses Strawbale houses are cheap, easy to build and can be put up in a relatively short period of time. Strawbale houses are usually made by stacking rows of straw bales with a moisture barrier between the bales and the supporting platform. Building with bales of straw has become very popular and can be seen in many areas of the Southwestern United States. Straw is a renewable building material and is a great insulator from the elements. Strawbale Homes Strawbale Resources: End Ecocide, en résumé Foraging It’s acorn season in Southern California. I’ve long been interested in acorns, knowing that they were the staple food of the native people who lived here, and I’ve gathered and processed them before. However, once I have the acorn meal, I’ve never known exactly what to do with it. It’s highly nutritious, but I thought (wrongly!) that it was somewhat bland, and all I could do was incorporate acorn meal into baked goods. Pascal and Mia putting out a spread: acorn sliders, acorn and tapioca pudding, red cabbage and red onion slaw with wild juniper berries, chocolate truffles infused with white sage and dusted with dehydrated raspberry powder, plum membrillo and beer hopped with yarrow. Pascal and Mia are high caliber foragers and foodies. It’s rare to find folks who combine deep food know-how with a love of wild foods. I’ve downed a lot of veggie burgers in my time, and I’ve come to think of them mostly as excuse to eat bread and condiments. Continue reading…

rainwater harvesting There’s a lot of advice floating around the internets about how to make a rain barrel. Most barrel pundits suggest drilling a hole in the bottom of a barrel and installing a faucet, a kind of connection called a “bulkhead fitting”. Unfortunately such improvised fittings have a tendency to leak. My favorite way to make a rain barrel is to take a 55 gallon drum, use the preexisting fittings on the top and turn it upside down, a process explained nicely here (complete with a list of parts), by B. To get started, you get a ubiquitous 55 gallon drum with two threaded “bung” holes that look like this: A good source for this kind of barrel is your local car wash. Glue that up with some PVC cement, wrap the threads with teflon tape, and you’re almost ready to collect rainwater. The last step is to prop the barrel up on some wood or concrete blocks to give some clearance for your hose connection and some extra elevation for a gravity assist to help push the water through a garden hose.

Top 10 Most Influential Cob Builders | This Cob House It’s time to take a look into the world of natural building by looking at some of the most influential cob builders. You might have heard of some of these people before as they’ve demonstrated their craft and expertise in the field. Many of them you might just be hearing about for the first time. 1. www.cobcottage.com Ianto is the director of the North American School of Natural Building and master teacher and builder at the Cob Cottage Company in Coquille, Oregon. Laughing House at the Cob Cottage Company, Coquille, Oregon 2. www.risingearthbuilding.blogspot.com Mike followed through the apprentice program at the Cob Cottage Company in 2008. Chapel Hill, North Carolina 3. www.cobandon.blogspot.com Greg was born and raised in Syracuse, NY, and studied design at Syracuse University. Pickards Mountain Eco-Institute, North Carolina (photo courtesy of ourgreengoodlife.org) 4. Cobgobatron 5. www.naturalbuildingresources.com Cornwall, UK. 6. www.emeraldearth.org 7. 8. 9.

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