Totnes Ville en Transition belongs to the movement of transition initiatives, that was founded by Rob Hopkins, Professor of permaculture. These initiatives offer solutions to the peak oil and the climatic change, that are two important challenges and upcoming upheavals.

There are different ways of fighting the great amount of excess food produced and often wasted by our consumer society. In New York, the non-profit City Harvest adopts a strategy of “food rescue”, redistributing excess food to “NYC’s hungry”. Some people wish to go further in denunciating...

The study of the book Organic agriculture, from doing business to building society is an investigation of organic agriculture´s current paradoxes. Has the emerging profit-thirsty organic business driven organic agriculture away from its initial meaning ? The first part of the study is meant to...

While the overproduction of waste has become obvious, no large project of bottle deposits for households seems to have encountered any success in France. This operational project tries to solve and overcome this paradox, in performing an inventory of the sector of bottle deposits in France and in...

With this essay, Amory Lovins provide the Americain public and private sectors with affordable, profitable and efficient methods and technologies to foster an energy transition. Opportunities lie in the sector of transportation, in the building industry, in the industry itself and in the...