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It is impossible to talk about the emblematic figures of the responsible tourism sector without mentioning Kevin Rivaton. This type of tourism advocates respect for the environment while contributing to the social, economic and heritage development of the region concerned. Discover the portrait of this influential actor in the ethical tourism sector in this article. Biography Kevin Rivaton […]
The Coronavirus crisis does not only have drawbacks. We are still masked, of course, but nature has been breathing a little better since the start of this crisis! The coming economic crisis will wreak havoc on our income, our lifestyles and our way of consuming. This may be the beginning […]
In addition to presenting a real danger to life, the coronavirus epidemic is also harming the economy because of the slowdown and even the shutdown of many activities. Among the most affected are the restaurateurs who have had to close their doors since March 14 at midnight by order of the Presidency of the Republic. […]
No longer "mixing" everything would have the merit of considering the best remedies to face a future that has become scary! Of course, the game is lost against global warming and all that remains for man is to protect himself from it, to adapt to it as best as possible and to slow down a phenomenon that has become fatal… So do […]
Since its inception on November 17, the Yellow Vests movement has been echoing the news in the media. This demonstration has already caused a lot of damage in France. It has grown and many are wondering about the future of this movement. How long will the blockages last? The demonstration […]
Low Cost: aided by considerable technological progress over the past two centuries, economic strategies have been guided by insatiable "capitalist" challenges, always more demanding in terms of profits and always justified by the intervention of the invisible hand (1) "supposed to optimize for the greater number the result of choice responding to […]
For a week we have been basking or spamming us with the week “black friday”… a day of “supposedly” exceptional business… Even the television news talks about it, which reflects a level of me.r.diatic information (1) very high! Certainly not! It is a disguised pay day that will force people to equip themselves, again, with consumer goods that they do not have […]
Society: are we witnessing a feminization of our Western societies? Analyzes on the marketing case of AdopteUnMec Far from me the idea of passing for an odious phallocrat but, AMHA, there are limits in fairness and equality which are being overcome and this with complete impunity ... but especially in the indifference of the French (yes it is of […]
Please find below the press release from the UFC relating to the launch of the Opé2017 participatory platform against planned obsolescence! Decided to include the issue of organized obsolescence in the programs of candidates for the 2017 presidential and legislative elections, seven associations (C2C Community, DemocracyOS, GreenIT.fr, Halte à l'Obsolescence Programmée (HOP), Les Amis de la [ …]
Econologie.com presents Ma-Bonne-Action.com, a solidarity, humanitarian and charitable marketing initiative by Laurent Berthelot. An Ulule campaign has just been launched. Explanations. Take back control of your data and make it a good deed. Choose: when, what and how to receive the good deals that concern you. For each advertisement viewed, you fund associations for free. " Do you want […]
Economy and Society: from a certain prosperity to progressive austerity or from the welfare state to the police state. The political debate is largely confined to the sole domain of the management of the conflicting interests of the various social categories, through political formations supposed to ensure sufficient compromises for the maintenance of the social structure. Most of […]
For more solidarity between capital and labor or how to move the lines in the company for more equity in remuneration? In his book “For more solidarity between capital and labor” (published by L'Harmattan 2004) Rémi Guillet emphasizes the importance of the challenge of the company in the equitable sharing of […]
Yesterday the Médecins du Monde association broadcast an "incisive" advertising campaign on the Internet about the excessive prices of certain drug treatments. The campaign was in fact refused to be broadcast by “classic” displays by the Professional Advertising Regulatory Authority (ARPP). JCDecaux, MediaTransport and L'Insert therefore refused to post this […]
Are the physical limits to growth [1] relevant? Since the famous sentence of KE Boulding [2] as well as the publication of the report of the Club of Rome, this physical limit has become a commonplace: all the more reason to be wary of it and to question the validity of the assertion , since with global warming, they are […]
The “South Seas” editions have just published “A life for a change of era”, the author of which Rémi Guillet has already published on the Econologie.com site… The work and goals of the Econology site converge with those of Rémi and this for 2 main reasons: Rémi defends the links, not necessarily obvious to everyone, between the economy […]
Oil stronger than streamers! The energy vise is closing on the government with respect to labor reform, strike action in nuclear power plants is scheduled for Thursday. A strike in nuclear power plants is, to our knowledge, a first in France. Obviously, a nuclear power station cannot, […]
El Khomri Labor Law: to oppose the reform of the Labor Law, the unions are now brandishing the weapon of massive economic destruction (hey yes…) by blocking refineries and petroleum fuel depots! And that could work to make bend a government which, on this blow, does as it pleases! Oil […]
Final speech of the film The Dictator by Chaplin A beautiful message still relevant (more than ever?) For humanity ... for more humanity! To think about ... Find out more: forum Society and philosophy Debate: Society: speech of the dictator of Chaplin, message for humanity In the same vein, listen to the speech of Abbé Pierre in 2007
Green nudges: new incentives for ecological behavior The adoption of ecological behavior comes up against many obstacles, whether of a material, financial or psychological nature. These constraints limit the effectiveness of traditional approaches which combine awareness campaigns, technological innovations and economic and normative instruments. Therefore, the contribution of new methods […]
Video conference by Stéphane Hessel on current global society, presented on March 29, 2012 in Nantes. Find out more and debate: - Debate on this video conference by Stéphane Hessel and “All accounts… or almost” - Another recent video conference on globalization by Edgar Morin
Edgar Morin analyzes “world” society version 2.012 in a 40-minute speech to the forum from Rennes. To see in video on this page Analysis of the analysis by Ahmed, a member of our forum: I find all of this in line with Stéphane Hessel, therefore with the same faults: a purely moral posture […]
Strategy of Mass Manipulation… or how to manipulate public opinion in 10 rules… Find out more, sources and debate: strategies for manipulating peoples Strategy of Mass Manipulation 1 / The strategy of diversion Primary element of social control, diversionary strategy is to distract the public from important issues and […]
Union and social functioning and abuse in the French National Education, first or second item of the budget of France (alternating according to the years with the debt load) French national education is sick: the level of education of the pupils is in free fall but yet it costs more and more! Why? Or […]
Argentina experienced bankruptcy in 2001 following a serious economic crisis between 1998 and 2002. The details of this crisis are explained on this wiki page. What interests us is the method used to manage the way out of the crisis, explained in the short video that follows, taken from a news report from France3. Currently […]
Documentary "Ready to throw" broadcast on Arte in early 2011 on industry practices aimed at reducing the lifespan of its products in order to increase its business volume. Contrary to what one might think, the practice of planned obsolescence is far from recent, but it has greatly accelerated over the past 20 years. […]
Did you think that income was proportionately linked to employee motivation and happiness? That is to say: the better we are paid, the more motivated and happy we are? Well no! This little video, presenting various very interesting studies on "the psychology of money", shows the reverse ... Just like the feeling of "happiness" which ceases to [...]
Basic Income, the 1h30 Documentary film presenting the operation, advantages and disadvantages of the basic income principle. “Income is like the air under the wings of a bird! ". This is how the film begins. Should this income be unconditional for everyone? Is it possible, a civic right […]
Basic Income, the 1h30 Documentary film presenting the operation, advantages and disadvantages of the basic income principle. "Income is like the air under the wings of a bird!" ". This is how the film begins. Should this income be unconditional for everyone? Is it possible, a right […]
Video taken as part of a conference on basic income or universal income explaining very interesting case studies in relation to our psychological relationship to money ... Find out more: - Other (positive) videos on society ( qui va mal) - Debate on this video or the universal or basic income - […]
The Fourth Revolution: Towards Energy Autonomy Documentary by Carl-A. Fechner (Germany, 2010, 1h22mn) Going beyond the pessimistic warnings on climate change, this documentary shows that solutions are possible to switch to renewable energies in the next thirty years. In various regions of the planet, the film goes to meet […]
Questions on the functioning and goals of national education Find out more: - Debate on this video - The gaps in French national education - Forum society, sociology and philosophy
Questions on the functioning and goals of state education Find out more: - Debate on this video - The gaps in French national education - Forum society, sociology and philosophy Download the file (newsletter subscription may be required): How education works in growing societies
No one can ignore the desperate nuclear situation at the Fukushima 1 Daiichi power plant anymore… We are facing a desperate situation despite the attempts to minimize the industrial players or the government but also, and this is less understandable or acceptable, some players French politicians… On econologie.com, we are not “viscerally” anti-nuclear: we […]
Gasland report (full video) on shale gas in the USA and its devastating effects on the environment Documentary in 7 parts on Youtube or Dailymotion. Europe will not be spared, it also has “interesting” gas potential. José Bové seems to have become in a few weeks one of the leaders in raising awareness of the problems […]
Meat consumption in France: developments over the past 40 years and latest trends .pdf of 8 pages by FranceAgriMer, September 2010. Find out more: - Forum food and consumption - Meat consumption in the world - Meat, CO2 and globalization - Meat and CO2 - Debate on the ecological impact of meat consumption […]
Consumption of the different types of meat in the world: key figures in 2003 Summary document on meat consumption in the world and in the main developed and developing countries by tonnage and types of meat: cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry. In 2003, we consumed on average in […]
Greenpeace campaign of January 2011 on the petro-dependence of our Western companies Petrol Addict: how did we get there? Find out more: - Debate on the dependence of our Western societies and economies on oil - Relations between the price of oil, GDP and growth in OECD countries Download […]
The decreases, consume less to live better? A report by Sophie Romillat and David Geoffrion for Special Envoy, 02/2009. Sociologists call them "decreasing", in France, more and more of them are refusing to consume more and more. They reject the spiral of the consumer society. When the rest of the […]
The Great Bluff of household appliances. Planned obsolescence and overconsumption practices highlighted in France. Special Envoy report broadcast on France 2 in February 2010 Obsolescence is the fact that a product becomes obsolete. Planned obsolescence is the act of voluntarily making a product obsolete at the end of a certain time "pre-programmed" in advance. This is […]
Planned obsolescence, a symbol of the waste society. The case of electrical and electronic products. September 2010. By Marine Fabre and Wiebke Winkler. Publication of Cniid and Friends of the Earth. Obsolescence is the fact that a product becomes obsolete. Planned obsolescence is the act of voluntarily making a product obsolete at the cost of a certain […]
How distribution and industrialists seek maximum profitability at the expense of consumers. The Great Bluff of household appliances! Extracts from special envoy of February 2010. Find out more: - Are we in a disposable society? - Industrial obsolescence, the story of a deception: facts and debate - Full report on the Great Bluff of household appliances […]
Video presentation of the "Earthship" houses According to Ekopedia: "The Earthships are houses invented by the American architect Mickael Reynolds in the 70s with the prospect of creating totally autonomous houses at a lower cost. To achieve his objectives, Mickael Reynolds relied on: - the recovery of materials (used tires, […]
Philippe Séguin, then first President of the Court of Auditors, dares to speak freely about the public debt, one of the few (if not the only) politician to have dared to assert that 100% of income tax went into the interest on the public debt and not in investing for the good of the country! He […]
The Story of Stuff (VOST) or how does our hyper-consuming world work? A video of American origin, subtitled in French (VOST) of about twenty minutes which sums up very well the world of functioning and thought (education in consumption and "consumption" ...) of our Western societies. Some figures for the 1st third are nevertheless at […]
Christophe and Christine, les Petits Poucets de l'Econologie Article written by Stève Polus following an interview with Christine and Christophe, (managers of this site and of the eco-friendly shop) carried out in October 2008. This article appeared in References of November 8 2008. References is an economical supplement to job offers which comprises a few pages […]
The bullshit and ignorance of our society summed up in a few minutes ...
The famous sociologist Gérard Mermet published 3 days ago in the newspaper Le Monde a very incisive article on our society and on France in particular. The term “econology” as an alternative to the current mode of development (purely based on consumption and “growth”) is mentioned there. That is, to our […]
"Interesting" analyzes of our society, both in the past and the future, by the influential Jacques Attali To find out more: analyzes of our consumer societies: past and society of the future
Understand the subprime crisis in comic strip in 10 minutes Original author anonymous and translated by Rue89.com Find out more: Comic book explaining the subprime crisis Download the file (a newsletter subscription may be required): The subprime crisis in comics
Study on teleworking. Report of ENSAIS engineering students By C.Martz and C.Stefani, December 2000 Introduction Teleworking is often associated with values such as returning to the countryside, the leisure society, or reconnecting with the family unit. For some, it is a vector of job insecurity, for others, it […]
