No more "mixing" would have the merit of considering the best remedies to face a future become scary! Admittedly, the game is lost against global warming and there is more to man than the duty to protect himself, to adapt to the best and slow down a phenomenon that has become fatal ... So do [...]
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Act V Yellow Vests, the origin of the movement, its future and its end?
Since its beginning last November 17, the movement of Yellow Vests is the news that echoes in the media. This event has already caused a lot of damage in France. It has grown and many people are wondering about the future of this movement. Until when will the blockages last? The demonstration […]
Tips for getting started with stock trading and bitcoin (s)
Stock trading is currently upset by the arrival of trading on crypto-currencies, the famous bitcoin in the lead (there are in fact more 1300 other crypto-currencies), but the classic shares can still give nice performance and are safer than crypto-currencies. Here are some tips in classic stock trading and explanations and comparative [...]
Broken prices and low cost. Economic blessing or danger?
Low Cost: helped by considerable technological progress for two centuries, economic strategies have been guided by insatiable "capitalist" challenges ever more demanding in profits and always justified by the intervention of the invisible hand (1) "supposed to optimize for the greatest number the result of choice answering to [...]
Black Friday: ode to consumption! A black Friday ... pollution?
For a week we have been basking or being spammed with the week "black friday" ... day of "supposedly" exceptional business ... Even the television news talk about it, which reflects a level of information me.r.diatiques (1) very high! Certainly not! It's a disguised pay day that will force people to equip themselves, again, with consumer goods that they do not have [...]
Society: Is AdopteUnMec's advertising campaign sexist and feminist?
Society: Do we see a feminization of our Western societies? Analyzes on the marketing case of AdopteUnMec Far be it from me to pass for an odious phallocrate but, AMHA, there are limits in equity and equality that are being franchised and this with impunity ... but especially in the indifference of the French (yes it is of [...]
Opé2017, participatory platform against planned obsolescence
Please find hereafter the press release of the UFC concerning the launch of the participatory platform Opé2017 against the scheduled obsolescence! The C2017C Community, DemocracyOS, GreenIT.fr, Stop Obsolescence Programmed (HOP), the Friends of the World, have decided to include the issue of obsolescence organized in the programs of the presidential and legislative candidates of 2, ...]
Ma-Bonne-Action.com, solidarity marketing, humanitarian and charitable
Econologie.com presents Ma-Bonne-Action.com, an initiative of solidarity marketing, humanitarian and charity of Laurent Berthelot. An Ulule campaign has just been launched. Explanations. Take control of your data and take a good action. Choose: when, what and how to receive good deals about you. For each advertisement consulted, you finance associations free of charge. " Do you want […]
Economy: some prosperity to progressive austerity
Economics and Society: from a certain prosperity to a progressive austerity or from the welfare state to the gendarme state. Political debate is largely confined to the sole domain of managing the conflicting interests of the various social categories, through political formations supposed to ensure compromises sufficient to maintain the social structure. Most of [...]
For more solidarity between capital and labor, more equity in earnings
For more solidarity between capital and work or how to move the lines in the company for more equity in compensation? In his book "For more solidarity between capital and work" (L'Harmattan 2004 edition) Remi Guillet emphasizes the importance of the challenge of the company in the equitable sharing of [...]
Forbidden Country Doctors of the World against price gouging of some drugs
Yesterday the association Médecins du Monde has broadcast an advertising campaign "incisive" on the Internet about the price of abusive drug treatment. The campaign has, in fact, been refused broadcast by "traditional" displays by the Authority of professional regulation of advertising (ARPP). JCDecaux, MediaTransport and the Insert have therefore refused the displays of this [...]
Are the physical limits to growth relevant?
Are the physical limits to growth [1] relevant? Since KE Boulding's famous phrase [2] as well as the publication of the Club of Rome report, this physical limit has become commonplace: all the more reason to be wary of it and to question the validity of the assertion , since with global warming, these are […]
A life to change era, self-portrait of an "econologist" Rémi Guillet
The "Seas of the South" editions have just published "A life to change era" whose author Rémi Guillet has already published many articles on the Econologie.com website ... The works and goals of the Econologie site converge with those of Rémi and this for 2 essential reasons: Remi defends the links, not necessarily obvious for all, between the economy [...]
The stronger oil as banners: the shortage of fuel card in France
Oil stronger than banners! The energy clench closes on the government vis-à-vis labor reform, strike action in nuclear power plants is scheduled for Thursday. A strike in nuclear power stations is, to our knowledge, a first in France. Obviously a nuclear power plant can not [...]
Work Act El Khomri: Blocked oil, the weapon of mass economic destruction?
Act Labor El Khomri: to oppose the reform of the Labor Law, trade unions now brandish the weapon of massive economic destruction (Hey yes ...) blocking refineries and deposits of petroleum fuels! And that could work to make a government fold that, at this point, does nothing but its head! Oil […]
Company: speech Chaplin dictator message for humanity
Final speech of the film The Dictator of Chaplin A beautiful message still relevant (more than ever?) To humanity ... for more humanity! To meditate ... To know more: forum Society and Philosophy Debate: Society: speech of the dictator of Chaplin, message for humanity In the same kind, listen to the speech of the Abbot Pierre of 2007
Download: Green Nudges, incentives for ecological behavior
Green Nudges: New Incentives for Ecological Behavior There are many obstacles to adopting green behaviors, be they physical, financial or psychological. These constraints limit the effectiveness of traditional approaches that combine awareness campaigns, technological innovations and economic and normative instruments. Therefore, the contribution of new methods [...]
Stéphane Hessel, speech of Nantes. Analyzes about the global society.
Videoconference of Stéphane Hessel on the current world society, presented the 29 March 2012 in Nantes. More and debate: - Debate on this video conference by Stéphane Hessel and "All accounts done ... or almost" - Another recent video conference on globalization by Edgar Morin
Edgar Morin and globalized society 2.012 release!
Edgar Morin analyzes the "global" company version 2.012 in a speech of 40 minutes at forum from Rennes. To see in video on this page analysis of the analysis by Ahmed, a member of our forum: I find all this in the line of Stéphane Hessel, so with the same flaws: a purely moral posture [...]
Strategies of manipulation of public opinion
Mass Manipulation Strategy… or how to manipulate public opinion in 10 rules… Find out more, sources and debate: strategies for manipulating people Mass Manipulation Strategy 1 / The strategy of diversion An essential element of social control, diversion strategy is to divert public attention from important issues and […]
Debt crisis: abuse of trade unions in National Education in France
Social and trade union functioning and abuses in the French National Education, first or second post of the French budget (alternating between years with the burden of the debt) French national education is sick: the level of education of pupils Is in free fall but still it costs more and more expensive! Why? Or […]
Solution to the crisis? Boost growth and above all trust: Argentine example 2001
Argentina suffered a bankruptcy in 2001 following a serious economic crisis between 1998 and 2002. The details of this crisis are explained on this wiki page. What we are interested in is the method used to manage the exit from crisis, explained in the short video that follows, extracted from a JT of France3. Currently, [...]
Ready to throw Arte: planned obsolescence is not a recent practice
"Ready to Cast" documentary broadcast on Arte début 2011 on industry practices aimed at reducing the life of its products in order to increase its volume of business. The practice of programmed obsolescence is far from being recent, contrary to what one might think, but it has greatly accelerated these last 20 last years. [...]
Work, happiness and motivation: the psychology of money
You thought that income was proportionally related to employee motivation and happiness? That is: the better we get paid, the more motivated and happy we are? Well no! This small video, presenting various very interesting studies on "the psychology of money", shows the opposite ... Just like the feeling of "happiness" that stops [...]
Company: basic income, social opportunity or neo-Communist utopia?
Basic Income, 1h30 Documentary film presenting the functioning, advantages and disadvantages of the basic income principle. "An income is like the air under the wings of the bird! ". This is how the film begins. Should this income be unconditional for everyone? Is it possible, a civic right [...]
Download: The universal or basic income, the documentary film
Basic Income, 1h30 Documentary film presenting the functioning, advantages and disadvantages of the basic income principle. "An income is like the air under the wings of the bird! ". This is how the film begins. Should this income be unconditional for everyone? Is it possible, a right [...]
Video, the basic income: money and psychology Samuel Bendahan
Video taken as part of a conference on basic income or universal income explaining very interesting cases of studies in relation to our psychological relationship to money ... Read more: - Other videos (positive) about society ( that goes bad) - Debate on this video or the universal or basic income - [...]
The fourth industrial revolution toward energy independence (Arte Thema)
The Fourth Revolution: Towards Energy Autonomy Documentary by Carl-A. Fechner (Germany, 2010, 1h22mn) Overcoming 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 world, the film goes to the meeting [...]
Education and consumer society
Questions about the operation and goals of state education Learn more: - Debate on this video - The shortcomings of the French National Education - Society Forum, sociology and philosophy as MP4 Download Video
The functioning of education in growth companies
Questions about the operation and goals of state education Learn more: - Debate on this video- Shortcomings of Education FRANCAISE- Society Forum, sociology and philosophy Download file (a newsletter subscription may be required): functioning of education in growth companies
Fukushima nuclear disaster, another Chernobyl?
No one can ignore the desperate nuclear situation at the Fukushima 1 Daiichi power plant ... We are well ahead of a desperate situation despite attempts to minimize industrial actors or government but also, and this is less understandable or acceptable, some actors French politics ... On econologie.com, we are not "viscerally" anti-nuclear: we [...]
Gasland, video report on shale gas
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 an interesting gas potential. José Bové seems to have become in a few weeks one of the leaders of the sensitization to the problems related [...]
Meat consumption in France: developments since 40 years
Meat consumption in France: changes since 40 years and latest trends .pdf 8 pages by FranceAgriMer, September 2010. To find out more: - Forum food and consumption - Consumption of meat in the world - Meat, CO2 and globalization - Meat and CO2 - Debate on the ecological impact of meat consumption [...]
Consumption of meat types in the world
The consumption of 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, swine and poultry. In 2003, we consumed on average in the [...]
Petrol Addict: oil dependency of our societies (Greenpeace)
January 2011 Greenpeace Campaign on Petro-Dependence Petrol Addict: How did we get here? More: - Debate on the dependence of our societies and western economies on oil - Relations between the price of oil, GDP and growth in OECD countries Download [...]
Descending, video report Special Envoy
Decreasing, less consuming 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 people refuse to consume more and more. They refuse the spiral of the consumer society. When the rest of the [...]
Great bluff, a consumer society
The big bluff of home appliances. The planned obsolescence and overconsumption practices highlighted in France. Report of Special Envoy broadcast on France 2 in February 2010 Obsolescence is the fact that a product becomes obsolete. Scheduled obsolescence is the act of voluntarily making an obsolete product for a certain period of time "pre-programmed" in advance. It is […]
Planned obsolescence, company symbol waste
The programmed obsolescence, symbol of the society of waste. The case of electrical and electronic products. September 2010. By Marine Fabre and Wiebke Winkler. Publication of the Cniid and Friends of the Earth. Obsolescence is the fact that a product becomes obsolete. The programmed obsolescence is the fact of voluntarily making an obsolete product at the drink of a certain [...]
Le Grand Bluff appliances: false abuse reliability and sellers
How distribution and manufacturers are looking for maximum profitability on the backs of consumers. The big bluff of home appliances! Excerpts from February 2010's special envoy. To find out more: - Are we in a disposable society? - The industrial obsolescence, the history of a deception: facts and debate - Completeness of the report the Big Bluff of the household appliances [...]
Earthship in video (ecological house)
Video presentation of the "Earthship" houses According to Ekopedia: "The Earthships are dwellings invented by the American architect Mickael Reynolds in the 70 years with the aim of creating fully autonomous homes at a lower cost. To achieve his objectives, Mickael Reynolds relied on: - the recovery of materials (used tires, tires, [...]
Philippe Séguin denounces the scam of the public debt
Philippe Séguin, then the first President of the Court of Auditors, dares to speak freely about the public debt, one of the few (if not the only) policy to have dared to say that 100% of the income tax went into interest on the public debt and not in investment for the good of the country! He […]
Download: Energy, heating, insulation and DPE: beware of scams and lies!
Video denouncing the problems of energy "scams" especially since the introduction of distorted DPE Energy Performance Diagnostics (DPE), energy bills underrated, poor workmanship in a heating site ... etc etc ... Examples of potential problems related to energy housing does not work. Here are some quick examples on video! Learn more: scams with ecology [...]
consumer societies and crises: Story of Stuff
The Story of Stuff (VOST) or how does our world of hyper-consumption work? A video of American origin, subtitled in French (VOST) of about twenty minutes which summarizes very well the world of operation and thought (education for consumption and "consumption" ...) of our Western societies. Some figures of the 1er third are nevertheless at [...]
Article on econologic in References, business magazine
Christophe and Christine, Les Petits Thumbs of Econology Article written by Stève Polus following an interview with Christine and Christophe, (responsible for this site and the eco-boutique) carried out in October 2008. This article appeared in 8 November 2008 References. References is an economic complement of job offers that includes a few [...]
Consumer society
Stupidity and ignorance of our society summarized in a few minutes ...
banking and financial crisis: econologic in Le Monde by Gérard Mermet
The famous sociologist Gerard 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. That is, at our [...]
Jacques Attali: analysis of growth companies!
"Interesting" analyzes of our society, both in the past and the future, by the influential Jacques Attali Read more: analyzes of our consumer societies: past and society of the future
The subprime crisis in BD
Understanding the subprime crisis in comics in 10 minutes Original anonymous author and translated by Rue89.com To find out more: Comics explaining the subprime crisis Download the file (a subscription to the Newsletter may be required): The subprime crisis in BD
Study on telework, work at home ecological?
Study on telework. ENSAIS Engineering Student Report By C.Martz and C.Stefani, December 2000 Introduction Teleworking is often associated with values such as return to the countryside, recreation society, or re-engagement with the family unit. For some, it is a vector of precarious employment, for others it [...]
Green Guide classification of mountain resorts
Green Guide to Alpine winter sports resorts Selective sewage treatment, wastewater treatment, development, renewable energies, public transport or social actions ... as many alternatives of sustainable development that are emerging and that can be supported in the resort. By the Green Guide of mountain resorts, the association wishes to encourage responsible mountain practices, [...]
