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 […]
Category: Society and Philosopy
Information and analysis on the evolution of Human Society!
Solution to the crisis? Boost growth and above all trust: Argentine example 2001
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 […]
Ready to throw away from Arte: planned obsolescence is not a recent practice
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. […]
Work, Happiness, and Motivation: The Psychology of Money
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 [...]
Company: basic income, social opportunity or neo-Communist utopia?
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 […]
Download: The universal or basic income, the documentary film
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, the basic income: money and psychology Samuel Bendahan
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 industrial revolution, towards energy autonomy (Arte Thema)
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 […]
National education and consumer society
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
How education works in growing societies
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
Fukushima nuclear disaster, the other Chernobyl?
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, 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 “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 since 40 years
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 meat types in the world
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 […]
Petrol Addict: oil dependency of our societies (Greenpeace)
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 […]
Descending, video report Special Envoy
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 […]
Great bluff, a consumer society
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, symbol of the waste society
Planned obsolescence, 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 […]
The Great Bluff of Home Appliances: False Reliability and Seller Abuse
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 […]
Philippe Séguin denounces the scam of the public debt
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 […]
consumer societies and crises: Story of Stuff
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 […]
Article on econology in References, economic magazine
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 […]
Consumer society
The bullshit and ignorance of our society summed up in a few minutes ...
Banking and financial crisis: econology in the newspaper Le Monde by Gérard Mermet
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 […]
Jacques Attali: analysis of growth companies!
"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
