Macif and Essec continue their collaboration to drive impact entrepreneurship

Macif and Essec continue their collaboration to drive impact entrepreneurship

The Entrepreneurship and Impact Innovation chair of ESSEC (business school) is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Launched in 2002, it aims to: “encouraging entrepreneurship vocations with social and environmental impact, professionalizing the sector of the social and solidarity economy”, we can read in a press release from ESSEC. How? ‘Or what? “By strengthening the teams of … Read more

Seine-et-Marne: a group of neighbors creates a solidarity “free shop” in their neighbourhood

Seine-et-Marne: a group of neighbors creates a solidarity "free shop" in their neighbourhood

Children’s clothes that have become too small, shoes that we no longer wear, books that we have already read and re-read… We all have objects sleeping in our closets that we no longer use. † Rather than keep these relics indefinitely, the residents of Moret-sur-Loing (Seine-et-Marne) had an ingenious and unified idea: to set up … Read more

30 Ukrainian refugees with a PSG player, anti-gaspi restaurant, hydroelectric power station

30 Ukrainian refugees with a PSG player, anti-gaspi restaurant, hydroelectric power station

The football player Keylor Navas who welcomes Ukrainian refugees to his Parisian home, a restaurant in Nancy that rescues unsold food from the garbage to make vegetarian and gourmet dishes, a father and his son who build a hydroelectric power station in Normandy… Hi everyone, this is Harold Paris, the founder of POSITIVR, and you’re … Read more

“My plate, my planet”, the exhibition that makes young and old aware of sustainable food

"My plate, my planet", the exhibition that makes young and old aware of sustainable food

How can we feed nearly 10 billion people in the future without irreversibly affecting our planet? A far from simple question, but one that the exhibition “My plate, my planet” tries to answer. This event, aimed at raising awareness of the challenges of sustainable food among young people, teachers and the general public, will take … Read more

Close the supplement, plant-based alternatives are now free in French Starbucks

Close the supplement, plant-based alternatives are now free in French Starbucks

Tired of paying for your coffee? latte more expensive for the “vegetable milk” option? Know that Starbucks France heard you. The coffee chain has announced that plant-based alternatives will be free in most branches since March 21. Non-participating cafes are listed here to save you from false hopes. This change is a big step forward … Read more

These unusual and poetic shelters offer shelter to campers on their way to Compostela

These unusual and poetic shelters offer shelter to campers on their way to Compostela

Between Aveyron and Lot, four “works of art refuges” welcome and amaze pilgrims on their way to Santiago de Compostela. The project ‘Window on the landscape’ invites artists and architects to create stopovers in the middle of nature for walkers and trekkers, but also for the local population. Poetic refuges built according to ancestral know-how … Read more

Cyclothymia: “A diagnosis is not a label, it is the beginning of a solution”

Cyclothymia: "A diagnosis is not a label, it is the beginning of a solution"

How to Raise a Bipolar Child? In her book “Mon enfant cyclone” Laetitia Payen talks about her experience as a mother whose youngest son suffers from cyclothymia. This condition is characterized by sudden mood swings and is still misdiagnosed by health professionals, especially in children. On the occasion of World Bipolar Disorder, which takes place … Read more

With its “Rhino Bonds”, the World Bank is calling on investors to save the black rhinos

With its "Rhino Bonds", the World Bank is calling on investors to save the black rhinos

In the financial world, investments usually have only one goal: to bring in money. But given the biodiversity crisis, the World Bank decided otherwise. Indeed, the institution will issue financial securities of a new type, the “Rhino Bonds”, the purchase of which does not guarantee the collection of interest. Rather, as their name suggests, these … Read more