New York: Young brands are committed to responsible fashion for their Fashion Week debut

New York: Young brands are committed to responsible fashion for their Fashion Week debut

Sustainable fashion is gradually gaining ground at New York Fashion Week. Meeting with two designers reflecting on their practices to make clothes with less impact on the environment. During the pandemic, Emma Gage lost her fashion job. Two years later, she founded her brand Melke, a little thumb that made its debut at New York … Read more

A chocolatier contributes to the construction of houses from recycled cocoa fibres

A chocolatier contributes to the construction of houses from recycled cocoa fibres

The “Silicon Valley of Circular Economy Innovators”. This is how a future eco-village in Ecuador is described. Its peculiarity? The houses are made from cocoa beans. The waste from cocoa farming will be used for a very specific purpose. They will be used to create the “Cocoa Eco Village”, located in the city of Pedernales … Read more

This Thursday 100,000 Belgian students are invited to put on a big sweater. This is why.

This Thursday 100,000 Belgian students are invited to put on a big sweater.  This is why.

A degree less on the thermostat. That is the aim of the ecological challenge “Gros Pull”, in which more than 100,000 pupils and teachers in Belgium participate. The principle ? Reduce heating and energy consumption and raise awareness of the importance of preserving the planet. A challenge proposed by the GoodPlanet association and followed by … Read more

VIDEO. Benjamin tells how his intergenerational roommate with Martine changed his life

VIDEO.  Benjamin tells how his intergenerational roommate with Martine changed his life

By depositing his bags with Martine, Benjamin found more than a roof: an ear. The report My roommate is 72 years old broadcast on France 2, it looks back on the moving journey of Martine, retired, and Benjamin, student, who thrive in their intergenerational cohabitation. “When I got to her house, a weight fell”entrusts Benjamin, … Read more

Unicorns would have existed and coexisted with the first humans

Unicorns would have existed and coexisted with the first humans

Attention dreamers! Unicorns, magical animals par excellence, would indeed have existed. And according to researchers, their disappearance dates back only a few thousand years. Who said unicorns were the fruit of our imagination? Against all odds, this legendary creature would have existed and even cohabited with the first humans. But at the risk of disappointing … Read more

The European Securities and Markets Authority tackles greenwashing

The European Securities and Markets Authority tackles greenwashing

the greenwashing is in the crosshairs of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). The latter presented its roadmap for sustainable finance development on Friday 11 February, reports Sustainable information† Objective: fight against greenwashing. Specifically, a series of measures should be in place by 2024, all in coordination with national market surveillance authorities, specifies Sustainable … Read more

In Nantes, a 19th-century chapel has been transformed into an urban mushroom farm

In Nantes, a 19th-century chapel has been transformed into an urban mushroom farm

Mushrooms grown outside heart of Nantes and, even more, in a chapel? This is the crazy project of the Urban Mushroom, an agricultural company co-founded by Romain Redais and Camille May. For almost a year now, these two urban farming enthusiasts have established their mushroom farm in the old Martray chapel, located in the Talensac … Read more

Alençon: showmen donate 100 plush toys for children rescued by firefighters

Alençon: showmen donate 100 plush toys for children rescued by firefighters

Codename: Operation Pompinours. Objective: to collect stuffed animals from the fairground of Alençon for the benefit of the children rescued by the firefighters. A solidarity partnership with firefighters that has lasted for 6 years. The operation took place on Friday 11 February, during the carnival of Alençon (Orne). As tradition dictates, the showmen donated about … Read more