These Capbretonnaises and Capbretonnais will not soon forget their trip to the sea. And rightly so, this Sunday, May 1, 2022, they exchanged an hour with a school of very talkative cetaceans. Back in photos from this unusual encounter. For Itsas Arima, a local association committed to protecting the oceans, this meeting is part of … Read more
Do you want to take action yourself to reduce your plastic consumption? How about participating in the No Plastic Challenge? This challenge, organized every year by the association “No Plastic In My Sea”, devotes 15 days to the fight against this form of pollution. This year it will take place from May 30 to June … Read more
It is no coincidence that the vegetables in our supermarkets all have more or less the same shape and the same colours. To come up with such a layout took time… and a large package of genetic transformations! Take for example the case of corn by looking at these two images. Which of these two … Read more
We can hardly make it shorter as a circuit. The pantry of this Parisian restaurant is located 30 kilometers away, in Presles-en-Brie, in Seine-et-Marne. And what is special is that both the establishment and the farm are jointly managed by Arnaud Dalibot, the founder of the restaurant Mûre. At the gates of Paris, this dedicated … Read more
Message to early birds… or night owls. A flamboyant astronomical phenomenon will occur overnight on Monday, May 16: a total lunar eclipse. The Earth satellite will then be donned in its finest orange robes. And good news, the event will be visible from mainland France. The total solar eclipse will occur when the full moon … Read more
If there is indeed one ecological scourge that is easy to eradicate in France, it is that of invasive advertising in letterboxes. To limit this waste, the government has just launched a system Baptized “Oui Pub”. If you didn’t want to receive ads in your mailbox until now, you had to stick a label “Stop … Read more
This was the request of the teacher Guillermo Fernandez: that Swiss parliamentarians be educated about the climatic condition of the country and about the consequences of the disturbance. The teacher went on a 39-day hunger strike last winter and it paid off. Next Monday, May 2, an information day on climate and biodiversity was held … Read more
Birdhouses to replace pesticides? This is the solution introduced by winegrowers in Cairanne, in the Vaucluse. These facilities are for tits and bats, two species that feed on insects. Photo: Shutterstock An alternative to insecticides The grape worm is a family of moths whose caterpillars pierce the grapes and wreak havoc on the vines. This … Read more
What could be more timeless than an espadrille? For 150 years, the “Megam” factory has been manufacturing its cord shoes in its family workshop in Mauléon in the Basque Country. It is here that the Made in France models are made of recycled materials designed by the house Payote, made in 2016. Cutting the canvas, … Read more
Being a train conductor can be tricky: this job puts you on the front line of passenger criticism. To counterbalance the daily insults, Romain has found an infallible method… Humor! Romain, the SNCF controller that makes passengers laugh Romain, a train traffic controller like no other… 😃 Posted by Brut on Monday 2 May 2022 … Read more