Indonesia is drowning in plastic

The human being is “plasticizing” the planet. 8 million tons of plastic waste are dumped into the world's oceans each year : one refuse truck’s-worth of plastic every minute. Indonesia is the world's second biggest source of marine plastic waste, after China. To fight (...)

The wave at the heart of Senegalese fishermen

The sea is full of stories of fishermen setting sail for more fishy waters. Basques, Bretons, Galicians, Norwegians... and now Senegalese.
For the past five years, we have seen these sailors appear on the coasts of Brittany and Normandy, having passed through the Spanish fishing industry (...)

Austin - the Green City in the Land of Oil

He sends cyclists out to collect apple peelings and the leftovers of lettuce in the hilly neighbourhoods of Austin, Texas… and it works. Compost Pedallers offers a 100% eco-compost service. This slightly mad concept was invented by Dustin Fedako, a young, hip man with a long, red beard and (...)

Bangladesh - Under an Emancipating Sun

Bangladesh has developed the largest individual solar panel programme in the world. 3.7 million solar cells have already been installed since 2003 on the roofs of houses in rural areas. By 2018, there should be 6 million. NGOs use this development of rural areas to push for women to work in a country (...)

Cape Verde Of light and wind.

Wedged in an escarpment of the volcano that hangs over them, the fishermen of Monte Trigo, a small village in Cape Verde, only have the sea as their horizon. There is no road, no other resource either between these steep and arid ridges.

This village, Africa’s most westerly, (...)

Ecovalley

Faces of a pioneering valley. In the Drôme valley, in the Vercors foothills, another world is taking shape. A world where mankind is a stakeholder in nature, where agriculture respects both the land and the farmers, where the economy is at mankind’s service, and not the other way around. (...)

Eva Lanxmeer - Green District

For the past 15 years, Eva-Lanxmeer has been a model of a city in full transition. This eco-district was built from the end of the 1990s on in the town of Culembourg in the Netherlands and houses 1000 inhabitants in a quiet and green setting. Eco-houses with solar panels, shared gardens, an urban (...)

In Bhutan, Happiness is Organic

The kingdom of Bhutan announced in 2012 its desire to live 100% from eco-agriculture. Having been through dark times of fertilisers, weed killers and pesticides from the petrochemical industry, the farmers have once again found under their hoes, a soil that is soft to till. Hemmed in between two (...)

Indonesia - Sugar Palm Trees to Fight Climate Change

On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, the cultivation of sugar palm trees allows both the forest to be protected from deforestation, and the changing climate to be restored and the encouragement of wealth sharing at a local level. And it works! The farmers, who have organised themselves into a cooperative, (...)

Masdar - A Green City in the Land of Black Gold

In 2008, a groundbreaking city with a low carbon footprint emerged from the deserts of the United Arab Emirates. This urban laboratory, 30 minutes from Abu Dhabi, houses a university that is specialised in the research and development of the clean technologies of the future. .

For (...)

The Sahel Agroecology Miracle

In Africa, where the semi-arid land of the Sahel is threatened with desertification, more and more farmers are applying agroecology techniques to maintain and even develop their cereal and vegetable crops. This form of natural agriculture reconciles tradition and modernity by empowering local knowledge (...)

Bangkok : la vie sous l'autoroute

Bangkok, mégapole high tech, déploie ses tentaculaires autoroutes suspendues comme autant de signes de sa modernité. Vu du dessus, un labyrinthe futuriste. Vu du dessous ? une autre vie, une autre ville, qui s’organise comme elle peut à l’ombre des voitures : petits commerces, habitat précaire. (...)

Envahisseurs, soyez les bienvenus !

In Lima, illegal land invasions are the motivating force behind urban development. In the Peruvian megalopolis, slums are not inevitable. As a unique example in the world, the (official) perspective of becoming a land owner one day is encouraging land squatters in their group takeovers. Without (...)

Les migrants de Hô Chi Minh-Ville

Hô Chi Minh Ville explose, devient HCMV, la mégapole, la capitale économique du Vietnam, le pôle d'attraction principal pour les centaines de milliers de migrants qui arrivent chaque année de tout le pays. Portrait d'une mégapole en devenir et des migrants qui la fabriquent.

- FOS -

Fos est plus connue pour son complexe industrialo-portuaire que son équipe de foot locale. Et pourtant, la ville regorge d'équipements sportifs. Nous avons suivi l'équipe 3 de l'Etoile Sportive Fosséenne. Ouvriers pour la plupart, enfants de la vague d'immigration (...)

Les centres villes, c’est pour les riches ?

Direction Marseille. En zoomant très fort, le tout petit quartier du Panier. Dans tous les guides, il est noté trois étoiles. Les touristes ne le ratent jamais. Ses rues escarpées, son linge aux fenêtres, ses pagnolades font du plus ancien des quartiers de Marseille une carte postale parfaite. (...)

Photographies

First project built in the 50's in France, by the architect Labourdette, this suburban city is the bject of numerous sociological studies. With a popultaion of 60000 inhabitants and a hundred of differents communities, the city own a "density" of life and stories without equivalent. (...)

On the Trail of Green Gold

In South America, the mining communities working in the age-old production of gold are going it alone in the name of their own development and are bolstering the boom in fair trade jewelry.

1/5 Les cueilleurs d’or - dessins

Illustrations extraites du premier chapitre du webdocumentaire A LIFE LIKE MINE
Photographies : Guillaume COLLANGES     Textes : Sébastien DAYCARD HEID   

Cuatro Horas

At the heart of a valley surrounded by mountains similar to the afghan ones, Cuatro Horas is a kind of lost arch, after four hours walking from Chaparra. In this mining community where 2500 souls are living, gold is a relief for those who try to escape their condition.

Whoever they are : (...)

La Rinconada : Under the ice, there is gold

The deposit of La Rinconada, located 5400 meters above the sea level and making it the highest in the world, lies under a glacier and its content in gold is enormous.
The highest city in the world, home to 40,000 inhabitants was created around the mine on the flanks of the mountain. Life (...)

With the gold pirates

Every week, the Zama Zama, illegal artisanal miners, set out to sneak into the goldfields in an ongoing arm-wrestle with the official goldmines.

Alaska : péril sur Shishmaref

The island of Shishmaref is located in Alaska north of the détroit of Béring. Climatic warming melts the permafrost on whom the village is constructed. Accentuated by the cast iron of the floe which does not protect the village anymore, erosion becomes such as the Inuits de Shishmaref (...)

Bangladesh : the great overflow

Before the end of the century, millions of Bangladeshi will be forced to leave their land because of climate change and its consequences. In the south west where populations are already affected by sea level rise and salinisation, the pressure becomes so strong that people who can afford it already (...)

Chad : Low tide in Lake

Lake Chad, the fourth-largest body of fresh water in Africa, is disappearing – and taking life along with it. Over the past 40 years, it has lost 90% of its area, shrinking from 25,000 square kilometres to just 2,500. Not long ago, the lake was bordered by four countries: Chad, Niger, Nigeria (...)

China : The wrath of the yellow dragon

China is one of the countries where desertification has had the greatest impact. One-quarter of its area is already affected, and the desert is expanding by over 2,500 square kilometres per year. Longbaoshan is located in Hebei Province, just 38 kilometres northwest of the Beijing suburbs. It’s (...)

Nepal : Lost Horizons

The glaciers of the Himalayas are among those whose mass is decreasing the fastest because of global warming. The accelerated melting of the “Roof of the World” represents many dangers for the Nepalese. In the next five to ten years, more than 20 glacial lakes in the country will fill (...)

New Orleans : Farewell to Big Easy

The 29th of August 2005, hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. During the following days nearly two thirds of its population left the city in dreadful conditions. They were scattered all over the United States, most of them in Houston.  Two years later more  than one hundred thousand (...)

The Halligen Islands – Sentinels in the North Sea

In North Sea, between Germany and Denmark, Halligen islands are the fruit of sediments carted by tides. There would have been more than a hundred there, but there remains only ten today, surviving of a tidal wave there. 330 inhabitants of the archipelago live on tourism and on animal husbandry. But (...)

The Maldives – A Nation at the Water’s Edge

Seen from the air, it is first wonder. The world in monochrome blue, unless it is green, is flooded with the sun. Thrown as by chance from winds by a celestial sower, full handles of emeralds fell again in ring into the midnight blue ocean. Lagoons make the wave flush as so many pearls scattered in (...)

Tuvalu : a polynesian requiem

After long years of hesitancy, the eleven thousand inhabitants of Tuvalu ended up facing the facts: climate change condemns the existence of their islands, of their communities and of their culture. Within fifty to eighty years, the sea level rise combined with more powerful winds and longer droughts, (...)