With Avatar: The Waterway, James Cameron delivers a great ecological film, constructed as much as a tale as a great spectacle. But the message ofAvatar 2 is it consistent with the way it was produced? The answer is yes — except that the promotion is where the problem lies. LikeAvatarand perhaps even more, its sequel … Read more
But who was Rabi’a al-Adawiyya (713-801) whom Salah Stétié nicknamed “the athlete of God, similar to that of the future Thérèse” by devoting a superb biography to him Rabi’a, of fire and tears (Albin Michel, 2015). “She is the first great figure of Sufism, and it is not insignificant that she is a woman,” noted … Read more
by Giuseppe Criaco In his essay on the Eternal fascism, Umberto Eco he wrote “behind a regime and its ideology, there is always a way of thinking and feeling, a series of cultural habits, a nebula of dark instincts and unfathomable impulses”. We must start from these words to understand the outcome of the last … Read more
What if this new episode of heat wave had an impact on our anxieties about climate change? Studies show that directly experiencing the effects of these changes can increase instances of eco-anxiety. A necessary evil to push us to act? As water supplies dwindle and droughts follow one after another, some warn of the psychological … Read more
♦ Clean beaches This summer, I’m doing it! Plastic bags, bottles, cigarette butts… the participants in the beach cleaning operations are not idle! This year again, Surfrider, an international NGO for the protection of the seas, is setting up its “Ocean Initiatives”, large-scale operations which, in 2021, had made it possible to cover 72,000 kilometers … Read more
Camille Chaudron is a speaker, advisor, director, but above all a convinced environmental activist. You probably know her better under the nickname girl go green on social networks. A few months ago, Camille left town to settle in the farm of Peuton, a permaculture farm in southern Mayenne. The result of a long journey, it … Read more