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2011 • Build a new society
April 2 and 3, 2011
10.000 people have attented the 21 debates held at UNESCO on April 2&3, 2011.
"Building a new society" was the central theme of this year Earth university.
Ecology is increasingly taking an important place in our lives and the need to protect our environment is the subject of many debates and growing concern. We must change our lifestyle if we want avoid a runaway increase in the dangers facing us.
For these reasons, it seems more essential than ever to "build a new society".
Building a new society means reshaping our environment policy to make a long-term view and future generations a central point in our objectives for our society.
Building a new society means allowing men to live in dignity, being able to share and care.
Building a new society means inventing a new model of development based on changes in methods of production and consumption, in every field: energy, transport, housing, agricultural, health, etc.
Building a new society means establishing an ecological democracy, i.e. developing a new kind of governance, given that all citizens are concerned by environmental crises, both as victims and as contributors.
Building a new society means working on the idea of reconciliation.
Reconciliation between political power and citizens.
Reconciliation between the spirit of enterprise and the spirit of sharing.
Reconciliation between man and nature.
Lastly, building a new society means restoring the right to dream, and placing renewed importance on the long term view, vulnerability, doubt, humility, respect and altruism.
Speakers
Eric ALBERT
Psychiatrist
Claude ALPHANDERY
Economist, honorary president France Active
Christophe ANDRE
Psychiatrist
Gérard APFELDORFER
Psychiatrist, psychotherapist on food issues
Jacques ATTALI
Writer, president of PlaNet Finance
Jean-Louis BANCEL
Chairman, Crédit Coopératif Group
Guillaume BAPST
Fabrice BARDECHE
Executive vice-president, IONIS Education Group
Pierre BERGER
Managing director, Eiffage
Lionel BONY
Director of the Office of the Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute
Jean-Marc BORELLO
General Deputy, SOS Group
Jean-Christophe CAPELLI
Co-founder and chairman of FriendsClear
Pierre-André de CHALENDAR
CEO, Saint Gobain
Jean-Louis CHAUSSENDE
President KPMG Foundation
Gilles CLEMENT
Landscape gardener
André COMTE-SPONVILLE
Philosopher
Christian COURTIN-CLARINS
Chairman of Supervisory Board of Clarins Group
Philippe DESBROSSES
doctor in sciences of environment, expert for the European Commission
Emmanuel FABER
Deputy General Manager, Danone Group
Cynthia FLEURY
Philosopher
Maud FONTENOY
Sailor, Vice-chairwoman of the Conservatoire du Littoral
Caroline FOUREST
Writer, journalist
Jacques GENEREUX
Economist
Susan GEORGE
Writer, Chairman of the Board of the Transnational Institute, honorary president of ATTAC
Michel GODET
Economist, professor at « Conservatoire national des arts et métiers »
Alain GODONOU
Georges HADDAD
Jean-Guy HENCKEL
National director of Réseau Cocagne
Perrine HERVE-GRUYER
Founder of a biological Farm in Bec Hellouin
Stéphane HESSEL
Writer, diplomat
JR
Artist, photographer
Daniel KAPLAN
Founder and CEO of FING
Joël KARECKI
Chairman of Philips France
Etienne KLEIN
Physicist at CEA
Michel LACROIX
Philosopher
Bruno LE MAIRE
French Minister of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries
Tristan LECOMTE
Founder of Alter Eco
Michel LESCANNE
CEO of Nutriset
Marc LUYCKX GHISI
Vice-president of the « Conseil Consultatif International d'Auroville »
Michel MAFFESOLI
Professor at the Sorbonne, Director of the Centre for Studies of Contemporary and Everyday Life
François de MAZIERES
President of « Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine », Mayor of Versailles
Eric MOLINIE
Chairman of the HALDE (The High Authority for the Struggle Against Discrimination and for Equality)
Pierre MONGIN
CEO of RATP
Arnaud MOUROT
Managing director, Ashoka France
Claude NAHON
Director for sustainable development, EDF Group
Lars OLOFSSON
CEO, Carrefour
Laurence PARISOT
Carlo PETRINI
Founder of Slow Food
Bertrand PICCARD
Founder of Solar Impulse, psychiatrist
Pascal PICQ
Paleoanthropologist, Collège de France
François-Henri PINAULT
CEO, PPR
Pierre RABHI
Chairman of non-profit organisation Terre et Humanisme, writer, philosopher
Jean-François RIAL
CEO, Voyageurs du Monde Group
Olivier ROELLINGER
Chef, restaurant « Le Coquillage »
Joël de ROSNAY
President of Biotics International, special advisor for the “Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie”
Samuel ROUVILLOIS
Priest, philosopher
Arnaud de SAINT SIMON
Managing director, Psychologies Magazine
Thierry SALOMON
Founder of NegaWatt
Pierre-André SENIZERGUES
CEO of Etnies and of Sole Technology
Caroline SOST
Director and founder of the Living School
Sylvain TESSON
Adventurer
Dominique THYS
Delegated Administrator to the General direction of MAIF
Oliviero TOSCANI
Artist, photographer
Odon VALLET
Writer, professor of Religions at the Sorbonne
Jean-Paul VIGUIER
Architect
Dominique WOLTON
Sociologist
Jochen ZEITZ
CEO, chairman of the Board of Puma
Photosof Earth University - 2011 edition
