good evening three years ago I was
commercial director in IT
and I changed my life fairly
radically according to some I’m told
sometimes I’m brave and even
people who congratulate me
it’s not like that I lived them
for me it was a joyous journey a
way to my deepest aspirations
it was a rebirth I remember at
early I asked myself three questions
what idea was really important
for me who wanted to frequented and
what did I really want to live
and I also remember two steps
very inspiring and structuring
it was first reading a
stone rabhi book named the
happy sobriety and a movie
documentary about a philosopher named
andré gorce
and that’s when I understood
that if I change my behavior
it’s the world that changes because I’m doing
part of the world
every gesture even the smallest changes
the world
I stopped thinking that I was not
legitimate I stop thought I
was not competent I have a
treatment if I was alone I
discovered the enjoyment of living the
coherence between my actions and my
thoughts
I rediscovered my aspirations
deep the meaning of life sharing
trust in others
authentic relationship autonomy
the joyous collective action and that’s
to live up to his aspirations that I have
decided soon after launching the
hummingbirds from versailles and since with
dozens of other hummingbirds we have
inspired launched initiated initiated
supported more than fifty
of actions and projects ok what is it
so his actions and projects which I
talk I’ll give you a few
examples in three areas in
particular
I changed my diet
today more than 75% of my
food comes to me from producers
peasants that I personally know
a farmer to her at a farmer’s house
wheat producer both millers
and bakers a peasant producer of
peasant property fruit producers I
actively supports them by buying them
my food a year in advance yes she
advance I do it within a
association called amap
I remember at the beginning three years ago
was 5.6 today we are
without family to versailles and the farmer
succeeded even became a friend
real friends he came to dinner to sleep
many times at home and every year
I want to spend several days in his
firm to give him a hand I
even went a little further in
approach
in May 2016 I launched the
first shared garden of versailles
with twenty other versaillaise
and versailles and we have the pleasure
to work in a vegetable garden
I have the pleasure of eating vegetables
I have grown, and then in the month of
January 2017
we launched a second garden
shared in versailles twice more
big 40 families 1300 square meters
in the heart of Versailles and more
big all that is that before I had
never garden my life and then I got
also asked about what I ate
for example before I loved steak
tartar do not know and I’ve seen
reports on how were
made red meat is just
when I became aware of the impact
on the planet
I still like Tartar but I can
more eat it’s more like
a second area where I got
questioned precisely it’s my impact
on the planet on average a French
produces 250 kg of waste by waste
not recyclable
so as I was eating more vegetables
I had gardens so I compose it
it halves my weight
trash and then with a dozen
other hummingbirds we reflected on
how to reduce
our waste production and
today through different
methods I divided by ten I’m
at 25 kg a year I put mikko pinard
contest she has 10 kg a year i
also thought about how to
help others so I hit
created a system within the map where
the people they come to recover their
basket and they bring their waste
vegetables and it goes on the field
of a market gardener a ton of saving
to trash and then I launched
also the first neighborhood station tale
in Versailles then a second of the people
can come to file their break
osenbach vegetables after the rubbish I
asked myself question about the
electricity consumption in terms
impact
and the same with a dozen others
parcel breen versailles for five months
we thought about how we could
to reduce the consumption of
aforementioned in five months we have
reduced our bill sorts and 25
% just through a few gestures without
change nothing to our comfort and then
after they are asked but we
that electricity the schooner not
suppliers to be is it and
possibly a little renewable I
search them on the internet
I found a producer distributor
of the above 100% renewable
it took me exactly thirty minutes
to make the change of operator
everything is taken care of by both
operators
the old new no break 30
minutes and then after I too
interested in my bank and what
would not have banks that is
maybe more beastly ethics less
money in tax havens
owls is that I mean or who
maybe are a little less inclined to
making projects in the field of
fossil extraction I’m going on
internet there are two banks that get
clear the lot very clearly one
of them had an agency in Versailles
and so I changed bank one
third area in which I am
am questioned it was my consumption
I stopped almost totally
to buy objects then certainly that
saved me a lot of money but
especially it saved me a crazy time
time to think about what
I was going to buy the time to go
compare the time to go buy the
time to go back the time to the
unpack to install the time
to use the object the time to throw
it’s just huge the time I
did not win all that and that time
I made the choice to devote it to
bring my attention to others
and my environment for example
before I had a car car that
is expensive his skin my lungs and
it makes me dependent oil I
decided on their car now
the age of walking
I use a bike from time to time
I used public transport and
I even thanks to an association of
viroflay I learn to repair my
bike alone before I used
exclusively the euro you know this
currency a little bit speculative limited
perennial today I use in addition
this sun is a local currency
they were durable and friendly
every week I exchange items from
services
yes here at viroflay in versailles against
suns I do it with others
particular I leave within a
association called the salt of
versailles local exchange system
ok so sometimes when I’m
tell all this was a person
who told me but renault how is
what your children live that I
answer my children they are happy to
see me happy one day there is even a
of my sons who told me he found
that rather fun because it was
fun and various things then
meet people rather benevolent
the different ones and then often we
discuss these topics and its
concepts new concepts they
sometimes use in their studies
in their activities of
concepts like ressourcerie ripart
shared garden coffee local currency of
new concepts such as debate
moving open forum communication
nonviolent sociocracy decision by
consent elections are candidates
and finally when I think some
people tell me but it’s too much
difficult is too much to do is too much
hard
I had just to start with
simple things things on which
I feel at ease and in comfort of the
do I invite for me I prefer
ask his actions to several or
group
just because it’s encouraging and
friendly thank you
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