Today, the life of the association is based on the daily work of the permanent team and the voluntary work of the members of the Board of Directors, all of whom are deeply committed in their daily lives.
Engineer (Mines de Paris) and principal author of the workshop
I’m a permaculturist and engineer with a passion for everything that can enable us to live fulfilled lives while preserving life and peace. I am resolutely convinced that we can all turn our lives upside down and try to change the world to comply with the Paris Agreement. Broadly debating actions that make sense and have a real impact led me to publish “Sauvons le climat, 10 actions pour entrer en résistance climatique” and then to create Designing our low-carbon lives. Two years of prototyping and collective work brought it to its current maturity.
I devote most of my time to the climate emergency. I believe the “solutions” are known and technically accessible (see the 149 proposals of the French Citizens’ Climate Convention). To preserve the quality of life on Earth, I believe we essentially need to transform the social norm. That’s why I want to develop the use of Designing our low-carbon lives.
I am now the association’s Pedagogical Director.
I began my career in “responsible” communications, working in the field of sustainable development and CSR. With a desire to better understand the issues at stake, and convinced of the importance of raising awareness, I became an animator for the Climate Fresk and then a trainer for animators. To strengthen my knowledge of climate and biodiversity issues, I took part in a number of workshops… and that’s when I discovered Designing our low-carbon lives. I took a year’s break to get involved in positive-impact projects, including makesense and the Fresque Agri’Alim, to accelerate its deployment. In 2022, I moved to Tours and was delighted to cross paths again with Our low-carbon lives! My role in the team is to create links with our ecosystem and disseminate our workshop to all organizations.
What do I believe in? Almost everyone has the facts. The challenge is to imagine a desirable future without fossil fuels. That’s precisely what I like about Designing our low-carbon lives: the systemic approach (we’re not just talking about carbon!) and the projection into new imaginary worlds.
Before I met the Nos vies bas carbone team, I worked in marketing for a software company. After 7 years working in digital, applying ever more innovative American marketing methods and concepts for ever greater performance, I realized that I needed to give meaning to my job.
After a lot of soul-searching, the ecological transition seemed to me to be the most sensible way forward, given the urgency of the situation!
When I joined the team, I was in the middle of my ecological transition: I asked myself a thousand questions and took action on a daily basis to gradually reduce my carbon footprint. I’m living this transition without feeling frustrated and finding new sources of happiness. This is the message I want to get across in my new mission.
Has humanity lost its survival instinct?
How much of our time – and our resources – do we devote to activities linked to the preservation of living things?
The answers that emerge from observing our society have helped me to find the meaning of my life: to assume the small role and great responsibilities of a link in the great chain of humanity.
This realization has led me to transform my personal, family and professional life accordingly and … happily!
Knowing the phenomena at work is not enough to take action on the scale required. We need something more…
Our workshops respond precisely to this pressing need to accompany individuals and organizations in an unprecedented process of transformation: that of slowing down.
Within the association, I work to understand the needs of the organizations that call on us, on the one hand, and to deliver on the commitments made, on the other.
On a daily basis, I try to share as many Good Vibes as possible, I travel by bike and I eat a Paris-Brest when I come across one that looks delicious.
Since my training as engineer (Supaéro), I’ve bounced from experience to experience: co-creating a training program with the Campus de la Transition, volunteering, a master’s degree in the history and mediation of science, running workshops to popularize ecology, and so on. My guiding principle: to continue learning and building a life project that is consistent with today’s immense ecological and social challenges, while sharing with others just how rich and motivating this approach is!
In the process, I learned about permaculture, and even if today my approach is more theoretical than practical, this culture has educated my outlook, my way of thinking and the way I design my daily life.
On top of all that, I love getting lost in the woods, observing plants, painting and DIY…
Freshly graduated with a Master’s degree in management and international trade, my career path led me to specialize in sustainable development management, particularly during my time at Lund University in Sweden (the same university as Timothée Parrique!). Passionate and committed, I devoted my dissertation to the circular economy in the fashion industry, a subject as captivating as it was frightening.
I’ve long known that I needed a job with meaning, and for me, meaning is found in continuous learning, raising awareness and helping people take action. In search of that space where I truly feel I belong, I joined Nos vies bas carbone. Every day, I’m inspired by the team’s dynamics and the association’s systemic vision.
Beyond my commitments, I enjoy immersing myself in somewhat dubious teenage thrillers, wandering around the market for fresh vegetables and trying out recipes that aren’t always very successful. Every day I work a little harder to live in harmony with my deepest convictions.
My ecological awareness began quietly. Little by little, it grew to the point where I decided to leave Paris.
When I arrived in Tours, I set up a business, a space to let it grow and share the joy it brings me, to be an actor in the transition but also to encourage the more timid.
After 7 years, I too wanted to surround myself with people with whom I shared the same sensibility and who could nourish me with their experience and expertise. This is the path that led me to the association.
On a day-to-day basis, I’m easily amazed, I’m a gourmet but I don’t like bananas, I love the Loire river and books, which I arrange by theme and author alpha order (help!).
I’ve been a climate volunteer for many years. This commitment has enabled me to put into words what I’m experiencing, and to transform my individual adventure into a collective one. The creation of the Our low-carbon lives association is the culmination of these crossroads. I’m delighted to be able to contribute to it from my perspective as a permaculturist (with a diploma), local civil servant (“administrator”), trainer and janitor of a one-hectare site where I’m learning how ecosystems work by observing and cultivating.
Because beyond the data, figures, graphs, presentations and workshops, this is what brings us together in the association: the joy of being alive on this planet and fighting to be part of the solutions.
Faced with a planet in danger of breaking into a thousand pieces (a quote from my 5-year-old son…), doing everything in my power to reach the climate tipping point as quickly as possible seemed obvious to me. And since it’s not always easy to get involved, get moving, get involved, and get a strong political message across, running Inventing our low-carbon lives workshops turned out to be a great way for me to do just that.
As someone who is personally and professionally committed to environmental issues, I’m happy to continue my involvement and investment in the Nos vies bas carbone association to help reach as many people as possible!
I’m proud to be one of the association’s founders and a member of its Board of Directors.
I’m driven by a concern for global justice and solidarity that has marked my career. The encounters and commitment of the Our low-carbon lives association team to simply enable life on Earth within planetary limits led me to join the group. I’m particularly committed to deploying local dynamics all over France, to raise awareness and inform as widely as possible, and bring about the necessary, sustainable and shared changes in behavior and society.
I was delighted to join the Board of Directors of Nos vies bas carbone (Our low-carbon lives), to pursue my daily investment in a more just, sober, desirable, joyful, convivial and supportive society…
