Åsa Sonjasdotter, Potatoes’ Perspective, 2019 Source

Pariciflore aims to provide the people of Ile-de-France with wild and local plant species, particularly herbaceous plants. The ecological commitment is strong and it is a question of initiating a change in practices, of offering new perspectives of vegetation from our local heritage and, let's be ambitious, of giving a virtuous direction to the sector of "horticultural" production in France. The association has set up its nursery in the Parc départemental du Sausset in Seine-Saint-Denis, with production starting in 2021. Source texte Source photo: Elodie SEGUIN, Pariciflore Source photo: Elodie SEGUIN, Pariciflore Source photo: Elodie SEGUIN, Pariciflore

In 2021 a group of cultural workers together with tranzit.ro, bought together a plot of land 40 km. north of Bucharest, where we are building The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life. Amongst others, the Station aims to become a working place for artists and researchers interested in thinking a different relationship to nature. As such, we are striving to plant and maintain a garden that is responding to the challenges of climate change, which is paying attention to the local biodiversity and is at the same time permeable to metissage and cultural embedding. Cosmos Garden, drawing its name from the plant originating from Mexico, Cosmos bipinnatus, is proposed by landscape designer Georgiana Strat as “a living laboratory of experimentation for nature, art and life. The purpose is testing, observing and foregrounding of models that creatively answer to themes such as: the decrease of water resources, conservation of biodiversity, migration of plants and animal species, models of sustainable feeding, fighting desertification etc.” Georgiana Strat proposed a site analysis, a concept for the Cosmos Garden and a plan for the planting, and we presented these plans as part of the itinerating exhibition “Now the Impulse is to Live!”.

We had the honour of visiting Gilles Clément's magnificent laboratory garden in the Creuse region of France. Share this experience with us via our video 'Chez les Plantes': This is a concrete and long-term experimentation of the idea of the "Planetary Garden", which aims to "maintain or increase diversity through a consensual practice of non-development ... and raise unproductivity to the level of politics". Source images: Constantin Petcou

Instituto Terra is a non-profit civil organization founded in April 1998. It is dedicated to environmental restoration and sustainable rural development in the Vale do Rio Doce. The region was originally covered by the Atlantic Forest and includes the municipalities of Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo, bathed by the Rio Doce watershed. Instituto Terra is the result of the initiative of the couple Lélia Deluiz Wanick Salgado and Sebastião Salgado, who, faced with the scenario of environmental degradation in which the former cattle ranch acquired from Sebastião Salgado's family - as well as many other rural units located in the town of Aimorés - was located, made a decision: to return to nature what decades of environmental degradation had destroyed. Source: Sebastião Salgado Source: Sebastião Salgado source: wikimedia Source main image: Instituto Terra Source text: Instituto Terra

Văcărești Natural Park is the first urban natural park in Romania, only 5 km away from the city centre, being also the largest green space in Bucharest, covering 183 ha. Văcărești Natural Park has its own administration body that manages the park in partnership with the City Hall and other institutions and organisations with strong experience in nature protection and conservation, research, ecotourism and education. The mission of Văcărești Natural Park’s Administration is to: -Protect the biological diversity -Promote healthy recreation in the middle of the nature, and ecotourism -Develop, deliver and support education activities for nature observation and interpretation, and scientific research Văcărești Natural Park is the first urban protected area in Romania, and the largest green space of its capital, Bucharest. Văcărești National Natural Park, image captured by drone. Photo: Helmut Ignat Foto: Helmut Ignat Foto: Helmut Ignat Source texte

This is a project of Instituto A Cidade Certa de Você, which focuses on the agro-ecological transition in urban and vulnerable areas and the creation of models of sustainable local development in a participatory way, strengthening networks and local initiatives. The objective is to strengthen families that produce healthy food, promoting the community's capacity to build a more just and sustainable future in the city. All this through food sovereignty and justice. Source images: A Cidade Precisa de Agroecologia

Flying with geese in ULM, is an ethological method developed by Christian Moullec and his wife Paola in 1995. It was initiated with the aim of reintroducing new migratory routes to species of geese and cranes that are experiencing major problems on their original migratory routes. As a result of numerous TV, film and newspaper reports, the public has been made aware of the cause of wild birds in their wild habitat and as a Being. Le temps d'un bivouac Christian Moullec_Mon Film avec les Oiseaux dominique cruciani Coler avec des