Ecology

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Today I went to the library to buy a book and I came back with five!

I went by the personal development section and discovered loads of books about happiness. It surprised me because I never realized there was so much literature on happiness.
You have to know that here, in France, people can be very cynical about happiness. Happiness is for fools or it’s a sect’s slogan. When you surf the web, most of the people writing, talking about happiness are Australian or American (it seems)(well I don’t speak Tamoul or Chinese).

But lately my beliefs are shaken. Everywhere I go, the topic comes up. Just this week, I was helping a friend at a festival and happiness was on everybody’s lips at conferences. Then a couple of days later, I was at a red light on my bike, and just there was a friend eating at a terrasse. I joined him for half an hour, only to discover that he was organizing happiness diners. They invite specialists on the subject like Ruut Veenhoven director of the World Database of Happiness and editor of the Journal of Happiness Studies and discuss.

I was in shock. A happiness tribe!

Since there is prolific information on the web about happiness (see my blogroll for exemple), I could contribute better by investigating what French have to bring to the table. I have a few people in mind and I hope that even if France is the world champion antidepressant consumer, it has the capacity to produce great happiness thinkers. To be continued…

In the meantime, he is not talking directly about happiness but he is French and I see an evident link between how we treat our planet and the fundamentals of happiness. As I exposed in a former post, when you start to investigate the subject of happiness, more stuff (when basics needs are met) is not doing the trick. Happiness doesn’t lie in having more, wasting, war, exploitation… Once every man will discover his inner happiness, the need to destroy our environment will not be the logics anymore. Well that’s what I believe but It seems I am an utopist ☺

So don’t miss this sublime movie that has been released for free in several languages for us to team up and improve the life of each one of us.

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story-of-stuff

I don’t intend to give my own answers on this blog but I guess it will swet a bit because my choices, my writing is inspired by my believes.

In a past life, I was a buyer. I worked for companies that call themselves “Fast moving consumer good companies”. FMCG. It speaks for itself. As a buyer, I traveled to India, China, Pakistan… to buy stuff to make stuff. I saw, I draw conclusions and this video is explaining all the reasons why I decided to follow a new track.

If consumers, buyers, accountants, farmers, teachers, fathers, politicians… if each one of us takes responsability for his own action and the impact on all of us as one instrument in an orchestra, there is a new way possible. Yes, we can but it has to come from every individual at the “bottom”.