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Architect by training, Marius Hamelot is determined to take action to face environmental issues. With two classmates from the National School of Architecture of Versailles, he invented Le Pavé®, the first material made from plastic waste recovered from nature and oceans.

The goal is to find a real solution to reduce our volume of plastic waste and therefore our impact on the environment. Willing to change perception people have with waste, Marius Hamelot answers our questions, shares his vision and tells us about the future ambitions of his company Sasminimum!

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The Mouvement Impact France, a French network of entrepreneurs and managers gathered around ecological and social transformation, allies with the Collectives, a federation bringing together thirty employee groups committed to the ecological transition. Their objectives consist in transforming companies and initiating a new commitment model, bringing together employees and managers.

Gathered for a conference at the COP26, the networks wish to bring a common voice in order to create synergies to change businesses from within.

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Four years ago, EXTENDAM invested alongside Joris Bruneel in an unranked Hipotel in Belleville. After transforming the establishment into a 3-star hotel with 31 rooms and a restaurant with 70 seats, the Hotel Babel opened its doors four years later in Belleville.

Attractive and unique, this hotel, which actively contributes to the life of a rapidly changing Parisian district, traces the lines of a new hotel industry that is attentive to social and environmental realities.

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Spotlight on Rectoverso Architectes’ Face Cachée project in CFNews Immo. The rehabilitated office building now houses the new Aptiskills headquarters.

Located rue Edouard Vaillant in Levallois-Perret, the 2,000 sqm program incorporates the codes of the city’s tertiary architecture through its lacquered aluminium facade. Inside, the building offers six different atmospheres, one per floor.

A project to discover on CFNEWS IMMO

Unveiled last May by the government, the impact.gouv platform allows companies to play the game of transparency by publishing their environmental, social and good governance (ESG) data.

Caroline Neyron, Managing Director of Mouvement Impact France, deplores the lack of clarity and precise objectives of this tool.

For her, the first problem lies in the use of the word “impact” which relates to a high level of commitment from companies, while this tool does not have the criteria of impact. Indeed, it allows to reveal the commitments in terms of corporate social responsibility (CSR), which are consistent simply to reduce the negative effects of a company’s activity. Fuzzy notions that require in-depth work in order to offer a better understanding to avoid green and social washing.

Furthermore, the optional nature of this platform makes it insufficient. A mandatory tool, in which, for each indicator, an objective and a deadline are set and a score given, is essential for the ecological and social transition of companies.

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Located in the heart of the Flaine resort, the hotel has been completely refurbished to make its way for a 4-star establishment with 118 rooms and apartments. Flexibility and a mix of uses are the key words of the RockyPop Flaine, offering both rooms, penthouses and apartments, including a decor surfing between art and mountain.

An investment that fits perfectly with EXTENDAM’s strategy supporting the development of responsible and experiential hotels of tomorrow.

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Designed in 2006, the Ginko eco-district is laying its last stone in Bordeaux. On 32 hectare, Ginko is a succession of heterogeneous blocks with collective and individual housing, silo parking lots with shared hanging gardens and shops on the ground floor.

This eco-district will be extended with the Noème operation, reproducing the qualities of its predecessor by improving them. Composed of nine blocks, including one block entrusted to Maud Caubet Architects, the work will begin in November.

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At 57 years old, Jean-Marc Palhon drives the investment company EXTENDAM and owns a portfolio of 259 establishments in France and Europe. Julie Le Bolzer went to meet him for Les Echos, resulting to a portrait faithful to the convictions of this man of numbers and words.

Born in the South of France and then moved to Paris, Jean-Marc Palhon defines himself as a “man of mission”. He is committed to weaving the future of the hotel industry, in particular by adapting its hotels to new uses and current challenges, whether they are environmental or social.

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Today, groups of employees and managers committed to ecological and social transition are meeting at the COP26 to transform businesses.

For the occasion, Mouvement Impact France, carrying the voices of 7,500 leaders and entrepreneurs committed to ecological and social transition, has joined forces with Les Collectifs, a network of employee collectives mobilized for ecology.

“The leaders have the strategic vision, the employees have the vision of the field. We must encourage them to bring it up” explains Eva Sadoun, chairwoman of Mouvement Impact France.

An article by Joël Cossardeaux to read in Les Echos

In 2019, Priscillia Routier Trillard had the idea of creating a tool to help women. In 2020, The Sorority was born. Its goal: to enable women and people from gender minorities to never feel alone again!

Already bringing together 16,000 verified and certified profiles in 5 countries, the application makes it possible to find people ready to act and to come to the aid in real time, whether in the street, public transportation, at work or at home.

The Sorority community offers support, listening, advice and solutions to people who need it.

A wonderful idea that goes in the direction of living together!

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