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To take part in the fight against climate change, Auriane Lefebvre and Manon Baste are joining forces to create Houbly in 2020! It is a company that recycles biowaste and plant waste to make sustainable, recyclable and compostable agromaterials.
Auriane and Manon have identified two plant waste sources that are not yet recovered in Île-de-France: spent grains from breweries, waste from beer production and cocoa pods from beans roasting. They then use this waste as a raw material to manufacture new materials which, at the end of their life, can be returned to the earth in the form of compost contributing to soil regeneration.
This also promotes less polluted air in our homes. A great project that Les Grandes Idées salutes!
While our society is dealing with a rough impact energetic crisis, an increasing inflation and when young graduated of great schools committed to more engaged companies, French government is challenging the ceiling of salaries of public companie’s manager due to the departure of EDF chairman.
Led by Jean Moreau and Eva Sadoun, Mouvement Impact France gathers 10 000 entrepreneurs and propose to change our economy model for more sobriety. Together, they defend ceiling of wages in huge public companies as a salutary compass in a time of crisis.
As current economic models draw heavily on finite resources, sobriety will become unavoidable. For Jean Moreau, co-chairman of Mouvement Impact France, it is possible to anticipate and move from an imposed sobriety to a chosen one! This subject of the utmost importance for Mouvement Impact France and its members will be the theme of the 4th edition of the Universités d’été de l’économie de demain, which will be held on August 30th at the Cité Universitaire de Paris.