Nature and recycling lovers this website is for you! Foldschool offers a range of basic domestic cardboard supplies to build yourself. The architect Nicola Enrico Stäubli, based in Switzerland, has designed a range of environmental products accessible to all those who have the desire to do-it-yourself. Tired of the traditional wooden unaffordable rocking horse? Realizing yourself these toys will help you combining the joy of your children and the respect for the environment. A fun and innovative idea welcomed in a world where it is fashionable to mix art and sustainable development. Patterns are downloadable in one click and the instruction manual as well; your ultra light and innovative chair will soon decorate your living room.

Having a child is bound environmental awareness: what future will I leave to my child? This calls also for costs that we would not have imagined, such as diaper budget. The Piwapee company offers an environmentally friendly solution to the eco-citizen: sustainable diapers. Made from bamboo fibber, a substance naturally antibacterial and hypoallergenic, non-treated with chlorine, the diapers respect the skin of your baby and allow considerable savings. By using them you can protect the environment by causing less waste, less pollution.

If this is the first time you use this kind of diapers, Piwapee gives you lots of advice on washing, drying etc. Don’t be scared, everything is very well explained and there are many mother testimonials. Sustainable diapers change life!

Point of sale in Paris:
Le Petit Bazar / Loustic Ethic
128 Avenue Emile Zola
75 015 Paris
France

On the Macabann.com website you will find a different way to design your house. The team at Macabann.com’s suggests you how to make your own furniture and objects to spice up your house or apartment. Playful, the website is full of extremely well-detailed topics such as Tools which ranks the tools you need for our level (beginner, handyman and expert).
Do it yourself = saving money: it reduces production costs, margins and intermediaries and it acts for the environment at the same time. Pollution from industry is reduced and the one from the long distance transport also or the one connected to the production of industrial wastes in large quantities.
To help you in your green approach, Macabann.com provides richly detailed and illustrated DIY fact sheets based on concrete models suitable for all levels.
A website for smart creative people having a green conscience.

We all know one of the main causes of pollution and deterioration of the ozone layer is due to the concentration of vehicles that sends out greenhouse gases. More than a quarter of nitrogen oxide emissions and toxic gases come from the vehicles. We must act before it is too late. The solution? Carpooling.

Friendly, eco-friendly and economic, this system seems to be a pleasant outcome and easy to implement. Because the carbon emissions affect our respiratory system as well as on global warming. Natural disasters, new diseases, stress caused by traffic jam or lack of space in car parks, carpooling is the solution.

How Easycovoiturage works? Simply via online ads submitted by drivers or passengers, looking for occasional or daily journeys. Attractive, carpooling helps not being alone for long distances or to go to work. You can meet your neighbours, one gets to know more about their colleagues. An antidote to the gloom!

On holiday in Paris with your children, offer them to discover Paris on board a green and white dressed nature bus. These buses established by the city of Paris allow children to discover life, fauna and flora throughout the year and close to their neighborhood. Very interactive, the bus has a relatively well-equipped laboratory with all testing equipment necessary for our budding young scientists. Inside the nature bus, children can watch movies on the ecology, animals or nature. Then they are asked about wildlife, characteristics or behavior of certain animal, species.
Not only for children, several Wednesdays a month the nature bus aimed to the general public and invites them to explore local biodiversity.
A nice action proposed by the city of Paris that is trying to democratize and to provide access to the environment to the greatest number. Awareness that takes effect at an early age as can be seen.

For more information: +33.1.71.28.50.56 or www.paris.fr.

Each year since 1970, we celebrate our planet. Numerous events are organized by local authorities, associations or museums. Currently more than 170 countries participate in one way or another.

This year, the French Department of Ecology supports a reforestation program, initiated by Planète Urgence, where every citizen is invited to make a donation of 1 euro to plant a tree. Their goal is to plant 6 million trees by 2012.
A large exhibition will be presented from April 23rd until May 12th at the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris, entitled “Future of the Earth, are the dice thrown?”. This exhibition offers a discovery of our environment, to ask critical questions about the future of the planet.
In the Puy de Dome, the park Vulcania organizes a special day with a series of animations, as observer or Planet corner experiences, where visitors can see the impact of human activities on environment.

In the United States, the Clinton Foundation disseminates the phenomenon Green School to educate children with basic gestures for the planet.
In Canada, a symbolic march will take place April 22 and will host more than 1,500 walkers in thirteen cities in order raise awareness and raise funds to ensure that access to potable water is a right for all. This will take place from April 26, 2009 in major U.S. cities and Europe.

Ekobo is a creative and dynamic team who puts their ideas in the service of environmental protection, social equity and economic growth. What is the best way to encourage a mode of environmentally responsible consumption? To propose contemporary and ethic items. Ekobo objects are made by hand from a natural resource and renewable: bamboo.
A choice which is not surprising. Bamboo is a natural and design material. Its qualities are numerous and impossible to all mention. Only that it grows super fast (twice as fast as an ordinary wood to be exact), and by itself. Hardy and strong, it does not need the hand of man to grow and expand, allowing it to renew itself constantly.
In addition, this material is really used for everything, nothing is lost, and everything is used. Its fibers are woven into napkins, gloves or robes, and its shoots are eaten.

Ekobo Showroom
Ekobo Home
4, rue Hérold
75001 Paris
France
T. : +33.1.45.08.47.43
contact@ekobo.org

Pierre-Jean Sugier and Nicolas Peltier just published the first playful guide about small producers and local products in the Ile-de-France: The Grandgousier Ile-de-France. Relatively well designed, this guide provides comprehensive information on the days and hours of direct sales at farm markets or pick-ups. It also provides information on labels (including organic label), and in all Paris sectors of agriculture (seed, livestock, vegetables, tree etc.).
The Grandgousier Ile-de-France lists nearly 150 producers to help you eat better. This direct relationship with farmers from the region provides an accurate traceability and authenticity of products.

Jardins Dyonisiens du développement durable
Salah Taibi
100, rue Henri Barbusse
93200 Saint-Denis
France
T. : +33.1.48.26.49.86
Accessible from Paris via metro ligne 13

Created by Frederic Elias in 1990, Westside Kitchen is a little corner of New York paradise in Paris, for the nostalgic of the big apple. In a comfortable and relaxed across Atlantic coffee shop atmosphere, a team is dedicated to make you a fresh sandwich, cold or hot, salads or pasta. This New York bistro-inspired offers a typical decoration which enchants the visitors: chrome stools, parquet floor, tiled countertop and so on.
Advertising, models and TV personalities are craving to get a wrap sandwich (wheat tortilla), special or bagel (sliced organic bread). Once the pain is selected, it only remains to you to choose your recipe as the Arizona-based smoked turkey and the guacamole. From 7.50€ to 9.20€ for a sandwich, 10€ for a salad and 19€ for a lunch box. You take your food in a recycled kraft brown bag and I must admit, at Westside Kitchen, everything is delicious.

Open from Monday to Friday, from 9am until 2pm. The cafe is open from 11am until 4:30pm.

Westside Kitchen / Café
34 et 37, rue Saint-Ferdinand
75017 Paris
France
T. : +33.1.40.68.75.05
F. : +33.1.40.68.94.69
info@westsidecafe.com
www.westisidecafe.com

For those who like to decorate their apartment, please note this new address: Temoa. In this small fresh and colourful shop, you can find everything: fine food, delicatessen, trade fair varieties of tea, jewellery, accessories, cosmetics and organic objects from around the world. This store is a tea room, an address that makes you want to let go to the well-being and gluttony.
Located right in the Oberkampf village Temoa is the sign of escape, dream, art of living and discover the meaning.

Open Tuesday through Saturday from 10:30am until 2:30pm and from 3:30pm until 8pm. Sundays from 9:30 until 2pm.

Temoa
75, rue Oberkampf
750011 Paris
France
T. : +33.1.43.57.63.03
temoa.boutique@temoa.fr