This year again,like every year, the ethical and green trade fair Vivre Autrement gives every citizen the opportunity to make dramatic changes in their way of life, while respecting their environment. 430 inspired exhibitors, producers and designers will help you discover organic products that will change your daily lives and make them much healthier in every area : food, fashion, cosmetics, housing, tourism…Thanks to 50 gourmet and creative workshops, you will learn to create a better world and on top of that you will taste delicious local gourmet food. The conferences and round tables will also help you work and travel better.

The Fair Trade “Vivre Autrement” will take place in the Parc Floral from March 18 to 21, 2011, from 10h30 am to 7h pm, and will be open until 9h pm on Friday March 18th, 2011.

Prices start at EUR 7. Reduced price : EUR 5. Free for children under 12.

Parc Floral
Bois de Vincennes
75012 Paris
T. : +33.(0)1.45.56.09.09
contact@salon-vivreautrement.com
www.salon-vivreautrement.com

« We don’t inherit from the the land of our ancestors, we borrow it to our children”, Those words by St Exupery are becoming more and more real these days.A faucet opened for 3 mn represent 12 bottles of 1.5 L of water.This exemple among thousands gives us food for thoughts.Every little action is important, as we can understand by reading the guide called “Planet Attitude”.The consequences of our daily actions on the environment are all mentionned, as well as the alternatives we should adopt. The specialist from WWF, the independant organisation defending the environment, is giving us a list of 500 daily actions that are simply common sense and good for our health and help reduce our ecological footprint.Because our kids are part of these future generations, making them aware of the environmental issue is key.They to will therefore participate to the protection of the planet and its inhabitants. The WWF wrote a book specially adressed to kids, called “Planete Attitude Junior”, a guide with advice, funny but yet striking stories, riddles, and so much more about animals that amazes them today, but might become just a memory tomorrow…

The little extra : the guide was realised on FSC paper (a international label garantying a green friendly management of the forests at every level :financial, social and green), and with non toxic vegetal inks, and working with a green friendly printing company who has obtained the label “Imprim’Vert”(IME)

« Planète Attitude. Les gestes écologiques au quotidien » by Thierry Thouenot and Gaëlle Bouttier-
Guériv (WWF), and
« Planète Attitude Junior. Pour protéger la nature et ses animaux » by the same authors
published by Seuil. 144 pages each. Price : EUR 15 each

Lola Bon’Heure , ready to wear clothing for women, specialised in mesh ( knitting and crochet work), and green and ethical fabrics, is launching a very unique line of clothing made in France with organic fabrics certified OEKO TEX by experts in knitting and craftsmen, most of them French. Respecting the environment and the people is their number one priority : reducing transports, respecting the workers…Lola Bon’Heure also promote the transmission of the crafstmen’s knowledge therefore reprensenting very important values…All this can be sumed up by those words : Slow Wear

Lola Bon’Heure
Atelier Boutique (sur rendez-vous par email à lolabonheure@cluv-internet.fr)
26, rue de Crussol
75011 Paris
France
T. : +33.(0)1.58.30.70.52
www.lolabonheure.com

Lola Bon’Heure chez Extraordinaire
67, rue Charlot
75003 Paris
France

Cruselita offers collections of jewels and upscale ethical accessories, in partnership with artisans groups from Madagascar and Niger. Resulting from natural or recycled materials, each piece is unique and entirely handmade. We fall for four original collections: the “Green mix” collection with crocheted cotton jewels, the “Corne” collection with jewels made of zebu horns, the “Copenhague” collection or the “Recup’” collection realized with aerosols or cans transformed into gems by the expert hands of the artisans. Cruselita is a very creative brand.

The Cruselita jewels at Franck et Fils, avenue Paul Doumer
75116 Paris
France
T. : +33.(0)1.44.14.38.21
www.cruselita.com

It is time to think about responsible fish consumption, so the Centre National de la Mer NAUSICAA (public aquarium, center of scientific and technical discovery of the marine environment located in Boulogne-sur-mer, France) partnered with the Chef Gaël Orieux to launch its European project “Mr Goodfish”, in order to sensitize people to a responsible fishing. Fascinated by the sea and its products, Gabriel Orieux, coming from Brittany, invents a perfect harmonious “land-sea cuisine” everyday in his restaurant Auguste, rue de Bourgogne. His first concern is the respect for nature : synthetic aromas are banished, and less fine fishes are introduced on the menu, in order to replace the sea basses and other soles according to the abundance and the season. Here is an unavoidable address!

Opened from Monday to Friday. Closed on Saturdays and Sundays.
Noon : menu at 35€.
A la carte : between 60 and 80€.

Restaurant Auguste – Gaël Orieux
54, rue de Bourgogne
75007 Paris
France
T. : +33.(0)1.45.51.61.09
www.restaurantauguste.fr

Xavier Moraga, the manager of the Hotel Gavarni and the green hotel Eiffel Trocadéro is committed to transform his Parisian hotels into green hotels. He won the European Ecolabel and the Excellence Award of Tripadvisor. His friend, Paige Donner, is the creator of the blogs Greening Hollywood and Green Blog Network. The green awareness in the United States is already set in the minds and many stars commit in the fight against global warming. The great chains like the boutique hotels more and more commit on some points, the “green keys”, like the waste recycling, the use of less water, the purchase of bio and local products. Travelers and tourists choose the green hotels because they feel better, but they don’t want to lower the quality of the services they are accustomed to. Involvement : Yes. Loss of quality : No. Paris has everything to gain by becoming more green and by developing its offer in hotel trade because the guests are more and more responsible, and Paris stays the most beautiful city of the world, and also the most visited!

Paige Donner is an L.A. based journalist, writer and filmmaker. Having worked as an entertainment journalist since the early 90′s when she first started writing for Variety, Paige is now focusing on Greening Hollywood, her media platform that reports on the ways the entertainment industry is embracing a more sustainable and environmentally respectful way of doing business.
Paige is convinced that having lived as a child in countries such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, Japan and the U.S. territory of Guam and then as a young adult in countries such as France and Germany, has profoundly shaped the way she sees and interprets the world.

Fruit of the association of a hairdresser with a perfumer and a beekeeper, Artisan Natureis an original concept… it is the first floral water bar of Paris! We taste “Floradrink’s”, homemade delicate blending of mineral and precious waters. As a real homage to nature and environment, Artisan Nature reveals and respects the personality of everybody with creations of perfumes, shower gels and bio shampoos. All the raw materials are certified Ecocert, while perfectly blending welfare and pleasure of an atypical tasting.

Opened from Tuesday to Saturday from 2pm to 7.30pm.

Artisan Nature
123, rue Saint-Maur
75011 Paris
T. : +33.(0)1.43.38.50.03
artisannature@gmail.com
www.artisannature.fr

After the appreciated birth of the Russian tea house named Kusmi, the group Orientis reiterates and launches Lov Organic (Lov means leaf in Scandinavian language), an upscale bio brand! Coming from the natural Scandinavian lands, the Lov Organic teas are the result of a combination of innovative recipes and wonderful bio packagings. Like her sister Kusmi, Lov Organic cares about elegant packagings with colored, refillable and minimalist pots, marked by the Nordic culture. We fall for the “Lov is Zen” one, a gourmet and fruity mixing with orange, caramel and rooibos flavors. Take Lov Organic seriously!
Opened on Mondays from 2pm until 8pm, from Tuesday to Saturday from 10am until 8pm, and on Sundays from 10am until 3pm.

Løv Organic
15, rue Montorgueil
75001 Paris
France
T. : +33.(0)1.58.71.41.25
contact@lov-organic.com
www.lov-organic.com

It is true that when you talk about clothes « made in China » people think”low quality clothes”.Nevertheless, “made in France” clothes are less and less affordable.The newspaper Le Monde annonced recently that only less than 5% of the “ready to wear” sold in France is still”made in France” (you have to know that one minute of manufacturing is 70 times more expensive here that in a country like Thaïland for exemple) That’s why Prada, with it’s new line”made in…” decided to restore the credibility of the “made in China”, by enhancing the work of local craftsmen in some countries. In total collaboration with those craftsmen, Prada offers with its new line a collection of jeans called “Prada made in Japan”, a collection of tartan kilts, “Prada made in Scotland”, a collection of embroidered dresses, “Prada made in India”, and a line of alpaca meshes “Prada made in Peru”. Wearing Prada is a little like travelling around the world through the art of craftsmen who truly deserve to be finally under the spotlight.

www.prada.com/

According to Xavier Moraga, the manager of the green hotels Gavarni and Eiffel Trocadéro, the best way to discover Paris is the Vélib’! You just have to subscribe at a Vélib’ stand with your credit card, or go to a reception situated in the great metro stations. He explains to his friend from LA, Paige Donner, the creator of the website Greening Hollywood, how to best use the Parisian public transports. Of course, there is the metro, but also the RER, the suburban lines which are fast and practical if you plan to visit Fontainebleau, the Bois de Boulogne or the Bois de Vincennes, or go to Disneyland Paris with the children during the family trips…
But the best way to stroll in Paris is on foot. There is nothing like the pleasure to walk in the squares and the beautiful avenues of the capital, take a few photos in front of the historical monuments and contemplate the grandiose landscapes of the City Of Love !

On a personal plan, Xavier Moraga is a man firmly committed to ecology. He has made every effort to apply these principles in his profession. He started his profession as a receptionist 11 years ago, and now he is the manager of the Hotel Gavarni, a hotel which stands since 1908. Thanks to his work and his convictions, it became the first independent hotel in Paris winner of the European Ecolabel and an Excellence Award on Tripadvisor, in the Green rubric. Pioneer in the field, he opened a second green hotel at the Trocadéro, equipped with solar panels; never seen before in Paris. The Hotel Gavarni and the Hotel Eiffel Trocadéro are luxury and charming establishments, but 100% green.