Event Information:

• vr

  22

  nov

  2024

  Looking back at a great ECOPOLIS edition

   

  

  It is with gratitude that I look back at the 10th edition of ECOPOLIS that took place on November 9th in Brussel, The theme was Hope Needs Action!, and we started with a keynote by Mikaela Loach, the Jamaican-British author who wrote the wonderful book It’s Not That Radical,

  But we also had from France the great Isabelle Fremeaux who spoke about artivism. Ant he people curious about how we can strengthen our democracy, came to listen to the British author Erica Benner, but also to Sophie How, who explained how Wales, for instance, decided to completely redirect the budget provided for car infrastructure towards sustainable mobility. And this is not where ECOPOLIS’ rich programme stopped. We also talked about food and energy. Because in her book Mangez les riches (Eat the Rich), French journalist Nora Bouazzouni shows how (healthy) food is also a class struggle. And the historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz provoked the energy debate with his argument that renewable energy will not stop climate disruption, for that you have to change the whole economy.