Let's think of the world as a planetary garden (Gilles Clèment)

A strong ecology, but not radical and barricaded behind its rigorous precepts, must lead us to imagine the world as a large "planetary garden". Where each of us, with his individual behaviors, with his single gestures, even the simplest ones, does his job of gardener.

GILLES CLÈMENT THE PLANETARY GARDENER

He writes it in a very intense and equally effective little book (The environmental alternative, Quodlibet editions), Gilles Clement, the French professor who with his theories and creations influenced an entire generation of European landscape architects.

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Clément says: «At the beginning of this century the earth's population is gambling with its futureEither he invents a management method suitable for governing the future, or he pretends to do so, and destroys himself.». Appropriate words, speaking of fiction, for the protagonists of the latest world climate summit in Paris, where the performance of a agreement written in the sand and devoid of real content to stop pollution and global warming.

PLANETARY GARDEN

In this text, Clément leads us, almost by the hand, in the search for the most coherent behaviors with this challenge from what he defines as "the symbiotic man». Or the man capable of rto return to the environment all the energy it takes from it, like the tree, whose leaves, produced thanks to solar energy, return to the soil providing its nourishment. The gardener man who takes care of his own corner of the planetary garden every day.

HOW TO TEACH RESPECT FOR GREEN LANDSCAPES:

Respect for the environment and for greenery is something children are taught at home. It starts with small gestures.

What do we expect from the new Environment Minister? More money for the safety of Bella Italia. And action in schools.

Best practices: In Rome, a group of citizens redevelops a park, even for their dogs.

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