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Hello and welcome to the Artisans of Resilience website!
In times of climate change, how can we cope with anxiety and feeling helpless?
How can we change our cities and countryside so that they are more resilient and robust in the face of the unstable world in which we have returned?
This site is intended for any curious citizen, in search of understanding and reflection on these societal issues.
It aims to highlight the actors involved in the transition and transformation of our living spaces, and to show the actions undertaken on the ground. It will also attempt to describe and explain the various achievements implemented.
I hope these pages will enlighten you and you will find inspiration, motivation, comfort and desire to act!
My name is Emmanuel Gouy, I have been an arborist and landscape gardener for about twenty years. Concerned since my beginnings by the destruction of ecosystems and living in general, I try to give meaning to my actions and to exercise my activities with the least negative impact possible.
By moving to parks and gardens and meeting many people in my various projects, I was able to observe changes in behaviour, in the relationship to the living around us and an awareness of the stakes.
Even if humanity's current path is not very rewarding, I am willingly optimistic because I believe in our ability to adapt and cooperate. I was also able to observe that by doing so, we could initiate changes around ourselves. Even if it is felt that things are not moving fast enough, it is essential to share these actions. The concrete examples allow us to remove some of the obstacles to action and to get out of this form of impotence that binds us.
Through my activities, I have the chance to be an actor and offer coherent and respectful living spaces. However, in the face of rapid changes in climate change, we are facing problems that are beyond our control. When I started working, I saw a future for the trees I planted. Today I don't know what will happen to these trees. Some of my first subjects planted more than 25 years ago have not survived the droughts and high temperatures of recent years. But others, on the other hand, are still well there and are wonderful. The living shows us the path of adaptation.
Because change involves the invention of new stories and new ways of seeing the world, I want to share what it is possible to do in terms of actions and cooperation.
This approach is also part of the continuity and complementarity of already existing programmes and actions which have been very inspired. I am thinking in particular of the show «Fieldbooks » about France Inter and the film and book Tomorrow, Cyrille Dion.
Before we continue, all this work could not be accomplished without my dear and indispensable companion in life and work, Céline, who carefully rereads all these pages.
The first articles were written on a study and meeting trip to the United States for 3.5 months in the spring and summer of 2024.
