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Hello and welcome to the site Artisans de la résilience!
In these times of climatic upheavals, how to cope with anxiety and the feeling of powerlessness?
How to evolve our cities and countryside so that they are more resilient and robust in the face of the unstable world we have entered?
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 taken on the ground. He will also try to describe and explain the different achievements implemented.
I hope that these pages will enlighten you and that you will find inspiration, motivation, comfort and the 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 life in general, I strive to give meaning to my actions and to carry out my activities with as little negative impact as possible. By moving in the parks and gardens and meeting many people within my different projects, I was able to observe changes in behaviors, in the relationship with the living that surrounds us and an awareness of the issues.
Even if the path humanity is currently taking is not very pleasing, I remain voluntarily optimistic, because I believe in our ability to adapt and cooperate. I was also able to observe that by doing so, one could initiate changes around oneself. Even if one has the impression that things are not moving fast enough, it is essential to share these actions. Concrete examples allow us to remove certain obstacles to action and to get out of this form of powerlessness that grips us.
Through my activities, I am lucky to be able to be an actor and offer coherent and respectful living spaces. However, faced with the rapid evolution of climate change, we are facing problems that are beyond us. When I started my job, I saw a future for the trees I was planting. Today I do not know what will happen to these trees. Some of my first subjects put in the ground more than 25 years ago did not survive the droughts and high temperatures of recent years. But others, on the other hand, are still well there and are doing wonderfully. The living shows us the path of adaptation.
Because change involves inventing new narratives 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 in line with the continuity and complementarity of existing programmes and actions that have greatly inspired me. I am thinking in particular of the program ‘Carnets de campagne’ on France Inter and the film and book Demain, by Cyrille Dion.
Before continuing, all this work could not be accomplished without my very dear and indispensable companion in life and in work, Céline, who carefully rereads all these pages.
The first articles could be written during a study and meeting trip to the United States for 3.5 months in spring and summer 2024
