Conference, la Creuse

Une journée des plantes, where a small tent was set up for Gilles Clément to speak. It was more of a place where people could buy various plants and items crafted in the region. M. Clément spoke for around 30 minutes, and it was almost completely political. He left his job with the government after the recent elections in France. He is totally disgusted by the new changes Sarkozy is favouring. For further reading, go to his website, http://www.gillesclement.com Most interesting, he said France will lose its identity, and become just another star in the American flag. He spoke about his ideas of le jardin Planétaire, and how the future looks, with particular regard to the change in government. I am going to another conference soon, this time in Paris at the centre Pompidou. After the talk, he opened it up to questions, it seemed most people were very much agreeing with him, but wanted to know what they could actually do. Later, my friend Yvan and I went to him, and he invited us to go to his house for a tour of his experiments and to talk a little.