Samuel Bonvoisin
Speaker, consultant, and trainer in the design of regenerative systems.
A few words about me: As a trained agronomist, my career has focused on issues of transition and resilience in human societies, particularly in the fields of agriculture, water management, education, and living together. Since 2014, I have been based in the Biovallée region, in the Drôme department. I co-founded an eco-place (L’Oasis de Serendip), an agroforestry development association (L’ADAF), and a permaculture consulting office (PermaLab). It was during this time that I began giving lectures at the request of partner organizations and companies looking to engage in ecological transition. In 2020, I joined the Alvéoles team as the coordinator of the “training” division. I lead workshops and online training on permaculture, ecological transition, regenerative hydrology, biomimicry... I continue to speak as a lecturer for seminars or conferences organized by companies, associations, or local authorities, with a much more varied audience (farmers, executives and business leaders, volunteer association members...). Why I offer lectures: I have a certain talent for popularizing scientific topics and communicating my passion for living systems. In this anxious time for the future of our children, I wish to help illuminate our path with stories of hope, showing that we can do much better than watch our planet burn if we choose to be inspired by the living.
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- Conference : 3000 €
- Animation : 2500 €
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When agriculture reconciles with the living...
Water, trees, soil... In the agricultural world, it's a revolution! Agroecology, agroforestry, regenerative hydrology, agriculture on living soils... Agriculture is reinventing itself to take into account the limits of the planet, and it's exciting! But what are the key factors of resilient agriculture at the territorial scale? Through the observations and analyses conducted 50 years ago by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, the founders of permaculture, I invite you in this conference to discover how agriculture, far from being reduced to a set of practices aimed at more or less intense exploitation of natural resources, can on the contrary enhance (i.e. the opposite of degrade) ecosystems and help provide a future, not only for humans but for all forms of life on Earth. In this conference, I will speak from my knowledge as an agronomist and specialist in agroforestry and regenerative agrosystems, but also and especially drawing on my own experience since 2016 in the "Biovallée" of Drôme. In this anxious time for the future of our children, I wish to contribute to illuminating our path with a narrative of hope, showing that we can do much better than watch our planet burn, if we decide to let ourselves be inspired by the living. Average duration: 1h30.
Drawing Inspiration from Life to Better inhabit the Earth
For the past 30 years, permaculture has gradually emerged as a design science (often referred to as 'design') serving the resilience and sustainability of systems. Far from being just a gardening technique, it is a genuine toolbox for inventing new ways to inhabit the Earth, inspired by the functioning of ecosystems! For 3.5 billion years, life has not only adapted to climate changes. It literally modifies the climate for its own benefit. Temperatures, atmospheric composition, wind patterns, precipitation, availability of fresh water... How does life organize itself to improve the habitability conditions of our planet? And how can this inspire us to rethink our way of being in the world as humans? In this conference, I invite you on a journey to understand how permaculture works, to discover the power and diversity of its applications through a multitude of examples from Australia, the United States, Mexico, India... but also from France, particularly based on my own experience since 2016 in the Drôme valley. In this anxious time for the future of our children, I wish to contribute to illuminating our path with a narrative of hope, showing that we can do much better than watching our planet burn, if we decide to let ourselves be inspired by life. Average duration: 1h30.
What if we could cultivate water?
For several years now, droughts and floods have been multiplying in our country, and the mantra we hear everywhere is "we must adapt." Fighting against waste, protecting resources, selecting drought-resistant seeds... Okay! But is that the only path, the only lever we have at our disposal to develop our resilience at the territorial level? What if we could do much better... for example, cultivate water? For 3.5 billion years, life has not only adapted to climate changes. It literally modifies the climate for its own benefit. Temperatures, atmospheric composition, wind patterns, precipitation, the amount of fresh water available... How does life organize itself to improve the habitability conditions of our planet? And how can this inspire us to rethink our way of being in the world as humans? In this conference, I invite you on a journey to understand hydrological cycles, discover the diversity of regenerative hydrology practices that have been used for over 50 years in Australia, the United States, Mexico, India... and which I have been helping to develop and adapt in France since 2016. In this anxious time for the future of our children, I wish to help illuminate our path with a story of hope, showing that we can do much better than watch our planet burn, if we choose to be inspired by life. Average duration: 1h30.