Gastronomic community kitchen in Le Foyer de la Madeleine in Paris

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The Italian Chef Massimo Bottura, founder of Food for Soul, a non-profit association, has opened the Refettorio Paris, in the Foyer de la Madeleine, to offer gastronomic dinners to vulnerable members of the community by transforming surplus ingredients into delicious meals.

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Upcycled fashion accessories made in France

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Bilum is manufacturing luggage, clutch bags and accessories from flags, sails, flexible coated or decorative canvas, life jackets, paper posters or luxury furnishing fabrics and even airbags, that have a history. Everything is made in France.

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Sustainable fashion made from hand spun silk yarn

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Silvia Vassão is a Brazilian fashion designer based in New York City who designs silk crochet pieces, handcrafted by artisans in fishing villages in southern Brazil. She is also committed in offering crochet workshops in community of mothers, creating jobs and sustaining the ancient art of crochet.

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In the tracks of the carbon black particulate

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Anaïs Tondeur is an environmentally conscious artist, she travels around the world to bear witness. To make her carbon black photographic prints, she has worked with physicians to follow the route of a particulate.

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Sustainable eyewear, manufactured from upcycled materials

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Parafina creates trendy sun glasses by recycling plastic, metal and rubber. The enterprise is BCorp certified.

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Furniture made from recycled metal and wood pieces, found in the nature

rom-et-butch-fullmaya-small.jpgRomain, ex-mason, has always been working with wood by passion. Butch was butcher. Today, they both work together to create upcycled furniture, from metal and wood pieces, that they find in the nature.

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The origins of the Earth photographer

OGrunewald-small.jpgOlivier Grünewald has been taking photographs of the original nature for the past thirty years. He explains: "I take pictures as a pretext for immersing myself in the origins of the Earth". 

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