Author Talk with French Journalist and Author Roxane Grioche

At Online Event via Zoom

Green is the new black! Roxane Grioche has dedicated her journalist career to environmental issues. She has interviewed many actors of the sustainable world and she just published her first book on this topic. In her book you won’t find any judgement or miracle solutions however Roxane is giving inspiring examples of people who have decided to act. Those journeys are giving us hope and why not some ideas to start the year with a new perspective.

This author talk will be followed by a live Q&A, so come ready with your questions!

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About Roxane Grioche

Born in Paris in 1975, Roxane studied Art History, specializing in Oceanian art at the “École du LOUVRE” – Louvre Museum Paris. She also Graduated from ‘’École supérieure de journalisme‘’ of Lille. Roxane joined France 3 where she started her career. 5 years later, she worked as a TV reporter for Canal+ and Public Sénat. specialized in political news.

In 2005 Roxane left Paris to work in BRUSSELS for 2 years as a press correspondent at the European Commission for European headlines, where she developed her expertise on sustainable and environmental issues. In 2007 she founded the website “Agir pour la planète”: dedicated to environmental information and sustainable development, best practices, pollution and health, biodiversity, energy and natural resources.

In 2012 she created “Saska production” and made documentary films. She has a background in environment and development, and on climate change. In 2019 Roxane created « PISTE VERTE » , a new American company based in Miami Florida from where she has written numerous scientific papers and mainstream publications, and her Book « THE PROMISED PLANET » recently published. In her spare time she works as an ambassador on various topics in societal impact and on new models for tackling environmental / political crises. She is currently designing http://www.actforyourplanet.com to facilitate knowledge-sharing and learning good practices all over the world to fight poverty and climate change.

About the Book

How can we be respectful of the planet by being both efficient and utopian, asserting "that another world is possible" without being an impostor?

The book starts from the observation that our planet is burning. It is not enough to simply accept this premise, but to act is the responsibility of everyone. Roxane Grioche shares with us her humor, and 20 years of experience spent at the bedside of the planet to question the leaders and actors of a sustainable world. She raises questions provoked by COVID-19 and gives us the reflections which she has experienced during this period of life totally tipping over. Its raison d'être: helping to solve the social and environmental crisis and inspiring others. She tells us about the multiple projects and upheavals she has observed around the world. Nobel Peace Prize winners Tawakkol Karman (Yemen) or Muhammad Yunus (Bangladesh), Severn Suzuki (Canada), Raoni (Brazil), Franck Riboud (France), Dr Pathak (India), Pince Albert (Monaco), Bibi Russel (Bangladesh) and others contribute interesting views and inspiration throughout the book.

She was well underway with the book in July 2019 as she set off for a new life in Miami. However, in January 2020 when the book was nearly ready for release… COVID-19 was here! Roxane provides simple lessons and ideas, which should help us learn from the chaos we are going through. The goal is to help us move towards a fairer and more livable society; where we better understand the other great danger: climate change.

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