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Webinar on Can Decreix 09/03/2021 17h CET

Webinar on Can Decreix 09/03/2021 17h CET

We will have a summerschool in Can Decreix for the building of degrowth narratives, do not hesitate to register to the summer school taking place end of june, here https://summerschool.degrowth.org/

  • François Schneider
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À cause des suppressions de trains, elle fait 3h de vélo pour assurer une garde à l'hôpital de Perpignan

Nous luttons pour le train comme moyen de transport social et écologique, alternative à la voiture. Mais ce n'est pas toujours facile. Alors que la quasi-totalité de la population de la côte vermeille

  • François Schneider
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Des vignes au vin décroissant
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Des vignes au vin décroissant

Quand les feuilles des vignes commencent à tomber à la mi-novembre, c'est le temps du débroussaillage gourmand par les ânes qui assurent également la pré-taille, et jamais au-delà de 3 yeux ! C'est dommage

  • François Schneider
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Les habitants de Can Decreix

Les habitants de Can Decreix

Alexandra Elle enchante Can Decreix au son de l'accordéon diatonique. Venue avec l'ânesse Coquette et la chienne Mitja, Alexandra a transformé Can Decreix en y invitant de nombreux animaux.FrançoisIl était déjà là,

  • François Schneider
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Fête du cactus à Can Decreix - Cactus feast - festa del cactus !!!
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Fête du cactus à Can Decreix - Cactus feast - festa del cactus !!!

Nous avons eu la première fête du cactus à Cactus à Can Decreix, Cerbère, les 6-7-8 septembre 2019!!!Primera festa de cactus a Cactus a Can Decreix, Cerbère, del 6-7 al 8 de

  • François Schneider
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Menu de la fête du cactus
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Menu de la fête du cactus

Can Decreix (samedi 7 septembre 2019)Petit déjeuner(Dé)croissants de Cactus adoucis à la crème de poires épineuses.Flocons d’avoine bio saisis au sucre de cactus sur le poêle économe.Raisines

  • François Schneider
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Mixing the compost
How to?

Mixing the compost

It is a good idea to mix the compost regularly as it is supposed to be an aerobic process (with oxygen). For this we have this great tool, like a big bottle opener.

  • François Schneider
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Making horse chestnut soap. Faire du savon de marrons.

Making horse chestnut soap. Faire du savon de marrons.

Making plant soap is not very difficult, it is about letting horse chestnuts boil in a pot in a solar oven during a day so that all the saponins are extracted. But the

  • François Schneider
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Making cactus coffee
How to?

Making cactus coffee

You need a solar oven. You take  cactus fruits, and  you put the whole  fruits in the mixer, yes with spines, they get filtered. Do not mix too  much, you do not want

  • François Schneider
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Yes it is possible to change (salt) habits
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Yes it is possible to change (salt) habits

There is an strong evidence that level of salt (NaCl) consumption are too high. For example, many people die of heart strokes because of too high level of salt, there are many other

  • François Schneider
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How to?

What do we do with waste in Can Decreix?

We do not bring toxic products, we do not bring anything in Can Decreix we would not be able to reuse.Then the first thing is to reuse, we rinse on the spot

  • François Schneider
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Black Pots or pans do not need to be "degreased"
Frugal innovation

Black Pots or pans do not need to be "degreased"

Why would we degrease pans, cast iron pots, polluting water, using detergents destroying anti-adhesive properties? they need to have a special treatment several times at low temperature (in a solar oven or  in

  • François Schneider
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Preventing water pollution while washing dishes is possible
How to?

Preventing water pollution while washing dishes is possible

We want to irrigate with greywater, but we do not want to pollute, for this we cannot use strong  detergent which would affect the soil and the fertility (sodium soap itself is a

  • François Schneider
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The pedal washing machine
Frugal innovation

The pedal washing machine

Thanks a lot to Kornelia to arrange this video showing with images the little low-tech system around the pedal washing machine. It evolves every day, simplifying and getting more beautiful everyday thanks to

  • François Schneider
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Vidéo de Can Decreix Corporation !!
Frugal innovation

Vidéo de Can Decreix Corporation !!

Ca y est la vidéo tant attendue de Can Decreix Corporation est enfin publiée. Une argumentation à couper le souffle, pour tous ceux et celles qui pensaient que la décroissance ne permet pas

  • François Schneider
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Planting the forbidden vines.
cultivation

Planting the forbidden vines.

We are now planting vines that resist sicknesses: here the variety Isabelle, forbidden in France during many year, because it does not have the right taste: the grapes taste like rasberries! And possibly

  • François Schneider
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Semi-spontaneous cultivation
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Semi-spontaneous cultivation

We replanted lavateras today, an amazing plant, an enormous tall salad, perfect to cook too. It grows by itself in harsh conditions.

  • François Schneider
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Cooking with sun and stove

Cooking with sun and stove

Fantastic weather these days, perfect to cook millet and potatoes. A bit less than 2 times the volume of water and we get the millet perfectly cooked in the solar oven. It never

  • François Schneider
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Choucroute time

Choucroute time

As a lot of cabbage has been recuperated, this is choucroute time. Using one of the most ecological conservation method: lacto- fermentation, which should not be confused with salt or vinegar methods

  • François Schneider
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What do we do in Can Decreix?

What are key practices of Can Decreix, which make it a special place? Let us mention a few.We actually cook with solar ovens in summer. They do not stay in decorationStoves in

  • François Schneider
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Be ready to change your way of life

“THE American way of life is not up for negotiation” was saying the elder George Bush in 1992. In Can Decreix, it is different: "THE Can Decreix way of life IS up for

  • François Schneider
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A blog for Can Decreix
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A blog for Can Decreix

Can Decreix the house of degrowth, in Cerbère. We will share with you ideas, discoveries around degrowth in practice. Degrowth in practice is not only an enumeration of techniques, but a way of

  • François Schneider
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