Gilles Berhault comes almost from another world

Gilles Berhault is the new strong man of the Committee 21, the French Committee for environment and sustainable development. He was elected this summer, President of the now inevitable association created in 1995 by Huguette Bouchardeau, Bettina Laville and Simone Veil to implement, in France, "Agenda 21" this action plan ratified at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.

Fifty years, this specialist of the tagine to the confit share a very "green growth" existence, between his new responsibility Committee 21, a co-Chair of the think tank Cluster Green & Connected Cities, as delegate to the sustainable development in the scientific leadership of the Institut Telecom and consultant missions. Not to mention the essential: Eva and Victor in all ecological House in the heart of the Luberon.

Multiple life after multiple lives... Actor, puppeteer, organizing events, communicating... Gilles Berhault comes almost from another world. A world where it is decided to release one had mechanical started by chance, to go to the artist on the roads of Brittany. A world in which he realized that the time had come "to change of civilization", in which he became a pioneer, preacher of a twenty-first century digital, reasonable and responsible.

Total commitment

Referring to his debut in the event, he paraphrase Mark Twain: "they did not know that it was not possible then they did.". We measure the reality of the good word when he says that less than twenty-five years, after being out for a modest telematics company specialized in information to professionals in the show, he was given the gathering in New York of the world gratin of telecoms at the time of the triumphant HABs Minitel.

It was only 20 years later that it will become that Catherine Trautmann describes in the preface to his book of "head researcher among Scouts (...)". "who have decided to explore all aspects of sustainable development", and that "the link between environmental and digital fractures." In the meantime... He won budgets of com internal, organized in beautiful ceremonies official, and earned a bit of money. In 1997, the thirty years of the Federation of regional nature parks - one customer like any other - the lead on the road to a few "honest men" involved in sustainable development... Bettina Laville, of course, but also Anne-Marie Sacquet and Serge Antoine, other environmentalists in the first hour. "Passionate, fertile and happy" meetings which made it "grow". "". "Serge Antoine brought me to critical, social and environmental values," he book.

Nantes origin, he was attentive to mobilization against Plogoff nuclear plant late 1970s project, had organized the boycott of South African oranges when he was a high school student... But with sustainable development, it is discovered a cause and chooses the total commitment.

In 2000, he set up with a few friends Association communication and information for development sustainable (Acidd), left Paris for Vaucluse. And soon launched the first summer University of communication for sustainable development. A unanimously hailed initiative which celebrated its eighth edition a few days ago and whose Ademe and Committee 21 ceased to be partners.