Serge Latouche in Italy to Collect his Artusi Award 2009
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The meeting with Latouche continues the considerations developed in recent years at Casa Artusi, which confirm its position as reference point in the national debate about nutrition.
Where the prize assigned in 2006 to Wendell Berry focused on farmer markets and a closer relationship between producers and consumers, the award to Latouche expands the debate to the whole economic system.
Latouche's philosophy takes the form of a radical critique to unchecked development, over consumerism, and infinite economic growth, which does not take into account objective data, such as the limits of biosphere, natural resources,and the importance to respect and protect the environment.
"We still have the time to imagine a degrowth society: to reduce the sack of the biosphere can only drive us toward a better way of living. The degrowth project does not mean bringing society back to the Middle Ages', rather is a modern critique of modernity, with the goal to free ourselves from the dictatorship of the financial markets and techno-science. The political project of degrowth is to recover our autonomy, re-open human history to give back humanity the opportunity to choose its future, and choose a sustainable future," affirmed Latouche.
"We still have the time to imagine a degrowth society," comments Serge Latouche, the French economist and philosopher, theoretician of the 'untroubled degrowth,' who will be in Forlimpopoli, at Casa Artusi on October 11, 2009 to accept the Premio Artusi (Artusi Award) 2009, for his contribution to relationship between agriculture and nutrition.
The Premio Artusi is awarded once a year by Forlimpopoli, the native town of Pellegrino Artusi, the celebrated author of La scienza in cucina e l'arte di mangiare bene (Science in the Kitchen: The Art of Eating Well). In the past the award went to international personalities, such as Muhammad Yunus, who went on to receive the Nobel Peace prize in 2006, Vandana Shiva, Eduardo Galeano and Wendell Berry.
The event will offer an important opportunity to meet Latouche personally and hear his thoughts, which are current today more than ever before, in his own words.
"More than degrowth it would be better to talk about a-growth, as in atheism, as it means giving up a faith, a religion, that of the economy without rules, of unchecked progress and development," said Latouche.
The award will be given during a meeting entitled "La decrescita serena: cambiare stile di vita č possibile" (The Untroubled Degrowth: It is Possible to Change Lifestyle,) held at 5 PM at Casa Artusi. Participant to the meeting will include Lino Zanichelli, Environmental and Sustainable Development councilor of the Emilia-Romagna region; Paolo Zurla, president of the Polo Scientifico-Didattico (Scientific-Educational Pole) of the University of Bologna in Forlė; Paolo Zoffoli, mayor of Forlimpopoli; Laila Tentoni, vice president of Casa Artusi; and Mauro Grandini, culture councilor of the municipality of Forlimpopoli.
Serge Latouche will be available to meet representatives of the press October 11, 2009 at Casa Artusi, from 4 to 5 PM.
For more information: Tel. 0543.749234/6, 0543.743138,
or visit the web sites Pellegrino Artusi or Casa Artusi
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