Day: 15 October 2018

For its 3rd edition in Monaco, the organic festival La Route du Goût is setting up, from 12 to 14 October, an organic vegetable garden and a floating village at Quai Antoine 1er, where chefs, artisans, producers and organic vine growers present their products.

Organized by the Bio Chef Global Spirit Association and chaired by Paolo Sari, Michelin-starred chef at Monte-Carlo Beach, this major annual event aims to raise awareness of organic, local and seasonal cuisine, respectful of the environment.

The Festival La Route du Goût is also:

• A culinary competition for children: 10 children from 8 to 12 years old from Monaco schools will accompany 10 chefs from the Principality to prepare an exceptional organic dinner
• An ecological innovation contest
• An Exceptional Organic Dinner “The Flavor Market” at Monte-Carlo Beach
• A culinary demonstration of 10 starred chefs aboard Riva boats
• Organic Gala “Chefs love the Planet” at Villa La Vigie
• Guided tours of the cellar of the Hotel de Paris
• Institutional partners: Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, Monte-Carlo Société des Bains, Monte-Carlo Country Club, Monaco Boat Service and Tourism and Convention Bureau
• A charitable project: the profits of the Festival will be used to equip the Training Center “Hotel and Culinary Institute Organic Moné and Paolo Sari” in Madagascar.

As part of the energy transition policy of the Prince’s Government, Marie-Pierre Gramaglia, Councilor of Government – Minister of Equipment, Environment and Urbanism, presented yesterday, accompanied by Georges Marsan, Mayor of Monaco and Thomas Battaglione, Managing Director of SMEG, some 160 m² of photovoltaic panels recently installed on the roof of the nursery of the Roseraie. The City Council and the State jointly decided to make a photovoltaic generator on the building.

As solar energy is a major driver of the energy transition in Monaco, the Government has photovoltaic panels installed during the construction of public buildings. The State also encourages the local production of electricity from renewable sources, through a subsidy and the provision of a solar land register (https://transition-energetique.gouv.mc/).

This partnership between Mairie – Etat – SMEG is the result of the common will to develop exemplary projects in Monaco, particularly on public buildings. Marie-Pierre Gramaglia declares: “This equipment illustrates the determination of the Government to support the country in its energy transition”.

The power of the installation is 30 kWp. It will produce locally 35,000 KWh and 3500 kg of annual release of CO2 into the atmosphere will be avoided. A production that covers about half of the building’s consumption and is equivalent to the electricity needs of 7 homes. The technique chosen – a method of integration with buildings, on a roof tile – is a first on Monaco. It is an operational demonstrator that can be replicated to other buildings.

For this fourth season, the Workshops of the Monaco Philosophical Meetings are addressing the theme of “The Human”.

Each month, eminent philosophers and speakers from various fields are invited to give public presentations on a series of high-level reflections on issues related to the theme chosen for the year.

The first meeting, “Human Being,” took place yesterday at the Variety Theatre.  Cynthia Fleury, philosopher and psychoanalyst, and Christian Godin, philosopher, debated the definition of what it is to be human, what it means, what determines it, its basis and what constitutes it.

The Monaco Philosophical Meetings association, founded by Charlotte Casiraghi, Joseph Cohen, Robert Maggiori and Raphael Zagury-Orly, aims to promote philosophy and hold monthly meetings at which well-known invited speakers can enlarge upon, discuss and share ideas on the year’s theme.

Note that the set of lectures given at the Workshops for the 2017-2018 season, on the theme of “Violence,” was published yesterday, 11 October 2018, and that the annual review, “Le Cahier des Rencontres Philosophiques de Monaco” No. 4 will be published in January 2019.

For further details, see the web site www.philomonaco.com