Name: Moving to a Greener Energy System, Equitably by SciFri
Duration: 17 min 2 s
Description: The nation’s first presidential appointee for energy justice talks moving to clean energy, without leaving the most vulnerable behind.

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The giant cicada, Tacua speciosa,  is as beautiful as it is large. It also makes an amazing sound as can be heard on this sample.

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8 April 2018

A long, cold and snowy winter is finally coming to an end. Just after dawn during a nocturnal unattended sound recording in an old forest. Black grouse is on the leks, and the voices of overflying Whooper swans can be heard. Chaffinches are migrating, and the local Willow tits have begun singing. Black and Great Spotted woodpeckers are drumming, but Ravens steal she show acoustically. Feels good to be alive.

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Cette semaine, c’est le colonel Hervé Pierre, conseiller au cabinet militaire du Premier ministre et doctorant en science politique, qui se trouve dans le Collimateur de l’IRSEM. 

Avec Alexandre Jubelin, il évoque la genèse et les raisons de son engagement (2:30), puis parle de ses baptêmes du feu (11:00), de l’expérience du commandement et du courage au feu (20:30). Ils discutent ensuite de ses déploiements en Afrique (31:20), ainsi que de la vie d’officier dans les Etats-Majors (42:45).
Ils évoquent enfin sa thèse sur le général Beaufre, la rareté des officiers effectuant un doctorat en France comparé aux Etats-Unis (50:00), la figure d’André Beaufre (52:00), sa relation avec le grand penseur britannique de la stratégie Basil Liddell Hart (54:00), et le lien entre sa vie de soldat et sa pensée stratégique (1:00:00)

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Des sables du Mali à la réflexion stratégique

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The nation’s first presidential appointee for energy justice talks moving to clean energy, without leaving the most vulnerable behind.

Moving to a Greener Energy System, Equitably

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Very long covid: the lasting risks to Africa

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Moving to a Greener Energy System, Equitably

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