Everyday, they do their part for the planet by living together, the 14 of them, in an eco-friendly houseshare near Paris.
Brut visited the "Blue House".
Brut visited the "Blue House".
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00:00Hello!
00:02Welcome to Maison Bleue, an eco-friendly flat where 14 of us live in the south of the Paris region.
00:21The idea is that all the basic products are found either in bulk or in large quantities
00:27to reduce the amount of packaging as much as possible.
00:31For example, these beautiful green lentils,
00:35were originally a 5 kg bag.
00:38Basically, if everyone went to buy their little oil can,
00:41it would come back individually very expensive,
00:44whereas here we share an oil can of 5 litres to 14 litres,
00:47so it saves a lot of money.
00:50Then we go to the market,
00:52and there we buy all the seasonal fruits and vegetables.
00:54One of the levers we have to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
00:58is to better choose the products we consume on a daily basis.
01:12The idea is either to have recycled furniture,
01:15or to build if we have a specific need,
01:18and we will never go to buy furniture in the store,
01:21or a stencil, or we will do it,
01:24but in a way that it is a sustainable object.
01:27A kettle, for example, takes us a lot of time,
01:30because we think about whether it is made in France,
01:33whether it is without bisphenol A and B,
01:36whether it consumes a lot,
01:39whether it will last a long time, etc.
01:42So we ask ourselves a lot of questions,
01:44but then we have quality products for the life we lead at home.
01:52In this configuration, in this space,
01:55we could not be in food autonomy,
01:58so we have to choose what we would like to have made at home.
02:03So here we have mint for summer evenings.
02:07And here there is a mixture of radishes,
02:10there is Chinese cabbage,
02:13so the idea is that when the radishes are finished,
02:16we will have harvested them,
02:20we will have Chinese cabbages that will still have room.
02:23We also have two hens,
02:26we have two hens that are here,
02:29that give us one to two eggs a day,
02:32and that eat most of our kitchen waste.
02:44This is really the moment when we sit down once a month
02:47to discuss all the topics of the meeting.
02:49And these groups work as much for the next evening we are going to have at home
02:53as for the construction of the library,
02:56as for how we manage the waste sorting.
03:10We are renting,
03:12so we can't really adapt the building and re-isolate it.
03:16And it's a real thermal walkway,
03:18so we decided to heat only when we were in the rooms
03:22and never go above 15-16 degrees.
03:26The fact of cooking and being numerous in the room,
03:29it is enough to gain quite a few degrees.
03:32We only have a small fridge,
03:34which is normally a fridge for a family of four.
03:37We are 14 to use.
03:39And then on energy too, we are at Enercop.
03:42So that's how we also support the production of green and responsible energy.
03:47And for the winter, we have this closet that we use as a winter fridge.
03:51We use the ambient cold to preserve our food.
03:56Cooking without having transformed products,
03:58it necessarily takes a little more time.
04:01Washing yourself, it takes more time.
04:04And if you are alone in your apartment,
04:06having to apply each solution, it takes a lot of time.
04:09And what is good is that we divide this work a little.
04:13But it goes really far with this story,
04:15because everyone has different expertise
04:17and is specialized on a subject that interests them.
04:20Everyone has their own subject that they can bring to the colloquium.
04:23And that's precious.