The Chamonix Centre school, with the support of the Town hall, MAIF, SNCF, ADEME, the national Gendarmerie, the Club des Sports and the frison Roche lycée, is organising a day together on Bikes on Saturday 6 June 2009.

The challenge: To save Co2 by going by bike instead of car!
Two departures are planned:
- Les Bossons at 5pm ( Bossons clearing),
- Les Tines at 5pm ( from the Touristra).
The aim is to arrive in the Bois du Bouchet ( Delta landing site) for a picnic at 7pm!!!
It is for the benefit of our children that we respect the environment. It is also through them that the message is passed most effectively....
For more information, please contact the Centre school on 04 50 53 09 71.
www.ensembleavelo.fr
ecole-centre-chamonix.edres74.ac-grenoble.fr

Don't miss the Chamonix Festival of Science this year: the field trips, films, plays and conferences will enliven Chamonix from Thursday 21st to Saturday 23rd May!
The Festival of Science 2009, on the theme of »Frontiers » , is adopting a new formula this year, which will give it more continuity. The idea is to make the festival more lively through shows and films, as well as having the usual meetings....Local associations will be there,
 as well as the usual partners , such as CNRS, IRD or even the Natural History Museum of Geneva ...
And above all, don't miss forum of scientific activists which will take place on Friday 22nd May from 4:30pm to 7pm at the Majestic! This forum will be the spring-board for the creation of a network of scientific specialists, such as glaciologists, geomorphologists, high-altitude eco-system researchers, mountain medecine specialists, and many others...

For more information, visit the website: festival.chamonix-mont-blanc.fr

The Centre for Research on Ecosystems at Altitude (CREA) is based in Chamonix. It was created in 1996 by Anne Delestrade, a respected specialist of the Chocard (Alpine Chuff), a bird emblematic of our mountains.

Today, CREA, consists of five employees, who will research through high level as well as popular science to make the public and decision-makers more aware of the richness of the alpine environment.
This is a vocation which is reaffirmed by Hervé Villard, the new director, to give more credibility to the activities of the association, whose Phénoclim programme is the best known.

Phénoclim is involved in participatory science, where everyone can become a scientist, in the time it takes to make an observation on the natural environment. By noting in Spring the dates of the first appearance of the first buds, the first flowers, then in Autumn the turning and falling of leaves, the volunteers (classes, individuals, managers of protected areas...), offer researchers important information about the development of Alpine ecosystems.

Convinced from the outset by this project; the Somfy foundation has enabled the installation of 58 weather stations in the Western Alps. The aim is to develop Phénoclim and its observation network throughout the Alpine area.

CREA, also has Phénopiaf and many other project going on ... You can find details of these through the "forum of scientific activists" during the festival of science in Chamonix on 22nd May.

For more info : www.crea.hautesavoie.net