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Marc Carl

Marc Carl (born 1949) is a French ecologist and humanist.

Historical pioneer of humanist ecology, main founder of the international network of
humanist ecology Gaia Mater (the mother Earth), Marc Carl deeply contributed to the
expression of this current of thought. He is an international expert in the domains of energy,
water, and recycling of industrial waste, and manager in charge for inter-NGO operations of
international solidarity. He is accredited as permanent representative of NGO, under special
consultative status, in the Economic and Social Council of the UNO. Considering his training
of alumna of the Centre of Higher Industrial Education of Ile de France, then of the Paris
Dauphine University (In-depth Corporate Management), his philosophical humanist vocation
can seem atypical.

He however got involved in the service of human being, by favouring the way of association,
of worker management, of sharing, a way which puts work before capital. Practitioner, then
teacher, of martial arts, he was also particularly interested in the control of conflictual
behaviours, publishing two works in this domain, free boxing and Savate & Chausson (Ed.
Chiron, Paris, on 1976). For examplary, some of his publications were distributed with
royalties transferred to associations of public interest. As well, some patents of the industrial
applications resulting from his works were free transmitted to structures of united economy.

Since 1979, he created in France one of the first working cooperative engaged in the
development of nonpolluting energies (solar, hydrogen), and in the treatment of water and
waste. Then he showed concretely the value of the principles of humanist ecology on a wider
scale, while organizing and directing consortia and programs of international cooperation. He
improved the stocking of hydrogen on metal hydrides, and he is renowned also for his works
on the physicochemical processes of recycling, crowned by significants patents followed by
many industrial applications. He defines himself lowly as a simple " humanist entrepreneur "
and refuses any artificial media coverage, but his contribution was decisive for the
international movement of environmental humanism.