Edition 2017
Éric Julien
Born 1960, Asnières, France. Lives in the Haut-Diois, Drôme, France.
Éric Julien was stricken by a pulmonary edema while climbing in Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains. Kogi Indians saved him. As a token of gratitude, he set up an organization called Tchendukua-Ici et Ailleurs, devoting his life to raising money to help them buy back their ancestral lands, preserve their culture and regenerate the primary forest. In 2006, in the Drôme, he started the Practical School of Nature and Knowledge, a learning laboratory largely based on Kogi culture. A business consultant, he advocates a third way to create new alliances with life.