How to Achieve a Zero Waste Lifestyle – Q&A with Experts
First steps to start being more eco-conscious and lower our household waste as much as possible: Get informed, think in systems, start making small changes, share your knowledge with the people you love!
Collective Solutions to Climate Change
Climate change has a lot of scientific evidence that is still too academic to understand. The gap between the information and the understanding of the real problem is huge. To bridge that gap is important to shift behaviors and consider individuals as part of the solution. Citizens are not included in climate change governance, but they can hold great contributions to address solutions, since cities produce 70% of GHG emissions and citizens live within. A behavioral change is needed but first we need conscious/educated citizens able to reduce their carbon footprint from energy, waste, transport, so on.
Urban Metabolism: A Real World Model for Visualizing and Co-Creating Healthy Cities
July 24, 2018. Like the human body, cities are living, ever-evolving organisms. Just as diet, exercise, sleep, or laughter can be seen as indicators of our personal physical and emotional well being, the ways in which goods, water, commuters, or food move through the urban ecosystem determines a city’s health and sustainability within larger regional and global natural systems.
Urban Biodiversity – Is Berlin green enough for you?
March 22, 2018. Urban biodiversity plays a key role for the health of our cities, the quality of life and the fight against the climate change. Biodiversity is the diversity of life, diversity of ecosystems, variety of species, diversity of genes. It is also the diversity of interactions within and between these and it does not just exist outside our cities, but also inside, in front of our door, between and with us. More than we perceive it in everyday life.
The Power of Community: All Fellows Conference Medellín
November 7, 2018. The All Fellows Conference is an annual gathering of Echoing Green’s global community. As part of the conference, Echoing Green Fellows participate in partner- and peer-led leadership workshops, visit local social enterprises, and create space to share, learn, and reflect. Industry professionals, corporate champions, impact investors, and thought leaders also join us for a day of social innovation workshops and networking.
