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Johto Ry is organizing the 9th edition of the "Johtajuussymposium" (or Leadership symposium).
During 1 day, you can access 10 seminars (some in English).
This year everything is about sustainable development and various companies, enterprises, student associations and a few organizations are participating to seminars and panels about consumption, energy, cities, economy...
Check the program here
My contribution to introduce social and impact entrepreneurship:

This year, the Tammelantori Environmental Market welcome you to enjoy the warm atmosphere of the Environmental Market with live music.
It’s a friendly event and a cool opportunity to meet like minded people.
The live music is happening at 16:00.
There is also a second hand market and you can bring anything you’d like to exchange (it has to be in good shape though).
Repe & Scrap accepts hazardous household waste and electronic scrap from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. Some companies will (…)

On Saturday Aug 29th, the students association Tampiiri is offering you to meet at the beautiful Kurki Ecovillagein Vesilahti between 11 and 14.
The place is accessible with bus 55 from Keskustori, Tampere.
As you may know Tampiiri is a great association meant to promote organic food at Tampere Uni. This association is a great tool to organize events about local and healthy food systems. But to make it happen, it requires a motivated team of students willing to make a change. If you feel (…)

Kurpitsatalo is a community café in Tahmela area, surrounded by gorgeous community gardens.
Every year they organize a beautiful harvest party but because of the covid-19 risks, this Sunday 23d of August it’s a "harvest brunch", from 1 to 6pm.
The price for food goes between 3€ and 12€ for a full meal. Mostly vegan, gluten free options available.
Venue: Isolähteenkatu 2 - 33250 Tampere
kurpitsaliike@gmail.com
Bus: 25, last stop Tahmela.
Sunnuntaina 23.8. Kurpitsatalolla (…)

The Pirkanmaa region is organizing an Ekothon in October and if you’re interested you’d better register by Sept. 18th (limited spots).
What’s an Ekothon? It’s an "online collaborative hackthon-type event to steer Pirkanmaa towards ecological and social transition. The event is open to everyone, from the small business owner to the politician, from the artist to the scientist, from the farmer to the town planner."
Our Pirkanmaa region has many sustainable solutions and ideas to make the (…)

What new ideas, actions and tools have been developed to reduce food waste? How is the goal of halving the loss progressing? How could different actors in the food chain support households in reducing waste?
A joint annual waste seminar for the entire food chain answers these questions, among other things, and brings together industry players to share the best insights for the benefit of the entire chain. The loss webinar will be broadcast live from Ässäkeskus on Wednesday, September 9, (…)

On Sept. 4th, Oxygen 2050, an association of transformative entrepreneurs based in Helsinki, is organizing an event for us to learn the 3 must elements of building an active community.
The speaker is Lana Jelenjev – the co-author of Community Builder: Designing Communities for Change, a practical toolbox with over 40 tools on how to help them intentionally create purposeful, connecting and impactful communities.
Schedule: 14:00 - 14:10 - Brief introduction from the organizers 14:10 - (…)

Permaculture is "a holistic approach to systems design, grounded in three ethic principles (care for the land, care for people, and fair share), based on mimicking natural systems.*" In this approach, energy resources and human intervention are limited as much as possible.
The word "perma(nent)culture" was created in 1978 by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, based on the experiment of Mr Fukuoka with natural farming.
Every natural approach is interesting and there is sooooo much to learn (…)

Tired of tasteless veggies imported from all over the world? Of course.
The Finnish summer is there to reload us, especially at Tammelantori market where Rekola’s farmer is selling super tasty veggies every Friday and Saturdays, 9-13.
It’s fresh, organic and even biodynamic. And you wish to support even more local agriculture, this farm has a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) where you can buy weekly baskets for the whole season (more info here). There are 4 or 5 picking points in (…)

As an (half) Italian emigrate here in Tampere, you have to chose when it comes to pizzeria: or go rogue and forget even the tiniest memory of what a good pizza tastes like and go with the flow, eat over fat, over greasy, over everything crap presented as "pizza" (including ananas/makkara topping), or go DIY, make no friends and basta.
And one day, you hear about a dude, a Brit, with a truck, offering pizza’s, with lots of ORGANIC ingredients.
Hmmm - seriously?
Because now you lived in (…)