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"Would you like someone to discuss climate issues and worry with? Welcome to the Climate Cafe of Extinction Rebellion Tampere!
The Climate Cafe is both a place for XR Tampere actives to spend time in the spirit of regenerative culture, and also a place for new people who are interested in the movement – or just to talk about climate matters and share our common concern. Seasoned rebels are always present to tell you about us and how to get involved in the action.
The Climate Cafe is (…)

Tampere Universities students are welcome to join the first meeting of the Sustainability Open Space happening at TAMK on January 27th, 2020, Learning Lab, room B3-08, from 15:00 to 17:00.
SOS aims to make the students community more sustainable.
The event will happen every last Monday of the month.

The "Smart everything" is a concept reflecting a very specific attitude towards climate change crisis. The perspective here is to decouple the resources needed for high-tech from biodiversity and natural resources depletion. This means that the Smart everythin makers (Smart cities, centralized health systems, Internet of Things, etc.) believe that we can solve climate change crisis by creating more and more high tech solutions based on finited resources. It’s a trend in Scandinavia. So, it’s (…)

This topic discussion and movie session is organized by the Sustainability and Impact Club of Tampere Universities with Y-Kampus and the Continuous Learning project.
Dora Tkalec, a permaculture expert from Croatia, is joining the Sustainability and Impact Club at Tampere University this Friday.
She defines permaculture as "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." (…)

The Suomanifesti People’s Movement is carrying on the Peat Extraction Manifesto
They are holding an event will hold an information event on Tuesday 21.1.2020 at 17.15-19.00 in the Laikun Music Hall in Tampere to discuss the restoration of mires and hear the latest climate news from the conservation expert Hanna Ahola.
Tero Mustonen, a member of the UN Climate Panel, will also attend through Skype.
Serving rolls and coffee. Welcome!
FB link here.

This topic discussion is organized by the Sustainability and Impact Club of Tampere Universities with Y-Kampus and the Continuous Learning project.
Julien Da, IT specialist, is joining this Thursday the Sustainability and Impact Club at Y-Kampus TAMK to share about our digital existence and how sustainably using and contributing to technology for the common good".
He’ll introduce us to durable mobile phones and laptop and data minimization.
As he states, "Why would I login to Google, (…)

Extinction Rebellion (or XR, Elokapina in Finnish) is "a global environmental movement using non violent civil disobedience to compel government action to avoid tipping points in the climate system, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse." (Wikipedia)
As a non-violent movement, they are interesting because they have to be super creative in order to be heard by the decisions makers.
The movement was established in the United Kingdom in 2018 and is known for (…)

I’m very happy to welcome you at the Sustainability and Impact Club!!
The Club is supported by Tampere Universities, Y-Kampus and the Continuous Learning department. All meetings are free and open to non-students.
Mondays and Tuesdays meetings have the same content but are offered in 2 different locations so you can choose your location.
Here is the list of the coming meetings in January 2020.
Week 1:
How to have more impact in life (topic discussion) Jan. 7th, 11:00-12:00, (…)

This talk is organized by the Sustainability and Impact Club of Tampere Universities with Y-Kampus and the Continuous Learning project.
What does it mean to write fiction when so many eco-systems are collapsing? How can we imagine a new world? How can we deal with all these new fears? These are some of the questions we’ll screen together with Siiri Enoranta, a young and brilliant Finnish author of fantasy.
Siiri received the Finlandia Junior price in 2018 as well as numerous rewards. (…)

Over a hundred seminars, workshops and guided classes will give you a full package of new energy for the new year.
During these 2 days, you’ll get familiar with vegan and gluten free food, as well as yoga or tai-chi sessions, lectures about tree hugging and self development.
It’s happening on January 18th and 19th, 10-17, Tampere Exhibition and Sports Center (Tampereen Messu- ja Urheilukeskus).
Check the program here and the FB event page here.