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• Meeting with Marko Ulvila: social justice is the key
  11 December 2021, by Eva Wissenz

  Marko Ulvila is taking a lot inspiration from India and Gandhi’s teaching and approach to social justice. He’s dedicating his life to bring more equality, inclusion, tolerance and sustainable resources to vulnerable populations. His analysis of the North American domination in all cultures and the fascination for a corrupted elite goes with his desire to contribute to building better societies. But after sharing this, I haven’t shared much because his journey is much more than this. With (…)

• Meeting with Jussi Holopainen: the spirit of nature
  26 August 2021, by Eva Wissenz

  Should we slow down a bit, the climate change crisis is questioning us all, heavily, urgently, and at every levels. This is not an easy step at all. Seeing with lucidity what’s happening, what’s wrong, what’s broken, the anger and sadness that go with it, but also the creativity, the challenges and options we have to actually make a change, all this take all of us in a very intense, and sometimes very stressful, journey.
  Some of us are "doers" with very visible actions. Some of us are (…)

• How to manage my digital existence? Sustainable and independent IT
  4 February 2020, by Eva Wissenz

  Come to learn how to make IT work for you, as opposed to making you work for it!
  In this workshop we will go through:
  – The consequence of electronic waste and responsibly buying technology
  – The importance of footprint / data minimization when using online services
  – The alternatives to Internet giants’ services and your options (self-hosting / federation)
  This workshop is organized by Julien Da. It is happening at Tribe, Pinninkatu 47, Blue room, on Wednesday Feb 12th, 17-19

• Meeting with Kimmo Hokkanen: heal and regenerate our personal and social soils
  8 October 2021, by Eva Wissenz

  Meeting with Kimmo Hokkanen takes you to a journey through an usual space, a new way to look at ourselves and at the current ongoing changes. Kimmo defines himself has a social gardener and sees everything as a connected garden. And the good news is that we have what’s needed to process anything. By seeing everything connected at many levels, he shares a vision of a dynamic and very much alive way to live all together.
  Here we talk about cultural gardening vs being willing to change things (…)

• Making Tampere Universities more sustainable: check out the amazing student’s works
  25 May 2020, by Eva Wissenz

  The Sustainability and Impact Club is happy to share the outcomes of the sustainable challenges taken by the participants. We hope you’ll enjoy that as much as we enjoyed working on it :)
  From key tips to make the student’s experience more sustainable with the Eko Tuni Handbook to a communication campaign about Diversity for future so we can have more internationals here, from focusing on making food habits more sustainable to creating an artistic Duologue, from explaining you more about (…)

• Meet Siiri Enoranta, sustainable fantasy writer
  27 October 2019, by Eva Wissenz

  Siiri Enoranta is a young writer living in Tampere. She’s very concerned by the environment and passionate about sustainable changes. She’s a writer of fantasy books and received numerous prestigious awards, such as the Finlandia Junior prize last year. I invite you to discover her universe here.
  Why do you write fictions that are focused on sustainability, or where sustainability plays an important role? What’s the deep motivation? I never start writing a new novel with the intention of (…)

• The Circular Economy Club of Tampere opening event!
  20 July 2020, by Eva Wissenz

  Isn’t great?!
  "CEC Tampere is open to everyone interested in the transition to a circular economy. We’ll be the diverse community and platform to citizens, entrepreneurs, established companies, startups, students, academics and all others to discuss circular economy and help in solving challenges. Currently we’re planning the first events and getting organized.
  We believe that collaboration is the key to circular economy and Tampere has a very unique opportunity for that. Therefore, we (…)

• Meeting with Jukka Peltokoski: how can a city change?
  20 September 2021, by Eva Wissenz

  It is no mystery that threats on the environment put agriculture, and therefor, people’s self-sufficiency at risk. In Tampere, the food supply chain relies a lot on imported food. But the food system is only one example of dependency because it is actually the entire system that is more or less very centralized. This made maybe sense in the past but in future, local empowerment of communities is one of the keys.
  There are many attempts currently happening in Finland to question the future (…)

• Meeting with Vilma Rimpelä: information for the future
  23 August 2021, by Eva Wissenz

  At any century, being young wasn’t easy but we now can see that on top of dealing with a "traditional" amount of essential questions, the youth has to deal with a huge series of new challenges of all kind.
  Will they make it faster than the previous generations? Will they grow with enough focus and creativity? Are they ready?
  When you check out Rare Media, the answer is yes. It’s a "journalistic media for the youth by the youth that creates unapologetic audiovisual content to social media (…)

• Meeting with eco-village co-founders: Satu & Jarkko Mattila
  24 June 2021, by Eva Wissenz

  Satu and Jarko Mattila are change agents of the Pirkanmaa region. Together with others, they have created an eco-village where about 30 people live permanently.
  When you start something like that, you obviously enter a fascinating journey because everything is going to be questioned. It’s a life time adventure where you’ll have to re-think the food system, the energy consumption, the quality of the buildings, the dirty waters management, the relationships between the co-founders and the (…)