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• Visiting Kurki ecovillage
  9 September 2019, by Eva Wissenz

  Today, with Janna from Changemakers, we went to visit the Kurki eco-village. It’s close to Vesilahti, 45min drive from Tampere (we got slighlty lost) or direct bus n°55.
  During all Summer, each Saturday between 11am and 14pm they have a Summer Café where you can sip a nice coffee with organic home made pulla’s. Satu is welcoming every one to answer questions and we had... a lot. It was actually even too much so we’ll go back very soon!!
  The eco-village started about 6 years ago. It’s (…)

• 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 (…)

• 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 (…)

• Meeting with Alexandra Santos, a change agent in the start-up eco-system
  26 June 2021, by Eva Wissenz

  Alexandra is based in Finland since 15 years. She’s coming from Portugal and she had to make her way here!
  First involved with Tribe, a great community space for startups that was really missing in town when it was created, she then co-founded Stream Festival. It was a non-profit event organized to bring visibility to early stage startups and to provide to the founders great networking opportunities with peers and investors.
  In winter 2020, she became Chief Operations Officer at Platform (…)

• Esittelyssä murrosagentti Alexandra Santos, joka työskentelee kestävän kehityksen startupien parissa.
  17 September 2021, by Eva Wissenz

  Portugalilainen Alexandra on asunut Suomessa 15 vuotta ja hän on saanut aikaan tässä ajassa paljon merkittävää.
  Ensin hän lanseerasi Triben, ensimmäisen kauan toivotun yhteistilan startup-yrityksille. Sen jälkeen hän perusti Stream Festivaalit-tapahtuman, jonka tarkoituksena oli olla voittoa tavoittelematon ja tuoda näkyvyyttä alkuvaiheen startup-yrityksille. Festivaalit tarjosivat perustajilleen myös erinomaisia ​​verkostoitumismahdollisuuksia vertaisryhmien ja sijoittajien kanssa. (…)

• 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 (…)

• 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 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 (…)

• Tapaaminen Antti Sorrin kanssa - Pitäisikö meidän ajatella ja rentoutua enemmän?
  1 October 2021, by Eva Wissenz

  Antti Sorri on omistautunut filosofialle ja musiikille. Taide, yhteisöllisyys, ajattelu ja dialogit ovat hänelle erittäin tärkeitä asioita, jotka kaikki edistävät kestävää kehitystä.
  Antti on maailman suurimman harmonikkafestivaalin Sata-Häme Soin tuottaja ja Ikaalisten Puisto Filosofian tapahtuman perustaja. Hän työskentelee myös yhteistyössä Ikaalisten kaupungin kulttuuritoimen kanssa.
  Jos kiinnostuit, tule kuuntelemaan Antin inspiroiva haastattelu. Lisätietoja Antin projekteista: (…)

• Tapaaminen Anne Savitien kanssa - Yhteishenkinen taiteilija
  9 October 2021, by Eva Wissenz

  Ei ole aina helppoa olla luova eikä uskoa siihen, että kauneus on välttämätöntä elämässämme. Siksi taiteilijat ovat niin tärkeässä asemassa muistuttamassa meitä luovuuden ja taiteen merkityksestä ja inspiroimassa meitä heidän maailmallaan.
  Anne Savitie on lahjakas tamperelainen taiteilija. Hän vaikuttaa aktiivisesti kuvataiteessa, ympäristötaiteessa, esitystaiteessa ja yhteisötaiteessa.
  Jos kiinnostuit, tule kuuntelemaan Annen inspiroiva haastattelu, jossa hän kertoo taiteesta ja (…)