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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 (…)

• The Sustainability and Impact Club is now on-line
  21 March 2020, by Eva Wissenz

  The students and participants of the Club hosted at Y-Kampus and funded by the Continuous Learning project in TAMK are happy to share their new on-line platform!!
  Here you can read about the creative first challenges taken by the students since January, learn more about our upcoming events and access soon a series of podcasts. Soon we’ll also release the results of the big sustainable and impact challenges tackled by the students of the 2d session.
  https://club.sustainabletampere.fi/en (…)

• 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 (…)

• Meet Saana Raatikainen: Sustainability at the University
  17 February 2020, by Eva Wissenz

  This topic discussion is organized by the Sustainability and Impact Club of Tampere Universities with Y-Kampus and the Continuous Learning project.
  Saana Ratikainen has a great energy and you are warmly invited to join!
  She was Ecocampus project coordinator at the University of Tampere 2001-
  2006, Environmental coordinator at the University of Tampere 2006-2018 and Responsible for Campus Services in Facilities Management of Tampere University since 2019. She is also Chairman of the (…)

• 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 (…)

• 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 (…)

• Pete’s organic pizza’s
  16 September 2019, by Eva Wissenz

  Take a cool guy (must be a great cook though).
  Add a converted vintage horse trailer.
  Name it "Raffaele" – the trailer, not the cook.
  Use as much as local and organic ingredients.
  Heat up to 456° degrees.
  And you have... Pete and his amazing pizza’s!
  Pete created 456 degrees in Tampere. His story is amazing and his pizza’s are so yummy!! Track Pete and Raffaele and make sure this amazing idea spreads everywhere...
  Pete’s picture (c) 456 degrees - thanks for courtesy.

• Meeting with Jenni Lahtonen: creativity is needed everywhere
  4 October 2021, by Eva Wissenz

  In 2012, a group of professionals from arts, culture and well-being decided to live their dream. It happened in Nokia, on Tehdassaari, an island situated 10min from the city. They found a factory of more than 2000m2 and started to renovate everything by themselves, with recycling material, everybody volunteering and being autonomous as much as possible. The strength of this project is clearly the strength of the shared dream and the participant’s energy. All together they created Tehdas 108, (…)

• 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 (…)