Super Local People

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• 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 (…)

• Meet Henri Murto: Understanding our immediate environment - Soil and food system, what’s wrong ? (with a podcast)
  17 February 2020, by Eva Wissenz

  This impact entrepreneur meeting is organized by the Sustainability and Impact Club of Tampere Universities with Y-Kampus and the Continuous Learning project.
  Meet Henri Murto, an entrepreneur farmer running the Rekola organic and biodynamic farm.
  Henri is super passionate about farming and he’ll share about his experience as a successful entrepreneur. With him, we will also discuss about the soil and food system, trying to see how we can get more local and organic food in our beloved (…)

• Meeting with Anne Savitie, art motivated by community spirit
  26 July 2021, by Eva Wissenz

  Keeping a creative mind and believing that beauty is indispensable to our lives is sometimes hard. That’s why artists are so important to remind us that there is much more, that it can be bigger than daily life and to walk us through new worlds they can imagine.
  Anne Savitie is a great artist based in Tampere. She’s very involved in visual arts, environmental art, performance and community art.
  Be curious, watch our conversation and discover what Anne has to share about art and (…)

• 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 (…)

• Vieraana Henri Murto, maanviljelijä ja yrittäjä
  4 July 2021, by Eva Wissenz

  Podcastin aiheena on lähiympäristön ymmärtäminen - maaperän ja ruokajärjestelmän ongelmakohdat.
  Yksi Tampereen Yliopiston Y-kampuksen kestävyysosaamisen projekteista on kestävän kehityksen järjestö (Sustainability and Impact Club of Tampere Universities). Näissä tapahtumissa vastuulliset yrittäjät keskustelevat kestävästä kehityksestä ja sen tulevaisuudesta.
  Tällä kertaa vieraana on Henri Murto, joka on Rekolan organic and biodynamic farm. biodynaamisen tilan ammattipuutarhuri, viljelijä (…)

• 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 Krista Willman: Urban gardening
  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.
  Krista Willman has a passion for urban gardening and she’ll share about that with us at the Sustainability and Impact Club.
  She’s a teacher at Tampere University and she used to be the Chair of Tampiiri Ry, the students association promoting organic food at the University.
  Urban gardening – food and participation
  => Thursday 20th of (…)

• Meet Eveliina Asikainen: Education and Sustainable Development
  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.
  Meet Eveliina Asikainen, TAMK Sustainability Coordinator, this week at the Sustainability and Impact Club.
  She is in charge of Learning and Education and very engaged in sustainability since decades. She’ll share about negotiations skills since, as we all know, not everybody is convinced that climate change is an emergency and many people (…)

• Meeting with Antti Sorri: shouldn’t we think and chill more?
  28 September 2021, by Eva Wissenz

  Antti Sorri is passionate about philosophy and music. Thinking things through and being close to art and to people are for him very important to contribute to a sustainable society.
  Antti is the producer of Sata-Häme Soi, the world’s larger accordion festival and the creator of Puisto Filosofia based in Ikaalinen. He’s also managing the culture in Ikaalinen with the City.
  Be curious, watch our conversation and discover what Antti has to share for your beautiful minds!
  More about (…)

• 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