Resources

Articles

• Sustainable Fashion Shops
  16 September 2019, by Eva Wissenz

  In the heart of Tampere Seele is offering a beautiful selection of Finnish organic clothing, as locally produced as possible. It can be expensive but it definitely last longer.
  For lovers of Finnish design, Miela (picture) is a shop hosting about 20-30 local brands, some of them being 100% organic. It’s all about clothing but also beautiful notebooks, jewels and accessories.
  Second hand clothes are nice and sustainable. Second-hand is very popular in Finland and all the shops are (…)

• Planning for more mökki time or outdoor holidays in Finland? It’s wise to support local quality.
  26 May 2020, by Eva Wissenz

  Thanks a lot Marcus Grunewald for your great article introducing great family businesses and impact entrepreneurs of Finland!!
  As the Corona crisis demonstrated, international supply chains are fragile. Therefore, it makes sense to nourish the local businesses and the people behind them - even though this might mean paying a higher price for the products and services compared to imports from the Far East. Because in the long run sustainability also means that your neighbour has a place to (…)

• Sustainability and Impact Club Creation with Tampere Universities
  3 December 2019, by Eva Wissenz

  A great journey is starting!! With the active participation of students, I’m in charge of creating a Sustainability and Impact Club.
  Our meetings are happening at Y-Kampus facilities in TAMK campus and Keskusta campus.
  The Sustainability and Impact Club’s intention is: to involve students in sustainable challenges (with credits) sponsored by companies with final outcomes shared broadly, to create a dynamic space where we can talk, de-stress and share ideas and concerns about the climate (…)

• A sustainability podcast from Learning Lab’s students
  22 December 2021, by Eva Wissenz

  Interesting!
  "This is Sustainability Podcast, a new podcast focused on sustainability! We explore some of its less-known aspects, such as decent work, gender equality, personal motivation and happiness. We also investigate the “invisible” work being done towards sustainability in the university community, and what kind of impact can one person’s actions make."
  _View of a designer
  _How to share knowledge
  _Yhteistyö - Collaboration
  _The Social Impact of Work-Rest Balance
  _Empowering (…)

• Luontoystävällistä mökkeilyä
  13 June 2021, by Eva Wissenz

  Vinkkejä Amanda Pokkilta... (Sustainability and impact club)
  Suomi on yli puolen miljoonan mökin maa. Mökit sijaitsevat usein vesistöjen äärellä, ja mitä pienempi vesistö, sitä herkempi se on, ja sitä paremmin on pidettävä huolta jätevesistä. Perheeni mökki, kuten monet muutkin, on hyvin askeettinen; saamme sähkön aurinkopaneeleista, juomaveden kaivosta, ja vesikäymälän sijaan käytämme kuivakäymälää. On helppo ajatella, että tällainen askeettinen elämä on hyvin ekologinen tapa viettää (…)

• Impact companies also need strong business models (podcast)
  11 March 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.
  Juha Kaario (MSc, MBA), COO and Chairman of the Board at Newelo Oy, co-founder at Varaani Works Oy and previously Senior Business Development Manager at the Nokia Research Center.
  The event is free and open to all. It’s happening online on March 20th, from 16:00 to 18:00.
  Here is the podcast for you:

• Introduction to beekeeping
  22 June 2020, by Eva Wissenz

  Beekeeping is both fascinating and challenging: working with bees and producing honey require diverse knowledge and skills. Welcome to learn, how beekeeping can be started, how one can succeed in it and in which ways it is possible to fail.
  Teachers Pieta and Immo Hyvärinen are small-scale beekeepers, and Pieta has also studied beekeeping in their PhD research. The event is happening in Finnish & English.
  The Kurjen Ecovillage Association organizes bee information in Kurki Ecovillage (…)

• Impact tea time podcast - All about change
  5 May 2020, by Eva Wissenz

  What’s blocking or accelerating change?
  Many think that the covid-19 crisis can also be an accelerator of change towards a more fair and sustainable society. If you’d like to share about this topic, join us for a positive vibes Impact Tea Time at 4pm on Zoom.
  This initiative is open to all and is the last event organized by the Sustainability and Impact Club.
  Here is the podcast of this session for you:
  (Thank you Song Tran for the nice image!)

• Tampere, a city towards sustainability
  9 September 2019, by Eva Wissenz

  It’s true that living conditions in Tampere are amazing. We have clean air, fresh and pure water, and the forest very accessible. But still, there is a lot to do to make Tampere a real sustainable city with shared resources, circular economy, urban gardening, farmers markets, affordable healthy food, shared economy, sustainable skills hubs and much more.
  At the moment, the main efforts are on infrastructure (see below) and business (Smart Tampere). It's great, it's a starting (…)

• How to be more sustainable in Tampere?
  6 November 2021, by Eva Wissenz

  Tampere has been for a long time an industrial city and there is a lot to do to make the urban community more sustainable in a short period of time. The actions have been so far very focused on carbon neutrality.
  I warmly invite you to explore and connect with Tampere City’s initiatives related to sustainability.
  First of all, the Carbon Neutral Tampere 2030 -roadmap voted in August 2020 is a must read. You’ll understand clearly the complexity of the problem of carbon emissions here and (…)