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  • 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 (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • Miten voit toimia eettisemmin ja kestävämmin Tampereella?
    24 November 2021, by Eva Wissenz

    Tampere tunnetaan teollisuuskaupunkina ja sillä on vielä paljon haasteita edessä kestävään kehitykseen liittyvissä hankkeissa. Nykyiset toimet ovat toistaiseksi keskittyneet pääasiassa hiilineutraaliuuteen.
    Suosittelen kaikkia tutustumaan Tampereen kaupungin kestävän tulevaisuuden strategiaan ja sen aloitteisiin.
    Elokuussa 2020 julkaistu Hiilineutraali Tampere 2030 -tiekartta on ehdottomasti lukemisen arvoinen. Siinä kerrotaan selkeästi Kestävä Tampere ohjelman linjaukset kohti (…)

  • Artists from Pirkanmaa, this is for you
    1 September 2021, by Eva Wissenz

    Dear Artists from Pirkanmaa, You know the urge. The urge to share the beauty you perceive. The urge to create the visions that are visiting you. The urge to feel grateful, light and focused. In this terrible climate change social human crisis, your skills are gifts and they are very needed. More than ever. It’s urgent. It’s now. Share with us how your art relates to nature, if you question the climate, if silence and space are still the same, if you fear or engage with change makers... (…)

  • Urban gardening at Hiedanranta Edible Park
    1 May 2021, by Eva Wissenz

    Hiedanranta Edible Park hosts open and free garden events from May to October, where the park’s vegetable garden is cultivated. At the events, useful plants are sown and planted, vegetable land is managed and the crop is harvested in the autumn. In order for the crops to grow to harvest maturity, the crop is ONLY distributed at the harvest events, to those present at the time.
    We start the growing season on Monday 3.5. at 5 p.m. We cultivate the arable lands and fertilize them according to (…)

  • Wild&Cuisine - a Dodo (yummy) project
    23 May 2021, by Eva Wissenz

    The aim of the Wild&Cuisine project is to revive the old Finnish and European cultural heritage and to make people love free edible wild plants in their vicinity. It teaches the use of these ubiquitous edible wild plants while increasing people’s well-being, survival skills and respect for their immediate nature.
    All kinds of wild food-related events are planned, such as free lectures, food festivals, and a low-threshold Local Wild Food Challenge, which will be held in collaboration (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • Wasteland or human biodiversity
    18 August 2020, by Eva Wissenz

    If you’re an emigrant here in Tampere coming from South Europe, Middle East, Asia, Africa, South America, Canada, USA, well any place except Switzerland and Scandinavia (with all respect), I’m sure you are sensitive to the uniformity of the urban space. Compared to other small - medium - biiig cities, Tampere is neat, very, and clean, very.
    So, what a tremendous joy to discover something DIFFERENT, finally.
    And here you are with Pyynikin aikamatkat, a wasteland near by the mini-golf. It (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • 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 (…)