Events

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• Climate Chaos – What Can Be Done?
  5 March 2020, by Eva Wissenz

  Deadly disasters such as wild fires, floods and droughts are increasing. So is the pressure to change the societal systems that build-up the climate chaos. What are the promising developments in energy provision and land-use?
  The seminar features front line artists and experts Risto Isomäki (activist, writer), Poet on Watch (performance poet, multi media artist and director of the film Love in the Midst of Climate Change), Eshetu Yirdaw (lecturer, University of Helsinki) and Noora Simola (…)

• Join us for the Sustainable and Impact Club events
  6 January 2020, by Eva Wissenz

  I’m very happy to welcome you at the Sustainability and Impact Club!!
  The Club is supported by Tampere Universities, Y-Kampus and the Continuous Learning department. All meetings are free and open to non-students.
  Mondays and Tuesdays meetings have the same content but are offered in 2 different locations so you can choose your location.
  Here is the list of the coming meetings in January 2020.
  Week 1:
  How to have more impact in life (topic discussion) Jan. 7th, 11:00-12:00, (…)

• Kasvimaatyöpajat lapsille
  2 June 2021, by Eva Wissenz

  Kurpitsatalon Lastenmaalla
  ti 8.6. ja ke 9.6. klo 15-17
  Laitamme siemenet ja kukkaset penkkeihin. Lapset saavat laittaa sormet multaan ja tutustua kasvien ja kukkien maailmaan. Sopii kaiken ikäisille.
  Tervetuloa 🌱
  Ohjaaja: Vera Aarteinen
  Maksuton - Säävaraus
  Kurpitsatalon kesakahvio FB sivu. ja website.

• Spice Ladies Go Green!
  7 October 2019, by Eva Wissenz

  "PopUp Tampere is a local community of family chefs cooking for local people!" says Carolina Florio (see picture). For this event there will be 4 of them to make you taste their delicious recipes. They all agreed that they needed to reduce their usage of disposable, and prefer local suppliers, so they could be really from "local to locals".
  "We’re asking people to bring their own cutlery and plates, or to-go boxes." If necessary they will have decomposable disposable cups/plates of course (…)

• Mix&Match #Circular Economy
  5 October 2019, by Eva Wissenz

  Organized at Tribe, the Mix&Match networking events serie is coming up on various impact fields. The second one in on Oct. 16th and all about circular economy.
  It’s a cool opportunity to network. Check the event’s FB page:
  The event is in English and is FREE of charge for all participants! The venue is Tribe, Pinninkatu 47.

• Earth Strike is now
  19 September 2019, by Eva Wissenz

  It’s serious guys, it’s earth strike week from Sept. 20th to Sept. 27th.
  Strike has a long history for humans. Since the industrial age, every time we want to change things, strike is the powerful tool. As long as you are in the race, no matter what you say, people around may listen but hey, it’s a race, let’s continue running. The minute you stop, something happens. It can become a peaceful dialogue, a Spring, a riot, a Gilets Jaunes movement, depends on people’s.
  Grown-ups are now (…)

• 19 Feb Climate crisis coffee time
  17 February 2020, by Eva Wissenz

  "Would you like someone to discuss climate issues? Welcome to the Climate Cafe of Extinction Rebellion Tampere!
  The Climate Cafe is both a place for XR Tampere actives to spend time in the spirit of regenerative culture, and also a place for new people who are interested in the movement – or just to talk about climate matters and share our common concern. Seasoned rebels are always present to tell you about us and how to get involved in the action.
  The Climate Cafe is organized every (…)

• Climat Crisis coffee time
  27 November 2019, by Eva Wissenz

  Extinction Rebellion (or XR, Elokapina in Finnish) is "a global environmental movement using non violent civil disobedience to compel government action to avoid tipping points in the climate system, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse." (Wikipedia)
  As a non-violent movement, they are interesting because they have to be super creative in order to be heard by the decisions makers.
  The movement was established in the United Kingdom in 2018 and is known for (…)

• Public discussion about the climate reform
  27 January 2020, by Eva Wissenz

  Join the public discussion about the climate reform!
  It’s happening at Metso, the main library, room Lehmus on Jan 27th, 18:00-19h30.
  The opening of this session about climate change reform is given by Elina Vaara, special adviser at the Minister of Environment.
  Then speeches will be given by Kari Kankaala, environment and development director at Tampere City, Olli-Pekka Pietiläinen from the Minister of Environment, Jukka Viljanen, law specialist from Tampere University, and Suvi (…)

• Micro-mining
  9 March 2020, by Eva Wissenz

  If you are interested in product life cycle, join this group discussion organized by Changemakers Tampere to figure out what we could do to make technology more ecologically sustainable.
  – What kind of minerals could be mined from our devices?
  – Are there ways to sustainably gather minerals from our devices?
  – Are there ways to sustainably gather minerals from our local environment?
  Micromining - Exploring sustainable sourcing of minerals from devices, waste and local landscapes
  It’s (…)