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Meeting with Marko Ulvila: social justice is the key
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 (…)
Meeting with Kimmo Hokkanen: heal and regenerate our personal and social soils
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 (…)
Meeting with Jenni Lahtonen: creativity is needed everywhere
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, (…)
Meeting with Antti Sorri: shouldn’t we think and chill more?
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 (…)
Meeting with Jukka Peltokoski: how can a city change?
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 (…)
Meeting with Jussi Holopainen: the spirit of nature
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 (…)
Meeting with Vilma Rimpelä: information for the future
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 (…)
Meeting with Anne Savitie, art motivated by community spirit
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 (…)
Meeting with Alexandra Santos, a change agent in the start-up eco-system
Alexandra is based in Finland since 15 years. She’s coming from Portugal and she had to make her way here! First involved with Tribe, a great community space for startups that was really missing in town when it was created, she then co-founded Stream Festival. It was a non-profit event (…)
Meeting with eco-village co-founders: Satu & Jarkko Mattila
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 (…)
The Circular Economy Club of Tampere opening event!
Isn’t great?! "CEC Tampere is open to everyone interested in the transition to a circular economy. We’ll be the diverse community and platform to citizens, entrepreneurs, established companies, startups, students, academics and all others to discuss circular economy and help in solving (…)
Making Tampere Universities more sustainable: check out the amazing student’s works
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 (…)
The Sustainability and Impact Club is now on-line
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 (…)
Meet Henri Murto: Understanding our immediate environment - Soil and food system, what’s wrong ? (with a podcast)
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 (…)
Meet Krista Willman: Urban gardening
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 (…)
Meet Eveliina Asikainen: Education and Sustainable Development
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 (…)
Meet Saana Raatikainen: Sustainability at the University
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- (…)
How to manage my digital existence? Sustainable and independent IT
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 (…)
Meet Siiri Enoranta, sustainable fantasy writer
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 (…)
Pete’s organic pizza’s
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 (…)
Visiting Kurki ecovillage
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 (…)