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A sustainability podcast from Learning Lab’s students

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 (...)

Shared gardens in Tampere

Thanks a lot to Tatjana Blum for bringing all this info together!! Urban communal gardening is a great way to grow food locally 🌱 while living in a city! You can explore and learn about e.g. what varieties of veggies 🍅🥒🌶 there are, how to cultivate them and the soil they grow in and what’s (...)

How to be more sustainable in Tampere?

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 (...)

Where can we find local organic food in Tampere? (updated)

This article presents my research about the followings: – Where can we buy fresh organic and / or local food in Tampere – Joining an existing group / piiri to buy organic food in Tampere – Buying in bulk online – Labels, agencies – More... restaurants selection... reduce food waste... (...)

Artists from Pirkanmaa, this is for you

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. (...)

Urban Dinner: Waste to taste

Dodo’s first Urban Dinner in Tampere will take place in Nekala 9th June – sign up for the event now! The venue is: Kuoppamäentie 23, FI-33800 Tampere How to make a delicious meal from waste food ingredients? 😋 We will be cooking in Nekala’s waste food kitchen with chef Olli Rinta-Mantila (...)

Wild&Cuisine - a Dodo (yummy) project

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 (...)

Urban gardening at Hiedanranta Edible Park

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 (...)

Tampere In2Food

Today is the launch of Tampere In2Food, Resolving a Societal Challenge: Interdisciplinary Approach Towards Fostering Collaborative Innovation in Food Waste Management. In collaboration with European and Indonesian actors, the project will create and develop interdisciplinary courses, (...)

Impact Boost Conversation

Hello Sustainability friends! If you don’t know them yet, the Oxygen2050 network is a group of inspiring impact and eco entrepreneurs based in Helsinki. It’s a great network and I warmly invite you to explore their site and FB events. As an impact entrepreneur myself, I’m happy to (...)

Better together (for sure)

On Sept. 4th, Oxygen 2050, an association of transformative entrepreneurs based in Helsinki, is organizing an event for us to learn the 3 must elements of building an active community. The speaker is Lana Jelenjev – the co-author of Community Builder: Designing Communities for Change, a (...)

Wasteland or human biodiversity

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 (...)

Ethics at the core of the business model

This article was also published on Oxygen 2050’s site (association of impact and sustainable entrepreneurs based in Helsinki). This text was inspired by the Responsible Business Research Seminar organized by Tampere University and the Responsible Management research group on March 12th. The (...)

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 (...)

Introduction to beekeeping

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 (...)

Planning for more mökki time or outdoor holidays in Finland? It’s wise to support local quality.

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 - (...)

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 (...)

Impact tea time podcast - All about change

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 (...)

Podcast: Shaking traditions in Finland

Sepia Agency is happy to initiate a series of podcasts focused on sustainability and impact in Tampere and Pirkanmaa. "Shaking traditions in Finland" is an online discussion with Finnish social and impact entrepreneurs happening during Skoll Forum week 2020 #CollectiveStrength (...)

Motivated students: sustainable creativity

Hi delicious friends! I want to briefly share here about one of the interesting things that happened during the Sustainability and Impact Club’s first session (January-February 2020). We knew that during session 2 all students would choose a big challenge and work on it to solve an important (...)

How can we survive the apocalypse by telling stories?

When I was a child, I grew up listening to stories about the end of the world. Because of that, the idea of Jesus Christ has always been attached to his return, by which I would lose everything that is material for my existence, I’d suffer and I’d be judged for my sins for the eternity. To (...)

Eco smile

As we know, small daily actions have an impact as well. Have you ever thought about your toothbrush? Did you know that "Back in the 1960s, the (Finnish) family would go to the sauna once a week and brush their teeth with the same brush"? Just before the isolation, one of the Sustainability (...)

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 (...)

We are closing doors but we aren’t closing down.

Friends, We are asked to stay home, keep our distance and be cautious. In Finland, the people and the government are very reasonable, decades of crazy capitalism haven’t washed away their concern about the common good and the way they care. I’ve learned from my 8 years in Finland, that (...)

Impact companies also need strong business models (podcast)

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 (...)

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