Green Cities of YOUth

Increasing the role of young people in the development of sustainable cities

 

 

       

 

  • Beyond One's Plate

    Intercultural exchange by joint cooking

    Cooking connects - across cultures! This is the idea of the organisation "Über den Tellerrand kochen". At joint cooking events,

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  • Bike Bridge

    Free cycling lessons and bike repair

    "Bike Bridge" activities are focussed on giving free bike lessons and bike repair workshops for community members who do not have

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  • Building Insect Hotels

    Provide shelter and protect from predators

    Many wild bee species are threatened with extinction today due to industrial agriculture and destruction of natural habitats.

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  • Building Solar Cookers

    Use solar energy for preparing food

    Directly using solar power to cook food? Yes, you can! Simply save a lot of energy for your cooker by using a (self-made?!) solar oven

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  • Community Garden

    Intercultural Garden/ Intergenerational Garden

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  • Edible City

    Urban vegetation for all

    In Germany, the City of Andernach was a front runner "Edible City" with their garden project started in 2010, but in the meantime the idea has

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  • Energy Saving Campaign in Schools

    Motivating youth to save electricity

    This project aims to promote energy savings in schools. The students are learning actively and applying ways to reduce their resource

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  • Movie Festival

    Documentary film workshops, e.g. on food issues

    A film festival all about sustainable food and agriculture. The various short films and documentaries are made by children

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  • Nature Science Week for School Children

    Scientific and technical education for kids

    Children are taken for a week to nature where the learning is done through innate learning motivation of Children. The basic

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  • Rainwater Harvesting

    Collecting rainwater from rooftops

    Installation of simple systems to harvest and store rainwater from the roof on a household level. The water can be used for irrigation.

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  • Repair Café

    Repair instead of throwing away

    Repair Cafés (already over 2,200 worldwide) are openly accessible community places and they’re all about repairing things (together).

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  • River Ranger

    Motivating youth for nature protection

    The Würm Rangers (Würm is a river in Germany) are the Children, Youth and Adults who are dedicated to take care of the Würm, a river in Munich.

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  • Tree Planting

    Reforestation and promotion of biodiversity

    Reforestation as the process of planting trees in an area where forest once existed but was removed or destroyed.

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  • Urban Bee Keeping

    Support open pollination

    More than 80% of crops and flowering plants in Europe depend directly on bees for their pollination. Without bees, we risk losing significantly

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  • Water Explorer

    Motivating youth for water protection

    Water Explorer is a fun, inspiring and multilingual programme that invites young people aged 8-14 years to team up with their classmates, in year

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