May 2019
Creating Communities that Matter
Sustainability goals cannot be achieved alone. They require collaboration across industries, contributing our wide variety of skillsets and sharing the same values and missions, acting purposefully together in the long-run. As a network of professionals & sustainability leaders, we co-create a world that nurtures our planet and society. In this event, organized with CO-Happening, we explore what is actually involved in building a community as our guest speakers describe the challenges, triumphs, experiences and processes involved in successfully building their…
Find out more »April 2019
Effective Communication for Environmentalists (Workshop)
It’s always a challenge to communicate with people you disagree with. Even more so, when you invest a lot of time and effort in projects that you find important, which other people don’t always understand. Whether you are an environmentalist, activist, or any other flavour of socially engaged person, you can get into difficult interactions. Communication is a fundamental aspect of our life. Paradoxically, we take it for granted and seldom work to actively improve it. Therefore, we are…
Find out more »March 2019
We’re drowning in information. How can we use public data for sustainability?
Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash In our daily life we constantly consume and produce information and data through our online activities. While many corporations benefit and monetize them, this data has a lot of potential and could be used by everybody. As so many people around the world start to experience the effects of climate change, we still don’t have a complete picture of how it will affect us all in the years to come. Our current and future actions…
Find out more »February 2019
Lean Startup Summit Berlin 2019
Bring your Sustainability Startup to the next level and join our partners at #leanstartupBER on Feb. 12 to meet with experts, authors, founders, intrapreneurs and C-level leaders. More info and tickets: https://emea.leanstartup.co Get in touch with us for a personal discount code
Find out more »December 2018
Feeding Berlin – The challenge of food waste!
Germany throws away 1/3 of all food every year - that's over 300 kilograms per second. It’s not just food wasted during production, but more so the food being thrown out in our homes, in our restaurants, and in our supermarkets. But which opportunities are there to avoid this waste or transform it into something useful? Join us at this event to learn how Berlin startups are addressing this issue, how local-level policy can help, and how each of us…
Find out more »September 2018
Sustainability Labs: Wedding
Hack your neighbourhood for sustainability! Put your ideas into action at our third Sustainability Lab in Wedding @Baumhaus Berlin. Form or join a team to decrease CO2 in your neighborhood. Do you want to contribute tackling the CO2 challenge on a local level and make your neighbourhood a better and greener place? Join one of our three exciting challenges ... *Upcycling Challenge by Damar Rivillo: Transforming the unwanted clothes around us is a way to start tackling the waste problem of…
Find out more »July 2018
Sustainability Labs: Neukölln
Hack your neighbourhood for sustainability! Put your ideas into action at our second Sustainability Lab in Neukölln. Form or join a team to decrease co2 in your neighborhood. Challenges Hydroponic Vertical Garden: There is a lot of bare walls in Berlin, 4 stories high, no windows, vast useless emptiness. Until now. Let us use this space to automatically grow plants in vertical gardens, eat CO2, clean our breathing air & create a canvas for natures wonders. Can Hydroponics (water bath…
Find out more »June 2018
Syntropic Farming Discovery Workshop
Nature is probably the single thing most people would agree that can be associated with the word "perfection". As society, we are learning to pursue this natural balance in an attempt to restore the damage we have made to our environment. The workshop's purpose is to introduce a successful agricultural method that was designed by learning from and reproducing the processes of nature. Syntropic Farming is an innovative methodology of regenerative agriculture. Over the last 50 years Ernst Götsch has…
Find out more »Bike Tour / Transport Transition: Challenges, Chances and Solutions
Traffic is increasing in our cities as ever more people move to cities and have mobility requirements. Individual motorised traffic takes up a lot of space, creates more emissions and noise that are bad for both our mental and physical health, and of course, the climate. A transportation transition to sustainable modes of transport is needed: public transport, cycling, walking, e-mobility, inter-modal interconnectivity and sharing systems. However, the question is how will this be possible? How do we enable sustainable transport modes…
Find out more »May 2018
The Sustainable Side of Technology
We are living in a digital era in which technology is offering infinite possibilities. Technology is helping us to solve problems worldwide but it also sets up lots of challenges and problems. Moreover, digital transformation is converging with sustainability, being seen as a way to help to achieve the Agenda 2030. However, while technology and innovation can be key factors of progress, they can have undesired implications such as increase of inequality, exposure of personal privacy, consumerism etc. The…
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