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Sharing news on urban greening and biodiversity by ICLEI Europe
The ICLEI Europe newsletter has just come out and is jam-packed with stories on NBS in cities! Stories most relevant to EdiCitNet include: Ten tips for cities on planting the right trees in the right places with advice offered from the ICLEI...News from Living Lab Rotterdam
An enthousiastic group of green (food)initiators has come together to organise a city-wide campaign. The goal is to activate as many citizens as possible to do something with green spaces and with green edible spaces in their neighbourhood. And we...Inspired cities! Planning in pollinators to promote urban greening
The Guardian online newspaper is running a super and very relevant Wild Cities series to showcase stories of biodiversity in cities. This link describes how a city in Costa Rica have recognised the rights of bees, butterflies and hummingbirds into...A guide to growing at home
Sustainable Table, an Australian environmental not-for-profit, has put together this wonderful online series for how to grow your own fresh food at home. Its a beautifully presented, inspirational platform to encourage people to get...Survey - Towards a common terminology for NBS!
Sharing on behalf of the ICRA team and members of the Cost Action Circular City who have developed a survey with the objective of getting an unification of the terminology used for Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) within the scientific community. They...Tomorrow is World Bee Day! Online activities around the world to honour the bee
The United Nations has appointed 20 May as World Bee Day with activities honouring bees and pollinators occurring around the world. You may not know that 20 May coincides with the birthday of Anton Janša who pioneered modern beekeeping...Sharing outcomes on distilling solutions for sustainable and just cities with Urban-Arena!
Following the post on cities as leaders for sustainable futures, I introduce UrbanA: Urban Arenas for Sustainable and Just Cities, a recent EU program that consists of a Community of Practice, UrbanA Fellows, and the organising team,...Making visible urban food sharing practices
Many types of edible city solutions already exist in cities all around the world! However, as many urban food actions remain hidden, fragmented and marginalised, its important to make them visible to create solidarity, to learn from and share...Don't forget the urban trees! Tree Rings webinar series as part of the Urban Tree Festival
The Urban Tree Festival website with CPRE London presents a series of webinars starting yesterday (sorry this is a little late - there's so much on!) as part of the 2020 online Urban Tree Festival. These webinars 'explore a range of...Berlin City Team Meeting 8th of October 2021 – Masterplan EdiCitNet
During this City Team Meeting BOKU Wien gave a short presentation on TPM with a focus on system elements. The City Team discussed the description of the system elements and developed critical elements that should form part in every description: a...
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- Ferne on Online event: Cities and Covid-19: Food access for vulnerable communities in practice - 15 May (): A number of organisations are releasing reports and strategies to explore links...
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- Ferne on Building in inclusivity to our food systems (): @sebastian.eiter, this report includes a section on indicators for inclusive...