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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...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...Building in inclusivity to our food systems
Inclusive food systems are a key aim for our City Teams where urban food projects can offer great opportunities to create new networks and improve local conditions. IFPRI (the International Food Policy Research Institute) recently released the...Discussing Nature-based Solutions (and more) on 'The Nature of Cities'
To share more wonderful online resources (and the fantastic networks that support them), I'd like to introduce 'The Nature of Cities' website. This top quality resource hosted by David Maddox is an excellent platform that discusses many urban...Nature4Cities Virtual Forum with NBS experts, 19-20 May 2020, online and free!
Shared by WP2 (thank you!) is the upcoming Nature4Cities Virtual Forum to help you discover useful insights and tools to foster your NBS projects. Topics are very relevant to EdiCitNet and include: tools, methods and guides to...City Team Meeting 12th of November 2021 - Scenario Development and Masterplan for Berlin
scenario development, masterplan draftBerlin HYBRID City Team Meeting 4th of April 2022
Hybrid work meeting on Masterplan content - Edible neighbourhoods for Berlin
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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 Inspired cities! Planning in pollinators to promote urban greening (): @IrisKroeger, I realise Andernach's City Team has a focus on pollination! This...
- Ferne on Building in inclusivity to our food systems (): @sebastian.eiter, this report includes a section on indicators for inclusive...