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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...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...Berlin HYBRID City Team Meeting 4th of April 2022
Hybrid work meeting on Masterplan content - Edible neighbourhoods for BerlinBuilding 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...
Edible Cities Networking Sessions #2: Community, Value & Circular Economy (April 2022)
We're still buzzing from the success of the networking session at the Edible Cities Network conference, where there was the chance to talk to so many diverse representatives of the Edible Cities movement - from NGOs to city administrators, urban...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...Online event: Cities and Covid-19: Food access for vulnerable communities in practice - 15 May
How are cities maintaining access to safe and nutritious food for vulnerable populations in times of Covid-19?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,...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...Webinar: Upscaling NBS solutions and transferring them to other cities! 18 June
This webinar by UrbanByNature looks absolutely spot on for EdiCitNet! The webinar will include representatives from cities and experts on creative approaches for upscaling nature-based solutions! They'll be sharing experiences on outcomes...
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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...