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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...