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Activist J.K. Canepa explains how New York residents want to prevent the expansion of fossil fuels – and use the upheaval to kick off thermal energy networks
NEW YORK, NY, USA
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After decades of a vicious food system for our planet, agroecology is becoming a popular form of activism to wield clout for longing structural changes
BARCELONA, SPAIN
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Winter cycling veteran star Pekka Tahkola on why his fellow residents in Oulu, Finland, don’t give up urban cycling even with snow for five months
OULU, FINLAND
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How an unconventional form of philanthropy turns a prestigious event in London into a powerful platform to support urban gardens and good causes across the UK
LONDON, UK
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After a great start, artist Samira Benini Allaouat hopes to bring sustainable public lighting to a new level while decontaminating the urban soil
BARCELONA, SPAIN
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How Tim Fendley has been advocating for walkable cities behind the scenes while cracking human behaviour in wayfinding to boost walking
LONDON, UK
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Extreme weather makes the case for the renaissance of an urban nature-based solution built a century ago, that many cities would envy.
ELCHE, SPAIN
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Sophie Leguil, founder of “More Than Weeds”, on stopping our endless weeding of wild plants on the streets and ending our alienation from nature
LONDON, UK
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An experimental collection of objects and stories of ordinary people, hosted by two natural history museums, takes on our changing planet. Could storytelling spark action?
BERLIN, GERMANY
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Some consider energy cooperatives in cities a quixotic adventure, but one worth trying to decarbonize the energy system at this moment in history.
PARIS, FRANCE
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At first glance, a car-free city is a great idea but it is contradicting itself. While more women walk and use public transportation for multiple destinations, they are also the ones more dependent on driving. How does it all fit together?
BONN, GERMANY
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Berliners are making watering trees more sexy than announcing new planting. The citizen-led initiative ‘Gieß den Kiez’ coordinates watering efforts to prioritize aftercare of street trees to outlive multiple generations of people.
BERLIN, GERMANY
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With a science-led approach, ‘Dream for Trees’ has started to plant mini urban forests in London to efficiently store carbon and create local balanced ecosystems. Can they save us from human-caused climate change?
LONDON, UK
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Now that Venice is back for its residents, culture and science are stimulating an urgent debate on its future. Some answers might already lie in the natural capital of the lagoon. If we can't save Venice, what does that mean for the rest of humanity?
VENICE, ITALY
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Natalie Fee, co-founder of Refill in Bristol, has put the power to disrupt the vicious circle of bottled water at people’s fingertips to protect our water sources and the environment.
BRISTOL, UK
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Born in London, a coalition of running enthusiasts is growing by the day to inspire more of us to run everyday journeys, errands and commute. Running mayors will advocate in their cities to legitimize it as an active travel.
LONDON, UK
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The grass-root association Green city e.V. has been at the vanguard of spreading global climate action among citizens in Munich.
MUNICH, GERMANY
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Kisdiófa Kert is an urban garden in Erzsébetváros neighbourhood, where citizens connect to each other building trust and supportive relationships in Budapest.
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
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If you google the question ‘How can I ride my bike to work without getting sweaty?’, you will get almost 19 million results just for the last month. For all the urban mobility talk about how to encourage walking and cycling in the city, the fact is that they mean a higher factor of perspiration. ...
LONDON, UK
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The 'Beyond a Construction Site' urban gardening initiative in Ljubljana (Slovenia) connects people with nature in the centre of the city.
LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA
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Why environmental justice activists are fighting carbon capture and storage; and why many companies and governments are so desperate to stop it
NEW ORLEANS, LA, USA
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How this advocate uses a brilliant form of attracting attention to bicycle safety in Los Angeles at this moment of cycling revival across US cities.
LOS ANGELES, CA, USA
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Located in Mid-Manhattan, the New York Public Library has taken over a century-old practice of seed saving and distribution. Could seed libraries one day prevent a food crisis in our cities?
NEW YORK, NY, USA
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Our planet suffers the problem of littering in cities. Apparently easy, why can’t cities solve this impossible task? Across the ocean activists explain the invidious choices to tackle the issue at its core.
PHILADELPHIA, PA, USA
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‘Radical acts of gardening’ more than 40 years ago were visionary actions to reconnect with nature, which anticipated the challenges facing our cities today to fight climate change.
NEW YORK, NY, USA
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In Los Angeles, a guerrilla garden proved that cultivating collective healing is possible where hardship prevails. Gardening is where healing the body and healing the planet meet and paves decentralized ways for ecosocial renewal in cities.
LOS ANGELES, CA, USA
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Waste is a huge problem. By the day. Here are some community-led ideas bred in Brooklyn which are a successful approach for radical change in waste reduction.
NEW YORK, NY, USA
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To embrace sustainability, cities ably need to reduce the social divide between the public and science by building data literacy and democratizing the use of open data.
NEW YORK, NY, USA
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The founders of the first plant-based community fridge in New York unlock fresh food for everyone and its value to combat diseases and heal the planet.
NEW YORK, NY, USA
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Mobility advocates are spearheading a new discourse, which focuses on social justice rather than infrastructure and car free cities.
CHICAGO, IL, USA
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Mariellé Anzelone is growing an urban movement for nature and biodiversity in the cities of the future.
NEW YORK, NY, USA
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Seven years after founding Cataki, artivist Mundano discusses informal waste collection, largely disregarded, yet indispensable to boost recycling
SãO PAULO, STATE OF SãO PAULO, BRAZIL
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Young Africans cleaning urban rivers and preventing dumping remain in the shadows but they are on the front line of the fight against ocean pollution
NAIROBI, KENYA
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How the community-led initiative THE REVIVAL is rescuing textile waste from the landfills of Accra in Ghana and exposing fashion’s waste crisis
ACCRA, GHANA
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How Solarbakery in African cities restore bread-making practices, wiped out by a colonialist legacy that hinders sustainability in Africa
KINSHASA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
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Environmental pollution in the post-Soviet city of Rustavi is complex, but it should be read not as an act of despair but as a rallying call with concrete solutions
RUSTAVI, GEORGIA
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From a little island in Cairo, the Nile is getting free of plastic pollution with the urgency to develop local economies along the river
CAIRO, EGYPT
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Salvador, Bahia’s cycling revolution is grounded in the empowerment of Black women riders. Mobility justice movements in the US take notice.
SALVADOR DE BAHíA - STATE OF BAHIA, BRAZIL
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In Canadian cities a neighbour-led movement is unfolding the potential of backyards to provide pollination routes for monarch butterflies. Also it is a call on locals to become Beebnb hosts — the Airbnb for wild bees.
TORONTO, ON, CANADA
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Deforestation is threatening citizen's life in Freetown, but its environmental impact goes beyond the city's borders. Collective and bold actions around the world put cities at peace with nature.
FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE
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Lebanon’s economic crisis has created a guerrilla of urban gardeners growing their own food to curb hunger and build an agriculture culture in the country.
BEIRUT, LEBANON
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The organization Árboles Mágicos in San José, Costa Rica, combines head and heart to regenerate biological corridors and the wellbeing of citizens.
SAN JOSé, COSTA RICA
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Jyoti Pande Lavakare, co-founder of Care for Air, has been raising awareness on deadly air pollution in Delhi for the past six years. Due to the Covid-19 lockdown she finds herself under clear blue skies, an unprecedented time to demand more civic action.
NEW DELHI, DELHI, INDIA
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The social startup ‘Urban Greens’ spearheads a resilient food movement in Cairo through urban agriculture, which provides self-reliant fresh produce and guarantees food security to households, especially in times of crisis like water scarcity.
CAIRO, EGYPT
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Street names do matter. A street in the city of Muscat, the capital of the Sultanate of Oman, is called ‘The Walk’. It sounds obvious. But are streets in cities always walkable? This beautiful piece of road is closed to cars supporting a vision towards a more walkable city and a sustainable urbanisation of Muscat. ...
MUSCAT, OMAN