Green Cities of YOUth

Increasing the role of young people in the development of sustainable cities

 

 

       

 

  • Clean-Up

    Joint collection of trash

    A clean-up day is an organized event in which volunteers gather to clean up and beautify a public space, such as a park, beach, river, or

    ...
  • Community Garden

    Intercultural Garden/ Intergenerational Garden

    ...

  • Edible City

    Urban vegetation for all

    In Germany, the City of Andernach was a front runner "Edible City" with their garden project started in 2010, but in the meantime the idea has

    ...
  • Energy Saving Campaign in Schools

    Motivating youth to save electricity

    This project aims to promote energy savings in schools. The students are learning actively and applying ways to reduce their resource

    ...
  • Green Mapping

    Citizens explore and share "green aspects"

    The making of the original Green Map in New York City was inspired by the United Nations Earth Summit in 1992. The purpose was

    ...
  • Green Tourism

    Making the green areas near municipalities accessible in sustainable ways

    Green or sustainable tourism is a form of tourism that focuses on minimizing the impact on the

    ...
  • Local Food Council

    Coalition for development and implementation of food strategy

    A food council is a group of individuals or organizations that come together to discuss and address issues

    ...
  • Mobile Tree Alley

    Mobile trees on the street

    Where streets are grey with concrete, and quickly heating up in summers, Mobile Tree Alleys can be a good solution to provide green and shade, to filter dust

    ...
  • Nature Science Week for School Children

    Scientific and technical education for kids

    Children are taken for a week to nature where the learning is done through innate learning motivation of Children. The basic

    ...
  • Parking Day

    Small parks in parking lots

    Parking lots in cities take up far more of the available open space than do parks and places allocated for people. Park(ing) day is an annual

    ...
  • Participatory Budget

    Citizens decide how the local budget is spent

    Participatory budgeting is a democratic process that allows citizens to have a say in how public funds are spent. It

    ...
  • Plastic Free Challenge

    One month without plastic

    Plastic Free Challenge is a playful competition to become aware of the amount of single-use plastics in our everyday life and to find respective

    ...
  • Regional Food Challenge

    One month with only regional food

    The regional food challenge aims to motivate participants to base their daily meals on regional grown food only. This competition

    ...
  • Regions in Transition

    Community based solutions

    Think globally - act locally. That is the idea behind the project "Regions in transition". During a guided process, the citzens in a region come

    ...
  • River Ranger

    Motivating youth for nature protection

    The Würm Rangers (Würm is a river in Germany) are the Children, Youth and Adults who are dedicated to take care of the Würm, a river in Munich.

    ...
  • Tree Patrons

    Irrigating public trees during dry season

    Trees on the city streets are vulnerable to droughts in hot summers, and the ground near the tree may be compacted by cars,

    ...
  • Tree Planting

    Reforestation and promotion of biodiversity

    Reforestation as the process of planting trees in an area where forest once existed but was removed or destroyed.

    ...
  • Urban Bee Keeping

    Support open pollination

    More than 80% of crops and flowering plants in Europe depend directly on bees for their pollination. Without bees, we risk losing significantly

    ...
  • Wheelmap

    City map of barrierfrei locations (for wheelchairs, shoppers, strollers)

    Wheelmap is an international organisation that provides an online map of barrier free and

    ...
  • Yellow Ribbon Fruit Trees

    Free fruits for all

    ...

Seite 1 von 2