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Livia Urban Swart Haaland – How to Beat Red Tape with a Vision | CityChangers in Conversation

Livia Urban Swart Haaland, Founder of ØsterGRO Rooftop Farm, Copenhagen, talks with us about urban farming, green roofs and beating bureaucracy.

CityChanger Matt Homewood: Copenhagen’s Food Waste Warrior

When it comes to reducing food waste, Matt Homewood isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty. As Instagram’s An Urban Harvester, he’s amassed a sizeable following documenting the shocking amount of edible food supermarkets...

Making Urban Farms Happen: The Foodprint Lab

How to turn unused land into an urban farm? Ask The Foodprint Lab! Or use the land sharing platform Grow Here. Specialised in bringing urban agriculture into cities, this company – and the people...

How to Advocate for Urban Agriculture

How do we unlock urban agriculture’s potential? By improving policies, spreading knowledge, and implementing a supportive network. This is the work of European Forum on Urban Agriculture, an EU project determined to help urban...

#11 Night, Gov!

Life goes on after the sun goes down, so why should our cities stop? With more cities around the world creating night offices and appointing night mayors – we take a look at the potential...

CityChanger Frank Holleman: Realistic Expectations for Sustainable Eating Habits

Meat may be one of the most controversial topics in sustainability discourse. It’s a major contributor to climate change emissions, for one, and vegan advocates have a hard time convincing diehard carnivores to change...

CityChanger Katharina Schätz: How Positive Energy & Fighting Fear Enable Change-Making

In the world of sustainability, there’s an assumption that we all want the same change. Even for those of us who share this mindset, behaviours often don’t match, which can stall positive transitions. Katharina...

Food for Thought: Facts & Figures

Food is a massive and complex matter. In nature, food chains have to find a balance to prevent ecosystems from collapsing. Our human-made food network is no different. As the statistics show, a sustainable...

Food Trails: A Framework to Drive Change in European Urban Food Systems

This article was written for CityChangers.org by Siobhan Maderson, Food Trails Research Associate at Cardiff University, Wales. In it, she explains how the Food Trails project (of which Cardiff University is a partner) has...

Urban Agriculture Projects in Europe

With the increase in cities’ populations comes the higher need for food in an, often dense, urban environment. How to best make use of the little space left, and feed the citizens with healthy,...

The Case for Urban Agriculture

Can growing food in urban environments help to nourish an increasingly hungry world without sacrificing the planet in the process? As more and more of us discover the joys of a green thumb, we...

The Case for Sustainable Food Systems

Food is a funny, fickle friend... or is that foe? While we all need it, the industries concerned with producing, packing, distributing, and clearing up after foodstuff can make this dependency majorly problematic - for...

A Contributor’s Guide to CityChangers.org

Ready to hit the keys and share your story? Believe us, we’re just as excited as you are! Here’s a little guide on how to structure your knowledge and the story you’re telling, to...

DearNeighbour: Cohesive Communities As the Driving Force of a Just Green Transition

This article was written for CityChangers.org by Eliza Barnea, Policy and Government Affairs Coordinator for IntreVecini, a Bucharest-based non-profit that empowers citizens to lead their own urban improvements. Using residents of urban condominiums as...

Building a Better Housing Model with the European Community Land Trust Network

Fulfilling the need for quality, affordable, future-proofed housing is one of our cities’ biggest challenges. Marginalised and low-income populations need the current system to change the most. Community Land Trusts offer an equitable and...

CityChanger Ronni Kahn: Don’t Waste Food – Use It Up!

While people go hungry, there’s no justification for food waste – itself a massive contributor to destructive climate change emissions. What began as a one-woman mission to redistribute unwanted food has become a global...

How Water Companies Can Innovate Wastewater Services & Customer Engagement

Keeping the water flowing is a complex business. Water companies can take a lot of flak if they appear to fail in their responsibilities. But, as we learn from the experiences of Northumbrian Water...

From Enemy to Ally? How to Share Bike-Lanes With E-Scooters

They endanger pedestrians, they are annoying, and people throw them away like garbage: E-scooters. Many citizens, especially pedestrians and cyclists, do not care for them. But let’s be clear: the potential of e-scooters is...