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Flora Robotica: The Future of Growing Your Own House?

Metka Novak -
Let’s talk hypothetically – what if we had the ability to grow our own houses? Out of plants? No greenhouse gas emissions, no grey concrete, no building-material waste, no heat island effects. Wouldn’t it...
Greenery & Biodiversity

A Little Bit of Green Among the Grey: The Case for Greenery

Metka Novak -
The United Nations’ article 'Cities and Pollution' states that cities use up 78% of the world’s energy and produce more than 60% of greenhouse gas emissions, all while covering less than 2% of our...
Greenery & Biodiversity

The Case for Green Roofs

Metka Novak -
How to incorporate greenery into urban spaces? Where to put green spaces in a densely populated area? Putting them on a roof is a way to go! The benefits of green roofs are being...
Green Buildings

Bringing Homes to Life: How to Green Your Walls

Metka Novak -
Greening your walls just may be easier than you think. We have gathered guidelines, recommendations, costs, benefits, and everything you need to consider in this compact, easy-to-follow guide. Whether you’re a lover of vegetation or...
Green Buildings

Bring Greenery Indoors: How to Green Your Home

Metka Novak -
There’s more to indoor plants than just succulents. With the following simple ways, you can enrichen your plain rooms with a little bit of nature. Whether a simple plant in a pot, or a...
Green Buildings

How to Green and Maintain Your Sustainable Roof

Metka Novak -
Wouldn’t it be nice to go on your roof on a hot summer’s day, bringing a book and fresh lemonade with you, lying back in a deckchair and enjoying the sunny day – without...
Greenery & Biodiversity

The Challenge to Making Cities Greener

Metka Novak -
The thing about greenery is there’s more to it than just planting a bunch of trees. Peeking behind the scenes, a lot of urban planning, designing, technical research, and policy writing goes into realising...
Greenery & Biodiversity

Greenery: Facts & Figures

Metka Novak -
The basis for every city-changing venture is to do your research and to know your facts and data. For this very purpose, we have gathered the most important, surprising, or even uplifting ones in...
Greenery & Biodiversity

Useful Tools and Guides for Greening

Metka Novak -
If our articles have lit the fire for greening in you, we suggest getting even more information and details here! Find and collect all the needed knowledge, information, and guidance in this list of...
Greenery & Biodiversity

Urban Biodiversity and the EU Taxonomy

Metka Novak -
It’s easy to forget we share our space in the city with other creatures. Either being small and almost invisible to the unobservant eye or being right there, planted in front of your front...
Greenery & Biodiversity

Safety in Green Areas: It’s About People

Metka Novak -
Green areas are great; they have the potential to attract a city’s residents to enjoy nature, relax, and get some much-needed fresh air. Safety, though, is a large element of that enjoyment; so how...
Climate Adaptation

How to Avoid Heat Islands with Greenery

Metka Novak -
Have you noticed the extremely high temperatures this summer? Especially when walking around a larger city? That is because city concrete and rooftop tar contribute to temperature increase and creating what is today known...
Greenery & Biodiversity

Micro-Gardening in Dakar: Fighting Food and Climate Insecurity

Metka Novak -
In lands where proper growing soil is scarce, water supply is low, and food shortage is prevailing, cities need to resort to innovative means of obtaining the needed resources. The city of Dakar managed...
Climate Adaptation

Coolfood Quick Guide: Strategies to Entice Better Food Choices

Karl Dickinson -
Food service organisations are well placed to make a big dent in greenhouse gas emissions just by reducing how much meat they serve. The World Resource Institute’s Coolfood Quick Guide shows them how. And...
Food Systems

Please Don’t Kale My Vibe – Piloting Edible City Solutions to Change Food Systems

Mirka Råberg -
This article was written for CityChangers.org by Mirka Råberg and Olivia Fokeerah, who both work for Forum Virium Helsinki, the City of Helsinki’s innovation company, in Finland. In it, they explore how cities can...
Food Systems

CityChanger Frank Holleman: Realistic Expectations for Sustainable Eating Habits

Karl Dickinson -
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...
Urban Farming

Improving Cities Through Technology: Aude Vuilliomenet

Metka Novak -
When it comes to transforming cities, most think of implementing green spaces, retrofitting buildings, pedestrianising streets. It makes sense, when the bigger, tangible improvements are easily perceived by the eye. But what about microcontrollers?...
Greenery & Biodiversity

How to Finance Green Roofs

Metka Novak -
Let’s be honest, greening your home is never cheap. It may pay off in the long run, but in the short run, gathering all necessary financial means may present many a challenge. There are...
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