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Inspiring Global Climate Action
In this first article series created in partnership with The Urban Activist, 1014 explores how activists and urban practitioners on both sides of the Atlantic are working to inspire and spark action in the fight against climate change.
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‘gieß Den Kiez’: Giving Trees in Berlin a Chance to Outlive Their Planters
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.
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Housing Los Angelenos Is a Human Right and Can Fight Climate Change
Decades of housing shortage has submerged Los Angeles in a humanitarian and sustainability crisis in the midst of extreme weather. But a growing group of volunteer Angelenos are building the movement to house LA and reverse climate change.
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Urbanists or Environmental Activists. The Odyssey of the Superblocks
Increasingly, more activist voices are advocating to reconsider the superblocks in Barcelona. Initially planned as a project of great urban transformation, it threatens to result in a giant greenwashing operation.
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London’s Dream for Trees: Mini Urban Forests Towards Carbon Neutrality
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?
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Gardening Decentralized Healing in Los Angeles for a Damaged Planet
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.
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Pioneering a Circular City. At Haus Der Statistik Nothing Is Wasted
In Berlin grassroots initiatives and municipality are masterminding a town hall of the future in a pioneer quarter to decouple the city’s economic growth from environmental impacts, in addition to an avant-garde cultural approach.
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Locals Give Canadian Cities Butterflies. From Their Backyards
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.
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We Are Here Venice. Back Soon but Better
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?
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No More Unease to Refill. A Revolution to Free Tap Water
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.
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A Green Strip Full of Potential. Creatives in Turin Reclaim Their City
Luca Ballarini, and the collective Torino Stratosferica, turned an abandoned tramway into a park to demonstrate the potential of Turin and project the city into a sustainable future.
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About Rethinking Museums in Cities
The world is facing unprecedented social and environmental challenges that will require city administrations, policymakers, academia, artists and citizens to open up to one another and find new ways of collaborating. In this series we explore how some cultural institutions in cities, and foremost museums, on both sides of the Atlantic, are acting as useful places for solutions. By moving their traditional boundaries beyond the static viewing of culture, they help address the societal challenges of our time.
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This series of articles is created in partnership with The Urban Activist, an independent non-profit media platform committed to advancing urban progress.
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