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Sustainable city and communities — arenas for lifelong learning

Sustainable city and communities — arenas for lifelong learning

We need a greater exchange of experiences to disseminate knowledge and learning among the different initiative takers — a «cross…
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Kirsten Paaby
Community Based Local Environmental Development in Dialogue — Toward a Common Future.

Community Based Local Environmental Development in Dialogue — Toward a Common Future.

The creative attempt to put community based work in dialogue with distribution of Green Funds turned the Sagene district into one of Oslo’s…
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Kirsten Paaby
The Magic Turtle on Haarklous Place

The Magic Turtle on Haarklous Place

A ”forgotten park” becomes a vibrant gathering place, to the delight of residents big and small. A participatory art project brings…
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Kirsten Paaby
Cultivating — Cooperation, Happiness and Community

Cultivating — Cooperation, Happiness and Community

SAIFF is a volunteer center with worldwide roots that strengthens solidarity and neighborly cultivation work of every kind. Urban garden…
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Kirsten Paaby
A Green Gathering Place Steeped in History

A Green Gathering Place Steeped in History

In Hønse-Lovisa’s House, old Christiania meets new Oslo. This homey, cozy dwelling just beside the rushing waters of Aker’s River…
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Kirsten Paaby
Green Happiness in Cooperative Housing

Green Happiness in Cooperative Housing

Two mothers of small children took the initiative to transform the back courtyard in their cooperative housing complex. They involved…
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Kirsten Paaby
Sagene’s Buzzing Parks

Sagene’s Buzzing Parks

CityBee (ByBi), an urban beekeeping group in Oslo, has built several different types of insect hotels for solitary bees in three parks in…
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Kirsten Paaby
From Voluntary Grass Root to Green Entrepreneur

From Voluntary Grass Root to Green Entrepreneur

Svein Elias Gautefall is one of several individuals who has received Green Funding for projects related to food waste and urban gardening…
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Kirsten Paaby
The Power of Local Transition

The Power of Local Transition

For more than five years enthusiastic individuals have shown how simple approaches using self-organizing methods can generate sustainable…
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Kirsten Paaby
Cultivating the Preschools — Green Thumbs at Mother Goodheart’s (Mor Go´hjertas)

Cultivating the Preschools — Green Thumbs at Mother Goodheart’s (Mor Go´hjertas)

A pilot project to get preschools in Oslo’s Sagene District involved in urban gardening took off after receiving Green Funding in 2013…
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Kirsten Paaby
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