Podcasts by Creating Green Cities

Creating Green Cities

We all want our cities to be greener, but how does this look in practice and what do we need to get there? The Creating Green Cities podcast takes you on a journey into the world of nature-based solutions and shows how they can be used to bring nature into cities for the benefit of society and the environment alike. We talk to guests from Barcelona, Budapest, Malmö and Utrecht to learn more about the implementation of these urban innovations across Europe.

The podcast has been created by the Ecologic Institute (http://ecologic.eu) as part of NATURVATION (http://naturvation.eu), an EU-funded research project focusing on urban nature-based innovation. If you want to learn even more about nature-based solutions than we touch on in the podcast, subscribe to “Urban Nature”, a free online course on nature-based solutions from NATURVATION: https://www.coursera.org/learn/urban-nature.

Further podcasts by Ewa Iwaszuk, Karl Lehmann; Ecologic Institute

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Creating Green Cities
Innovating with nature, people and places from 2020-08-24T05:00

The city of Barcelona is reinventing the work soil; a social entrepreneur in Utrecht is trying to challenge the way the government cooperates with local green initiatives; and a housing company in ...

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Valuing nature: can money really grow on trees? from 2020-08-10T05:00

Hans Pijls, founder of the “Food for Good” urban farm in Utrecht, believes his project generates different types of value for the city, such as improving the economic value of surrounding buildings...

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All hands on deck: governing urban green from 2020-07-27T05:00

The city of Barcelona has an entire strategy dedicated to taking care of its trees, called the Tree Masterplan. To create this Masterplan, the city talked to over 700 different people - from garden...

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Urban trees and gardens: How good are they really for you? from 2020-07-08T12:14:40

Living in a neighborhood with lots of trees will make you live longer… or will it? Urban nature is said to bring diverse health, social, economic and environmental benefits to cities and their popu...

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Bringing Nature Back into Cities from 2020-06-24T15:12:45

Green roofs make buildings cool. Literally. As cities deal with the impacts of climate change, green roofs can offer solutions and help with rainwater management, insulation and cooling, amongst ot...

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