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Sustainability with URBEM

URBEM is an NGO based in Lisbon, which aims to awaken citizens living in cities to Nature, through the conversion of spaces little used or with low biodiversity, into miniforests or fast-forests. Using the scientifically proven method of the Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki, who privileges the introduction of endemic native species of low maintenance, we seek to involve the local community to carry out the numerous tasks of planting and maintaining each of these spaces. Equally important are the educational and cultural taskspromoted around these spaces, with the aim of sensitizing the various age groups of the community on various themes related to nature. At the moment URBEM is responsible for two fast-forests in Lisbon - Parque da Montanha in Bela vista - in partnerships with the Lisbon City Council and the European projects CONEXUS and LIFE-LUNGs. In addition to these initiatives, the implementation of more miniforests is planned in 2023 - 2024, partnering not only with the L...

Playing with Sustainability

Our semester is coming to an end and there’s only a few topics left to discuss. This time, it was about the word “Play”. What could we say about this subject? It involves a variety of things, such as sports, puzzles, board games, video and online games yet other things like playing with nature and also, in a more literal meaning, playing with words. We, as a class, had to relate play and sustainability by building our ideas with the help of Lego pieces. So, we decided that the best idea would be to incorporate several sustainable sports into an Olympic competition of the future, where the importance of recycling is shown and praised, because in this case it would mean that you could also take a prize home. It went as pictured: It will be a pet friendly place, so you won't need to keep your four-legged friends at home to enjoy the show. Instead of the regular sports we're used to seeing on television, this time we came up with some ideas, as followed: A relay race where the ...

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