38. At Your (Ecosystem) Service with Community-based Solutions

Journey Visions - A Path towards Sustainability

At Your Service is a project that stems from the #Climate-KIC Journey this past summer. Its aim was to focus on how #ecosystemservices can be be integrated into urban #envrionment, with the goal of reconnecting people to nature by greening the city.

In so doing, it aims to tackle issues facing the climate challenges facing the city, such as urban heat island effect and increased risk of flooding through #naturebasedsolutions. Besides, they work on a community-based concept where the community shall be a co-owner of the project. For this project, At Your Service uses an app and chooses the city of Rome to begin with.

In this episode, we meet the team which includes Nora Helal (Amsterdam), Darrelle Colleran (Dublin), Clara Baumhauer (Zurich), and Giordano Margaglio (Rome), whose backgrounds range from ecology and evolutionary biology to disaster risk management and climate change.

We also talk about the group formation, the different roles in the team, their visions, and experiences in the topics of sustainable development and the climate change.

Hungry for more? Check out the following documentaries and podcasts for some climate #inspiration:

- Racing Extinction (2015): A documentary that follows undercover activists trying to stave off a man-made mass extinction (Netflix).

- Planet Earth : #DavidAttenborough's timeless classic.

- Mothers of Invention: Climate change is a man-made problem with a #feminist solution! Join former Irish President Mary Robinson and comedian Maeve Higgins in this uplifting series! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mothers-of-invention/id1412807581