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Programme nearbyRewildingFrankfurt

Photograph insects for Frankfurt biodiversity research

Photograph insects for Frankfurt biodiversity research Frankfurt's Umweltamt supports SLInBio (Städtische Lebensstile und die Inwertsetzung von Biodiversität): researchers from Senckenberg, Goethe University, and neighbourhood partners study how everyday city life connects to insect diversity. Residents can join by uploading insect photos to the Insekten Hessen reporting portal. What you can do - Photograph bees, butterflies, or beetles in your garden, balcony, or park (no faces needed) - Upload sightings through the Insekten Hessen meldeportal - Follow project updates on insektenvielfalt-frankfurt.org and join open events when listed - Visit the Insect Embassy art installation by ISOE and HfG Offenbach to learn why urban insects matter How it works Scientists use crowd-sourced images to map distribution and population trends across Hesse. SLInBio links the data to questions about urban lifestyles, green yards, and shared stewardship with NABU Frankfurt, BioFrankfurt, and the Palmengarten. Why it matters Insects pollinate food, recycle nutrients, and signal healthy neighbourhoods. A few phone photos from many streets beat a lone expert survey.
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From a builderCommunityFrankfurt

CleanUp-Spaziergang am Fluss

Ufer Cleanup Gemeinsam am Flussufer entlanglaufen, Müll aufsammeln und Zeit mit Menschen verbringen, die einem wichtig sind. Inspiriert von Aktionen wie dem Frankfurt Cleanup und dem RhineCleanUp, wollen wir dasselbe Prinzip kleiner und persönlicher machen. Kein großes Event, keine Logistik, nur ein paar Freunde, Handschuhe, Müllsäcke und danach vielleicht ein Kaffee. Manchmal reicht es, einfach anzufangen. --- Riverside cleanup stroll Walk along the riverbank together, pick up litter, and spend time with people you care about. Inspired by initiatives like the Frankfurt Cleanup and the RhineCleanUp, we want to bring the same spirit down to something smaller and more personal. No big event, no logistics, just a few friends, gloves, bin bags, and maybe a coffee after. Sometimes it's enough to simply start.
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Programme nearbyCommunityFrankfurt

Join Frankfurt's water-saving pledge, one habit at a time

Join Frankfurt's water-saving pledge, one habit at a time The city's "Frankfurt spart Wasser!" campaign, now running its fourth-plus warm season, asks residents to treat drinking water as the precious resource it is as heat and drought periods stretch longer. Posters, tram wraps, and postcards carry pledges like "Ich dreh ab", "Ich spar's mir", and "Ich fang dich auf": turn it off, skip it, catch it. What you can do - Shower instead of bathing: five minutes under the shower uses roughly a third of a full bath (about 50 versus 150 litres), and a water-saving showerhead or flow restrictor cuts it further - Turn off the tap while brushing your teeth or lathering up: saving hot water saves energy too - Run washing machines and dishwashers only when full, on eco programmes, and look for water-efficient models when buying new - Water the garden or balcony pots in the morning or evening, collect rainwater in a barrel, and choose drought-tolerant plants How it works The city renews the campaign each warm season with posters on Litfaßsäulen, tram and digital ads, U-Bahn messaging, and postcards stocked at neighbourhood libraries, restaurants, and cafés. It is part of Frankfurt's municipal water concept for securing long-term supply, and even children get a turn, with a button-making station at the GrünGürtel-Tier's birthday festival. Why it matters Longer heat and dry spells are lowering groundwater levels in and around Frankfurt. None of these habits cost much, but multiplied across a city they ease pressure on a resource everyone assumes will keep flowing from the tap.
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Programme nearbyFood & GardenCologne

Get a Biotonne: close the compost loop in Cologne

Get a Biotonne: close the compost loop in Cologne About 40% of what lands in the grey residual bin is compostable organic waste. In Niehl it is burned: costing money, CO₂, and fertile matter that could return to parks and gardens as torffreier Kölner Kompost. What you can do - Ask your landlord for the free brown Biotonne (tenants can use Zero Waste Köln’s postcard template on their project page). - Line the bin with newspaper, keep it in the shade, and skip “compostable” plastic bags: they need industrial conditions Cologne’s plants do not offer. - Buy Kölner Kompost or Blumenerde from AWB/AVG outlets (the Verein advocates more neighbourhood pick-up points). Why it matters Separate bio collection has been mandatory in Germany since 2015, but Cologne households still need to request the bin. Less bio in residual waste can mean a smaller (cheaper) grey bin.
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Programme nearbyFood & GardenFrankfurt

Visit Rhine-Main organic farms this harvest wee in Frankfurt

Visit Rhine-Main organic farms this harvest wee in Frankfurt Dottenfelderhof in Bad Vilbel, Querbeet's Pappelhof in Reichelsheim, and Die Kooperative's Cityfarm in Oberrad open for Foodtura: apple pressing, potato digging, a hen walk, a farm festival, and a free family Sunday with a Schnippelparty in Frankfurt. What you can do - Press juice at the Jahreszeitenwerkstatt (19 September) - Dig your own potatoes at Pappelhof - Meet the hens or join the free Hoffest at Dottenfelderhof - Close the festival at the Familiensonntag on the Cityfarm (free) - Book the Farm to Table dinner at Tonka if you want a long table of Cityfarm vegetables How it works Farm days list prices and booking links on each page. The Hoffest and Familiensonntag are free drop-in. Wear shoes you can get dirty. Why it matters Seeing soil, animals, and harvest in the same week as city kitchens makes regional food feel real.
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Programme nearbyFood & GardenParis

Start shared composting with Paris Plan Compost

Turn food scraps into neighbourhood soil In Paris, organic waste still makes up more than 23% of what lands in the residual bin. The city's Plan Compost has supported more than 1,000 shared sites since 2010: courtyard bins, quartier composters, and individual worm boxes, all backed by maître composteur coaching. What you can do - Apply during a quarterly campaign to install a collective composter at your building or school (collective installation form) - Gather at least seven motivated households and two site référents who will attend training and keep the pile healthy - Order equipment or book a maître composteur visit through the city's online forms when campaigns are open - Join the public Composter à Paris community for tips and meet-ups How it works Copropriétés, social housing blocks, schools, and institutions with 5 m² of ground contact can host wooden 400–600 L bins. The city delivers bio-buckets, dry-matter reserves, aeration tools, and eight months of professional follow-up so the site becomes self-running. Why it matters Composting at home can cut up to 80 kg of waste per household each year while returning nutrients to balconies, courtyards, and shared beds — joy and soil, not guilt.
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Programme nearbyRewildingTallinn

Walk green routes on everyday trips

Greenery within reach The strategy wants most daily journeys lined with trees, shrubs, or other vegetation, and a connected green network so residents can choose sustainable ways of living and moving. Parks, street trees, and linked paths should be reachable on foot from home. What you can do - Prefer routes through parks and tree-lined streets for errands and school runs. - Take part in district consultations when new landscaping or calm-traffic schemes are planned. Why it matters Visible everyday green makes walking pleasant, cools streets, and signals that nature belongs in the commute, not only in distant reserves.
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Programme nearbyFood & GardenSão Paulo

Compost organics with waste pickers in São Paulo

Catadoras and catadores lead the loop Instituto Polis and the Brasil Composta Cultiva network support community composting and organic-waste treatment, now active across ten Brazilian states, with São Paulo as a flagship hub. The 2025 regional report cites recycler participation in organic management as a top Latin American success story. What you can do - Join a compost tour or training led by waste-picker leaders in the São Paulo metro area. - Start or support a neighbourhood compost point that partners with local catadoras/es. Why it matters Organic diversion cuts methane from landfills while keeping recycler cooperatives at the centre of the system, not at its margins.
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Programme nearbyFood & GardenBerlin

Neighbourhood compost with Kiez-Kompost in Berlin

Neighbourhood compost with Kiez-Kompost in Berlin Kiez-Kompost builds neighbourhood-scale composting for housing estates, garden clubs, urban farms, and solidarische Landwirtschaft projects in Berlin. Their bioreactor process keeps organic matter local and aims for humus-rich compost without industrial peat from drained moors. What you can do - Contact the team via kiez-kompost.de to ask about a neighborhood composter for your courtyard or garden association - Partner as an urban gardening or Solawi project that needs finished compost returned to beds - Follow their RBB Gartenzeit feature and Instagram for build updates while the venture scales - Start small: one shared bin plus clear rotation rules beats waiting for a perfect site How it works Kiez-Kompost is in an active launch phase: offerings evolve quickly. Reach out by email or the site contact form; they reply with project fit, bioreactor sizing, and neighbour onboarding steps. Why it matters Berlin loses fertile soil to bagged shop compost and long transport chains. Ortsnahe Kreisläufe keep carbon and nutrients in the neighborhood where people grow food together.
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Programme nearbyFood & GardenQuito

Join Quito's community compost and zero waste network

Municipal tools: neighbourhood compost Ecuador’s Alianza Basura Cero documents a growing compost network and municipal zero waste ordinances residents can advocate for locally. The alliance publishes a model ordinance and maps community compost sites, from Pomasqui and Cotacachi to neighbourhood clubs such as Club del Compost in Bellavista. What you can do - Find a mapped compostera comunitaria near you and volunteer for a work day. - Ask your parish or neighbourhood council to adopt zero-waste ordinance language from the alliance toolkit. Why it matters Community compost keeps food sovereignty and soil health local while giving municipalities a replicable legal frame, reuse included, not just collection.
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Programme nearbyFood & GardenSan Salvador

Grow food sovereignty through community compost in San Salvador

Gardens, organics, and mutual aid The 2025 regional chapter stresses how community compost, source segregation, recycler inclusion, and community gardens (huertos) strengthen food sovereignty in vulnerable neighbourhoods across Latin America, with San Salvador among municipalities GAIA accompanies on zero-waste pathways. What you can do - Start or join a barrio compost pile that feeds a shared garden bed. - Partner with youth groups to run organic-waste recycling workshops at schools. Why it matters When food prices rise, keeping organics in the neighbourhood loop builds soil, skills, and shared meals, not dependency on distant supply chains.
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Programme nearbyFood & GardenBerlin

Care for historic parks and gardens in Berlin

Care for historic parks and gardens in Berlin The Internationale Jugendbauhütte Gartendenkmalpflege puts volunteers into historic parks across Brandenburg, Berlin, Sachsen, and beyond. Heart of the hut is Schlosspark Altdöbern, a baroque and landscape park where teams live and work together on axes, trees, and garden fabric. What you can do - Read the Gartendenkmalpflege hut page - Apply through Jugendbauhütten Bewerben and select historic parks and gardens when asked for placement wishes - On Open Monument Day, visit garden-city or park openings such as Waldschänke Hellerau in Dresden - Learn park terms (Sichtachsen, Formbäume) in seminars that also touch clay, forge, and timber crafts How it works Volunteers work under garden and heritage tutors for a full year. Altdöbern hosts the largest team and shared housing. Other Einsatzstellen host smaller groups on project plots. Why it matters Historic parks are living climate infrastructure: shade, water, soil, and beauty. Caring for them is ecological work with a civic story.
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Upcoming initiatives for Ecological harmony

FrankfurtMon, May 25Ended

CleanUp-Spaziergang am Fluss

Ufer Cleanup Gemeinsam am Flussufer entlanglaufen, Müll aufsammeln und Zeit mit Menschen verbringen, die einem wichtig sind. Inspiriert von Aktionen wie dem Frankfurt Cleanup und dem RhineCleanUp, wollen wir dasselbe Prinzip kleiner und persönlicher machen. Kein großes Event, keine Logistik, nur ein paar Freunde, Handschuhe, Müllsäcke und danach vielleicht ein Kaffee. Manchmal reicht es, einfach anzufangen. Lass uns die der Pfingstmontag nutzen, langsam am Main entlang, und dann ein bisschen Picknick und Spielen :) Idee is dann von Ignatz-Bubis-Brücke (Sachenhausen, Frankensteiner Platz Haltstelle - Straßenbahn 18) bis zum Friedensbrücke (Sachenhause, Haltstelle Friedensbrücke) cleanup und dann wir schauen weiter. Ich freue mich auf eurer Kommentaren / Meinungen.
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MunichSun, Aug 16Ended

Kühle Orte map, Kempten Allgäu in Munich

Kühle Orte map, Kempten Allgäu in Munich Stadt Kempten's Hitzeaktionsplan invites residents to mark shady parks, fountains, Kneipp pools, and libraries on the Mach-Mit Kühle Orte map in Munich. Suggestions feed a public cool-place map so everyone knows where to recover on hot days. What you can do - Open machmit.kempten.de/kuehleorte, drop a pin, and add a short comment or photo - Nominate drinking-water stations, tree alleys, and quiet indoor cool spots - Check the Hitzeaktionstag listing for related Kempten heat events When & where - Open participation from 10 June through 16 August 2026 - City of Kempten (Allgäu); approximate pin: Stadtpark (47.7269, 10.3167) How it works Municipal staff review nominations for access and safety, then publish the shared map. A prize draw thanks participants who keep cool tips flowing all summer. Why it matters A neighbour-built cool map is mutual aid you can open on your phone when the next Hitzewelle arrives. Source & repost Shared here so you can get inspired or find action already happening near you. Solarpunker does not own or organise it. Source: Kühle Orte Karte, Stadt Kempten · Hitzeaktionstag Veranstaltungen. Details checked: 2026-09-19.
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DresdenSun, Sep 13Ended

Open day at Bahnbetriebswerk Dresden-Altstadt

Open day at Bahnbetriebswerk Dresden-Altstadt On 13 September 2026, the historic locomotive depot at Zwickauer Straße opens for Tag des offenen Denkmals®. Regular tours walk you through heating houses and the Lokwerkstatt that once hosted steam engines for Dresden. What you can do - Visit between 10:00 and 16:00 local time on the open day - Join a guided tour and ask how the depot fitted into the city's transport network - Arrive by ÖPNV; the listing notes parking and accessibility - Compare with other Technik openings in the national programme When & where - Sunday 13 September 2026, 10:00–16:00 (local) - Zwickauer Str. 86, 01187 Dresden - Approximate pin: 51.0335, 13.7155 How it works Walk-up visits with scheduled tours. Food and souvenirs may be on site; the organiser sets access rules. Why it matters A living rail shed makes historic mobility infrastructure readable for neighbours who still ride today's trains. Source & repost Shared here so you can get inspired or find action already happening near you. Solarpunker does not own or organise it. Source: Bahnbetriebswerk Dresden-Altstadt. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Bahnbetriebswerk Dresden-Altstadt.
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Bad VilbelSat, Sep 19Ended

Apple pressing at Dottenfelderhof

Apple pressing at Dottenfelderhof Gather fallen apples and pears, then press sweet juice to take home (1 litre included). 10 €. What you can do - Join 09:30 to 12:00 at Dottenfelderhof 1, Bad Vilbel - Listing: dottenfelderhof.de event 809 When & where Saturday 19 September 2026, 09:30 to 12:00 (CEST). Dottenfelderhof 1, 61118 Bad Vilbel. Pin: 50.1942, 8.7527. How it works 10 € including juice to take home. Outdoor harvest work. Why it matters Pressing juice is harvest you can drink the same morning. Source & repost Shared here so you can get inspired or find action already happening near you. Solarpunker does not own or organise it. Source: Jahreszeitenwerkstatt. Organiser: Landbauschule Dottenfelderhof e.V. Photo: Foodtura programme image.
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ReichelsheimSat, Sep 19Ended

Potato digging at Pappelhof

Potato digging at Pappelhof Learn organic potato growing, then dig your own portion (5 kg included). Extra kilos to buy. 10 €, book by 16 September. What you can do - Register at veranstaltung.querbeet.de/kartoffelbuddeln1 - Dorheimer Str. 107, Reichelsheim (Wetterau) When & where Saturday 19 September 2026, 12:00 to 16:00 (CEST). Querbeet Pappelhof, Dorheimer Str. 107, 61203 Reichelsheim. Pin: 50.3605, 8.8024. How it works 10 €, booking required. Bring sturdy shoes. Why it matters A sack you dug yourself beats a plastic net from the aisle. Source & repost Shared here so you can get inspired or find action already happening near you. Solarpunker does not own or organise it. Source: Kartoffel-Buddeln. Organiser: Querbeet Bio-Frischvermarktung GmbH. Photo: Foodtura programme image (Querbeet).
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FrankfurtSat, Sep 19Ended

Hinterhofhimbeeren courtyard walk in Frankfurt

Hinterhofhimbeeren courtyard walk in Frankfurt Free 2-hour walk of Ginnheim courtyards, roof herbs, figs, and facade vines with Klimawerkstatt in Frankfurt. What you can do - Meet at Ginnheimer Kirchplatz, Ginnheimer Hohl 2 (free) - Wear shoes for yards and a short roof visit if offered - Instagram: klimawerkstatt When & where Saturday 19 September 2026, 14:00 to 16:00 (CEST). Ginnheimer Kirchplatz, 60431 Frankfurt. Pin: 50.1444, 8.6491. How it works Free. Outdoor walking tour: weather applies. Why it matters Seeing fruit on a facade makes the next balcony feel possible. Source & repost Shared here so you can get inspired or find action already happening near you. Solarpunker does not own or organise it. Source: Hinterhofhimbeeren & Fassadenwein. Photo: Foodtura programme image (Essbares Ginnheim still). Details checked: 2026-09-19.
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