Challenge № 3 May
Biodiversity is often mentioned in connection with the ongoing mass extinction. But as you know, it’s not just about the Amazon rainforest or protected areas: biodiversity starts at your doorstep.
Biodiversity is often mentioned in connection with the ongoing mass extinction. But as you know, it’s not just about the Amazon rainforest or protected areas: biodiversity starts at your doorstep.
This week, we’re switching to compost! Composting means reducing your waste by an average of 30%, taking out the bin less often and giving back to the earth what is supposed to be there. Compost is an excellent contribution to the garden, as is the “tea” produced by earthworms.
Parler d’agriculture régénératrice signifie avant tout parler de sol !
Contrairement à la permaculture qui consiste à concevoir des systèmes, l’agriculture régénératrice est un ensemble de méthodes de cultures qui passent avant tout à la régénération des sols. En portant un soin particulier à la qualité des sols, elle vise à produire une alimentation nutritive tout en ayant un impact positif sur le climat.
“These Gardens Are Blueprints” celebrates the power of growing life-giving food and medicine for our own communities. In a time of immense food scarcity for many BIPOC communities, we are partnering with nature towards our collective survival.
Written and performed by Naima Penniman at Soul Fire Farm, this video was filmed and edited by
Jeanette Lam and Rasheeda Pierre of Youth FX.
In Deutschland, sowie auch in Luxemburg sind in den letzten Jahren die Zahlen von Gemeinschaftsgärten gestiegen.
Ella von der Haide, von dieser steigenden Tendenz motiviert, erstellte die Profile von sieben Gemeinschaftsgärten in Deutschland in ihrem neuen Film ‘Eine neue Welt ist pflanzbar- Urbane Gemeinschaftsgärten in Deutschland’.
Every month, we are very happy to be able to offer you a bibliography that looks a little bit further into the topics we’re discussing. We invite you to visit our partner librairies CID Fraen an Gender, Citim as well as Oekobib. All information on our three partner librairies can be found here. Download Bibliography May (PDF)
‘How to live together in a one planet world?’ – op déi Fro ginn et vill Äntwerten a Léisungen. De Schrëftsteller Luc Spada stellt eis all Mount verschidde Perséinlechkeete fir a beliicht hier Gedanken, Erfarungen an Dreem um Wee an eng nohalteg a gerecht Gesellschaft. Eis Invité dëse Mount ass d’Liz Paulus.
On Saturday, May 8th, it’s time for CELL’s annual plant fair!
“Immigrants are the backbones of the fashion industry. From production to design houses, fashion has been predominantly run by immigrant populations. Even today, you go down the list of designers, I would say 80 percent of designers are immigrants. It would impact the fashion industry tremendously if we don’t have our voices heard.”
The video “A chaque moine son habit” by Raphaëlle de Groot, was conceived as a study of art applied to life. In this study, the artist wanted to experiment with the notion of habit, and all that it evokes, within her family.
Every month, we are very happy to be able to offer you a bibliography that looks a little bit further into the topics we’re discussing. We invite you to visit our partner librairies CID Fraen an Gender, Citim as well as Oekobib. All information on our three partner librairies can be foundhere. Download Bibliography April
To conclude this very special Transition Days edition, we are preparing a festival to have a look at the bottom line of the 9 months we had in the frame of the Transition Days 2020 and to go deeper into the different topics.
Come to our “Resell your clothes” event on 24 April 2021!
People love to spend money on clothes, some more, some less. But what does fashion cost the environment?
As you know, the bathroom is a place where packaging and waste are concentrated. But it’s one of the easiest rooms to be zero waste!
In April, we are in the bathroom. So let’s take a look in our shelves and in our showers. Even if we are not interested in beauty products, it is always interesting to know the composition of our products
This month we are in the bathroom: we are going to talk about water, care products and clothes. Our first challenge will be not to buy any new clothes all month!
The end of March is here, and we all want to get away for a while. Holidays are one of the most important pollution items, especially in rich countries like Luxembourg.
Since the beginning of the month, we’ve been suggesting that you abandon the car for more gentle and/or shared mobility. Our aim has not escaped you: to encourage you to discover your neighbourhood, even if it means getting a bit lost sometimes. What did you discover? A bit of sad grass, a little corner to read, a passage that lacks flowers, a wall that is sad in its whiteness?
If you haven’t had the chance to participate in our little forum about the ‘tiers-lieux’, you can rewatch our virtual get togethers and round table here.
‘How to live together in a one planet world?’ – op déi Fro ginn et vill Äntwerten a Léisungen. De Schrëftsteller Luc Spada stellt eis all Mount verschidde Perséinlechkeete fir a beliicht hier Gedanken, Erfarungen an Dreem um Wee an eng nohalteg a gerecht Gesellschaft. Eisen Invité dëse Mount ass de Camille Muller.
At the beginning of the month, we suggested that you opt for green transport. This week, we’re taking it to the next level: no car for a week!
In Zeiten globaler Krisen-Phänomene (Armut/Hunger, Klimawandel, Migration/Flucht, Covid-19-Pandemie), die sich durch zeitliche Überlagerung und inhaltliche Wechselwirkungen in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung verdichtet haben, haben Debatten über globale Ressourcen, ökologische Wachstumsgrenzen und mögliche Lösungsansätze jüngst eine neue Dringlichkeit erfahren. In diesem Kontext nimmt die Diskussion über so genannte Postwachstums-Ansätze eine prominente Position ein.
March is the time to prepare your seedlings so that you can take over your neighbourhood with plants in a few weeks time.
The video “NOMADIC ARTIST IN RECOVERY”, by St.Petersburg-born and Berlin-based theatre-maker Ada Mukhina, confronts nomadic and sedentary lifestyles by observing their different dynamics and comparing the objects that accompany each choice of living.
This month we look at how we move around on a daily basis. It’s no secret that traffic jams are heavy in Luxembourg, and that the private car is not an ecological model.
Every month, we are very happy to be able to offer you a bibliography that looks a little bit further into the topics we’re discussing. We invite you to visit our partner librairies CID Fraen an Gender, Citim as well as Oekobib. All information on our three partner librairies can be foundhere. Download Bibliography March (PDF)
With its urban-architectural and landscape consultation “Luxembourg in Transition” launched in 2020, the Ministry of Energy and Spatial Planning wanted to stimulate the development of territorial visions for a decarbonised and resilient future by 2050 for the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and its border territories.
The world vélorutuon is on its way!
Were you waiting for it? So were we!
The 5th Vélorution is coming back even stronger after difficult times! More than ever, it is necessary to use the bicycle as a means of transport, travel, sport and adventure!
This edition of the Transition Days is certainly more focused on the virtual than on the real, but we hope that it allowes you to see the large number of citizen initiatives that exist in Luxembourg!
Throughout the Transition Days, we discussed many topics. Without a doubt, you would like to learn more about some of them?
Your challenge this week is to delve into one of these topics that has made an impression on you.
Over the past months, the same questions have been running through Lou’s mind as she sits in her living room. What impact has the COVID-19 crisis had on society? How can the crisis be used to bring about sustainable change in Luxembourg both inside and outside the home? What role can Lou play in all of this herself? How can we all play a valuable role in bringing about social change? How can we become actors of change (AoCs)?
De Schrëftsteller Luc Spada stellt eis all Mount verschidde Perséinlechkeete fir a beliicht hier Gedanken, Erfarungen an Dreem um Wee an eng nohalteg a gerecht Gesellschaft. Dëse Mount ass d’Yasmin Labidi eis Invite.
There is a lot of culture in degrowth! This week we want to emphasise that the world we are campaigning for is not a dull and sad world. On the contrary, the post-transition world is rich, festive and artistic.
The video “Tree of Peace”, by Kanien’kehá:ka – Acadian – Irish water protector, artist, musician, storyteller, curator and educator, Lindsay Dawn Dobbin is about relationship and listening, and considers the animacy and wisdom of more-than-human beings.
Every month, we are very happy to be able to offer you a bibliography that looks a little bit further into the topics we’re discussing. We invite you to visit our partner librairies CID Fraen an Gender, Citim as well as Oekobib. All information on our three partner librairies can be found here. Download Bibliography February (PDF)
De Schrëftsteller Luc Spada stellt eis all Mount verschidde Perséinlechkeete fir a beliicht hier Gedanken, Erfarungen an Dreem um Wee an eng nohalteg a gerecht Gesellschaft. Dëse Mount ass d’Katy Fox eis Invite.
Do you know anything about fake news? No, not a yelling orange man! I’m talking about information that spreads faster than the light, and which is often completely false.
Every day, in all areas of life (work, consumption, love, commitment, sharing of wealth, climate), we make choices. What do they say about us? And if we want to stop further disrupting the climate and achieve real social justice, what choices will we be able to make?
This week, we turn to others: take a look at what you know how to do and what you would like to make available to others. It can be a skill (DIY, computer, cooking, …), a language, a little time at your disposal…
For the final event of our virtual forum on ‘Third Places’, we have planned a big evening with speakers who know the subject, to discuss the different practical aspects of third places:
What is needed to create a third place, how to overcome the obstacles, to perpetuate – make it come to life.
In this second of the three events, we will talk about the impact of third places on citizenship and the local involvement of citizens, about the possibility of strengthening social ties, of proposing in villages a place of socialisation and citizen involvement accessible to all.
Together with our partner ASTI, we are very pleased to host a virtual forum in February to discuss the need for and enrichment of communities through so-called “third places”.
The association la Fresque du Climat offers a workshop based on 42 maps from the IPCC’s work, which allows to raise awareness of climate change in a playful and collaborative way.
Be the change you want to see in the world. Following Gandhi’s motto, you can join us on the Luxembourgish “Liichtmëssdag” to carry the light of change.
On February 2nd 2021 the group “Zesumme fir d’Agenda 2030” organises an exchange walk in Luxembourg-City.
Minimalism is not just reducing the number of possessions: it is reconsidering everything that is present in our lives and reflecting on the place we give it.
Initially, many months ago, I had decided to research the hell out of the topic of sleep, in order to provide you with a scientifically sound article, but rather than delivering an academically dry paper, I am taking the liberty of sharing my own personal experiences, based on the readings, tips and tricks, that have shaped my thoughts and actions on the matter.
Have you ever heard of mental load? This notion, which first appeared in the 1980s and regained popularity a few years ago, refers to the constant and unavoidable work of managing, organising and planning the smooth running of the home.
Comme le Repair Day ce mois n’a pas pu avoir lieu comme prévu, nous avons demandé à nos partenaires de nous envoyer une petite vidéo. Pour vous donner une idée de ce à quoi vous pouviez vous attendre – il y aura de nombreuses possibilités de participer à un Repair Café dans un avenir proche. Mais qu’est-ce qu’un Repair Café et d’où vient-il ? Claude Schergen, qui a fondé le Repair Café Luxembourg, a quelques réponses à ce sujet.
Every month, we are very happy to be able to offer you a bibliography that looks a little bit further into the topics we’re discussing. We invite you to visit our partner librairies CID Fraen an Gender, Citim as well as Oekobib. All information on our three partner librairies can be found here. Download Bibliography January (PDF)
The video “Orphans of Babylon” is the result of a long process, physical and mental, initiated by a dream about an orphanage in the rocks and a tower of babylon made out of papier mâché.
Phew, a new year is beginning. In January, we are in the bedroom, a quiet place where we take care of ourselves.
De Schrëftsteller Luc Spada stellt eis all Mount verschidde Perséinlechkeete fir a beliicht hier Gedanken, Erfarungen an Dreem um Wee an eng nohalteg a gerecht Gesellschaft. Dëse Mount ass d’Rita Demart eis Invite.
We are very pleased to welcome the world-renowned Indian activist Dr. Vandana Shiva as a speaker at the Transition Days in January.
Does the impact of digital technology mean anything to you? Statistics have been coming out one after the other for a few years now and they are quite chilling.
Malheureusement, le ‘doku debate’ doit être annulé. Dès qu’une nouvelle date sera fixée, nous vous en informerons. Nous choisissons un documentaire et invitons des experts à débattre des sujets en rapport avec le Luxembourg. Le film documentaire: Dormir à tout prix (arte France, 2019), en français, (subtitles in English) Date: 14/01/21 – 18:30Date limite d’inscription:14/1/2021Informations et …
[Annulé] Doku debate – Dormir à tout prix (in FR) | 14.01.21 | 18h30 Read More »
La Sophrologie Caycédienne est une discipline qui étudie la conscience humaine et les valeurs de l’existence de l’être. Il s’agit des exercices de méditation et de relaxation dynamique activant le corps et le mental pour trouver un équilibre entre notre cœur & nos valeurs. Le cours se déroule également en luxembourgeois à d’autres dates. Vous …
Introduction to Sophrology | 09.01. – 27.03. (in LU) & 13.01. – 24.03. (in FR) Read More »
For a stronger year 2021, Erwuessebildung offers a series of workshops in January as part of a ‘Resilience Bootcamp’. The bootcamp is offered in English (programme below) as well as in German (you can find the programme here). 03/01 – 9:30-10:30Master your routines – Workshop I (Dr. Matthias Wittfoth, Neuroscientist)05/01 – 18:30-19:30Discover Zen Meditation (Kankyo …
If you haven’t had the opportunity to participate, now is your chance to review the conference on basic income as an instrument for transition (in FR).
If you haven’t had the opportunity to participate, now is your chance to review the conference on using money for the good (in FR).
If you haven’t had the opportunity to participate, now is your chance to review the conference on local currencies: tools for societal transformation (in FR).
The end of the year and the time for balance sheets is approaching. This one is not the most pleasant one but we all do it from time to time: this week we do our accountings.
The video “A Quiet Place”, by Latvian dancer and choreographer Kristīne Brīniņa shows people in their most vulnerable and most universal state: asleep. A time for human recovery, giving the world some space for respite.
When you search for information on the internet (the upcoming Transition Days programme, for example…), you type a few keywords in a window, hit enter and a list of results appears.
La pandémie de la covid-19 que nous traversons a paradoxalement ouvert autant d’espoir qu’elle a créé de désillusion. Brutalement confiné.es, pour la plupart d’entre nous, nous avons pu (re)prendre conscience de la valeur des choses essentielles, du besoin de rencontres et d’amitiés, du plaisir de cuisiner, de jardiner, de faire les choses soi-même. Les appels enfiévrés au « monde de demain » firent long feu. Et les appels incessants à la relance de l’économie (parfois verte) nous ont replongé.es dans le quotidien de la publicité et de la frénésie de consommation, et donc de son corollaire de production de CO2 qui est le principal facteur du dérèglement climatique, de la surexploitation des ressources naturelles et de la perte de la biodiversité.
Every month, we are very happy to be able to offer you a bibliography that looks a little bit further into the topics we’re discussing. We invite you to visit our partner librairies CID Fraen an Gender, Citim as well as Oekobib. All information on our three partner librairies can be found here. Download Bibliography …
December, the illuminations in town, the christmas atmosphere slowly settling in… you too have gifts to give? This year, let’s choose together to make gifts that really make sense.
Episode N°4
Burn Out
The video “A Quiet Place”, by Latvian dancer and choreographer Kristīne Brīniņa shows people in their most vulnerable and most universal state: asleep.
In this digital workshop of the Emweltberodung Lëtzebuerg, you will learn everything about a healthy and ecological home office.
This presentation proposes components of change and transition and highlights impediments and solutions towards the implementation of Unconditional Basic Income in Europe. It points out concrete facts and learnings that can be used for decision making and proposes elements of an incremental transition process.
Invest my money in a transparent and socially responsible way ? Ekkehart Schmidt, responsible for public relations at the association etika – Initiativ fir Alternativ Finanzéierung asbl – explains us how this is possible.
In the face of economic, ecological or political crises, the local currency is a local solution to global disorder. It is a real tool for societal transformation, allowing citizens to reappropriate the economy to make it more humane, and to encourage the real economy.
Weighing in on the country’s energy consumption also means giving our money to more virtuous companies.
De Schrëftsteller Luc Spada stellt eis all Mount verschidde Perséinlechkeete fir a beliicht hier Gedanken, Erfarungen an Dreem um Wee an eng nohalteg a gerecht Gesellschaft. Dëse Mount ass den Sebastian Dietz eisen Invité.
If you haven’t had the opportunity to participate, now is your chance to review the Low-Tech Lab conference on their Low-Tech Innovation World Tour (in FR).
Have you ever wanted to make yourself a raclette and ended up buying a machine that now sleeps in your cupboard as you rarely use it? Have you ever needed a drill to install a single shelf in your home? Why not share all these items?
De Schrëftsteller Luc Spada stellt eis all Mount verschidde Perséinlechkeete fir a beliicht hier Gedanken, Erfarungen an Dreem um Wee an eng nohalteg a gerecht Gesellschaft. Dëse Mount ass den Johny Diderich eisen Invité.
Imagine-toi, aventurier-ère au cœur d’une immense forêt vierge tropicale, marchant depuis plusieurs jours sans croiser une goutte d’eau. Assoiffé-e, tu tombes sur une mare stagnante peuplée de larves gesticulantes, et alimentée par un cours d’eau quasiment à sec. Attends-tu patiemment que le cours d’eau remplisse ta gourde, ou plonges-tu goulument la tête dans la mare, au diable les larves, ça fera des protéines ?
The video “High Tech, Low Human”, by Carole Louis, shows one of the possible outcomes of an encounter between a post human failure and a defective artificial intelligence.
If you haven’t had a chance to participate, here’s your chance to rewatch the négaWatt conference on energy sobriety.
It’s starting to get quite cold in the houses, don’t you think? But for the health of humans and the planet, you shouldn’t heat too much!
Every month, we are very happy to be able to offer you a bibliography that looks a little bit further into the topics we’re discussing. We invite you to visit our partner librairies CID Fraen an Gender, Citim as well as Oekobib. All information on our three partner librairies can be found here. Download Bibliography …
Have you heard of programmed obsolescence? It’s what makes your printer designed to print X pages and not one more, your phone doesn’t work after two years, and your washing machine will never last as long as the one your grandparents had.
Episode N°3
Low-Tech
The video “High Tech, Low Human”, by Carole Louis, shows one of the possible outcomes of an encounter between a post human failure and a defective artificial intelligence.
Do you know the overflowing bin in the kitchen that needs to be changed all the time? The one that smells bad and fills up like magic? This week, we’re tackling that bin.
Would you like to find out about the Luxembourgish version of an earthship – The Äerdschëff? Are you interested in learning about how to build an interior wall with ecological materials? This workshop is all about learning by doing, you are very welcome to get your hands dirty on the construction site in Redange-sur-Attert.The construction …
The conference will be taking place in French. We are very pleased that the Nomade des Mers team will take the time in November to give us an insight into their exciting project. They will be connected live from South America, where they are currently travelling. Their project started four years ago and will last …
In Luxembourg, each citizen throws away an average of 124 kilos of food per year. That’s a lot, isn’t it?
“Et qui tire les marrons du feu ? Les gros industriels qui maitrisent leurs marges et manient le chantage à l’emploi en toutes circonstances…” “Relocaliser, c’est ne plus faire de l’emploi et de la planète les variables d’ajustement de la rentabilité économique et financière.” “[…] il est attendu des pouvoirs publics de tous les pays de …
« Eat seasonal fruit and vegetables. » | Seasonality is disappearing from our habits: all year round we have beautiful red tomatoes, well graded and plump on the supermarket shelves.
Every month, we are very happy to be able to offer you a bibliography that looks a little bit further into the topics we’re discussing. We invite you to visit our partner librairies CID Fraen an Gender, Citim as well as Oekobib. All information on our three partner librairies can be found here. Download Bibliography …
Every month, we are very happy to be able to offer you a bibliography that looks a little bit further into the topics we’re discussing. Have a look at our partner libraries below and make sure to pay them a visit! Download ‘information on our partner librairies’ (PDF)
The video “Food Correspondences”, by Taina Guedes and Nora Wagner, is the result of an exchange between the two artists, sharing their hopes, fears, memories and imagination through the universal language of food.
« One month without meat » | In October we are in the kitchen. Let’s talk about food! Food has a key role to play in the development of a fairer model of society.
Rewatch Rob Hopkins’ inspiring talk at the inaugural conference to the Transition Days 2020!
Episode N°1 | Resilience
The video performance “PHOENix”, by John Herman, is about resistance and resilience, the will to survive and the desire for salvation.
Challenge September | “I measure my ecological footprint.” In September, we propose to lay the foundations for the next 9 months together. This year, we are going to talk about resilience, and this theme has never been more necessary! This month we propose only one thing to do, but we invite you to do it …