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Repair Cafés, workshops organized by Facilitec in Esch, are dedicated to repairing everyday items, in order to help extend the life of products but also to strengthen environmental awareness and solidarity within local communities. What is a Repair Café? A Repair Café is a place where expert volunteers, often DIY enthusiasts, share their skills to… Read more: Repair Café – Learning to extend the life of our items!

Discover and download the map with all the places linked to the ecological transition in Esch-sur-Alzette:

May 2023 (Forli, Emilia Romagna, IT) = On a sunny afternoon of a dry season, alternating with violent rains here and there, I read on my phone screen the civil protection’s weather alert for heavy rain forecast. I dismissed the problem without thinking, and that same evening, and for the next 48 hours, it fell… Read more: ECO-ANXIETY: some tips to improve our mental health

To find out more about the problem, just pass by “rue de l’Alzette” in Esch In Luxembourg alone, the average person throws away 12 kilos of clothes a year, of which only 1% is recycled. So where does the rest go? This is the question that the exhibition “The Revival“, on display until May 11th… Read more: Buy less and more consciously: a “trend” that will help your wardrobe…and the ecology!

Interview with Abbes Kalmes President of TMEnerCoop S.C It’s a group of people who come together to pursue a social project that produces goods and/or services. In this case, we’re talking about the production, and soon the sharing, of renewable energy. You can do both, but investing in a cooperative allows you to make a… Read more: Focus on energy cooperatives

When we talk about climate change, we quickly conjure up images of drought and flooding in Africa or Asia, with their disastrous consequences for local populations and harvests. But they also exist in our latitudes. July 2021. The Alzette turned into a fury and floods everything in its path. In Germany and Belgium, the consequences… Read more: Climate (in)justice

The transportation sector accounts for almost 60% of CO2 emissions in Luxembourg, compared with only 30% for our neighbours. This is partly due to the strong attachment to personal cars (700 cars per 1,000 inhabitants, 1st place in Europe). What’s more, half of all journeys of less than 5km are made by car! A fundamental… Read more: Long live cycling!

The agricultural production sector is one of the main emitters of greenhouse gases. More than ever, it is important to turn to local, planet-friendly agricultural production. Guaranteeing the human right to food, as well as the right of farmers to live in dignity (see international agreements signed by Luxembourg), is also crucial. In Luxembourg, only… Read more: Food: choose change!

Projet Metzeschmelz, © Agora 2023 was the hottest year on record, and at the beginning of 2024 the planet exceeded 1.5°C for the first time in 12 consecutive months (1). Since the main factor in global warming is the accumulation of Greenhouse Gases (GHG), all the climate agreements aim to reduce them drastically and as… Read more: A ‘hot’ year in Esch!

The Paris Agreement adopted in 2015 was a historic celebration! It was the first time, in more than thirty years of climate conferences, that the world community managed to agree on an ambitious and above all binding objective: To reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels (1).… Read more: Adapting without surrendering …. It can be done!

In Luxembourg, but also in most other European countries, that’s the average length of use of a new drill over its lifetime! Twelve minutes. For most of them, that’s the time it takes to fix to the wall the shelf on which… you’re going to leave the drill for the rest of its life!And it’s… Read more: 12 minutes

In this episode, Yasmin Labidi (Transition Minett association) talks with Caroline Holz and Miss Bak about circular economy, local economical activities that respect the environnement and about alternative economy. Caroline Holz is the coordinator at Facilitec in Esch at the Transition Minett association. She trained as a landscape architect and urban planner, and was involved… Read more: Circular economy (podcast)

I’m sure you’ve been here many times before, or even come in for a visit, but do you really know what you can do at Facilitec? Housed in the former Claude Muller carpentry on Rue Berwart, 5 minutes from the train station in Esch-sur-Alzette, the place was renovated thanks to participative workshops and with second-hand… Read more: Do you you know what Facilitec is ? Facilitec, a third place for circular economy

The thematic groups of the Collectif Citoyen pour le Climat will soon be celebrating their one-year anniversary, and all of them already have some nice actions and achievements to their credit. As a reminder, the first meeting was on December 3rd 2022, and on June 29th we all got together at the Breedewee Garden in… Read more: CCC – 1 year already

In 2019, Luxembourg launched the “Null Offall Lëtzebuerg” initiative. This strategy has four components: protecting soil and water / making better use of our objects / packaging sensibly / sustainable construction. Since January 1, 2023, single-use plastic objects have been banned in catering for meals consumed on site, but objects made of cardboard, paper or… Read more: The end of single use and the European Waste Reduction Week

Interview by Adriana Cardoso and Yasmin Labidi Thousands of climate displaced people in Belgium, Germany and France in 2021 and 2022 ; yes, climate change is also a concern here. Luxembourg is one of the richest countries in the world; it is also proportionally one of the biggest emitters of CO2 emissions, and therefore responsible for… Read more: Climate change and human rights

August 2nd, 2023. That’s the day on which human consumption of natural resources exceeds the planet’s capacity to reproduce them. For Luxembourg, it’s already February 14th! What can we do about it? One obvious answer is to make better use of existing resources and reduce the need for new ones as much as possible. This… Read more: The “circular economy” strategy in Luxembourg

Yasmin Labidi, for Transition Minett in co-conception with Caroline Holz Do you also drive to the office in the morning and find yourself in endless traffic jams, rush to grab a coffee and take the paper cup which is supposedly recyclable-but-in-fact-no, then at lunchtime you eat a pizza and throw the box full of oil… Read more: What if ?

Neste episódio, Yasmin Labidi, juntamente com Karine Paris, Marine Henry e Daniel Waxweiler, discute a produção e o consumo de alimentos no Luxemburgo. Karine Paris é coordenadora do projecto de hortas urbanas do CELL e fala sobre o projecto Mesa – Casa de Transição. Marine Henry é coordenadora do projecto Transition Days no CELL e… Read more: POCAST: A alimentação no Luxembourg – English below

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O Transition Think Tank foi criado em 2021 pela iniciativa de cidadãs e cidadãos que em sua pluralidade de origem, meio profissional, de opinião e gênero querem abrir o debate sobre as necessárias adaptações do sistema atual (econômicas, democráticas, de produção e trocas, sociais, formais e informais) aos limites planetários. Além do sub grupo agricultura-alimentação,… Read more: Transition Think Tank – Agricultura et alimentação – English below

Geneviève Jadoul por Collectif Citoyen pour le Climat, para ampliar acesso à uma alimentação vegana (grupo Consumo Orgânico e Local) Queremos motivar os restaurantes a oferecerem um ou mais pratos veganos nos seus menus. Muitos restaurantes já oferecem opções vegetarianas. No entanto, sendo a indústria dos lacticínios tão cruel e prejudicial para o meio ambiente… Read more: No restaurante… comer orgânico, local… e vegano!

“Social protection and the right to food are essential to building successful, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agri-food systems that leave no one behind. ” This is how the FAO describes the right to food, but today this right is unfortunately violated in many ways. Our society has turned this human right from a necessity into… Read more: EDITORIAL: food is a human right!

In the center of Esch, a stone’s throw away from the rue de l’Alzette, MESA is a third place dedicated to the ecological transition and more specifically to projects around food. Created and installed in 2016, thhe KM0 food cooperative, which manages thhe restaurant/vegetarian café and the bulk, organic and local grocer store. The grocery… Read more: BTW: do you know what the MESA is?

Baskets of fresh and dry products, organic, local, in bulk, at reasonable prices, all delivered to your home. Did you know it was possible? For a few months now, the Km0 Cooperative (MESA) has been testing and developing a project to deliver dry and fresh products directly to individuals or to collective withdrawal points. After… Read more: Now launching baskets!

Geneviève Jadoul for the the Citizen’s Climate Collective group, to broaden access to vegan food (Organic and Local Consumption group) We want to motivate restaurants to offer one or more vegan dishes on their menu. Many restaurants already offer vegetarian options. However, since the dairy industry is just as cruel and harmful to the environment… Read more: At the restaurant … eat organic, local … and vegan!

Yes, because there is a continuation. So much the worse for the grumpy people and/or the skeptics who thought that it would be just a flash in the pan. Indeed, by paying a lot of attention, by listening to the citizens and by building a collective agenda, we have shown that it is possible to… Read more: Citizen’s climate collective: the continuation!