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SEPTEMBER 8 #riseforclimate : WE ARE RISING FOR CLIMATE FROM SARIYER
Events are organizing from cities, neighbourhoods and everywhere our voice sounds from all over the world on 8th of September by 350.org. The aims of that activity are; invite local governments to move against the climate change that transformed into a global crisis...
GREEN CAMP 2018 – ALTERNATIVES
The Yeşil Kamp (Green Camp), hosted in Turkey in Çanakkale’s bay of Assos, Bektaş village by the Green Thought Association took place this year with participation by 153 people. The participants were mostly young. We hosted 16 separate events...
3RD CONFERENCE ON RENEWABLE ENERGY CO-OPERATIVES
How the co-operative model has been conducted, enhanced and executed in different countries and its examples will be discussed in the conference organised by The Green Thought Association, Troya Environmental Association, Heinrich Böll Stiftung Turkey Office, WECF,...
8th Green Economy Conference Videos
The 8th Green Economy Conference was held on 24rd of May, 2018 with the title of Renewable Energy Financing and in the partnership of Heinrich Böll Stiftung and Troya Environmental Association, and also Nordisk Folkecenter, REScoop and Oikos contributed to the event....
8th Green Economy Conference took place with with the theme of Energy Financing
The 8th Green Economy Conference took place at Cezayir meeting hall on April 24, Tuesday through the joint efforts of Green Thought Association, Heinrich Böll Stiftung Turkey Office and Troya Environmental Association. The theme of the conference was Energy Financing....
Climate School continues!
The second Climate School, which is the educational step of the project “Green Climate, Green Municipality” co-operated by Green Though Association and Bornova Municipality will be held on 3rd and 4th of May in Bornova. Date: May 3-4, 2018 Time: 10:00-16:00 Place:...
Stop the Mega Projects, Solution is a Green Transformation
Date: 21 April Saturday | Time: 13.30 | Location: Kadıköy Mecra (Caferağa Mahallesi, Dumlupınar Sk. No: 5, Kadikoy / Istanbul) Projects that do not meet the real needs of people and ignore the rights of nature are unsustainable. The permits given to gold mining in the...
Professional type of activism: Activism in the Workplace Workshop
We are welcoming you, those who are not satisfied by their job, willing to reflect environmental and social issues to their jobs and cannot make time for activism because of work, to the workshop we are organizing with Emrah Kurum, one of the founders of...
UN Special Rapporteur Başkut Tunçak was in Istanbul
The United Nations (UN) Hazardous Waste and Human Rights Special Rapporteur Başkut Tunçak has met with institutions and individuals working on public health, environmental health, occupational health and safety, environmental rights and environmental law fields in...
Climate School Begins!
Organized together by Green Thought Foundation and Bornova Municipality, “Yeşil İklim, Yeşil Belediye” (Green Climate, Green Municipality) project’s Climate School begins! We expect all participants who wants to obtain basic information about climate change, to get...
The Realities of Shelters Trough Conscience and Ethics
We will talk with animal rights activist Tolga Öztorun about animal rights, violations in shelters and why we should be shelter volunteers. In the workshop, we will discuss what we can do as a volunteer and find ways of empathizing with animals which are living in an...
Nonviolence is much more than the absence of violence!
Our dream is to live in a world without violence together, in all situations, all the time. Is it possible for us to reach this dream? How is this possible? When we speak about violence, what comes to mind first is physical violence. However, there are many more forms...
Text Writing in Civil Society Form
Civil society activists suffer from producing texts that are not very interesting. When it comes to composing texts (press bulletins, news, social media texts, etc.), why is creativity supposed to overtake civil society? Are these texts really read? We will talk about...
Make Thought Visible: Body and Image
We are going to have a workshop with Jale Karabekir who is the general art director of the Boyalı Kuş Theater which is a feminist collective. We will explore how we can construct images using our bodies and how we can visualize our thought through bodily expression...
Non-Toxic Home Workshop
Non-Toxic Home Workshop, with the Mercan Yurdakuler, author of the book Non-Toxic House In the preface of the book, Güneşin Aydemir says; “Briefly, it is safe to say: While thinking that we’re cleaning, we actually pollute. With our actions out of the fear of getting...
Redefining the Body as an Instrument
How to make music and dance together in an un-plugged, non-electric, scene-free, amateur environment? In today's divided and dispersed system, how can we turn the boxes into circles, talk together and listen? We will look at how to use the body as an instrument with...
Conference on Nature and the Law
30 November 2017, İstanbul - Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Law, The Raoul Wallenberg Institute and The Green Thought Association jointly convened this conference attended by over 75 people. Participants discussed the role of the law in a present when the effects of...
How Do We Talk About Contentious Matters?
25 November 2017, İstanbul - 45 people attended the workshop where we talked, with Sezai Ozan Zeybek’s guidance, about common mistakes we find ourselves making while communicating. He showed us alternative ways to connect with interlocutors. We talked aboutdifferent...