One minute video inspirations on sustainable human progress: food
Foodforest
Meet Maartje Kreike. She is pioneering with the foodforest in Eindhoven. On a large surface nature and human beings have been working together since 2009 from a food and remedial perspective, learning about the advantages of nature in a broad context. The objective is to integrate nature more and more into the neighborhoods for both awareness and local self sufficiency in our basic needs. Maartje tries to explain the nutricious and medical values of a certain herb to worldwide documentary maker, Joerg Altekruse. Maartje organizes workshops, does presentations, invites school children, works together with locals and caterers, etc.
A food forest provides abundance of nutrition for a population without the need to destroy the plants, the soil or the eco-system. On as many as 7 levels food can be obtained. In addition other life forms can collaborate to provide even additional sources, such as chickens, eggs, insects, honey, etc. The food forest is partner in the sustainocratic City of Tomorrow and FRE2SH network of transformative, resilient food initiatives in and around town.
Two days of filming green innovations in Eindhoven
Our AiREAS participation in the Earthbeat project started already a year ago. During our weekly zoom sessions we got acquainted with filmmaker Joerg Altekruse from Germany. His Youth4Plant approach and filming green innovations towards the climate conference in Glasgow (COP26) was very much in line with our own network activities. We were not that much interested in influencing the political U.N. drama. We were much more interested in visualizing all the citizen’s initiatives, creativity and the cooperative work done with their local governments. In our engagement we shared the view that there is big gap between the political financial, destructive world hierarchies and the powerful strength of growing citizen’s movements with shared responsibilities at grassroot level.
We were not going to COP26, we were creating our own.
Our vehicle is the CreatiVelo, an electric bike with modifications to carry the cameras and materials. The crew follows with private cars, a van and often with cyclists joining the voyage. Between Luxemburg and Glasgow, during the month of October, video messages, statements, positive examples and personal stories are collected along the way. These two days we were receiving the caravan in Eindhoven. It became a heart warming experience. Here some photo’s. In the next blog we will share some video impressions….
Mieke and Joop van Bree of the Waterboard 
Unloading the CreatiVelos 
With the Alderman of Eindhoven, Rik Thijs 
Having fun with the CreatiVelos 
With teachers and students at Fontys Applied Science 
Students have incredible innovations 
Our bikers 
Maartje Kreike of our Food forest 
Students of Luxemburg high school followed the trail 
Jean-Paul and Joerg 
Alderman Eric Beex of Eersel 
Eersel 
Eindhovense kracht van het burger initiatief
Gemotiveerd door de komst van de CreatiVelo uit Luxemburg, een bakfiets op weg naar de klimaatconferentie in Glasgow, tonen wij de positieve voorbeelden in Eindhoven rondom klimaat bewustzijn en burger daadkracht, vaak in samenwerking met de lokale bestuurders in de stad. CreatiVelo zal op woensdag 13 oktober en donderdag 14 oktober video’s opnemen in de stad. Als voorproefje heeft de Stad van Morgen vanuit de AiREAS (luchtkwaliteit en gezondheid) deelname aan het klimaatfestival dit weekeinde in The New Block (Strijp-S) een zevental deelnemers gevraagd om hun bijdrage aan het klimaat in het kort toe te lichten.
De pitchen zijn in het Engels omdat we ze delen via social media ter inspiratie van de rest van de wereld, én we nemen ze mee naar COP26, de klimaattop in Glasgow in november dit jaar, om de kracht van het burgerinitiatief en onze netwerken te laten zien. Geniet hierbij al mee van een stukje Eindhovense inspiratie….
Sustainocracy, the new democracy 