GreenTown wants to see a tree grow in every Flemish garden. Together with the owners, we make private gardens more ecological by promoting and facilitating the planting of trees. In doing so, we ensure an accessible process, from tree selection to planting and aftercare.

More info? www.greentown.be

KlimaatContact wants people to choose a climate-friendly society. We do this by training climate coaches and supporting them in giving a 6-part workshop series. With this project we want to develop a new version of our KlimaatContact workshop series.

Within the new workshop series, the footprint actions will be pushed to the background and we will focus on climate psychology: what does the awareness of a climate 'crisis' do to you as a person? How can you still relate to the world around you? How do you continue to cherish (active) hope for the future? What positive story can we write together? How do you get your environment to join you in this story?

More info? www.klimaatcontact.be

Blikveld is a professional association for landscape and garden architecture. There is a growing awareness that urgent interventions are needed to make our living environment more sustainable.

Green spaces are a crucial link in this and can be designed in such a way that they contribute to ecological coherence, biodiversity, social sustainability and climate neutrality. Landscape architects are designers of these green spaces and work on various scales.

Gardens, parks or squares, recreational areas, play forests or rural stream valleys, but also green connections on industrial estates and urban green climate axes are part of their work area. Through creative, investigative and solution-oriented processes, the landscape architect creates a good balance between aesthetics and functionality, always with sustainability as a starting point and basic attitude.

More info? www.blikveld.eu

Sturnus wants to bring people closer to nature by organizing excursions for fauna and flora recognition, but also by organizing workshops and events that bring people/children closer to nature such as scything, ecological gardening, medicinal flora ...

At Tuinfluiter young people from vulnerable groups and often urban problems work. By working in nature we want to create empowerment, strength-oriented work and development opportunities for this target group.

Exposure to working in nature reduces stress. Through the community gardening we stimulate encounters, connection and social mix.

More info? www.detuinfluiter.be

The water classes organised by GoodPlanet ensure that young people learn about the importance of water and learn to think about solutions to water challenges such as water shortages (drought), flooding, water pollution and water wastage.

More info? www.goodplanet.be

The biodynamic farmers of De Wasssende Maan integrate 2 adjacent agricultural plots into 1 agro-ecological pearl, with great attention to biodiversity, water, trees and shrubs. In the middle of residential areas, this agro-ecological site along a new farm path becomes a meeting point for the neighborhood and sympathizers.

More info? www.dewassendemaan.be/vzw-de-wassende-maan

The Polar Project wants to organize the sustainability festival Hello Symbiocene!. Hello Symbiocene! is a three-day multidisciplinary impact festival where professionals, young people and the general public expose the social, economic and ecological pain points of the current anthropocentric society model, and search for integral, sustainable alternatives based on systems thinking.

96 young people from the third year of secondary education are looking for sustainable solutions to major socio-ecological challenges based on their own experiences.

More info? www.polarproject.be

Everyone is happy with a beautiful bunch of flowers! Together with a group of volunteers and social organizations, Buitengoed is creating an organic self-pick flower field, without pesticides or fertilizers.

This not only provides a place where people can relax, but also adds value to biodiversity in the field and saves many transport kilometers associated with the traditional flower and plant industry, where flowers are often flown in from distant countries.

More info? www.buitengoed.be

Bird Protection Flanders (VBV) works as an umbrella organisation together with the 10 recognised Flemish Shelters for Wild Animals (VOC). These VOCs annually provide shelter for more than 50,000 distressed wild animals, which they release back into the wild after rehabilitation.

The vast majority of the work is done by the more than 1,200 volunteers who are ready every day to help without pay with feeding the animals, caring for them, cleaning the cages, etc.

VBV wants to use the financial support from Klean Kanteen to work with the VOC employees to develop a sound guidance programme for the volunteers so that the volunteers can perform their tasks better and that they will have more of a desire to come and help more often.

More info? www.vogelbescherming.be

The Garden of Breath and Food is a food forest in the making. It will be a place where you can enjoy the little things, where you can relax and nature comes back to life. It will be a garden where you can breathe and eat with others.

The area is shaped by wooded edges, flower meadows, a pond, barefoot and shod foot paths, an arena (for yoga and silent culture), insect hotels, nesting boxes, ... and a vegetable garden for forgotten vegetables. Fruit and nut trees form the top layer, berry bushes and the like provide the base layer.

More info? www.tuinvanademeneten.be

VOC Brasschaat-Kappellen wants to renew the outdoor cages by using more sustainable and environmentally hygienic materials. The current environmental and hygiene conditions require a more maintainable and safer sustainable solution.

A more easily modulated system is also needed to place the animals in an environment that is as stress-free as possible for them (darkening, adapted size, hiding places, etc.)

More info? www.vocbrasschaatkapellen.be

With this project EcoViva writes stories for children and adults with a disability and other target groups about nature. All EcoHero!

Lumbricus the crazy earthworm and ZoemBoem the bumblebee with a disability dig and buzz us to a healthy planet and future. Fun stories, animations and activities at the ecological-social crossroads and tailored to everyone.

More info? www.ecoviva.be

On a recently purchased plot of land, we are working on demolishing an old weekend house. Our dream is to completely demolish this weekend house, and to clear away all the fences, gates and other debris, so that we can give the land back to nature, and eventually develop a walking path.

More info? www.natuurpunt.be