Innovation CircleInnovation Circlehttp://www.innovationcircle.net/CustomPublish.com - Web publishing made easySun, 05 Feb 2012 23:16:59 +0100 Basel, Paris, Tokyo, Copenhagen, Zurich – Christine Grant spent six months to travel the globe and to learn from different bike meccas how to transform a city to meet the needs of the 21st century: low on carbon, high on physical activity, low on noise and danger, high on fun and style. The output of this trip: ten lessons which are worth to take a closer look at. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:16:59 +0100 http://www.innovationcircle.net/quotturn-streets-into-backyardsquot.5016069.html http://www.innovationcircle.net/quotturn-streets-into-backyardsquot.5016069.html Happy New Year - the Chinese Year of the Dragon! Every Chinese New Year 130 million people in the world’s most populous country head back home to their villages for family celebrations. It is the world’s largest human migration and the story is captured in the film “Last Train Home”. It focuses on one family spanning 3 generations and their annual get-togethers between 2006 and 2009. It combines documentary and drama to give a picture of how the different generations have become fragmented by China’s urban economic growth. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:29:07 +0100 http://www.innovationcircle.net/rural-to-urban-migration-in-a-different-culture.5016046.html http://www.innovationcircle.net/rural-to-urban-migration-in-a-different-culture.5016046.html As coastal urban areas continue to grow, tourism is an important and growing economical factor, and nature and natural resources are to be protected, this leads to new challenges: How to safeguard drinking water availability and quality? How to manage riverine and coastal floods? How to design new urban areas and how to retrofit existing ones? At 3rd International BaltCICA Conference cities and regions presented their solutions and approaches for these challenges. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:19:42 +0100 http://www.innovationcircle.net/climate-change-adaptation-in-practice.5015007.html http://www.innovationcircle.net/climate-change-adaptation-in-practice.5015007.html Youths care about environment ! Tranemo youths Lois, David, Jonas and Ellen are inviting youths from the Innovation Circle Network to visit Sweden and Tranemo in the spring. 27th April until 1th May the camp will be happening at Påarp Farm in Svenljunga Municipality close to Tranemo. The program will focus on environment and future living. They say in the invitation "Our environment is a huge problem nowadays and it’s very important that we take care of our future society. Therefore, we are setting up a camp. It is not a world changing task, but every journey of thousands miles starts with one step." They also promise that the camp will be fun and joyful and a big chance to meet new friends. Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:57:22 +0100 http://www.innovationcircle.net/welcome-to-environment-camp-.5010942.html http://www.innovationcircle.net/welcome-to-environment-camp-.5010942.html The crisis in Greece does not only lead to unemployment. As the German TV magazine auslandsjournal reported many young Greeks bethink of their roots. According to the report about 40.000 young Greeks leave the bigger cities and go back to the places where they grew up. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:57:48 +0100 http://www.innovationcircle.net/potatoes-amp-snails-instead-of-big-city-life.5009316.html http://www.innovationcircle.net/potatoes-amp-snails-instead-of-big-city-life.5009316.html “Is the Eurozone crisis helping Europe’s economies to reform?” asks debatingeurope.eu and spoke to Finland’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Trade, Alexander Stubb, to ask him about the importance of market pressure on economic reform. Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:46:18 +0100 http://www.innovationcircle.net/does-the-crisis-help-to-reform.5008865.html http://www.innovationcircle.net/does-the-crisis-help-to-reform.5008865.html Imagine you would go to the next parking lot in your town to get some fresh fruits or walk to the closest civic building to help yourself with some herbs and succulent greens. In the British mill town of Todmorden this is not a fantasy. Thanks to the Incredible Edible program Todmorden not only grows its own vegetables, improved civic life and reduced crime are witnessed results as well. Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:25:07 +0100 http://www.innovationcircle.net/greens-instead-of-crime.5008159.html http://www.innovationcircle.net/greens-instead-of-crime.5008159.html Murmansk may not be the most beautiful town but it definately has character as the time lapse video „Murmansk in motion“ by Alexander Bergan shows. The city lights and the purple night sky plunges the town in an exotic light. Ice and snow, busy streets, cranes that seem to dance to the sound of the vibrating city. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:27:12 +0100 http://www.innovationcircle.net/exotic-and-alive.5007295.html http://www.innovationcircle.net/exotic-and-alive.5007295.html "We Have to Move Away from a Europe of Small Minds", stated the Czech Foreign Minister Karl Fürst zu Schwarzenberg in an interview with the German news magazine SPIEGEL. Schwarzenberg, leader of the center-right TOP 09 party, says that Central Europe has no clear borders. He welcomes the EU membership of Croatia and supports the accession of the entire western Balkan. Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:11:18 +0100 http://www.innovationcircle.net/quotmove-away-from-a-europe-of-small-mindsquot.5006115.html http://www.innovationcircle.net/quotmove-away-from-a-europe-of-small-mindsquot.5006115.html Green growth is one of the themes that the Danish Presidency of the EU wishes to advance. Denmark holds the Presidency from now until July, when Cyprus takes over. The government of Denmark has only been in power for a few months, so will not have had much opportunity to shape its agenda for the Presidency, especially as past, present and forthcoming Presidency countries work together as a “troika” to ensure continuity. Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:58:35 +0100 http://www.innovationcircle.net/green-growth-for-europe.5003876.html http://www.innovationcircle.net/green-growth-for-europe.5003876.html