Ecology

Important data on the amount of plastic waste in Greece, as well as useful tips for reducing plastic consumption. What citizens can do, what the state and businesses should do. Achilleas Plitharas, Project Coordinator for Waste Prevention, WWF Greece

Plastics entering our body can cause a hormonal chaos, because they act as "endocrine disruptors", which mimic hormones and take their place! The risk for women through feminine hygiene products is high. Vasiliki Trianti, Endocrinologist, Diabetologist, Doctor in Metabolic Medicine

Kyriaki Metaxa, coordinator of the Ecology Programme

The European Green Deal is the EU’s strategy of making the European Union "climate neutral" by 2050. But how does this target translate into the case of Greece? Watch the video from the event "EU Green Deal and the Greek Green Deal", which took place online on 20 December 2021 and is part of a wider tribute by the Heinrich Böll Foundation Greece and the social cooperative enterprise Anemos Renewal.

It's indeed a shocking information that the average person consumes 5 grams of plastic per week, about as much as a credit card! Where does this amount come from and how does it affect human health? Hrissi Karapanagioti, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Patras

In order to better understand the agricultural crisis and the farmers' protests that took place in the winter of 2023-2024, the Thessaloniki and Paris Offices of the Heinrich Böll Foundation co-organised a public online event on 12 February 2024, where we discussed this issue with farmers and researchers from France, Germany and Greece. The discussion is recorded in this video.

The “Energy Communities Social Impact; theory and practice” online workshop is an attempt to map and foster the exchange among researchers and academicians, energy collectives and citizens’ initiatives, social solidarity economy support organisations that wish to discuss and share their theoretical as well as hand-on knowledge on the social impact of collectives, with a special focus on energy communities.