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4worldlovers: Up to 40% of the world's land is degraded. We're working to restore it.

Landscape degradation is at the heart of the world's biggest problems. Affecting a third of the world's population, it is a major contributor to food insecurity, water scarcity, climate change and biodiversity loss, destroying the ecosystems we all rely upon to survive. We facilitate landscape restoration from the ground up. From farmers to business owners, policymakers to NGOs, we work with a diverse range of partners to protect and restore landscapes across the world. To make the greatest impact, we are also building a global movement to accelerate holistic landscape restoration via our 4 Returns framework.

A regenerative movement led by a common vision is tackling desertification, halting soil erosion and creating resilient communities.

Local communities use business to restore a unique biodiversity hotspot and regenerate a city’s water supply.

Landscape restoration is the improvement of degraded land on a large scale. It rebuilds ecosystems and enhances people’s lives. Restoration aims to improve water quality, protect and restore biodiversity, and create healthier soil (and, in turn, healthier plants). To be successful, landscape restoration must be long-term and holistic. In other words, it must address the interests and needs of all local stakeholders over time.

We build long-term partnerships with a diverse range of partners from the local to the global level, to implement and scale holistic landscape restoration and protect our home planet.

Finance and investment are crucial to meeting the goal of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of nature worldwide. Therefore, Commonland united a panel ...

Commonland has come together with Landscape Finance Lab, as well as 19 other contributors, to issue a policy briefing offering guidance to EU institutions and Member States on why and how to leve ...

Commonland unites conservationists, farmers, experts, entrepreneurs, community organisers, businesses, governments, and finance professionals to transform 100 million hectares of degraded land into th ...

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Decentralized energy systems and local energy communities can reduce grid congestion and may therefore play a significant role in the energy transition. However, energy communities need complex technical tools, usually offered by commercial parties, that use privacy sensitive data. This brings up questions around inclusion, access and ownership. How to ensure everyone has access to the systems and is included in the process? Who owns the data? And is the data handled in a discrete manner?

The Local Inclusive Future Energy (LIFE) project is also dealing with these questions. The project tests smart planning for energy demand and supply through a smart energy exchange platform in Amsterdam ArenApoort. Reinier Prins from Alliander will tell us more about the LIFE project, give a demo of the platform and dive into the encountered data dilemmas.

The LIFE platform uses a “digital twin” to simulate the exchange of energy. Our second speaker, Paul Strijp from the province of North-Holland, will elaborate on the conditions for responsible decision-making with digital twins in the energy transition. The opportunities of digital twins are nearly endless, but what are the implications from a democratic point of view? Building on this, Julia Jansen from Waag will reflect on how we can benefit from energy data, whilst at the same time keep control over our data as a community. She will present how open source development of software systems can be a means for civic communities to maintain control in the energy transition.

16:25 – 16:35 Paul Strijp (Province of North-Holland) about the conditions for responsible decision-making with digital twins in the energy transition

Data Dilemmas is a collaboration between Amsterdam Smart City and the City of Amsterdam’s Data Lab. Three times a year we explore the possibilities for using data and new technologies to address urban and societal challenges, with a focus on responsible digitalization. The goal is to use data to make cities more safe, clean and accessible. But what happens to all the data that is collected? Which dilemmas do we encounter when we collect (personal) data to improve the city? These questions are important for everyone: governments, knowledge institutions, companies, and civil society. Amsterdam Smart City would like to explore with you which decisions are needed for responsible use of data.

Last year we introduced Knowing Cotton Otherwise, a multidisciplinary exhibition, covering various aspects of this versatile fibre — from its burdened history to sustainable initiatives and innovative implementations worldwide. Through this new chapter, Bodies of Work, the experience of human bodies entangled in (forced) labour in the story of cotton are amplified. With the addition of works by Sha’Mira Covington and Tricia Nganga Mokosi, the exhibition explores some of the complex issues related to cotton's history and the use and re-use of this fabric in fashion and tech. The exhibition also showcases innovative technologies in material traceability and natural fibre recycling from Fashion for Good Innovators Oritain and Natural Fiber Welding. The continuation of the exhibition invites you to consider your own body as you move through space as a spectator in the narrative. How do you position yourself within the community of stories presented here?

Hier brengen we de Donuteconomie in praktijk in onze wijk Slotervaart. Volgende week woensdagmiddag worstelen we op de Buurtdonutdag met de vragen en oplossingen voor:

- Welke welvaart willen en kunnen we vergroten in en vanuit onze buurt?

- Hoe zorgen we voor een structurele transvestering naar onze lokale maatschappelijke sector?

We are happy to announce next K25 invites – 22 of February at 20:00. This time we invite Frank Holleman. He is the founder of Fork Ranger and the author of a cookbook about sustainable eating. In a casual and fun setting, he will help us answer two tough questions, “What can I do about climate change?” and “What’s for dinner tonight?”

4worldlovers: New starts on the block. Line up: POP-UP F6F, SUNNY **DJ SET**, ARRA, TRMX LE3BASTARD, JUGGOFFAPERCC, VLOR5K, PIETJEDEDOOD, BIGBOYSHYT, PJEESHIE, LUFASSA & **MYSTERY GUEST**

Showcase van talent, oorsprong en kunst van de studenten van de Amsterdamse Hogeschool.