Greenpeace Hungary has been in existence for a dozen or so years and their headquarters is in Budapest. The organization is not currently running a campaign focused on lignite.  They are, however, managing projects dealing with nuclear energy and climate protection. Greenpeace wrote the Energy Revolution script, which describes the idea of sustainable energy supply in Hungary. The Energy Revolution …

Levego Munkacsoport (The Clean Air Action Group) is one of the most famous and oldest ecological organizations in Hungary. It was founded in 1988 by three local ecological groups.  Levego deals with research, consulting and social campaigns on a local, national and international level.  The main areas of Levego’s work are: sustainable transport;sustainable energy policy;sustainable urban development;green budget reform;air pollution;protection …

In August 2015, the EKO-UNIA team participated in a climate camp organized not far from the Gartzweiler open-pit mine in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW).  There, they met with the representative of local organizations which are demanding an immediate stop to lignite mining in open-pit mines in all of Germany, and with the Greenpeace organization. The camp ended with an activist protest, …

In August 2015, EKO-UNIA met the representatives of local organizations in Saxony and Brandenburg: Umweltgruppe Cottbus, Gemeinde Schenkendoebern and Klinger Runde. These organizations are involved in campaigns whose aims are to resist the activity and expansion of open-pit mines and power plants found in the region – Jaenschwalde (3000 MW), Schwarze Pumpe (1600 MW) and Boxberg (2500 MW).The organizations also …

Organization Centar Za Životnu Sredinu runs a campaign called “Stop dirty energy – because the future is renewable”. They run this campaign together with the Center for Ecology and Environment from Tuzla and Ekotim from Sarajevo.  The work is done through campaigning (media work, activist stunts), advocacy (eg. writing expert analysis unveiling the downsides and misconceptions related to coal burning …

SEE Change Net is an organization founded in Sarajevo in 2012. They lead campaigns for better management, higher quality of life and a more effective use of resources in South-East Europe.  Their goal is to look after sustainable development in select Balkan countries.  SEE stands for Social, Economic, and Environmental.  The organization is currently made up of 6 employees and …

The Environmental Protection and Energy Effectiveness Fund is a public fund in operation since 2007 in the autonomous part of Bosnia and Herzegovina – the Serbian Republic. In the Federation  of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Sarajevo, there is a separate fund which is also responsible for international matters. The Serbian Republic Fund has many activities: gathering resources;  financing, realizing and …

March For Climate at COP2 “We’ve received information that you might be bringing dangerous items into Katowice. Please step out of the bus and leave your bags inside, we will now search through them” – those were the words that citizens from Warsaw and Wroclaw heard on their way to the March for Climate, planned to start midday on Saturday …

New investments should create jobs and generate income.Sometimes, though, they form after the cutting down of old trees in our favorite retreat into nature next to our homes or apartments that, up to that point, were an oasis of peace. We feel as though there is something off about this.  A lot of the times we are right. Business, in …

The main goal of the project, “Woman 2007,” was the prevention of gender discrimination in Poland through the mobilization of women to actively take part in the creation of their own image. Students from schools in Wroclaw undertook the support of the program. Workshop topics:14 November 2007. The vision of the road to success for young women16 November 2007. How …