NO PLAN(ET) B: TIME TO ACT, THINK GREEN!

Water, energy, food and job are the big challenges that youngsters have to face in order to guarantee and build a better future to Europe and to the world.

The slogan of Expo 2015 “Nourishing the planet - Energy for life” leads us towards new experiences linking the idea of food to future professions. Today we want to confront with young people all over Europe in order to experiment changes in food consumption, new lifestyles, new tendencies that promote environment and health promotion and protection, mixing the preparation of food as a feature of the local culture and a tool for broader confrontations and dialogues ... Sustainable food, also, as a key to create future employment, able to protect our only world and our own health.

After the experience of “Change your style, are you in?” (Cambia vita, ci stai?), a local project on sustainable lifestyles promoted by the Youth Council of Tortona, and the birth of local youth projects such as “Ulysses’s vegetable garden” (L’orto di Ulisse), the GAS (Joint Purchasing Group) and the Social Solidarity Catering, all moved by the willingness of bringing a powerful change in our productive pattern, which is now coming back from industrial and logistic activities/businesses and moving towards agriculture and jobs related to the local productive context.

Together we will try to experiment new methods, tendencies and ideas behind food, equal and solidarity products and environmental friendly production systems, able to create new jobs and to promote healthy and sustainable lifestyles.

All topics will be addressed from the point of view of non formal education, in order to give participants practical tools to deal with environment education in their own organizations.

Each country is allowed to bring 3 participants: 2 youth workers and 1 young person over 18 actively involved in the organization.