Inspiring Minds
Interviews and stories of committed people who are inspiring contributors to the energy transition in cities.
“It’s about understanding what’s important to citizens in Dublin.”
Interview with Donna Gartland, CEO of CODEMA
In this episode Donna Gartland explains what changes can be expected in the city and describes how she and her team trigger conversations with citizens around very abstract topics such as district heating using waste heat from data centres.
“For cities it can feel a bit of a lonely place to be responsible for all of these changes.”
Britt Jurgensen and Laura Williams from Carbon Co-op
The energy and climate challenge is so big that it requires everybody to be involved. New ways of communicating are needed. What are the best means to shape new narratives and, in the end, to make people want to engage in changing the energy system?
Community energy from scratch
Voices from the ECF collaboration lab
2020 was a tough year and never before has the need for local resilience and solidarity been stronger. One extraordinary means for increasing solidarity while […]
It’s all in the mix…of consumers.
Claudia Carani (AESS) and Sara Capuzzo (enostra)
We have interviewed two amazing women and we have talked with them about the right political triggers for renewables in Italy, about the place of […]
“There is a kind of movement that cannot be stopped.”
Juan Eguidazu (E+P Cooperativa) and Javier Zardoya Pamplona (Municipal Energy Agency of Pamplona)
Since almost 20 years the region of Navarra in the North of Spain pioneers with wind and more and more with solar energy. Now, building […]
Strasburg’s first energy community: a long exciting ride
Interview with Jacqui Cullen and Gerard Pol Gili
In this episode we want to understand how a very young energy community in Strasburg, in the North-East of France, came into being. Where did […]
Planting the seeds for citizen energy in difficult times
Interview with Dimos Ispikoudis, City of Komotini
Since 2018, a new Greek legislation allows local authorities to be an energy producer. In this episode, we’ll have a look at how much this […]
Small Talk with the Mayor – EUSEW 2020
Series of video meetings of our CoM East Country Experts with the Covenant community in the Eastern Partnership region
This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Covenant of Mayors Office in Eastern Europe and South Caucasus celebrated the European Sustainable Energy Week 2020 […]
Urban commons and empowered cities
Nathalie van Loon, project leader on the commons at City Council of Amsterdam
This time we take a look at the democratic potential of the urban commons. The commons are those resources we all share and use like […]
“We have lost a lot of our capacity to cooperate.”
Tine de Moor, academic historian, University of Utrecht
Sometimes it’s good to look into history when we want to better see the future. That’s why we’ve interviewed the Belgian academic historian Prof. Tine […]
