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That's the 2023 wrap for
PSLifestyle Project Izmir
The choices we make – how we live, eat, travel & buy – have a direct impact on the #environment. What’s your impact?
PSLifestyle Project Izmir Team has released the first new edition newsletter of 2024.
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LIKE-A-PRO Horizon 2022 Project
Zeytince Association is launching a new EU Horizon Project in Izmir!
Like a Pro(fessional), Like a Pro(duct), Like a Pro(tein).
#H2020 #horizoneurope #alternativeproteins #proteinshift
Like a Pro Horizon 2022 project, with the coordination of technology center CTIC CITA, brings together 42 organizations in 17 countries and the entire alternative protein value chain (protein producers, ingredient and product developers, kitchen centers, food clusters), scientists and market and communication experts in an interdisciplinary consortium. brings together.
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Previous News and Events
That's the 2023 wrap for
PSLifestyle Project
The choices we make – how we live, eat, travel & buy – have a direct impact on the #environment. What’s your impact?
PSLifestyle project has released the new edition newsletter of 2023.
Test your lifestyle today: LifestyleTest.eu
ZEYTİNCE ASSOCIATION
UPCOMING EVENTS
SEPTEMBER 2023
Fancy Woman Bike Ride
17 September Sunday Time: 17:00
Suat Taşer Open Air Theather
Carbon Footprint Workshop
18 September Monday Time: 11:00
Bornova Municipality
World Car Free Day
22 September Friday Time: 10:00
Cemal Gürsel Street
Discover Your City, Protect Your Future Energy
22 September Friday Time: 16:00
Cumhuriyet Square
PSL Lifestyle Test With More than 100 Suggestions for Sustainable Living!
The choices we make – how we live, eat, travel & buy – have a direct impact on the #environment. What’s your impact?
PSLifestyle project has launched a new Lifestyle Test to help European residents start a positive and sustainable life. The Lifestyle Test will help you get informed about the environmental impact of your day-to-day activities and will inspire you to think about your current habits and how they could be changed through smart everyday actions. You will even get the chance to develop your personalised plans and keep track of your progress!
Test your lifestyle today: LifestyleTest.eu
PSLIFESTYLE PROJECT
MAY 2023 NEWSLETTER!
PsLifestyle Projesi
“May 2023, Take a Step to Change!”
The newsletter is online!
Starting from the beginning of 2023, we as a Zeytince PSL team created the bridge between Climate Awareness and Individual Action with two featured living labs and several events. See this year’s most memorable moments below.
LIKE-A-PRO PROJECT
Building A Better World Through Alternative Protein Source
Like a Pro(fessional), Like a Pro(duct), Like a Pro(tein).
#H2020 #horizoneurope #alternativeproteins #proteinshift
The LIKE-A-PRO project aims to facilitate sustainable and healthy diets by shifting promising alternative proteins and products from niche to mainstream – making them more available, accessible, and acceptable to all population groups. This includes young people, adults, elderly, vulnerable groups, such as people of low socio-economic status, ethnic minorities, and those living in rural locations.
Olive Academy Celebrates its 6th year with
PSL Living Lab Event
“Olive Academy, the unique interdisciplinary workshop area of our association, hosted the Living Labs, a phenomenon of the PSLifestyle Horizon Project, in its 6th year.”
#pslifestyleizmir
The development of the PSL Web Tool, which will provide a sustainable lifestyle and consumption habits, continued at the meeting held with the participation of the Young Izmir team affiliated to the Directorate of Youth Studies and Social Projects of the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Social Projects Department and various stakeholders in the city.
Meet the PSL Web Tool!
Your housing life and your expenses…
The vehicles you use for transportation…
Your daily food and nutrition preferences…
Take a quick look at the effects of shopping tightness and your decisions!
#pslifestyleizmir #sustainablelifestyles #carbonfootprint
Take your Carbon Footprint test now with the PSL Web Tool, learn about your sustainable lifestyle suggestions, make a difference for yourself, your environment and our planet!
PSLifestyle Izmir III.Living Labs at
Olive Academy Anniversary Event!
“Join our Living Labs & Shape Visions of a Positive, Sustainable Lifestyles”
#pslifestyleizmir #PSLivinglabs
Join the PSLifestyle Project (H2020-LC-GD-2020-10- 3) consortium partner Zeytince Association, together with Karşıyaka Municipality Sustainable 1 Karşıyaka office, participate in the last living laboratories, and make the latest developments of the PSL Application together with the PSL Izmir team.
Move the Date of World Overshoot Day with PSL Tool!
“Reduce your carbon footprint in your lifestyle and guide those around you with PSL Sustainable Lifestyle Tool!
#pslifestyleizmir #PSLile10binfil
By supporting our campaign prepared with the consortium partner of PSLifestyle Project (H2020-LC-GD-2020-10-3), Zeytince Ecological Life Supporting Association and SÜGEP Academy students; With the “PSL Sustainable Lifestyle Tool”, you can be one of the 10,000 Elephants who will reduce your carbon footprint in your lifestyle and guide your environment!
PSLIFESTYLE PROJECT
JANUARY 2023 NEWSLETTER!
PsLifestyle Projesi
“January 2023, Are You Ready for Sustainable Living?”
PSLifestyle project took 2022 by storm!
In 2023, we are very excited to bridge the gap between Climate Awareness and Individual Action. See this year’s most memorable moments below.
PSLIFESTYLE PROJECT
ON A "SKA TREASURE HUNT"
PSL Tool Met the Participants of the Treasure Hunt!
The SDG Treasure Hunt, organized by UNDP Turkey, Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, Izmir Sustainable Urban Development Network (SKGA) and Our City Izmir Association, was held on Saturday, December 10 – International Human Rights Day!
This time, the event, which has become a phenomenon of Kentimiz Izmir Association, was organized with the theme of building a free, just and peaceful future for our world.
PSL TOOL
AT DISTRICT SUSTAINABILITY OFFICES WORKSHOP!
“District Sustainability Offices Workshop” organized by Izmir Sustainable Urban Development Network and Izmir Metropolitan Municipality was held on 29-30 November at Izmir Historical Havagazı Cultural Center!
In April 2023, the workshop, where cooperation with municipalities was planned for the dissemination of the PSL Application, which will be introduced to users with the Alpha Version, hosted very productive exchanges.
The Ecological Literacy Seminars IV
15 November-8 December
The Ecological Literacy Seminars IV starts online on November 15. The seminars organized by the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Mediterranean Academy will take place online. (IZMEDA)
PSLIFESTYLE PROJECT
A Report on Citizen Science Practices
This comprehensive report, prepared by the PSLifestyle Project team, is based on participatory solutions in line with sustainability.
The increasing importance of Citizen Science practices
and examines the general framework of various European
inspiring practices in countries
It introduces 30 citizen science studies.
Sustainable Development Youth Leaders Training Program
It has started fieldwork so that Syrian immigrants living in Izmir can participate in the PSLifestyle Project!
The young sustainability ambassadors of the SÜGEP Academy, under the leadership of the Academy’s founder Umut Dilsiz, started the fieldwork together with the President of the Syrian Refugees Solidarity Association Muhammed Saleh and the refugees who are members of the association.
Young people from SÜGEP are working to measure their carbon footprint and create a dataset on waste, including refugees, who are users of the city.
After the dataset on refugees has been created, the project results will be shared by students during the World Forum for Democracy (WFD 2022) in Strasbourg. With this initiative, SÜGEP aims to help refugees in Izmir access resources, skills, information and create connections that can positively change their lives.
PSLIFESTYLE PROJECT
Positive and Sustainable Lifestyle Horizon Project
8 countries of Europe, including Izmir, Turkey.
"PSL - Sustainable Lifestyle Online Platform"
The second version has been developed.
On May 11, 2022, a total of 60 city residents started to design the PSL Online Lifestyle Platform, with the project launch and the first “Life Laboratories” held at the Historical Coal Gas Factory in the pilot city of Izmir. Residents participating in the Living Labs will be awarded the title of PSL Climate Ambassador at the end of the project.
The United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted the historic resolution declaring that access to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a universal human right, with 161 affirmative votes held in New York on 28 July.
First, in the 1972 Stockholm Declaration, “People should have a life in a dignified and sustainable environment.” This right, expressed as “universal recognition”, will now find a response.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres; He stated that he hopes that this historic decision taken by the United Nations General Assembly will be put into practice by the states as soon as possible, at a time when we are being dragged to the brink of disasters such as increasing carbon footprint and global warming.
Global Food Crisis 2022 Report Published.
The Global Network Against the Food Crisis (GNAFC), formed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Food Program (WFP), the European Union (EU) and various non-governmental organizations, announced the “Global Food Crisis 2022” report.
According to the report, it was stated that there is a third phase food crisis in 55 countries. As stated in the report, millions of people face the problem of hunger as the food crisis deepens.
The report states that due to the extreme weather conditions caused by the climate crisis, regional conflicts, and the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, approximately 193 million people in 53 countries/regions experienced acute food insecurity in 2021, which is at an all-time high.
The report states that more than half a million people in Ethiopia, Southern Madagascar, South Sudan and Yemen are in the most severe stage of the acute food insecurity disaster, and urgent action is needed to prevent collapse.
PSLIFESTYLE
Positive and Sustainable Lifestyle
Promotion Launched!
More than 160 city residents, with the intense participation of public and civil authorities, for Green and Sustainable IZMIR
It met on May 11, 2022 at the Historical Gas Factory.
The second session of the Living Labs, the first session of which was held on the launch day, took place on 4 June.
The PSL Sustainable Lifestyle Platform, which will be completed at the end of the Life Laboratories, which will be organized 6 times with the citizens of Izmir, will be offered to users simultaneously in 8 countries in March 2023. Aiming to add a new perspective to our lifestyles determined by our consumption habits, and drawing attention to the climate-human relationship, awaits the people of Izmir for 3 years.
COP26
CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE - GLASGOW
At the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), held in Glasgow, Scotland, countries published their final declaration containing a series of measures to be taken against climate change.
There are important decisions in the final declaration, such as a commitment to phase out coal, a regular review of emission reduction plans, and more financial support to developing countries.
THERE ARE ONLY 7 YEARS LEFT UNTIL THE END OF THE CARBON BUDGET!
In the last hundred and fifty years, the average surface temperature of our planet has increased by 1.18 degrees Celsius. There are only 7 years left to run out of the existing carbon budget in order to keep global warming at a maximum of 1.5°C…
YVES ROCHER FOUNDATION WOMEN OF THE SOIL 2022 WINNERS ANNOUNCED!
One of the Founders of our Association, Assoc. Meneviş Uzbay Pirili won the Woman of the Land Award for her pioneering work in ecological literacy education in Izmir.
With their inspiring projects that support soil, biodiversity, and women’s power, the 2022 winners of the Yves Rocher Foundation Women of the Soil Award, organized for the 7th time this year in Turkey, are Ebru Baybara Demir (Biodegradable Waste Management Project from Soil to Soil), Selvi Gürevin (Zero Waste Home – Soil Movement), Meneviş Uzbay Pirili (Ecological Literacy Training to Understand the Language of the Earth).
ABOUT ECOLOGICAL LITERACY
Zeytince Association, in cooperation with city stakeholders, continues to provide “ecological literacy training” to nearly 2000 participants since 2018.
Projects
PSLifestyle Horizon 2020
Actors of Urban Change Project: Tramp Kitchen
The Loitering Kitchen Project explores whether a common, sustainable and equitable food ecosystem is possible and the production-consumption of food on its journey from seed to table.
It is funded under actors of urban change (AUC).
Project Pomace
Organizations in Cooperation
