Last year, the Environmental Working Group (EnWG) called upon the Comité Directeur (CD), complaining about the high costs in energy and utility bills of the head office in Brussels. After the decision had been taken at Autumn Agora Budapest 2012, the CD moved to another house. The EnWG took the initiative, and after getting permission from the CD, visited the… Read more →
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A Worldtour by Bike
Can you imagine doing a world tour by bike? Perhaps you use your bike to go to your classes, or to the supermarket. Or maybe you made a cycling tour for a few days in your own country. The bicycle is an ecofriendly, cheap, fast (especially in big cities) and healthy way of transportation. But doing a world tour by… Read more →
How Are We Going to Feed the World in 2050?
The first social Skype meeting and online discussion of the Environmental Working Group (EnWG) in 2013 was about sustainable food production. Now you are wondering perhaps, what exactly is sustainability? We used the following definition of this term: sustainability is development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.… Read more →
Rio+20: The Future We Dread!
During the last days of June 2012, the United Nations Sustainable Development Conference was organised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with the participation of all the United Nations member states. The main frameworks of the conference named as Rio+20 since it was organised twenty years after the Earth Summit of the United Nations again in Rio, where green economy in… Read more →
14 ways how to spend your summer
In AEGEE, April is one of the hardest months of the year. You not only have to decide what to wear, drink and for whom to vote at the upcoming Agora, but also for which Summer University (SU) you want to apply. In 2012, 82 teams of SU organizers are fighting for your attention. They have already been planning for up to half… Read more →
EDE 2012 grows a Tree of Sustainability
Spring is a time of bloom of new initiatives, ideas and campaigns. And the great time for great ideas, new projects and endless creativity is around the corner! Fortunately, AEGEE is not exception and this spring Environmental Working Group (EnWG) presents brand new concept of European Day of Environment (EDE) 2012. The AEGEEan had the chance to be the first… Read more →
The Green SU Award recognises the work of 2 TSU’s
Winter is approaching… As antennae are preparing their NY events and start having their board meetings with hot chocolate and mulled wine, the EnWG wants to officially say goodbye to the last warm rays of sunshine by announcing the winning project for the Green SU award. Or should we say projects? Because in this case, it was a tie as… Read more →