📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
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💼 What the programme involves
Come and join the climate camp in the Rhenish lignite mining region, taking place this year for the 7th time. During your work and study camp, you ll firstly be helping to set-up the climate camp and the de-growth summer school i building the compost toilets, solar-powered showers and the camp infrastructure. Besides this, you ll be getting involved with the climate camp, the de-growth summer school and also the region itself with its causes and effects of climate change and with possible alternatives to an ever growing economy. The climate camp will probably take place in Lutzerath again this year, near to the Garzweiler II coal mine. You ll be meeting people, who have lost everything because of the mine, but will also be involved with exciting projects, in which people produce their own vegetables and electricity on a self-organised basis. At the climate camp itself, you ll be able to try out a more sustainable way of life, such as a vegan diet.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You ll be staying in tents, on thermal mats and in sleeping bags. The camp will be catered by the VEGAN kitchen of the climate camp. You will take it in turns to help out in the kitchen.
📍 About the location
The work and study camp offers you the possibility to participate in the diverse education programme of environmental topics and a better life , in protests and also in the cultural programme. You can also join the workshops, lectures and events in the climate camp and summer school. Besides this, you could also go on trips to the nearby towns of Cologne, Monchengladbach and Dusseldorf.
⚠️ Requirements
You should be interested in protecting the environment. Basic living standards (warm water not always available, for example) with many people, camping.
ℹ️ Additional information
Information about the climate camp in Rhineland www.klimacamp-im-rheinland.de and about the de-growth summer school www.degrowth.de/de/sommerschule-2015