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Ljubljana’s Bee Path
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Ljubljana, Slovenia

Ljubljana’s Bee Path

The Bee Path promotes public awareness of how significant bees are to food sovereignty, biodiversity and the long term sustainability of the city.

Edinburgh in Bloom
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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Edinburgh in Bloom

By mobilising support and coordinating action, Edinburgh in Bloom is setting a new standard for conserving and enhancing historic and natural environments in imaginative and sustainable ways.

 Slum Electrification Program
Ahmedabad, India

Slum Electrification Program

A programme to connect 200,000 poor households to the public electricity grid.

The Stop
Toronto, Canada

The Stop

The Stop has pioneered a transformation from a traditional charity-model food bank to a new, empowerment model of ‘community food centre’.

Smart City Bristol
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Bristol, United Kingdom

Smart City Bristol

Bristol's innovative approach to becoming a smart city is based on people and not on technology: a Public-Private-People approach. Projects to date include smart metering, open data, smart grid and electric vehicles which build on the City's strengths in micro-electronic and digital companies.

Transitional City Programme
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Christchurch, New Zealand

Transitional City Programme

A transitional city programme includes support for recovery after earthquakes in three key areas: social, sense of place and business. The programme also contains elements for long-term recovery such as testing new ideas, enhancing community resilience and creating a new identity for the city.

Educational Parks for Youth
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Antioquia (Departement), Colombia

Educational Parks for Youth

Building on a widely-hailed experiment in Medellin, the entire surrounding province of Antioquia has set up a network of 80 educational parks designed to supplement traditional education with programs to honor young peoples' inherent skills and citizenship potentials.

Youth Lead the Change: Participatory Budgeting Boston
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Boston, United States

Youth Lead the Change: Participatory Budgeting ...

Through this participatory budgeting program, youth had the opportunity to collect ideas for capital projects, distill those ideas into concrete proposals, hold a city-wide vote to determine which projects get funded, and directly determine how $1 million is spent to improve Boston for everyone.

The Green Line: Social Development Comprehensive Plan (La Línea Verde)
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Aguascalientes City, Mexico

The Green Line: Social Development Comprehensiv...

The aim of the Línea Verde is to provide public spaces that contribute to enhance community life for more than 300,000 inhabitants living in the poorest area of the city.