1. General information
2. Objectives of the intervention
Goals of the intervention
The Green My City project aims to encourage gardening initiatives in Toulouse in order to locally produce organic food, reduce energy consumption of vegetated buildings, increase local food distribution systems and reinforce social links by fostering urban gardening (Ref. 2). Project objectives include:
Greening cities and especially urban agriculture in order to increase the resilience of the territories to climate change and the scarcity of resources;
Improve the quality of life of urban dwellers, especially the most vulnerable;
Strengthen the social bond through actions and meetings around these themes (Ref. 2).
The project also suggests it hopes to federate and humanize the city's green initiatives, and in principle, the project aims to use green in cities to mitigate and adapt to climate change (Ref. 8) and reduce urban island heating effects (Ref. 22).
Greening cities and especially urban agriculture in order to increase the resilience of the territories to climate change and the scarcity of resources;
Improve the quality of life of urban dwellers, especially the most vulnerable;
Strengthen the social bond through actions and meetings around these themes (Ref. 2).
The project also suggests it hopes to federate and humanize the city's green initiatives, and in principle, the project aims to use green in cities to mitigate and adapt to climate change (Ref. 8) and reduce urban island heating effects (Ref. 22).
Quantitative targets
One initiative related to the project consisted of installing 100 vegetable gardens in 48 hours on the many composting sites in the city (Ref. 14).
Monitoring indicators defined
Expansion of vegetated and gardening spaces that accompany urban living (m^2) (Ref. 14)
Sustainability challenge(s) addressed
Climate change adaptation: What were the goals of the NBS?
Climate change adaptation: What activities are implemented to realize the conservation goals and targets?
Climate change mitigation: What were the goals of the NBS?
Please specify "other Climate change mitigation activity"
Reduce energy consumption of vegetalised buildings (ref 2)
Climate change mitigation: What activities are implemented to realize the conservation goals and targets?
Implementation activities
The My Green City's open data tool hosts a collaborative web platform linking future volunteer gardens, educational kits, and accompanying projects (Ref. 1). The project has therefore involved itself in different projects, (Ref. 6, 11) workshops, conferences, plantations, (Ref. 14) tours (Ref. 25) and initiatives throughout the city since starting in 2015. This included the 48 hour citywide initiative of 30 associations on March 17th 2017, implemented as a way of decentralising the creation of green spaces, edible landscapes and urban agriculture (Ref. 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17). An example is the residence of Tibaous where inhabitants replanted fruit trees and aromatic plants (Ref. 4). An ephemeral urban vegetable garden was created at the square of Charles-de-Gaulle by the association Reflets meanwhile. Other activities were workshops on permaculture, creating wooden refuges to promote biodiversity, a balcony gardening workshop, sessions on cultivating wasteland, and making green graffitti using moss (Ref. 14). "Thousands of square meters of organic vegetable gardens on the roofs of the city of Toulouse, saving 50 tonnes of C02 per year. Designed to fight against urban heat islands, the Toulouse team's project Green My City won the national C3 Challenge" (Ref. 1).
Type of NBS project
Please specify other type of green wall
Unknown
3. NBS domains, ES and scale
4. Governance and financing
5. Innovation
Type of innovation
Novelty level of the innovation
Please specify novelty level of the innovation
Unknown
Replicability/Transferability
Please specify Replicability/Transferability
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