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Annual campaigns to promote renewable energy Users of EKOenergy-labelled energy enable us to set up renewable energy campaigns through which we reach out to energy consumers across the world. Our previous campaigns targeted breweries, the hospitality industry, green buildings, winter sports centres (in cooperation with Protect Our Winters), chocolate manufacturers, and the fashion and beauty …
10 years ago, on 14 September 2012, EKOenergy welcomed the first European Solidarity Corps (Then known as European Voluntary Service, EVS) volunteer to our Secretariat. We were about to launch our international ecolabel and needed extra hands to get things rolling. The European Solidarity Corps programme was the perfect solution The European Solidarity Corps Programme, …
10 years of European Solidarity Corps volunteers at EKOenergy’s Secretariat Lire la suite »
Les entreprises sont de plus en plus conscientes des défis environnementaux actuels et nous pensons que les jeunes militants et activistes environnementaux jouent un rôle essentiel dans la sensibilisation du public. Vous pouvez également lire notre précédentes interviews avec les activistes environnementaux Nakabuye Hilda Flavia de Fridays for Future Uganda et Arshak Makichyan de Fridays …
Des jeunes militants français veulent un réveil écologique Lire la suite »
As Good Energies Alliance Ireland and EKOenergy are two environmental NGOs operating within the European Solidarity Corps network and as both are having sustainable energy transition and climate action as their core mission, we decided to start collaborating more closely towards our common goals. We believe that like-minded civil society organisations getting together can really …
Youth for climate action: Good Energies Alliance Ireland and EKOenergy Lire la suite »
Thanks to our growing number of volunteers, EKOenergy is broadening its reach from north to south, east to west! Recently Glòria, who helped us spread the message of the ecolabel in Spain and Latin America, finished her year of European Voluntary Service (EVS) with us. Upon returning to Barcelona, she wanted to avoid taking a …
From north to south avoiding flights: interview with our former volunteer Glòria Lire la suite »
In 2012, EKOenergy became a partner organisation of the European Solidarity Corps (previously known as European Voluntary Service). This EU funded program enables us to host long term volunteers. Most of the volunteers stay 10 to 12 months at our office in Helsinki. They help us keep close contact with hundreds of partners in many …
Tom, 50th Solidarity Corps volunteer at EKOenergy’s secretariat Lire la suite »
Last weekend, our EVS EKOenergy team went to Leirikari, near Rovaniemi, to participate in Sieriniemen siunaus, a rowing event taking place on Kemijoki river in order to defend free-flowing rivers. Kemijoki river is Finland’s longest river. It reaches the sea at the City of Kemi at the North of the Gulf of Bothnia. By some …
The EKOenergy team rows for free-flowing rivers Lire la suite »
