Verdensbanken leder efter idéer til fremtidens bæredygtige byer blandt indsendte Lego-modeller, der skal konkurrere om plads på udstilling, skriver den globale bank fredag.
WASHINGTON, September 20, 2013: Do you dream of a city that saves, rather than savages, the environment? What’s your vision of an ecologically balanced urban space? Connect4Climate wants your ideas, The World Bank writes Friday.
Working in collaboration with the upcoming 10th Ecocity World Summit on Sustainable Cities, and with Lego®, the beloved builder of childhood fantasies,
Connect4Climate has issued a global invitation for individuals and groups to design and build models of environmentally sustainable urban spaces.
Photos or videos of the plastic brick models for the #BuildTheChange challenge must be posted to Connect4Climate’s Facebook page before September 29th. Competition details and rules can be viewed here.
Selected submissions will be exhibited at the 10th Ecocity World Summit on Sustainable Cities in Nantes, France alongside a series of local Lego® “BuildTheChange” workshops to be held from September 24th – 29th.
The workshops will bring together several thousand children and families as well as professional planners to design and build their own models of sustainable urban spaces.
“There’s an opportunity right now to build cleaner cities,” said World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, who has made sustainable development a top priority for the bank,
”We have the opportunity to create a world for our children which is not defined by stark inequities, but by soaring opportunities”
The Ecocity summit is an international event designed precisely to explore new ways to make our cities efficient and exciting places to live in.
It brings together a wide variety of government officials, business leaders, researchers and citizens to examine creative ways of making the global phenomenon of accelerating urbanization more environmentally-friendly.
Læs mere her: http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2013/09/20/connect4climate-lego-buildthechange-challenge-and-ecocity-world-summit-involvement
