The Green Dialog, which is organising every year in December, is going to be held on 17 December. This year, it will be about Local Green Politics and we will have guests from abroad and from Turkey to discuss the topic in several parallel sessions.
Programme:
10:00 – 11:00 Opening and registrations
Opening Speech: Sevil Turan, Greens and the Left Party for the Future co-spokesperson
Arif Ali Cangı, Greens and the Left Party for the Future co-spokesperson
Sevgi Mutlu, Green Thought Association
11:00 – 12:30 Parallel Sessions
- A) Erman Topgül (Streets are Ours Association)
“People-friendly streets, alive streets, transportation with bikes and/or as pedestrian, city with a human scale”
- B) Co-speakers: Meltem Şendağ (Zumbara) and Aytaç Timur (Yeryüzü Assocaiton)
“Barter economy, time banks and community supported agriculture schemes”
- C) Defne Koryürek (Slow Food)
“Food sovereignty, surviving, new alliances to feed and to get fed”
12:30 – 13:00 Break
13: 00 – 16:00 Main Session “Examples from Local Green Politics, Good Practices”
Green Local Governance
Moderator: Sevgi Mutlu, Green Thought Association and member of Greens and the Left Party for the Future
Ayşe Gökkan, Nusaybin Mayor, BDP
Monica Vana, Member of Austrian Green Party, Alderwoman of Wien, Green Councillors Network Coordinator
Michalis Tremopoulos Member of Greece Green Party, former member of EP
İkbal Polat, Greens and the Left Party for the Future
16:00 – 16:30 Break
16:30 – 18:30 Parallel Sessions
- A) Participating in Local Governments. Moderator Ahmet Aşıcı
“Examples of and suggestions for direct democracy practices in local governments”
- B) The City and Climate Change. Moderator: Ümit Şahin
“Climate Change Struggles in the City: achievements, best practices, and suggestions”
- C) Rural Sustainability. Moderator: Durukan Dudu
“Sustainability of production and lives in rural on behalf of small-scale farmers”