Coming soon:

ECOWEEK 2010
Ecology + Community + Architecture

International
CONFERENCE & WORKSHOPS

For Architects, young Architects
and students of Architecture

March 13-20, 2010
Athens, GREECE

Mark the dates!
More details soon.

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Upcoming events:

FILMS

Award-winning documentary
"The Age of Stupid"



The new cinema documentary from Director Franny Armstrong and Oscar-winning Producer John Battsek. Pete Postlethwaite stars as an old man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at "archive" footage from 2008, asking: why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?

89' - English

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ECOWEEK screenings
in schools &
in the army!

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Oscar-winning documentary
"An Inconvenient Truth" 

with AL GORE
(Peace Nobel Prize 2007)
on Global Warming and Climate Change.
Program

If you wish to organize a screening
at your school, contact us at
ecoweek [at] ecoweek.gr

Greek subtitles - 97'
Discussion follows

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"The 11th Hour"

by Leonardo DiCaprio
on Global Warming and Climate Change

Read more (greek)

Program

If you wish to organize a screening
at your school, contact us at
ecoweek [at] ecoweek.gr

Greek subtitles - 92'

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"Last Call for Planet Earth"

Directed by Jacques Allard
Featuring Thomas Mayne, Massimiliano Fuksas
and other world-known architects

Greek subtitles - 70'

Program

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"Element"



Short films by tve profiling
exceptional young people
working to promote a
greener, fairer world;
broadcast on
MTV channels globally

60' - English

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"The Next Industrial Revolution"

Directed by Shelley Morhaim
With architect William McDonough
and chemist Michael Braungart

Program

55' - Greek subtitles

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"The Rural Studio"

Samuel Mockbee's
vision of architecture as a
catalyst for social change.

60' - English

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"Kilowatt Ours"



A documentary by Jeff Barrie
to promote energy conservation,
efficiency and renewable energy

56' - English

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"The Power of Community"

Directed by Faith Morgan
How Cuba survived the Peak Oil crisis in the 1990 with urban organic agriculture

Program

53' - Greek subtitles

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"Architecture 2030"

Architect Ed Mazria's
challenge to reduce CO2 emissions in buildings


30' - English

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ECOWEEK & The Danish Institute at Athens: Green future – how? Greek challenges – Danish experiences – future solutions Lecture, discussion, and dialogue with the audience in English. Participants: Carsten Beck, Director of Research at Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies, and Elias Messinas, architect and founder of the international environmental NGO Ecoweek. The event took place at the Danish Institute at Athens in cooperation with the Danish Embassy on Friday 23 October at 8 p.m.

ECOWEEK & Climate Thinkers Blog: Invited by the Royal Danish Embassy in Athens, ECOWEEK Chairman E. Messinas contributed the article "Who Needs Green Architecture" to the Climate Thinkers Blog, the blog for the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009. - Read more



ECOWEEK & International Society for Arcadia

In May 2009 ECOWEEK started a collaboration program with the International Society for Arcadia - International Society for the Study and the Utilization of the Arcadian World Legacy. This collaboration will focus on programs for environmental awareness, good practice, exchange of know-how and educational programs on environmental and cultural awareness. More information will be announced shortly.


ECOWEEK Distinguished speakers

Since 2005 when ECOWEEK began its activity in Aegina, Greece, has hosted lectures by distinguished speakers from Greece and abroad. ECOWEEk keynote speakers, include Al Gore, Rober Swan, Ken Yeang, Julie Bargmann, Shigeru Ban, Ivan Harbour and others. [ECOWEEK speakers]




ECOWEEK program for environmental awareness in High Schools with screenings of environmental documentaries

ECOWEEK is continuing its program of environmental awareness in High Schools in Greece and Cyprus.

More information on the ECOWEEK environmental awareness program in schools.

ECOWEEk also invites schools for screenings of environmental documentaries at the school premises by the TEAM of ECOWEEK. For more information, visit our website and contact us at ecoweek[at]ecoweek.gr

ECOWEEK in the fire devastated schools of Ilias Prefecture, GREECE

In December 2008 ECOWEEK completed an environmental awareness program at the schools devasted by fire of the Ilias Prefecture in the Peloponnese. The program is part of the program TEAM 15+300 by ECOWEEK for environmental awareness in schools. The program was implemented in public schools of Ilias Prefecture thanks to the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

The tree planting expedition took place on Friday March 13 & Saturday March 14, 2009, in cooperation and with the participation of volunteers from the National Technical University of Athens, NGO ANIMA - For the Protection of Wild Life, local officials from Zacharo Municipality, with the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

Planting took place at the courtyard of the Public Primary School of Zacharo, at the courtyard and garden of the Public High School of Zacharo, and at the former quarry at St. Kyriaki on the road from Arini to Milea. In total, more than 500 trees were planted.

ECOWEEK 2010: ECOLOGY + COMMUNITY + ARCHITECTURE for young architects and graduate students of Architecture and other disciplines is being scheduled to take place in Athens, Greece on March 13-20, 2010 - International conference and workshops on the designing of a passive-solar house of zero emissions.

A few words about the international conference ECOWEEK 2009 Empowering Youth: Ecology + Leadership + Architecture March 31 - April, 6, 2009, Athens, GREECE - International conference and workshops on the sustainable regeneration of the former airport site at Hellenikon

On Monday April 6, the international conference organized by international environmental NGO ECOWEEK was concluded in Athens, Greece. This year the conference focused on 'green' architecture - passive solar design and environmentally friendly buildings - and the young - students, young architects, engineers, environmentalists and other disciplines from all Greece, the US and Europe. The international conference took place on March 31 - April 6, 2009 at Athinais (Gazi-Votanikos). The conference was held under the auspices of the European Institute of Law, Science and Technology, the Ministry of Environment and Public Works, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, and the City of Athens.

The conference included lectures by architects Shigeru Ban, and Ivan Harbour (partner of Richard Rogers), architect and architectural critic and director of the Institute for Urban Design in New York Olympia Kazi, landscape engineer Byron Stigge, environmental expert and BioRegional director Benjamin Gill, and 15 other experts on passive solar architecture and ecological building from Greece and abroad. Conference program and list of speakers