Europe Eco-City Documentation — Megan Cairns Phillips

My passions for the environment grew significantly when I took the seminar ‘Eco-City Europe’ through Syracuse University in May 2018 after studying in Florence, Italy for the spring semester. I traveled for a month in an environmentally conscious manner with openminded art, architecture, and engineering peers to learn about small and large-scale opportunities to reduce our individual carbon footprints. Our travels took us through Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Germany, visiting cities who are leading the sustainability movement in the form of sustainable construction, community gardens, and more. Below are a few photographs documenting my journey.

somewhere along Tobias Rehberger’s 24-stop walk between Riehen and Vitra

Prinzessinnengarten, Berlin (community garden)

community gardens near Berlin Tempelhof Airport

Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italylucky to spend my last day in Europe in my favorite region of Italy! — Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy
lucky to spend my last day in Europe in my favorite region of Italy!

green district Vauban, Freiburg - community garden

Prinzessinnengarten, Berlin - possibly the best vegan lasagna I will ever have, all ingredients sourced from this community garden.

Kinderabenteuerhof Freiburg e.V. - this is an elementary day school for young children completely outdoors. they let children run around with animals, teach them to build wooden forts, cook their own meals, weld things, & more life skills like t… — Kinderabenteuerhof Freiburg e.V. - this is an elementary day school for young children completely outdoors. they let children run around with animals, teach them to build wooden forts, cook their own meals, weld things, & more life skills like these. + it’s a common type of school in Germany... could only dream of this in the US and wish I had a place like this when I was younger

Viktualienmarkt München, Munich, Germany