As Green Steps ecological director, Gloria has been instrumental in developing the National Urban Park – St. Pölten – a project application facing urban residents – since June 2021. Early 2025 she left Green Steps and moved on to study gardening at the famous Langenlois gardening academy, and will contribute her practical learning to the […]
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ARK Release
https://gitlab.com/greensteps/ark/-/releases/2026-03-01 1.New: New course dashboard !1464 (merged) 2.New: Email Digest system !1425 (merged) 3.New: Show primary verified email address in user settings page !1465 (merged) 4.Fix: Allow to delete activities with bookings !1468 (merged) 5.Improvement: Localize the welcome email Novu notification !1466 (merged) 6.Improvement: Give admins permission to access everything d: Database check_user_permission function: return […]
A new manual video is online
A new manual video has just been published!Learn how to find your ecoregion of interest and add it to the ARK. Wishing you fair winds and a safe learning journey.
Welcome Renate Hagmann on the Steering Board
I am an economics teacher, have worked in the securities sector for a long time, and have been focusing as coordinator of GWÖ in Lower Austria on ethical business practices in the common good economy for the past seven years. My professional focus lies at the intersection of economic education and responsible business practices. I […]
2 new manual videos online
2 manual videos about which we have been thinking for a while are finally online. one video explains how to add a new non-tree species to an ecoregion respectively your home commons. the other one explains how to add a tree species to an ecoregion / commons. the latter is a bit longer because it […]
ARK phase 3 is around the corner.
Rapid advances in automation and AI are dismantling labor as the primary mechanism through which societies distribute income, recognition, and belonging. Yet the crisis is not only economic. It is also existential and structural: as work disappears, societies face rising anomie — a breakdown of meaning, identity, and social orientation — alongside accelerating wealth concentration, […]
Meet our newest member to the ARK advisory board, Tania Schellenberg: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tania-schellenberg/ She is a Zurich based hydro ecologist and urban permaculture practicioner. We are looking forward to get her advice on how to integrate the ARK with her work.
A ChatGTP digest of the ARK white paper
During the last crew call, Hans Galliker said, that it is complicated to explain what the ARK really is. We had to agree. One needs to look at the vision first in order to understand the functionalities. All of them have organically evolved because of the mission laid out in the white paper. I asked […]
Winter Solstice 2025 release
ahoi crew 🙂 ⛵ Our winter solstice objectives were “mindful” notifications, a “smart” questions database and “correct” school community numbers. But there is indeed much more waiting to be shared with you. Pls refer to below youtube timestamps and jump to the section you are interested in: https://youtu.be/3QvxYmnw1_o We have planned our next crew call just […]
Fall Equinox release
ahoi crew 🙂 ⛵ the Fall Equinox release was a lot about fixing bugs and improving the user experience. The highlight of this release is without question the new notification system 🎼🪇 which has been on the radar for a long time. Notifications are important to give a project traction, however in a world of digital […]