The last few months have been a quest for a new claim: what is the value of this project and which pain point does it resolve? How can we make both pain point and solution better accessible? We know that students of most age groups spend excessive amounts of time indoors and are alienated from […]
Why we decided to use Discourse? The ARK is built around open source and digital commons principles. We have explored different communication mechanisms which conform with our principles and decided to use Discourse, because we don’t want to reinvent the wheel and build an new learning ecosystem with the best tools already available. Discourse is […]
This July, Green Steps launched a new cooperation with the Creative Computing bachelor’s programme at the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten (USTP), welcoming a group of talented students who will complete their internships with Green Steps between July 2026 and January 2027. Over the next six months, the interns will contribute to the continued […]
Mid February 2026. Extremely thick snow falling on the plains of Seewinkel Nationalpark, where I go to participate in the annual conference of professional Austrian nature guides. I meet an enthusiastic biology teacher and place-based educator from a kindergarten teacher’s college with whom I share a wide range of interests covering such non-mainstream topics like […]
ahoi crew 🙂 ⛵ we have a few changes to the established format of our crew calls for Spring Equinox. We introduce a new section about people & places, where we talk about current project and the quiz is extended and integrated into the presentation of new functionalities. Pls refer to below youtube timestamps and […]
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 […]
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.
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 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 […]
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, […]