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AirCasting sensors allow for real-time measurement of exposure to pollutants in the air, enabling Brussels residents to become researchers in a collective learning and action project. Together we answer the question "Where are we most at risk?"

Farewell urban motorway, so long traffic jams, bye-bye pollution! Let's give back the boulevards of the Petite Ceinture to the people of Brussels again. To all the people of Brussels.

At the feet of the Brussels European Parliament, on the other side of rue Vautier, the Wiertz Museum accommodates not only the work of Antoine Wiertz precursor of Belgian surrealism, but also houses the memory of Henry Conscience.

Imagine… What would you propose for our vibrant community at the Josaphat site (not the park)?

BRALpublication # 4 gives an overview and analysis of a new genereation of residents’ initiatives.

Recup’Kitchen is a project that will give pride of place to food reclamation in association with the Latinis vegetable garden. It will be located on the site of the old Josaphat train station. 

 

The basic principles of the system have been set out in the Brussels Town Planning Code (CoBAT. / BWRO). Its modalities have been set down in detail in several implementing decrees.

BRAL, a Belgian NGO that aims at making Brussels more sustainable, demonstrated in front of the European Council’s.

Author Hilde Geens (°1953) is senior staff member urban planning at BRAL. She has been working since the early eighties on the ‘European dossier’ and was deeply involved in all initiatives and actions described in this publication.

Nature Alert

The Brussels Council for the Environment (Bral vzw) wants to involve expats in Brussels more closely in the urban planning decision-making in Brussels. For years, BRAL as a critical Brussels NGO has been providing the necessary up-to-date information about public inquiries and consultation committees on its website in Dutch. From today, and not by chance at the beginning of the European Year of the Citizen, that tool is also available in French and English.