{"id":17613,"date":"2021-10-14T16:56:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T13:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisegreece.com\/?p=17613"},"modified":"2021-10-14T18:08:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T15:08:00","slug":"cycling-for-democracy-5th-episode-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wisegreece.com\/en\/news\/cycling-for-democracy-5th-episode-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise Greece has been selected for &#8221;Cycling for Democracy&#8221; by the Council of Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Melina Taprantzi, president and founder of Wise Greece, has been selected for the project &#8220;Cycling for Democracy&#8221;, organized by the Council of Europe and the World Forum for Democracy.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In 13 short films, each roughly 5 minutes long, Nicolas in search of answers to the environmental challenges of our time, introduces us, from the Council of Europe Assembly Chamber in Strasbourg, to the individuals behind environmental and community-based groups around the world and interviewed them.<\/p>\n<p>He met, therefore, Melina Taprantzi during the recent heatwave and wildfires burning in Greece, the last of a series of crisis faced by this Mediterranean country.\u00a0As she said in her interview: <em><strong>\u2018\u2019A social entrepreneur must be able to adapt to any kind of crisis\u2019\u2019.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Through \u2018\u2019Cycling of Democracy\u2019\u2019, Nicolas takes us to the four corners of the globe to discover a host of initiatives, large and small, that aim to promote eco-citizenship, environmental education, legal emancipation of rural populations, participatory democracy, ecology as an instrument of peace and much more.<\/p>\n<p>As we travel to France, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Germany, Italy, Spain, Canada, Israel, Indonesia, Kenya or Brazil, Nicolas asks the question: can democracy save the environment?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RrEC9IA5ws0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melina Taprantzi, president and founder of Wise Greece, has been selected for the project &#8220;Cycling for Democracy&#8221;, organized by the&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8230; Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":17611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wise Greece has been selected for &#039;&#039;Cycling for Democracy&#039;&#039; by the Council of Europe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wisegreece.com\/en\/news\/cycling-for-democracy-5th-episode-greece\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wise Greece has been selected for &#039;&#039;Cycling for Democracy&#039;&#039; by the Council of Europe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Melina Taprantzi, president and founder of Wise Greece, has been selected for the project &#8220;Cycling for Democracy&#8221;, organized by the... ... 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