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PLAN B

Lu Yen Roloff

We are build­ing the social, struc­tur­al and tech­ni­cal infra­struc­ture for effec­tive, decen­tral­ized imple­men­ta­tion of cli­mate pro­tec­tion mea­sures by civ­il soci­ety in order to make Berlin cli­mate-neu­tral.

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Joshua Bobzin

he/him
Project & Fundrais­ing Man­ag­er Read more

Sask­ia Howe

Orga­ni­za­tion­al devel­op­ment, orga­ni­za­tion­al cul­ture Read more

Tim Gauss

Fundrais­ing / Busi­ness Mod­el Devel­op­ment Read more

Lu Yen Roloff

Founder/Initiatorin Read more

Key Facts

  • Found­ing date: March ‘23
  • Loca­tion: Berlin, Ger­many

Part of Poly Cri­sis Pro­gram #1

Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals (SDGs)

Ambi­tion

PLAN B is a civ­il soci­ety ini­tia­tive in the process of being found­ed as an asso­ci­a­tion. Our goal is a cli­mate-neu­tral and social­ly just Berlin 2030, in line with the vision of a donut econ­o­my and imple­ment­ing the Paris Agree­ment at the munic­i­pal lev­el. We know how to achieve this goal: by mea­sur­ably reduc­ing our emis­sions and ener­gy costs, insu­lat­ing our homes cheap­ly and quick­ly, calm­ing traf­fic in our neigh­bor­hoods, putting ener­gy pro­duc­tion in cit­i­zen hands, mak­ing good region­al plant-based food afford­able, green­ing rooftops, pro­tect­ing and regen­er­at­ing water and urban nature, and using few­er resources because we use, exchange, share, and recy­cle them smarter.

Solu­tion

We offer dif­fer­ent projects to help to reach our goal: Our first pilot is the Ger­man adap­ta­tion of the US-Amer­i­can Neigh­bor­hood Orga­niz­ing Pro­gram “Cool Blocks” as part of the Cool City Ini­tia­tive, which is cur­rent­ly under­way with the active par­tic­i­pa­tion of 8 teams orga­niz­ing 50 house­holds in Berlin. Oth­er than that we are pro­mot­ing bal­cony solar pan­els as an entry point towards cit­i­zen ener­gy pro­duc­tion and have con­cep­tu­al­ized and lob­bied for BERTA (work­ing title) — imple­men­ta­tion-ori­ent­ed trans­for­ma­tion alliances that are sup­port­ed by Berlin’s urban soci­ety, involv­ing all sen­ate admin­is­tra­tions and enabling an accel­er­a­tion of the upcom­ing trans­for­ma­tion mea­sures