Environmental education — every small, practical action makes a difference
Practical workshops in a Reykjavík community garden and on a regenerative farm: how to compost, and how to grow a no-dig garden the permaculture way. Alongside them, community-garden sessions on how to garden from scratch for people who have never grown anything, nature activities for children, and workshops on preserving local food and herbs.
More about the workshops
Our workshops are practical and hands-on, and open to people of all ages and backgrounds.
- Composting — at Seljagarður: how to start a heap in an Icelandic climate, what belongs in it, what comes out the other end, and how to use it.
- No-dig growing, the permaculture way — building beds at Seljagarður by layering rather than turning the soil, so the soil life stays where it is and does the work for you.
- How to garden — for people starting with nothing: what to sow and when, what actually grows here, and what to do when it does not.
- Nature activities for children — outdoor learning in the garden, run so that families come together rather than dropping children off.
- How to preserve food — folk festival at the Nordic House, with GAIA.
- Why plastic? — environmental film screening at the Nordic House, with SEEDS Iceland and GAIA.
- Sustainable and intercultural cities — workshop at Reykjavík City Library, with SEEDS Iceland.
Climate Cafés — where climate concern becomes local action
A facilitated public conversation that holds two things at once: room for worry, grief and hope, and a learning-by-doing session that ends by naming something people can actually do. Free, all ages, open to everyone — and deliberately held in libraries, because a library is somewhere people already go without needing a reason.
More about the cafés
Each café had its own theme and its own local co-facilitator — a grower, an artist, a researcher, an organiser — so every event brought a different kind of knowledge into the room. Eleven local collaborators took part across the programme. Participant interviews were recorded and published on social media.
Holistic Environmentalism and Food Preservation
A panel on holistic environmentalism around a table of vegetables in the children's library, and a hands-on session on preserving food — organic produce from Seljagarður and Reykjalundur, and how to keep what grows here through the winter.
Activism and Resilience
An anthropology professor, an artist, an environmental adviser and a civil-society chair on where activism gets its strength and how people keep going — the whole conversation drawn live on the wall behind them.
Amtsbókasafnið Emotions
The feeling half of the café — people sitting together in a circle, sharing how environmental change feels to them, with room for worry, grief and hope.
Amtsbókasafnið Actions
The doing half — ideas and questions written down together at the tables, and turned into practical steps people could take in their own lives and community.
Gróandi Emotions
The feeling half of the café. Around one long table, people painted what environmental change feels like to them — with watercolours, pencils and leaves gathered from the garden — before anyone was asked to do anything about it.
Gróandi Actions
The doing half. Greens and herbs picked in the Gróandi garden, washed, chopped and cooked together at the same table, then shared — with the conversation carrying on over the food.
Christmas Gift Exchange
A Christmas gift exchange at the city's central library, as a gentler alternative to holiday shopping — families, children and adults in the same room, which is what "all ages" is supposed to mean.
Nordic cooperation — open for calls
We are looking for Nordic and European partners, and we are ready to be one. Green Wellbeing is a registered public-benefit organisation with statutes, a board, an appointed auditor and a delivered programme behind it — everything a lead applicant needs from a partner, and signable in a fortnight rather than a quarter.
What we bring to a consortium
- A method that has already run — not a concept. Seven public events in three regions, documented in a published final report, in a format another organisation can adopt.
- Eligibility on paper, today — registered almannaheillafélag, kennitala 420823-0290, statutes adopted 10 May 2023, a board of three plus a reserve and an appointed auditor. A letter of intent can be signed quickly.
- Icelandic networks that are real — public libraries in three regions, community gardens, cultural houses and volunteer organisations we have actually delivered with.
- Four working languages — English, Icelandic, Polish and Russian, which matters for reaching residents who are not served in the national majority language.
- We can build the digital side in-house — platforms, websites and data work, rather than a procurement line. Cheaper for the budget, and it survives the end of the grant.
If you are assembling a consortium and need an Icelandic partner, write to us. We would much rather hear about a call early, while the design is still open, than be added at the end.
