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Flip the city

Leon van Klaveren

Status: launched

letsflipthecity.nl

Leon on flip the city

Flip the City transforms harmful and excessive duckweed into green tiles that support the growth of biodiverse flowers and plants. Creating a win-win scenario that improves both urban and aquatic biodiversity and conditions. Our aim is to transform our petrified urban areas into biodiverse environments by making it easy for everyone to swap grey tiles for biodiverse green. Flip is based on the idea that we can make it easier for everyone, regardless of their expertise, time or resources, to green urban areas in a circular, biodiverse and sustainable way. To show that we can all contribute to the challenges of our urban environment in an accessible way.

Leon on entrepeneurship

To us, entrepreneurship means working with what you have. Having a clear vision of where you want to go, not necessarily a monetary goal, but also seeing what is in front of you and working with that to achieve that impact. Your proposition does not have to be perfect the moment you start and should not be rigid. It changes over time. Especially in the built environment, what is in front of you can be intimidating, with a lot of restrictions and rules. But taking action and reflecting on that action is very necessary in a rigid built world.

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