After a slightly troubled beginning, the exciting moment has come to turn Eko Diena to face the world. It's still all a little bit beta, so please forgive anything that breaks. First off, for anyone who doesn't speak Latvian or Lithuanian, which is probably most people outside of those two small countries, the site title translates into English as something like 'Eco Day'. It's a name which perfectly sums up what we are trying to achieve, to create a regularly updated source of news, opinion and discussion on environmental and sustainability topics, both from the Baltic states and the world at large. Eko Diena was conceived at the end of 2020 by Žaklīna who approached us and asked if we would like to work together with her as partners to develop and host this website. In early 2021 though, just as we were preparing to launch the site, personal circumstances meant that Žaklīna had to step away from the project. By that point we had come to believe that this could be the start of something great, and so after a bit of thought we stepped in to take Eko Diena under the umbrella of Platforma Eko. Since we are based in the Baltics, our directory of companies will focus on Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, our news will have a focus there as well but we also feature news stories from around the world, and anyone is free to take part in our forums. The news content that you will find here will be a mixture of articles written by our own team and also relevant Creative Commons news articles from other publications that we trust. In addition to the news, we are building a curated directory of green and sustainable projects, organisations and companies, and Talk - our discussion forum for all things related to a more eco-friendly life. Of course, it is very early days and the site is a little bit empty right now, but we want to change that and are putting together a great team of eco-passionate people to help us update and moderate content. We would also love for you to help us out by submitting suggestions for companies and projects that we should include in our directory, by letting us know about relevant news we might be missing, and by starting and taking part in discussions. We really hope and believe that in time this site can come to be a valuable source of information about this incredibly important topic in the Baltics and further afield. John

Hi, this is Eko Diena...

So Veli

I hope so as well, thank you for creating it!

Many of the forums online are so quiet but let us try to keep this one alive!

I wanted to "quote" this by selecting text like with other posts but I can not do it, is it supposed to be like that?

EKO DIENA

So Veli I wanted to "quote" this by selecting text like with other posts but I can not do it

That's true. At the moment you can't quote the auto-started news posts just by selecting. The site is a work in progress though so that is something we might sort out sometime in the near future.

For now, if you put the ">" symbol at the start of a line followed by a space and then copy the text you want to quote and paste it after it then it will get turned into a quote automatically.

Žaklīna

So Veli I hope so as well, thank you for creating it!

If we all get involved and make interesting discussions, reply, and add projects then I think it will grow.

Julie Brooks-Girskiene

So Veli I wanted to "quote" this by selecting text like with other posts

I didn't know you could do this, that is pretty neat.

Piri And there is a TALK which doesn't require social media accounts!

Exactly, I never had twitter, I deleted facebook a year ago and I am really happy about the decision. It's really annoying when I try to sign up for something and it wants me to use a facebook or twitter or other social account to sign up or sign in.

Piri

Žaklīna good content and participation!
And there is a TALK which doesn't require social media accounts! 🌱🌍

So Veli

Žaklīna We will try!

Egle-K

Loving the forum, when do we get the rest of it all?

Stasys-Girskis

Egle-K I was wondering that too, thought I saw 02/01 but it changed now. I'm waiting to see what else we will get!

Piri

@Egle-K @Stasys-Girskis I believe it will be soon until than we can create nice discussions here!

Žaklīna

Hi @Egle-K @Stasys-Girskis

Everything else is coming soon!

It should have been on the first of February but it was changed because I had some personal offline emergency, it will be in the next days.

Sorry for the delays!

Egle-K

Exciting! 👏 😃

Sorry for your emergency, hope that it is all taken care of now.

EKO DIENA

@Egle-K & @Stasys-Girskis

We have just made the directory page live, so you can take a look at that here: Directory

Everything else should be coming very soon!

Arvīds

EKO DIENA Good to see stuff happening!

I will propose some companies to add.

John

Arvīds will propose some companies to add.

That would be great. You can do it with the contact form, or by email hello@ or even in a discussion in here.

Egle-K

Oooh I will go and look! 😃

Arvīds

John Will do!

John

Hey @Egle-K, @Stasys-Girskis (and everyone else)

The entire site is now live, including the news pages!

It's possible that there might be some bugs, if you notice any then let us know 🙂

Mirmar

Love it!

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