What happens when young people from five countries come together not just to learn, but to live, reflect, and speak openly about the world they want to shape? Addicted to Green Life is the answer—a raw, inspiring, and deeply personal handbook born from the Erasmus+ youth exchange Cultural Storytelling Canvas: Crafting Narratives for Inclusion, Democracy, and the Environment, held in Schaijk, the Netherlands, from March 4–13, 2025.

This booklet is more than a summary of workshops or a list of outcomes. It’s a living record of conversations, feelings, and ideas exchanged during the fourth and fifth days of the project, when participants sat down—often with nothing more than a microphone and a topic—and created podcasts on issues they care about: fast fashion, water use, gender equality, mental health, and sustainability.

These weren’t scripted productions. They were spontaneous, unscripted moments shaped by lived experience and collective reflection. Each chapter of the handbook draws from those recordings, weaving together direct quotes and shared insights. The result is an honest, grassroots collection of cultural storytelling—one that speaks to both the complexity of global challenges and the power of youth-driven dialogue.

Addicted to Green Life doesn’t pretend to offer all the answers. What it offers instead is something arguably more powerful: a window into how young people understand and respond to the world around them when given the freedom to express themselves. It’s a reminder that change doesn’t always start with big declarations. Sometimes it begins with small acts of awareness—asking better questions, listening more deeply, and imagining better ways of living.

This handbook invites its readers to do just that: to listen, to reflect, and to carry these voices forward. Because behind every issue discussed—whether fashion or water, identity or ecology—there’s a common thread: the belief that a more conscious, more connected, and more inclusive world is not only necessary, but possible.

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