Bülent Köstem sürekli tüketmenin, sürekli hızlanmanın girdabını ve bu girdabın hem bizim hem çevremizin olan etkisini anlatıyor.
After graduating from business school, he took part as project manager in 1st Black Sea Games and in similar grand projects. He started working on Cittaslow and several projects with Seferihisar Municipality in 2009. Seferihisar being Turkey’s first Cittaslow, he became the Technical Coordinator of Turkey for Cittaslow network. He developed some projects in accordance with slow philosophy in Seferihisar and supported multiple cities to spread this successful model in Turkey and in TRNC (Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus). Kostem is the President of Yavaş Yaşamı Destekleme Derneği which works on the topics such as: preservation of the nature and excessive consumerism. In his leisure time, he likes to fix his 85 model car and does carpentry work. Along with being a college senior in Sociology, he is the coordinator at Akademi Karşıyaka which aims to develop the connection between civil society, universities and municipalities.
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