Sustainability, Bern Style

In the travel and business destination Bern, there’s plenty of ways to reduce your carbon footprint. Here is some inspiration for sustainable travel in the federal city and its surrounding regions.

Sustainable food and drink

Top 11: sustainable restaurants

If you’re interested in knowing exactly where the meat or the carrots on your plate are from, read on: at these great Bernese restaurants, sustainability is not just an empty promise.

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Kooky

Getting up, getting ready, and grabbing a coffee to go on your way to work to start the day off right – sounds like a familiar morning routine? But: those tasty morning coffees come in disposable cups, which means they generate waste. That’s where Kooky comes in: Instead of a paper cup, ask for a Kooky cup. Once it’s empty, you can return it to one of the drop-off stations (keep your eyes open, they are everywhere – for example in front of the Tourist Information at the train station). Sounds like the perfect solution to us!

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reCIRCLE

What makes Bern so great? There’s lots of things, of course, including the innovative, forward-thinking minds that got together to found the Bernese start-up company reCIRCLE – we’re sure you’ve seen the purple food containers in everyone’s hands at lunchtime. Instead of producing new takeout containers that end up in the trash, you can use the environmentally friendly reCIRCLE food and drink containers for your takeout and then return them to one of the vending points. Genius!

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Sustainability to go

Green Aare Walk

Going for a stroll along the Aare river is the perfect celebration of the characteristic Bernese relaxedness. From the Botanical Garden to the protected meadows of Elfenau park – the Green Aare Walk lets you explore the federal city one green oasis at a time.

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Explore Bern’s Old City on foot

Discover everything that is being done in Bern’s Old City to implement the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals on the SDG Walk.

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Climate-friendly travelling

Bern has an excellent public transportation network. And visitors staying at an accommodation in the city of Bern receive a Bern Ticket which lets them use public transport for free in zones 100 and 101 of the LIBERO public transport association.

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Bern by e-bike

Discover the beautiful landscapes of the destination Bern on one of the scenic e-bike routes. Enjoy the relaxing e-bike ride and let yourself be inspired by the stories along the way.

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Bern and sustainability

Bern Welcome and Swisstainable

We take a stand for sustainable tourism in the travel and business destination Bern and are part of the sustainability programme Swisstainable by Switzerland Tourism. Together, we aim to develop sustainable offers and ensure that our beautiful nature is preserved for coming generations.

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Discover the destination Bern on two wheels

Sustainable bicycle trekking holidays

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