BUND Munich - Bringing More Nature to the City with CARLA

The story

The Munich chapter of BUND Naturschutz works every day to make Munich greener and a better place to live. The goal: greater urban biodiversity and new habitats for plants, insects, and other animals right in the heart of the city.

To achieve this, green spaces are created and maintained, new sites are planted, and numerous projects to protect urban nature are implemented.

But bringing nature into the city requires a lot of effort: plants, soil, gravel, water, tools, and many other materials must be regularly transported across Munich to the respective project sites.

And this is exactly where CARLA comes in.

The challenge

Nature conservation in a big city involves many different work sites and an equally diverse range of transportation tasks.

Sometimes plants and soil need to be delivered to a new green space; other times, large quantities of water are needed for newly planted areas. On other days, tools, informational materials, or even entire information booths need to be transported across the city.

Therefore, we were looking for a transportation solution that could handle large and heavy loads, be used flexibly for a wide variety of tasks, and at the same time align with our own commitment to sustainable mobility.

The solution

With CARLA, the district chapter has found a solution that can be flexibly adapted to the various tasks involved in day-to-day nature conservation. And, of course, it had to match the BUND Naturschutz look: The CARLA was designed in BN green, making it not only a work tool but also a real eye-catcher on Munich’s streets.

In everyday use, it transports plants, gravel, soil, sand, watering cans, tools, and transport trays throughout the city. It can even carry up to 200 liters of water for watering new plantings.

There’s even room on the CARLA for entire information booths, complete with informational materials. And when grass clippings need to be hauled away after maintaining a green space, it’s quickly put to another use—as a “hay wagon” right in the middle of Munich.

It is precisely this versatility that makes all the difference for the district group. Many transport tasks can be completed in a single trip, whereas previously several trips would have been necessary. At the same time, the CARLA can be used by many different people on the team.

This saves time, reduces emissions, and makes daily nature conservation work significantly more flexible.

In this way, CARLA helps transport exactly what makes Munich a little greener.