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Sustainability Links is the national information service linking sustainability, participation and communities.
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All of the information included on this site is to help you bring grassroots concerns about our global unsustainability into grassroots decision taking. Since the United Nation’s Agenda 21, Britain’s seen an unprecedented increase in opportunities for communities to be directly involved in democratic processes which can enable all of us to participate in local efforts to address the world’s environmental, economic and social breakdown. Please email any information about your events or projects, or any comments you’d like to make about sustainability and participation concerns to: info@sustainabilitylinks.org.uk Please send any newsletters, articles or other items for summary to: Sustainability Links, 3 Park Road, Bedworth, Warwickshire CV12 8LH.
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Jonathon Porrit - Founder & Director of Forum For The Future This site “will be useful to teachers and others working with schools’. Ben Ballin - Teachers in Development Education “This is a great project.” Chris Church, developmental community worker and writer and sustainability consultant.
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THIRD SECTOR ASSEMBLIES Did you know that the UN's Agenda 21 said that governments should take steps to involve VCOs, "making the best use of their particular capacities, especially in the fields of education, poverty alleviation and environmental protection and rehabilitation". The 1992 Earth Summit set out a blueprint for councils' Local Agenda 21 programmes across the UK. It also recognised the need for areas to produce Sustainable Community Strategies, and broaden their decision taking base through local partnership working. The emergent Third Sector Assemblies represent another important piece of the sustainability and partnership jigsaw. They should make it a lot easier for communities of place and interest to bring their concerns into local policy making. The latest site update features more information about TSAs and recent ideas about how you can bring together sustainability and participation where you live. Site links Model Resolutions brings together Third Sector Assembly and Transition Towns guidelines. The Glossary includes a brief summary of TSAs' role alongside several related entries, such as those on LIOs, third sector participation, the participation imperative and sectoral integrity. For case study section details about the different local development of two TSAs and how they fit into existing engagement frameworks see Local Participation Opportunities and the Local S&P Report. What’s Happening? Sustainabilitylinks.org is the only website that brings together events from the sustainability and community work calendars. See the newly updated What’s On and Local What’s On pages.
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Regularly visiting www.sustainabilitylinks.org will help you think global and act local.
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E-mail - info@sustainabilitylinks.org.uk Post - Sustainability Links, 3 Park Road, Bedworth CV12 8LH |
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