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Sustainability Links is the national information service linking sustainability, participation and communities.

 

    This site has been developed for your use.

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.  

 

   "Believe it or not, all the building blocks are now in place to help deliver sustainability at the local level - both official and grassroots, and Sustainability Links is there to help people make those connections and in the process empower real change on the ground"

        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.

 

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.

  

 

FAVOURITES

LATEST SITE UPDATE: April 2010.  To find out what's new since your last visit, site deadlines and S&P Report publication dates go to the Website Contents page, where you'll also find  a detailed overview of just what's where on this site. 

The arguments of the climate change sceptics predictably resurfaced prior to the Copenhagen summit.  But their denial should be considered in a wider scientific and historical context. A low profile but immensely significant development took place during 2009, when scientific expertise identified a new epoch in geological time.  It is indeed perverse that the climate change dissenters - most of whom represent vested interests rather than the scientific community - claim climate and carbon cycles have not been damaged over the past 200 years without challenging the extensive damage caused by human activity elsewhere in the natural world.  For more information see the anthropocene epoch entry on the The Glossary page.

Stay in touch

Regularly visiting www.sustainabilitylinks.org will help you think global and act local.

What laws are councils having to implement to give localities a much greater role in local decision making?  How can localisation help our communities address the worst impacts of global environmental, economic and social decline?  See National Initiatives.

Do climate change and the other major threats to life on Earth concern you?  Are you trying to do something about it?  Are you involved in your area's LSP or locality working initiatives? sustainabilitylinks.org can now help you to network with others like yourself.  See Helpful Lobbying Tools.  

So why do you need Sustainability Links?  And how can you promote S&P where you live?  See page 03.

 So why do you need SustainabilityLINKS?  And how can you promote S&P where you live? National Initiatives.

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