Page Aim
The page aims to bring together information about sustainability, participation and community events – and all those who are involved in them.
Outline Contents
Events are listed monthly.
Upcoming dates are shown on this page, while a more comprehensive listing for the whole year is available from the Documents Store.
Document Store
What’s On 2010
The sustainabilitylinks.org What’s On provides the only national listing bringing together sustainability, participation and community events.
The pdf version of this What’s On also contains details of events ranging from international UN summits and professional conferences to neighbourhood initiatives and students union fundraising gigs.
The omission of such information generally skews perceptions of all the work that many of us are already doing to begin addressing our world’s most pressing issues and shift to less unsustainable was of thinking and doing.
2010
UN International Year of Biodiversity
At the 1992 Earth Summit world leaders agreed the Convention on Biological Diversity, which included a target to 'significantly reduce' loss by the end of 2010. Countdown 2010 have published a calendar of related events for the year.
www.cbd.int/2010 www.countdown2010.net
European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion
16% of Europe's population live below the poverty line - across the EU's 27 member states that's 79 million people.
World Cup
1 Goal - Send my Friend to School runs until 11 July. It's 2010 yet around the world 75 million children do not go to school. Is the 2015 Education for All target set by world leaders achievable? The 1 Goal campaign uses the World Cup to renew international commitment. Free school packs are available.
Sustainability Courses
The Centre for Alternative Technology runs many courses every year. This What's On doesn't include those on topics likely to be offered elsewhere (eg the natural history of ponds or working with timber) or those of a more technical nature (eg professional water management or the installation of photovoltaic systems).
FOE Focus
FOE will be focusing on its climate change work including its Fix the Food Chain campaign.
Mondays
Suggested national meat-free day.
www.meat-free-monday.com
Organic Farm School
The Soil Association's Organic Farm School is a series of hands-on courses in growing your own food, cooking and rural crafts. The courses cater to all skill levels and provide the opportunity to learn from organic farmers with personal experience - from a one-day basic introduction to more professional expertise - in bee-keeping, vegetable growing, willow weaving, hedge laying or dry stone walling, and many others.
These courses impart the sort of living skills our grandparents took for granted, giving participants a closer connection with the natural world.
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