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The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups active for, or interested in Sustainable livelihood in the UK. Learn about how communities positively impact through different projects and collaborations.

  • News There’s many that make a claim for the stabilising and liberating effect of basic income. Landworkers and farmers have one of the best cases, Daily Alternative (Oct 10, 2024)
  • News Arts and crafts give greater life satisfaction than work, survey suggests, theguardian.com (Aug 16, 2024)
  • News UK workers ‘should get day off’ if workplace is hotter than 30C, theguardian.com (Dec 12, 2023)

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Worker Co op Weekend 2016
Authors: Co-operatives UK, 2.32 mins.
Date: 2016-06-20

Events[edit | edit source]

Research[edit | edit source]

  • The Autonomy Institute, independent, progressive research organisation creatong data-driven tools and policy to strengthen democracy and build a fairer economy. added 15:17, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
  • Work Is Neighbourhood Business, Authors: Simon Duffy and Caroline Richardson, "...the authors argue that basic income provides us with an opportunity to treat work and career development as a natural function of communities and neighbourhoods." 18.07.22, added 16:55, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
  • Sustainable income standards: Towards a greener minimum? Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Donald Hirsch et al., December 2011
  • Co-production by people outside paid employment, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Findings, June 2006
  • The Work Foundation, not-for-profit organisation involved in research, some of which may concern aspects of sustainable livelihood, eg quality of working life, low carbon jobs, etc. W

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Sustainable livelihood UK and the climate emergency[edit | edit source]

A report commissioned by the 4 Day Week campaign from Platform London, and published in May 2021, found that shifting to a four-day working week without loss of pay could shrink the UK's carbon footprint by 127 million tonnes per year by 2025. This represents a reduction of 21.3%, and is more than the entire carbon footprint of Switzerland....Stop the clock, The environmental benefits of a shorter working week, [1]

Petitions[edit | edit source]

Allow people who make a living from the land to live where they work. bulworthyproject.org.uk

See also[edit | edit source]

local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages

External links

Work-life balance

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Created February 12, 2015 by Phil Green
Last modified November 1, 2024 by Phil Green
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