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== Sustainability initiatives == | == Sustainability initiatives == | ||
*[http://www.lowcarboncommunities.org/ Low Carbon Communities Network] | *[http://www.lowcarboncommunities.org/ Low Carbon Communities Network] |
Revision as of 07:32, 21 September 2015
Sustainability initiatives
- Low Carbon Communities Network
- Low-Impact Living Initiative, dedicated to helping protect the global environment by promoting sustainable alternatives to various aspects of everyday life
- Project Dirt, active community linking environmental projects
- Transition Network, based in Totnes, Devon, includes many initiatives across the UK, as well in other countries
Campaigns
Women’s Environmental Network, campaigning on environmental and health issues from a female perspective
Initiatives by topic
Arts, sport and culture
Common Ground - Encounters Arts, Inspiring creativity, dialogue and change - Folk and Roots, online guide to the Folk, Roots and Acoustic Scene around the UK
Sport and sustainability: Lidos in the United Kingdom - Sustainability in Sport
Resources: Street Party, promoting street parties, which are a chance for people to enjoy their street without traffic for a day, and encouraging neighbourliness across the UK
News and comment
2013: Introducing… The Cantignorus Chorus! [1]
2006: Idle thoughts [2] ; Idling benches and the Sheffield Riddle Trail [3]
Coasts
Living Seas, The Wildlife Trusts - Marine Conservation Society, site includes the Good Beach Guide - Blue New Deal, "...stronger economies for UK coastal communities through a healthier marine environment."
Resources:
- No Regrets, Planning for Sea Level Rise and Climate, Change and Investing in Adaptation, A Good Practice Guide climatesoutheast.org.uk
- Protecting and sustainably using the marine environment, information from gov.uk
Communities online
Streetlife, social network for local communities - Talk About Local, project to give people in their communities a powerful online voice
Resources
- 45 provocative propositions about using social technology, David Wilcox, 2009
- addiply, helping communities online become 'not-for-loss'
- Editors' Code of Practice, Press Complaints Commission
- Openly Local, making local government more transparent. Site includes a Hyperlocal Sites in UK & Ireland map and directory
- Tips for creating, developing and promoting local community sites localcommunities wiki
Research: interview with Hugh Flouch from HarringayOnline.com (PDF file, approx 2.08MB), 2009
News and comment: Digital communities: enabling and participating, (date not found) Report of the Digital Government Review
Community currencies activism
LetsLink UK UK LETS and Complementary Currencies Development Agency (unable to find instances of recent updating to the information, 08:05, 10 November 2014 (PST))
Community safety
Neighbourhood & Home Watch Network - Victim Support
Wikipedia: Neighbourhood Watch (United Kingdom): The Neighbourhood Watch scheme in the United Kingdom is a partnership where people come together to make their communities safer. It involves the Police, Community Safety departments of local authorities, other voluntary organisations and, above all, individuals and families who want to make their neighbourhoods better places to live. It aims to help people protect themselves and their properties and to reduce the fear of crime by means of improved home security, greater vigilance, accurate reporting of suspicious incidents to the police and by fostering a community spirit.
Resources:
- Policing 2.0, Policing in the 21 st Century. Are you ready to harness the potential of the social web? Policing 2.0 Conference 18th October 2010 Catherine Howe (on slideshare)
Health
NHS Sustainable Development Unit
Wikipedia: Green Gym: The Conservation Volunteers' Green Gym programme aims to provide people with a way to enhance their fitness and health while taking action to improve the outdoor environment. It can be seen as enabling people to get fit who would not normally attend a conventional gym or sports centre.
Apps for sustainability: Splashpath, find your local swimming pools
Blogs: The Future Patient, A manifesto for patient-led health and healthcare - UK nurse against climate change
Resources:
- Resources from the UK Healthy Cities Network
- Sustainable development: The key to tackling health inequalities, Sustainable Development Commission, 2010
News and comment
2015: Top doctor: social inequality in UK costing 550 lives every day, September 10 [4]
Sharing
BorrowMyDoggy - UK Cohousing Network
Resources
- How To...Set up a Tool Library in Your Community, from Make Do And Mend
News:
- 2014: Law must change to accommodate the Airbnb economy, finds new review, November 26 [5]
- 2013: The Definitive List of Sharing Sites..? February 13 [6]
- 2012: Cromford Give or Take a success, 2 - 3 [7]
News sources
Sharing Economy Review, An independent review of the Sharing Economy for the UK Government
See also
- Biodiversity UK
- Climate action UK
- Community and voluntary action UK
- Community energy UK
- Community involvement UK
- Cycling UK
- Education UK
- Environment quality UK
- Ethical consumerism UK
- Food UK
- Localism UK
- Open spaces UK
- Opposing supermarket developments and promoting local shops in the UK
- Road safety UK
- Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle UK
- Resources UK
- Rural sustainability UK
- Social inclusion UK
- Sustainable livelihood UK
- Sustainable transport UK
- Towards sustainable economies UK
- Trees, woodland and forest UK
- UK sustainable community events
- Urban sustainability UK
Interwiki links
Wikipedia: United Kingdom
References
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