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Action Town project wrap-up: Podcasts now available!

The lessons learnt of Action Town are now presented in short videos. These attractive podcasts were produced to summarize core results and messages of small scale SCP projects conducted by the National Focal Points, but also about the overall Action Town project. Here you can see and listen within a couple of minutes, how Janis [...]

Action Town organizes successful final conference

Under the motto „SMART CSOs“ the final conference of the Action Town project took successfully place in London on 14 and 15 March 2011. About 100 participants came together to not only hear about the results of the four exploratory actions conducted by Action Towns’ National Focal Points but also to discuss ways forward to [...]

Participatory SCP policy assessment in Latvia: Green Liberty conducts Action Town pilot project

Latvia is considered to be one of the greenest EU member-states, in the same time data show that household consumption pressures on environment are increasing. During the last 15 years per capita ecological footprint has more than doubled. The consumption clusters with greatest impact on environment are food, housing and mobility. The project Participatory SCP [...]

Conference “An emerging Community of Practice in Indicators, Sustainability and Values”

The International Conference seeks to provide a unique 3-day arena for discussing unmet needs of a wide range of organizations – including businesses, civil society organizations (CSOs), social enterprises and funders – to measure aspects of their work at the project level, and especially those which are based on human values. A major driver for [...]

Can you imagine a more sustainable lifestyle? – Film competition open

The Partnership for Education and Research about Responsible Living (PERL) and Action Town coordinator CSCP is organising a student film competition on sustainable lifestyles. Winning films will be posted on UNEP’S Creative Gallery on Sustainable Communications and presented at two international conferences in 2011. The competition is open from now till January 8th! Please find [...]