Posts Tagged ‘community’
3nd European Fair on Education for Sustainable Development
Posted in Events by devin on December 22nd, 2008
Under the theme “Renewable Energy and Climate Change: Thematic Challenges to European Schools and Universities” , the 3nd European Fair on Education for Sustainable Development, is being organised by the Research and Transfer Centre “Applications of Life Sciences” of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and the Centre for Sustainable Construction (ZzB) Hamburg, under the auspices of the RCE Hamburg and Region.
The RCE Hamburg and Region is part of a global network of Regional Centres of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development (RCEs) coordinated by the United Nations University. The aims of the 3rd European Fair on Education for Sustainable Development are threefold:
i. to provide European organisations with an opportunity to display and present their works (i.e. policies research, activities, practical projects) as they relate to education for, with and about the environment with a focus on renewable energy and climate issues;
Tags: community, education, European Fair, sustainable development
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HomeZones Community Streetscapes
Posted in Models, RDAG by Kate Archdeacon on December 4th, 2008
HomeZones or Woonerf (Dutch) are grassroots, community-initiated streetscapes designed to develop and build community connectedness and safety by slowing motorised traffic and bringing human-scale activity back to the street.
Tags: community, new behaviours, Transport
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Creative Communities
Posted in Models, RDAG by Kate Archdeacon on December 1st, 2008
Amongst other initiatives, Creative Communities is an organisation that has encouraged street reclamation and social community activism. Their approach is used in many cities around the world - it is useful to any urban neighbourhood where cars are seen as a problem.
Tags: community, new behaviours, Transport
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Peats Ridge Festival
Posted in Models by devin on November 6th, 2008
What: Peats Ridge Sustainable Arts & Music Festival
When: 29 December 2008 to 1 January 2009
Where: Glenworth Valley, NSW – 1 hour north of Sydney
Tickets: through Moshtix
Peats Ridge is the first major event in Australia to run completely on renewable energy and winner of the NSW Government 2008 Green Globe Award for Environmental Sustainability across all industries.
Tags: community, environmental sustainability, Events, festival, Models, Peats Ridge, renewable energy
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Green College Network
Posted in Movements by devin on November 3rd, 2008
Green College Network is a shared platform for Colleges, Teachers, Students and Corporates sharing a Green Philosphy and a Green Job. Sign up to promote your profession and expertize, and work with wider community at Sign Up for Green College Network.
Tags: community, green academics, green jobs, network
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ABC News wants YOU to report from the future
Posted in Events by devin on October 28th, 2008
If you consider yourself as a citizen of the world and want to make contribution to the global community, ABC gives you the opportunity to make it happen! Roll your camera on and join the Earth2100 Project!
For more information on how to get involved visit the Earth2100.
Tags: ABC, community, earth, future, media, report, sustainability
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Seeking Papers in Energy Policy for Low Carbon Communities
Posted in Research by fedwards on August 27th, 2008
Call for Papers in Energy Policy
Special Issue: Low Carbon Communities
Guest Editors: Yacob Mulugetta, Tim Jackson, and Dan van der Horst
We welcome a range of different contributions to the theme ‘low carbon communities’, including for example the following:
• The role of planning in facilitating (or impeding) community owned energy services
• Low carbon housing initiatives
• Co-operative energy programmes
• Technologies and communities
• Partnership approaches and the role of the private sector
• Social enterprises and their place in communities
• Low carbon outcomes through communities of place
• Achieving low carbon outcomes through community of interest
• Values and outcomes associated with a low carbon community
• Accounting for direct and indirect energy in community-based initiatives
• Participation, ownership and responsibility
• Social cohesion through low carbon community schemes
• Institutions for community-based initiatives: divergent experiences
• Community networks and their value for decarbonisation
• Food miles, diet and health in communities
• Low carbon travelling initiatives (work and leisure)
• Legislation, policy and governance to encourage distributed energy
• Community action: cycling, car sharing schemes
• Economic incentives and market mechanisms for collective action
• Social innovation and social ownership
• Localisation and carbon reduction
• Co-production and co-use arrangements
• The cost of decentralisation and centralisation
• Urban municipal cases
We welcome contributions from practitioners, researchers and scholars – and we are happy to provide feedback or guidance on abstracts or draft documents. We particularly invite submissions that use a comparative analytic framework and use empirical evidence to address theoretical questions. Full papers will be 6000 to 8000 words in length. We are looking for about 12 papers.
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Tags: alternative energy, climate change, community, energy
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