London Sustainability Weeks

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• London Sustainability Weeks
• Love London
• June 2007
• How did we do?
• What next?

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Chris Church

• Chair of trustees for London 21 Sustainability
  Network

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London Sustainability Weeks

• Two weeks to promote and celebrate grass roots
  action (June 3rd 17th)
• About 250 events

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London Sustainability Weeks - five years
experience

• An established brand in the sustainability
  sector
• Support (financial and practical) from a growing
  number of private and public sector agencies
• Helps promote a wide range of activities to a
  more substantial audience
• Helps develop new audiences (e.g. BAME activity
  and borough-level initiatives)
• Can be surprisingly integrative of everything
  from radical actions to business-focused
  seminars
• A rallying point for those already active.

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So what happened?

• The big events the Green Fairs
• The local events
• The special events
• REVOLVE Flagship launch project on World
  Environment Day
• Private sector
• Public sector
• VC sector
• The regular events
• The innovations

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Into the future?

• Those involved (local councils, key partners
  etc.) all seem to think that this work should
  continue.
• A more comprehensive evaluation will be done to
  look at the outcomes and impacts
• A need to reflect the changing circumstances

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Lets not forget that

• The environment / sustainability sector is
  changing and developing
• Climate change the main issue of public concern
• A multiplicity of messages
• Varying engagement amongst the partners
• We support events but cannot run quality
  control how can we ensure the educational
  messages dont get lost?

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Moving forward?

• Broadening appeal
• Educational or celebrational
• Building engagement
• The environmental message has a long way to go
  before it can be considered mainstreamed to a
  point where most people are responding.

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The challenges and opportunities

• Secure and sustainable funding
• Developing the partners network
• Building the skills of those involved
• Some clear keystone events
• Highlighting The best of London

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The challenge for London 21

• is to integrate this with our year round work.
• Why? Its our mission
• London 21 supports grassroots and disadvantaged
  communities in acting to create a sustainable
  London.
• London 21 shares information and promotes good
  practice, raises awareness and recognises that
  sustainable development is a shared
  responsibility strengthened by collective
  action."
• London Sustainability Weeks helps us do all this.

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And finally

• A big
• Thank You!
• See you next year!