Sunday, December 4, 2016

A PROPOSAL FOR A SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATEIVE

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This proposal has been prepared against the background that increasingly communities are being called upon to devise and promote more sustainable lifestyles and community development strategies. All of this is going on against the backdrop of the threat of climate change, diminishing resources and changing social dynamics within communities brought on by these and other factors. Sustainable community development is now an imperative and community cooperative enterprises appear to offer a productive way forward. It is no longer something that can be put off until later. Later is now!

THE COOPERATIVE'S PURPOSE
 The proposed Community Enterprise Sustainable Living Cooperative will be an independent standalone community not-for-profit enterprise/s that fosters and facilitates discrete community initiatives devised to have sustainable outcomes. Likewise it is proposed that via advocating and promoting sustainable community development focused upon sustainable living projects it will be possible to address emerging social issues.

The aim is to inspire, motivate and influence people across the community, the private corporate sector and in government – Federal, State & Local – to not only become involved in creating sustainable communities but also engage with the sustainability concept in a community context. .... Click here to read more

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