Links
This list is not in prioritized or categorized order.
- Nice Mail, News and information about Consumer Education, http://www.norden.org/nicemail/ |
| - The Ideas bank, The Ideas Bank promotes innovations that lead to a better environment and stronger communities, globally as well as locally. We do it by presenting good examples from the real world, promoting new dialogues and contributing to positive visions of the future. http://www.idebanken.no/index.php |
| - INFOCONSUMO, Information, documentation and advising centre. http://www.infoconsumo.es |
- International Environment Forum, The International Environment Forum, through its global membership and expertise, is working to advance environmental stewardship and sustainable development at all levels and offers its support to the international community of nations, which has both recognised the importance of the protection and wise management of the environment and encouraged the involvement of non-governmental organizations. http://www.bcca.org/ief/home.htm
- Financial Services Authority, The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is an independent non-governmental body, given statutory powers by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. We are a company limited by guarantee and financed by the financial services industry. www.fsa.gov.uk
- IFHE (International Federation for Home Economics), This is an association of teachers of home economics. Many of them deal with topics of consumer citviizenship as a part of their research and pedagogical work. http://www.ifhe.org/
| - European Network for Consumer Education,www.e-cons.net |
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- Looking for Likely Alternatives pilot project (LOLA), The Looking for Likely Alternatives pilot project (LOLA) is a collaborative effort between Sustainable Everyday Project (SEP - http://www.sustainable-everyday.net/ ) and several CCN partners. LOLA is a project which develops a didactic process for searching, evaluating and documenting cases of social innovation in order to raise sustainablity awareness For information and the opportunity to contribute your ideas see the LOLA blog at: www.sustainable-everyday.net/lolaprocess/ |
- New economic foundation, - nef is an independent 'think and do' tank. We believe in economics as if people and the planet mattered.
http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/default.aspx
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- New Earth, "New Earth is a global fund for community-driven development, and a way for citizens of the world to encourage companies that engage stakeholders to increasingly improve their social and environmental impacts. Any voluntary association anywhere on earth can participate, receive project funding, use the free and many-lingual web system to tell its stories, and co-govern the global funding flows with other participating communities." www.newearth.info |
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- New, free, monthly e-newsletter on SOLIDARITY AND SUSTAINABILITY, Hello ... this is to announce a new, free, monthly e-newsletter on SOLIDARITY AND SUSTAINABILITY: "The Social and Ecological Impacts of Religious Patriarchy" The objective is to analyze the key obstacles that inhibit progress toward human solidarity and sustainable development, and to identify incentives to overcome such obstacles. The United Nations "Millennium Development Goals" (MDGs) will serve as a point of reference. You can view the first issue (Volume 1 Number 1) by clicking on http://www.pelican-consulting.com/solisust01.html I would be grateful for any comments or suggestions. You are cordially invited to subscribe by sending a blank email to: solidarity-sustainability-subscribe@googlegroups.com , Please forward this invitation to others who might be interested. Luis T. Gutierrez, PhD, Solidarity & Sustainability e-Newsletter |
- Sustainable Everyday Project (SEP), At the CCN conference in Bratislava there were a lot of exhibitions. One of them, and the biggest, was the Sustainable Everyday Project. This exhibition is developed by Ezio Manzini at the Polytechnic Milan University. The exhibition was presented by Ezio Manzini, Francois Jegou and Andrea Mendoza. Here is the link to the exhibition: http://www.sustainable-everyday.net/
| - "Mall-aise", A look at shopping malls in America: www.efn.org/~hkrieger/mallaise.htm |
| - The International Standards Organisations working report on social responsibility indicators, Prepared by the ISO advisory group on Social Responsibility, http://www.iso.org/iso/en/info/Conferences/SRConference/pdf/Working%20Report%20on%20SR(Apr30).pdf |
- The UN Division for Sustainable Development Web Site, The Division for Sustainable Development promotes sustainable development as the substantive secretariat to the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) and through technical cooperation and capacity building at international, regional and national levels.
www.un.org/esa/sustdev
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- Nordic Council of ministers consumer research database, Nordic Council of ministers consumer research database which was opened in November 2002 and is still being developed. The link to the database is : http://www.norden.org/konsumentforskning/ or http://www.norden.org/konsument/2/start.asp It holds information's about 364 consumer researchers and they are hoping to at least double that number in the near future, as well as including concrete information's about consumer research projects. The database is in 5 languages. Their newsletter can be found at: http://www.norden.org/konsument/doc/nh0401.doc |
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- The International Journal of Consumer Studies, The International Journal of Consumer Studies provides an international forum for academic and research papers with a focus on how consumers can enhance their security and well being. It publishes articles of interest to an international audience and at the leading edge of consumer research throughout the world. The Journal invites submissions for a forthcoming Special Issue, publishing in March 2005, on Consumer Consultation and Participation in Policy Making. Call for paper at this site: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1470-6423&site=1 |
- Decade for education for sustainable development, The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2005-2014 the Decade for education for sustainable development. For information on this and other issues related to: citizenship education, consumer education, environmental education, sustainable consumption, etc see www.unesco.org
| - United Nations Environmental Program, The United Nations Environmental Program has many interesting items about sustainable consumption available on its website: www.unep.org
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