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Suscom
Welcome to the Suscom website. This website covers
and supports the work of
Community Environment
Associates (CEA), a consultancy specialising in policy and
practice work on environmental and sustainable development issues
at the local level;
Chris Church,
Co-Director of CEA
Chris Church is a highly-experienced trainer and
facilitator. He delivers training through CEA (see CEA Training
& Facilitation) but is also a trainer for:
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Talk Action (on Facilitation,
Communication & Climate Change, and Working with Communities)
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COIN – the Climate
Outreach information Network (on various aspects of Climate
Change)
Chris is also a Director of the new ‘Mapping
for Change’ social enterprise, which offers a range of
mapping and GIS services to public and third sector bodies.
Jan McHarry,
Co-Director of CEA
You can find a summary of Chris's current work
here, and Jan's here.
Up-to-date stuff can be found on LinkedIn,
on the LocalGlobalGreen
blog and occasionally on Twitter
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The site also covers and links to a range of relevant
organisations and materials on local social, community and sustainable
development in the UK and elsewhere. You can download a range of
materials and subscribe to relevant newsletters.
You can access:
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Environmental Justice, Equality and
Diversity
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Faiths and the Environment
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Climate Change
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Ideas on current action on Sustainable Consumption
and Production
Some recent materials that you may find useful include:
- The Sustainability Challenge: implications
for chief executives in the third sector
This is a new publication from the Association of
Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO),
launched in April 2009. Chris Church co-wrote this
with Steve Evison, Director of another consultancy,
Resources for Change, with whom CEA are doing several
pieces of work. You can download this from here
- Sustainable Living, Sustainable Homes: Transforming
housing systems to tackle climate change and promote
sustainability
A presentation on current issues around housing and
sustainability, delivered to the conference of the European
civil Society Platform on Sustainable Consumption and
Production in Wuppertal, Germany, March 2009. You can
download it here
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A general set of recommendations on what councils
and voluntary sector bodies should be doing to build
engagement and activity around climate change can
be accessed here.
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Action
on Climate Change: From a Divided Europe to a Common
Purpose by Chris Church and Tamara Malkova,
Director of Green Dossier, looks at the role of NGOs
in tackling climate change across Europe
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You can also access:
- Publications and documents
– a range of material that can be downloaded
- Useful contacts - links
to and information about various organisations related to
Sustainable Communities
- The London 21 website
- London 21 is a charity working on sustainable development
issues in London; Chris Church is Chair of Trustees
- The London Sustainable
Development Commission; Chris Church is a member of
this Commission
- The ANPED (Northern
Alliance for Sustainability) website. ANPED is a network
of NGOs working on sustainable development across Europe
and Chris Church is on the Board of Trustees
- Links to sites on Sustainable
Communities issues et al.
You can subscribe to:
For current updates and ideas,
check (or subscribe to) the
Localglobalgreen blog - We use this to post new ideas
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