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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 ‘Mapping
for Change’ social enterprise, which offers a range of
mapping and GIS services to public and third sector bodies.
He is a member of the London
Sustainable Development Commission and a Trustee of London
21.
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 from Chris can be found on social networking sites
LinkedIn and
Fiery Spirits, on
the LocalGlobalGreen
blog and occasionally on Twitter
.
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:
Latest News
For up-to-the-minute (well, almost!) information check
LinkedIn
and Fiery Spirits.
We have just finished a report on the role
of Civil Society Organisations and Sustainable Consumption
for the EU-funded ‘Action Town’ research programme
run by WWF, ANPED and others. You can download it here.
Recent work
includes:
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"Hard to Reach? Diversity and Environment"
- a report published by Capacity
Global, and co-written with Maria Adebowale in September
2009. This report looks at why diversity is an issue
for the environmental sector and why it is important
that the environmental movement within the UK develops
to become genuinely inclusive. We are running training
related to this work - see here
for details
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Mapping action on Climate Change - Chris is
currently working with Mapping for Change on two innovative
maps of local action on climate change. The first one,
covering North Dorset, is online here
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The Sustainability Challenge: implications
for chief executives in the third sector. This
is a 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 Resources for Change, a consultancy, with
whom CEA are doing several pieces of work. You can download
this from here
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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.
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