Sustaining the Environment

FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIETY

Sustaining the Environment

Aim

To promote understanding of the needs of the built and rural environments to encourage conservation of resources, reduction of waste and dissemination of practical models of environmental sustainability.

Priorities

• Changing life styles: education and training
• Alternative and complementary practice
• Conserving and sustaining the built and rural environments

Typical Activities

• Environment life style education and training
• Community green space conservation
• Community champion schemes
• Community volunteering
• Demonstrator or model projects
• Best practice schemes
• Horticultural therapy

Likely Outcomes

More people with an understanding of the issues affecting their environment
More community volunteering around environmental issues
Development of practical schemes for resource conservation and waste reduction
Preservation of the community environmental fabric