Environmental Sustainability Initiatives in North America and Europe: Churchill Fellowship report by John Hepburn

This Churchill Fellowship focused on the creation of alternatives - exploring a small sample of local community environmental sustainability initiatives in the US and UK.

The objective of John Hepburn's Churchill Fellowship was to explore non-profit, community based sustainability initiatives that create employment through environmentally regenerative projects, and that also integrate concepts of social justice and democracy into their organisational processes.

This fellowship report focuses on lessons learnt that might be of use for people who are working in, or wanting to start community based sustainability initiatives in Australia.

The key topics that were explored include:

• Job creation and income generation opportunities through environmentally regenerative projects (most commonly waste minimisation and recycling);
• Integration of concepts of environmental sustainability into organisational systems;
• Integration of concepts of social justice (social dimensions of sustainability) into organisational systems;
• Capacity building for environmental and social change organisations to become more effective.

The Report contains a list of key findings and recommedations and a discussion of broader policy issues.

The report is available on the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust website

For further information

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