Category Archives: Embedding sustainable development

Green Communities: turning ideas into action event

By Joe Taylor | Published: 17 November, 2009

Green Communities is a programme from the Energy Saving Trust that aims to support, facilitate and promote community energy projects.  Whether you want to improve the energy efficiency of a community building, install renewable energy technology to generate your own energy, or promote energy saving – the Energy Saving Trust offers the knowledge, experience and [...]

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Measuring Social Value Conference – share your views on SROI

By Joe Taylor | Published: 21 October, 2009

“There is more and more interest in measuring and valuing the impact of organisations on society. The Measuring Social Value Project is hosting a conference where third sector organisations, commissioners and investors will come together to share experiences of how Social Return on Investment (SROI) – one of the most exciting innovations in this field [...]

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Third Sector Climate Change Declaration

By Conor Ritchie | Published: 15 June, 2009

Government Ministers helped ‘relaunch’ the Third Sector Climate Change Declaration today (15 June) at the RSA in central London.
Huw Irranca-Davies MP (Minister for Marine and Natural Environment, Defra) and Joan Ruddock MP (Minister of State, DECC) joined a range of signatories, both new and old, to reaffirm their commitment to deliver behaviour change at [...]

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Accounting for sustainability

By Simon Berry | Published: 27 May, 2009

This is a significant publication as far as Defra’s third sector team is concerned as is brings sustainability issues into ALL third sector organisations (not just those who deal with sustainability and the environment) and it brings them in at a strategic level. It is aimed at directors of finance and looks at how and [...]

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EAC celebration event

By Simon Berry | Published: 6 May, 2009

I’ve just got back from a very enjoyable and productive day at the Every Action Counts celebration event at the Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre. I was able to re-establish contact with old friends and several people that I felt I knew quite well but had never met.
Hilary Benn, Defra’s Secretary of State, addressed [...]

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Percentage of organisations with environmental policy doubles

By Simon Berry | Published: 30 January, 2009

Defra-backed survey from Every Action Counts indicates percentage of organisations with an environmental policy has doubled from 27% to 52% during 2007. The press release (Word format) from Every Action Counts states:
The survey, commissioned by national green body, Every Action Counts (EAC), follows the publication in 2007 of Every Action Counts: Changing the Way We [...]

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