by kultur.work | Apr 29, 2020
Participatory Budgeting (PB) combines direct democracy with representative democracy; it is a process of democratic deliberation and decision-making, in which ordinary people decide how to allocate part of a municipal or public budget. In PB Cascais, the...
by kultur.work | Apr 29, 2020
From today to tomorrow is a project on behalf of future generations. “Because thinking about the generations of tomorrow means thinking about a more just society in which all generations are entitled to the same human dignity.” The project provides studies...
by kultur.work | Apr 28, 2020
Project Skyline is a feasibility study that is looking at the possibility of communities managing the landscape that surrounds their town or village. The project is being run by The Green Valleys Community Interest Company (TGV CIC) with funding from the Friends...
by kultur.work | Oct 19, 2015
Image (modifed): courtesy of Barn Images / flickr.com (CC0) Legislation Lab is an online platform for enabling public discussion of upcoming legislation. International in reach, it offers citizens easy access to legislation – as well as examples of related experiences...
by Ann Thorpe | Oct 3, 2015
The UN adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in New York in September 2015. Former FDSD Trustee Janos Zlinsky was active in the development of these Goals as part of a UN Open Working Group (OWG) formed in 2013,...
by kultur.work | Aug 9, 2015
FDSD’s first programme of work, 2009 to 2013, culminated in a Manifesto for Democracy and Sustainability, the guiding principles being: We cherish sustainability: meeting the needs of people now without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own...
by Andrea Westall | Apr 26, 2015
Climate Knowledge Brokers (CKB) Group is an emerging alliance of leading global, regional and national knowledge brokers specialising in climate and development information. They launched a Manifesto on September 17th 2015, to better acknowledge the critical role of...
by Andrea Westall | Dec 20, 2014
Carbon Conversations “offer a supportive group experience that helps people halve their personal carbon footprint through facilitated discussions.” The Surefoot Effect, a community interest company, manages the Carbon Conversations programme. It also delivers...
by Andrea Westall | Oct 20, 2014
The Aarhus Convention (UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters) has been ratified by 46 countries and the EU. It is rights-based, enabling current and future people to access...
by Andrea Westall | Oct 20, 2014
World Wide Views on Global Warming (WWWViews) aimed to involve the world’s citizens in global policy-making by bringing together 4000 citizens in 38 countries to deliberate for a day on the 2009 UN climate change negotiations. The ideas were pulled together into...
