Workshop 1 - Sustainability - Getting Practical

Date: 
Saturday, June 26, 2010 - 14:15 to 15:30

This interactive workshop will focus on how co-operation can help mitigate the impact of climate change. The speakers will discuss how co-operatives can and are helping their members and the local community to change their behaviour, how they can establish and benefit from community owned renewables and how co-operatives can build more resilient communities for an uncertain future. The workshop will focus on the practical actions that you, your co-operative and its members can take on a range of sustainability issues.

Contributors will include:

Michelle Lockwood
Co-operatives UK, Greener Together

Andrew Shadrake
Dartmoor Circle Co-operative

Co-operatives UK Limited, Holyoake House, Hanover Street, Manchester, M60 0AS.
Registered in England as an Industrial and Provident Society under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965. Registered no. 2783R.