External links
Teaching and curricular related
Sustainable Schools, Sustainable Futures learning resource - A resource for teachers, it sets out the need for, and the nature of, a more sustainable future and the ways in which this can be both explores and realised in schools.
Teachmeet - for teachers to share good practice, practical innovations and personal insights in teaching with technology
Glow - ICT and learning, Glow is transforming the way the curriculum is delivered in Scotland
Tower Person Award for Consumer Educators
European Programme in Consumer Affairs - Intensive programme and summer course
Skolemagasinet - Norwegian news on educational materials and school development (in Norwegian). Section on understanding consumers.
Earthscan's Curricular for the 21st Century - see some curricular put together by Earthscan authors
Projects and initiatives
Proposal for Millennium Consumption Goals (to go with the MDGs) for the richest 20% of the word's population in all countries.
Academic Impact - a global initiative that aligns institutions of higher education with the United Nations in actively supporting ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, literacy, sustainability and conflict resolution.
The BINK project - Educational Institutions and Sustainable Consumption
Enhancing the Connectivity Between Research and Policy-Making in Sustainable Consumption (CORPUS) is supported under the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
Policies to Promote Sustainable Consumption Patterns (EUPOPP) project funded under the 7th Framework Program of the European Union.
Elpis - Think, Connect, Act. Social networking with a purpose.
DOLCETA is an on-line consumer education site with 27 country versions in 21 languages financed by the European Commission.
Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability - DESIS Network. Networks, projects, blogs and social innovation examples in China, Africa, Brazil, Colombia, Europe and USA.
B Corporation - businesses making money and doing good
Life-Link Friendship Schools - promoting contact and cooperation between young people around the world and their schools, through active participation in shared projects, vital for our time.
Architects of Change - Interactive case studies, videos, blogs and more.
Mediaterre - L'informationmondiale pour le développement durable. In French.
Enhancing the Connectivity Between Research and Policy-Making in Sustainable Consumption (CORPUS) is supported under the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)
Wikiprogress - The Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies
We Value - value-based indicators
RESOLVE - ESRC Research Group on Lifestyles Values and Environment
SPREAD Sustainable Lifestyles 2050 aims to develop a vision of sustainable lifestyles for Europe in 2050.
Organisations
The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts
Pure CSR - Making business strategies concerning social responsibility into vibrant and profitable strategies.
DG SANCO - EU Directorate General for Health and Consumers.
Akatu institute in Brazil - working on conscious consumption. Website mainly in Portuguese but more is coming in Spanish and English.
CIUDADES SEMILLA - Health, Responsible Consumption and Environment Network in Latin America. Including the PERL sponsored Virtual Classrooms. In Spanish and English.
