Sick of Green Preaching?

The charity behind the website, Projects in Partnership, developed the website out of frustration that discussions around sustainability themes were polarised and very often disconnected from lifestyle choices.

NOW with considerable interest growing in the website, plans are afoot to develop an outreach programme that will bring together the many commentators, representatives and experts from workplaces, households, commerce, governmental and academic departments who crave the grownupgreen approach.

www.grownupgreen.org.uk has spent the last year building up its library of features and news items on key sustainability themes. Material designed to encourage ‘grown up’ discussion on themes including energy, waste, living space, transport and know-how has been commissioned over the last twelve months providing the basis for an ambitious outreach programme.

Project Manager Lorraine Mirham said: “I am really looking forward to squaring up to the opportunities we have to develop grownupgreen.

“We have concentrated on connecting with people and organisations who share our desire for a ‘grownup’ discussion about the challenges that face our environment. We now have the exciting task of drawing those interests together to ensure that expertise and guidance is available for us as householders to make lifestyle choices based on a balanced debate.

“I believe UK households are increasingly aware that something has to change to address global sustainability issues. What we need is timely, realistic conversations that are relevant to us as diverse households with differing needs. Sustainable solutions are not necessarily ‘one-size fits all’. Preaching simply won’t work. We need to understand how we fit into the equation and know when we are making a difference”.

Further Information

www.grownupgreen.org.uk is an interactive website that aims to encourage people to think and act in ways which protect and improve the natural environment and shows how sustainable development is relevant to all of us.

grownupgreen is for people who want to make well-informed choices on such matters as renewable energy supply, managing household waste, sensible purchasing of consumer goods, food supply, public and private transport, and much more.

grownupgreen is produced by Projects in Partnership, a registered UK charity.

Our formal charitable aims are “to advance public education in the protection and improvement of the natural environment and to raise awareness of activities which enable society to develop in a sustainable way.”

We fully support the Brundtland Definition of sustainable development agreed in 1987 by the World Commission on Environment and Development (the Brundtland Commission) – “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”

We believe that to have truly sustainable development, not only the environment but also economic and social issues must be taken fully into account.

A Trustee Board manages Projects in Partnership; they are unpaid and meet quarterly.