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Sharing Community Is Key to Bringing About Sustainable Consumption
Green Action Week is a global campaign involving more than 40 nongovernmental and community-based organisations that work towards supporting sustainable consumption. They do this under the theme of Sharing Community. The notion of Sharing Community is a principle-led movement towards building a world in which consumption delivers benefits for the common good and in which there is equality and respect for all, as well as social and economic justice. A Sharing Community is characterised by collaboration and a focus on building relationships to overcome common challenges.
Green Action Week Acts on Many Fronts to Bring About Sustainable Consumption
Green Action Week 2024 was alive with exciting campaigns hosted around the world focused on the many aspects of consumption that we need to shift to allow a sustainable world to emerge. Of the 40-plus participants, some focused on sharing information on sustainable consumption and best practices to bring it about. This work needs to happen at many levels – with governments, with industry and with communities and individuals.
Sharing Community: Energy
Exploring a sustainable energy future through a participatory photo essay in Mexico.
Sharing Community in Uganda
A photo-story of a community seed fair in the words of Olivia, Mukasa, and Mwanga.
FILM: Sharing Community in the Philippines
This is a film about farmers in the Philippines defending their livelihoods and their environment against unsustainable consumption by bringing back ‘Bayanihan’ – a Filipino tradition of community sharing and unity.
FILM: Sharing Community in Brazil
This is a film about Brazilians pushing back against unsustainable consumerism by creating “sharing and solidarity networks” between farmers in the field, shoppers in a cafe, and children in school.