Leading-edge sustainability workshops
Sustainability is now every policymaker’s business. The challenge is no longer how to make the delivery of mainstream policy ‘greener’, but how to unlock new and sustainable kinds of work, lifestyle and community development. As our region develops the integrated North East Strategy, the time is ripe to debate how our region can lead in responding to challenges such as:
• Reducing in UK carbon emissions by 80% by 2050
• Delivering on the emerging consensus to rebalance the UK economy and a drive to build more than 3 million homes across the UK over the next 15 years
• Meeting a new duty on local and regional bodies to promote sustainable economic growth.
Sustaine, the independent champion for sustainable development in North East England, in association with the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS) and sustainability strategists Beyond Green, invite you to take part in two technical workshops exploring how we can work towards achieving a sustainable future for our region.
Each workshop will provide a mix of keynote speakers, regional respondents and focused workgroups, creating an interactive environment to work towards developing practical sustainable development outcomes for our region.
Workshop 1: How shall we live?
14th April, 13.00-17.00, Great North Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne
How will sustainable living shape the region’s future? What kind of lives might we lead? What might need to change to make sustainable living more attractive? What new economic and work opportunities might emerge? How can the region as a whole, and communities within it, effect change?
The workshop begins with a keynote address from Joanna Yarrow (Beyond Green) followed by regional responses from John Adams (Sustaine) and Tynedale Transition Towns.
Workshop 2: Where shall we live?
28th April, 9.00 – 13.00, Rivergreen Centre, Durham.
Homes, places and communities have a profound influence on how we live. But development needs to be about more than ‘housing’ and ‘jobs’? Where are the opportunities and constraints, across the region and locally? What does that mean for how we plan, design and deliver new neighbourhoods, and how we regenerate existing places?
Our keynote address is provided by Malmo City Council, Sweden. Malmo’s experience offers a best-practice example of joined-up, sustainable regeneration in an industrial city. Tom Warburton (Homes and Communities Agency) and Tim Bailey (Xsite Architects) will offer a series of responses from the region.
Published 30th June 2010
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