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Article Five
How can we create a more sustainable UK?
The Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) is launching 'Breakthroughs for the 21st Century', an exciting new project for 2009 - and they would like you to be a part of it. They aim to bring together some of the best ideas that will truly put the UK on the path to becoming a sustainable society – one which is strong, healthy and just, and lives within environmental limits. The Commission plans to showcase these ideas in a publication and at a high-level event next summer.
Jonathon Porritt, Chair of the SDC, comments "Though there has undoubtedly been some progress towards sustainable development, all the principal indicators reveal how slow that progress has been. There is plenty of 'good practice' dotted around, but not yet at a scale that promises the kind of transformation we’ll need over the course of the next few years. In our opinion, this is not due to a lack of good ideas. There is no shortage of proposals for innovative new policies, technologies and practical shifts in behaviour. So we at the Sustainable Development Commission want to bring together the most compelling and creative of these ideas - those that we think can really help us move forward. We want a dynamic and hard-hitting collection of breakthrough ideas brought together in one place that will really inspire and motivate policy makers and others to catalyse change."
Ther SDC invites you to complete a short questionnaire to share your views on the biggest challenges we face in making a sustainable UK society a reality, and your one ‘breakthrough’ idea that could help move us towards that goal. This shouldn’t take more than 15 minutes of your time. The closing date for contributions is 7th November 2008. All contributions will be appropriately acknowledged. The idea is not to steal everyone’s good ideas – rather, the SDC want to use their position as the government’s independent advisor on sustainable development to explore and showcase some of the great ideas that are out there.