Global Action Plan International

Project Green is a joint venture of NOMAD Films (New York and Paris) and Global Action Plan Sweden.

It's a sustainable filmmaking initiative offering selected filmmakers the information, resources and tools necessary to incorporate sustainable practices into their work – and then an opportunity to share that work with an audience of experts, industry professionals and fans of the cinema. 

Excerpt from an inaugural address, May 2010

New forms of learning

We need to turn to alternative forms of education and learning that can help develop the capacities and qualities that individuals, groups and communities need to meet the challenge of sustainability. They

- Consider learning as more than merely knowledge-based,

- Maintain that the quality of interaction with others and of the environment inwhich learning takes place as crucial,

- Focus on existentially relevant or ‘real’ issues essential for engaging learners,

GAP is represented with two lectures and a comics display at an event in Damascus hosted by the Syrian Ministry of Environment, the Swedish embassy, and the Swedish Institute. 24-30 November 2010.

An emerging Community of Practice in Indicators, Sustainability and Values
16 - 18 December at the University of Brighton
Registration is free (if you book before 1st December)

Details on the conference website.

Changing consumption patterns towards environmental and social sustainability is one of the most pressing challenges of our time. Despite increasing efficiency in production processes and energy needs of products, consumption patterns continue to put high pressures on the environment. These pressures are already exceeding the planet’s carrying capacity and are likely to increase dramatically by the growing consumption trends in emerging economies. However, some innovative approaches have already been taken that hold the promise of really impacting lifestyles. In addition to developing new effective approaches, these existing good practices need to be mainstreamed, replicated and scaled up.

The Garrison Institute in the USA hosted a symposium in March to explore the potential of behaviour change as a tool to reach climate goals. Global Action Plan founder David Gershon - whose latest book can be ordered from our site - was one of the keynote speakers. From the symposium report:

Following the so-called Marrakech Process, a number of task forces were set up to look in depth at specific questions. The task force on Sustainable Lifestyle has just published its final reports - many of them. An overview report is attached here.

In November, Nadia McLaren gave an open presentation on 'Peak Food' hosted by SWEDESD, the Swedish International Institute for Education for Sustainable Development, in Visby, Sweden. It includes the context for food production and consumption, including many other 'peaks'; and examples of transition strategies.

Go Carbon Neutral Day - 23 September 2009

"From cities to cooperatives and from railways to postal services, industry and civil society associations have pledged to significantly reduce their carbon footprint and promote greener living by joining the Climate Neutral Network led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).