ISF helps launch sustainable consumption and production database
| January 15, 2004 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
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A new North American online database released today enhances how grassroots organizers, citizens, and academics alike discover and research innovative projects on critical areas of sustainability, according to Integrative Strategies Forum (ISF).
ISF, in conjunction with several regional partners, has launched the North America Sustainable Consumption and Production (NASCP) Database, available at: nasca.icspac.net/db or www.p2win.org/NASCA .
The NASCP Database facilitates cooperation among organizations interested in promoting sustainable consumption and production in Canada, United States, and Mexico. For the first time, Internet users can access a single website to find information about sustainable consumption and production initiatives and programmes throughout North America. The database is also intended as a resource for citizens to learn about projects or initiatives that they can support, join, or replicate in their own community.
The database currently contains approximately 200 entries for initiatives and programmes that address a wide range of important issues such as:
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The broad diversity of initiatives, projects, and programmes featured in the database highlights the willingness in North America to move toward sustainable consumption and production patterns.
Integrative Strategies Forum serves as the lead organization for the database research and data collection among organizations in the United States.
This web database is an initiative of the North American Sustainable Consumption Alliance (NASCA), a strategic partnership of people and organizations who are working to promote more sustainable consumption patterns in Mexico, the United States, and Canada. Working together as partners in the Alliance, the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), the Canadian Centre for Pollution Prevention, Environment Canada, University of Massachusetts–Lowell, Integrative Strategies Forum, the University of Sonora, and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have created and are supporting this innovative resource.
If your organization's sustainable consumption and production activities are not yet registered in the Database, there is still time! You can submit your activity through the website by clicking the "Submit an Activity" button.
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more information about the North American Sustainable Consumption
Alliance, please visit:
http://nasca.icspac.net.