Saturday 17 November 2007

“Global Peoples Dialogue on Sustainable Lifestyles” starts in Sweden!

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Uchita de Zoysa of the Centre for Environment ad Development commenced the “Global Peoples' Dialogue on Lifestyles” by conducting a series of dialogues in Malmo, Gothenburg and Stockholm from 18-26th October 2007. The dialogues were organized by the Centre for Environment and Development (CED) and D&D Strategic Solutions of Sri Lanka along with Swedish counterparts TERMA, VUJJ and HumaNETopia.com. Dialogue partners included designers, innovators, producers, traders, communicators, philosophers, educators and students involved in promoting various sustainable lifestyles products, services and processes.
Each Dialogue forum included a key note presentation by Uchita de Zoysa, followed by another 2-3 presentations from key sustainability lifestyles personalities from the three Swedish cities. Each dialogue then had an intensive dialogue with a circular seating arrangement in which all participants shared their hearts, minds and experiences along with visionary solutions for evolving sustainable lifestyles across the world. The dialogues revolved around subjects such as sustainable consumption, production and lifestyle; the role of design in emerging sustainable markets; creating quality lifestyles for sustainable communities; CSR and corporate sustainability; forming of partnerships between European and Asian companies.
The dialogues will now be continued to other countries, while the evolving partnerships will produce and showcase a host of new products, services and processes for sustainable lifestyles!

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