The Sustainability Street Approach is whatever a group of people make it. Of course, there's support all along the way! The SSA Manual outlines a solid environmental education and community strengthening structure ... guidelines, insights, templates, case studies, ideas, activities cemented by the power of passion, humour and taking the time. All brought to life with the stories of SSA groups from around Australia.
But, the jewel in the Sustainability Street Crown, is what we localise and invent for ourselves ... to share with the world. This provides bottomles, hidden, intangible power.
Indeed, the SSA "feeds our hunger" for the intangibles of life. The aspects which no one can see or sell or smell or measure, but, which're our most viscerally important human treasures. The aspects which are life's juice, energy, motivation, reason, X factor ... such as love, meaning, friendship, joy, belonging, pride, honesty, respect, etc. And, as well as the all important intangibles, the SSA has strong intellectual rigour (not that the two are mutually exclusive, quite the opposite! Synergystic in fact.) ... as reported in a three year longitudinal evaluation study by the Victoria University.
This research study documents outstanding environmental, community building, behaviour and culture change results. All measured and palpable ... which ... alongside the intangibles ... well … va, va, va, vooom!
According to Albert Einstein, the Vic Uni study is proof of his view that ... "not everyting that can be counted, counts ... while, not evrything that counts, can be counted". The SSA provides the best of both worlds ... a culture changing mix of the qualitative and the quantitive!
Great Minds ... Thinking Alike
The Sustainability Street Institute is honoured and inspired to be working with Origin.
We always believed the future depends on the evolution of new and creative partnerships, among different sectors of society working together with a focus on sustaining the Earth. Origin’s recent Sustainability Drive program has been a wonderful example of the corporate, business world joining with local communities, in a grassroots relationship.
Building on that, Origin has asked us to develop this guide, Seven Steps to Creating a Local Sustainability Group which builds on two main ideas to foster sustainable living
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- that uniquely Australian eagerness to join together to solve challenges … from bushfire fighting to organising the school fete can also be applied to produce excellent results for ecological sustainability …
- the Seven Steps sustainable living shortcuts … sustaining smarter not harder. Clever ways to “achieving more without the overload of information”.
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