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Projects
Through the Program, the Lowell Center participates in the North American Sustainable Consumption Alliance (Alliance), a strategic partnership of people and organizations who are working to promote more sustainable consumption patterns in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. The Alliance’s mission is to facilitate information exchange, communication and outreach, and collaborative action around sustainable consumption. The Lowell Center catalyzed the formation of the Alliance, hosted its inaugural meeting in October 2001, and helped organize its second meeting in June 2002.
The Lowell Center is currently working with the Alliance and the North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation to create a web-based database of North American activities and initiatives in the area of sustainable production and consumption. The goal of this database is to facilitate cooperation among organizations in North America that are interested in promoting sustainable consumption, by providing information about activities or initiatives that they could replicate, support, or join.
The Lowell Center has developed a training curriculum, “Sustainable Production and Consumption: Making the Connection,” for the global network of National Cleaner Production Centres (NCPCs). This curriculum was designed to familiarize the NCPCs with sustainable consumption issues and strategies so that they could better understand the forces that affect and shape production patterns. The Lowell Center delivered this two-day training course to NCPC staff at a workshop organized by the United Nations Environment Programme in October 2002.
In January 2001, the Lowell Center participated in an Experts Workshop on Information and Consumer Decision-Making for Sustainable Consumption. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) organized the Workshop to identify innovative or good practice strategies for improving the effectiveness of government information-based instruments to help households reduce the environmental impacts of their purchases and behaviors.
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