Webinars to Change the World - Change Series 2011
brought to you by TNS-USA and Town and Country RC&D

Behind every successful endeavor, there is a well-planned process. And like every other initiative your organization will undertake, from supply chain processes to marketing efforts, good sustainability practices require good planning, a powerful message and skills to create motivated teams to effect change. Join us for this series of six webinars  - interact with amazing and motivational leaders in the industry. You will learn from their successes (and failures) on topics like powerful messaging tactics, community transformation catalysts and ways to build group commitment and energy.

Sarah James will give a Webinar on how to design effective community participation in a sustainable community planning initiative on hWednesday, May 26, 2011 from 11:00 am to 12:00 noon PST.

Series begins February 17, 2011
$48 TNS and Town and Country Members, $60 General admission

Go to http://tnswebseries2011.eventbrite.com

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Institute for Eco-municipality Education & Assistance Receives Grant:

Ten US Mayors to Participate in First Ever Pan-European “Green Capital” Conference in Stockholm - October 20-22, 2010

 Go to Our Events page!

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Announcement:  Eco-municipality Training Manuals Now Available!

Two manuals used in the eco-municipality leadership training are now available for purchase at an affordable price and download from www.lulu.com. To obtain these manuals, go to the lulu.com Web site and do an internal search for the names of the manuals or ther names of the authors.  Descriptions of the manuals follow:


Open Planning for Sustainability: The Eco-municipality Process Guide, by Sarah James & Philip B. Herr, 2009.

This manual is about how to design and lead a participatory, ‘bottom-up’ process for becoming an eco-municipality – a local government and its larger community that endorse a particular set of sustainability principles - either the Natural Step framework or the American Planning Association's guiding sustainability objectives - and integrate these systematically throughout their public and private sectors. It offers practical, step-by-step guidance for carrying out the sustainability change process described in The Natural Step for Communities: How Cities & Towns Can Change to Sustainable Practices by Sarah James & Torbjörn Lahti (New Society Publishers, 2004).   To obtain, go to www.lulu.com and do title or author search.

Grounding the Vision: The Eco-municipality Education Guide, by Torbjörn Lahti

Scores of communities, local governments and organizations have brought citizens and staff a clearer understanding of what sustainability means in ecological, economic, and social terms using this educational manual. The ‘EE Guide’ was the primary training tool used by many if not most of the Swedish eco-municipalities, now 25 per cent of all municipalities in Sweden.  The Natural Step framework is a central tenet in the educational material. The Guide is now available to a wider audience and is used in national sustainability trainings.  To obtain, go to www.lulu.com and do title or author search.