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European Commission - DG Environment

Integrated Product Policy
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/environment/ipp/home.htm

NEW ROLE OF LRA

ACRR - Minimisation and Recycling of Municipal waste in European Cities
http://www.acrr.org/publications/tech-reports.htm

EEA - European Environmental Agency Environmental Signals 2002 - Waste and material flows
http://reports.eea.eu.int/environmental_assessment_report_2002_9/en/signals2002-chap12.pdf

Magistrat der Stadt Wien - Avoiding Municipal Waste - International conference, 2- 4 October 2002
http://itwwl.wu-wien.ac.at/kongress02/

European Commission - EU waste legislation

  1. Council Directive 89/369/EEC of 8 June 1989 on the prevention of air pollution from new municipal waste incineration plants
    http://europa.eu.int/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=EN&numdoc=31989L0369&model=guichett

  2. Directive 2000/76/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 December 2000 on the incineration of waste http://www.europa.eu.int/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=EN&numdoc=32000L0076&model=guichett

  3. European Parliament and Council Directive 94/62/EC of 20 December 1994 on packaging and packaging waste http://www.europa.eu.int/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=EN&numdoc=31994L0062&model=guichett

GOOD PRACTICES

CHANGING LIFESTYLES - SUPPORTING CHANGES IN LIFESTYLES

Questioning our real needs

Eos Gallup Europe pour la Commission Européenne Direction Générale Environnement Flash Eurobaromètre 123 - Perception du développement durable et préoccupations environnementales des Européens, Mai 2002 http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/barometer/rapport_final.pdf

Juliet Schor The New Politics of Consumption - Why Americans want so much more than they need
http://www.ktruitt.com/consumption/

Andrew Sharpe& Lars Osberg, Comparisons of Trends in GDP and Economic Well-being - the
Impact of Social Capital, OECD directorate for for Education, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs

http://www1.oecd.org/els/pdfs/EDSCERIDOCA006.pdf

Encouraging the replacement of products by services

Life-cycle assessment from the Öko-Institute quoted by the European Textile Services Association
http://www.etsa-europe.org/homefs.htm

Wuppertal Institute Digital Europe: virtual dematerialisation and factor X, March 2003
http://www.digital-eu.org/publications/Default.asp?pubid=32

 

WILL INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES BRING BENEFIT TO THE ENVIRONMENT?

Reisch, L.A.,
The Internet and Sustainable Consumption: perspectives on a Janus face,
paper submitted to "The Ecological Modernisation of Society", Conference in Aarhus 14-16 June 2001
http://www.au.dk/~cesamat/Ecolo.Reisch.pdf

Digital Europe
http://www.digital-eu.org

  1. Summary report Making the Net work
    http://www.digital-eu.org/publications/Default.asp?pubid=44

  2. Telework and sustainable development - a case-study with GeSI
    http://www.digital-eu.org/publications/default.asp?pubid=40

Oksana Mont
The International Institute of Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University, Product-service systems, February 2000
http://www.iiiee.lu.se/Publication.nsf/$webAll/29CB26003B7692B4C1256C60004088E8/$FILE/oksana.pdf
http://www.iiiee.lu.se/C1256B88002A83F9/$webAllPers/6E43908B8BF27555C1256C6A00298643?OpenDocument

 

CHANGING CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOUR

Introduction: barriers to behaviour change

European Association of Communication Agencies, World Federation of Advertisers, United Nations
Environment Programme
Industry as a partner for sustainable development - Advertising, 2002
http://www.uneptie.org/outreach/wssd/contributions/sector_reports/sectors/advertising/advertising.htm

Danish Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.mst.dk/homepage/

Promoting official eco-labels

European Commission

  1. Consumer Guide info-kit
    http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/environment/ecolabel/marketing/brochures.htm

  2. EU eco-label and producing companies that have been awarded the Flower http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/environment/ecolabel/consumers/consumers.htm

  3. Catalogue of EU eco-labelled products
    http://www.eco-label.com

International Energy Agency, Energy labels and standards
http://www.iea.org/public/studies/labels.htm

Energy Star
http://energyefficiency.jrc.cec.eu.int/energystar/

Leading by example: green public purchasing

European Commission, Interpretative communication on the Community law applicable to public procurement and the possibilities for integrating environmental considerations into public procurement
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/environment/gpp/index.htm

Green Purchasing Network
http://eco.goo.ne.jp/gpn/files/gpne/

Educating to use efficiently

Compare the electricity consumption for equivalent bulbs in terms of light
http://www.homeenergy.org/consumerinfo/lighting/

Energiestiftung Schleswig-Holstein
http://www.energiestiftung.de/

Energy Agencies

Smart.E, the Irish Energy Centre's website for children
http://www.irish-energy.ie/home/index.asp?language_id=1

Tips for energy efficiency at home
http://www.irish-energy.ie/content/content.asp?section_id=571

Explanation of energy labels
http://www.irish-energy.ie/content/content.asp?section_id=504

Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Energie - French National Energy and Environment Agency
Consumer guides on energy consumption (in French)
http://www.ademe.fr/particuliers/

Raising awareness on the hidden energy consumption
UNEP
Facts and Figures: products, consumers and design
Editorial in Industry and Environment, Vol. 20 n° 1-2 January -June 1997, Paris
http://www.uneptie.org/media/review/vol20no1-2/vol20no1-2.htm

German Federal Environment Minister
http://www.umwelt-deutschland.de/index_englisch.html

Educating to reducing the use of cleaning products
Washright campaign
http://www.washright.com

Communication and environment

Planetecologie (French)
http://www.planetecologie.org/Fr_default.html

Communication on education and environment - The World Conservation Union
http://www.iucn.org/cec/

Consumers education

The Center for a New American Dream
http://www.newdream.org/aboutus/

Akatu (Spanish) - Responsible consumers
http://www.akatu.net/construa/forum/perguntas.asp?cod_tema=2&publique=0

Norwegian Consumer Council
http://forbrukerportalen.no/Emner/engelsk_fransk

The Environmental Home Guard
http://www.gronnhverdag.no/english.php

European network of consumer educators
http://www.norden.org/nicemail/

Réseau de consommateurs responsables (French)
http://www.rcr.be/explorer/index.htm

Environmentally motivated consumer behaviour (article)
http://www.scp.nl/boeken/cahiers/cah127/uk/samenvatting.htm

Environmental education

Our Earth - our Future by young people of the world
http://www.grida.no/geo2000/pacha/contents.htm

Irish Energy Centre
http://www.irish-energy.ie/content/content.asp?section_id=543

Ecole et nature (French)
http://www.ecole-et-nature.org/accueil.html

Education tools (exhibitions) Agences de l'énergie et de l'environnement en Poitou-Charentes (French)
http://www.apcede.com/outil/exposition.asp

Maison de la Nature et de l'Environnement - Lille (French)
http://mnelille.free.fr/

Education material on Ecological Footprint (Dutch) - Mondiale Voetafdruck
http://www.voetenbank.nl/materiaal.htm#dka

Web exhibition Ourplan-it.com
http://www.cat.org.uk/ourplan-it/

Green procurement
Guide for green procurement - Belgian State Secretary for energy and sustainable development
(French / Dutch)
http://www.gidsvoorduurzameaankopen.be/

About resources

Biodiversity is life! IUCN
http://www.iucn.org/bil/whatis.html

 

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