by kultur.work | Apr 28, 2020 | News and Comment
Following its successful launch in early Spring 2020, the #TodayForTomorrow campaign—founded to advance the Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill through the UK Parliament—is now looking for an experienced campaign manager to lead this project forwards. The ‘Future...
by kultur.work | Apr 28, 2020
Project Skyline is a feasibility study that is looking at the possibility of communities managing the landscape that surrounds their town or village. The project is being run by The Green Valleys Community Interest Company (TGV CIC) with funding from the Friends...
by kultur.work | Apr 28, 2020
The Riversimple model of governance is constructed “to represent and be relevant to society today”, the governance statement says, “just as (their) product and service must represent and be relevant to that society. Six custodial roles have been...
by kultur.work | Feb 13, 2020 | News and Comment
FDSD is playing a leading role in developing the campaign for a UK Future Generations Act in partnership with Lord Bird and the Big Issue. On Tuesday 12 February, a standing room-only meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Future Generations considered the...
by kultur.work | Feb 7, 2020 | News and Comment
On 23 January 2020, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) overwhelmingly adopted an innovative ‘own initiative opinion’ (OIO) on the sustainable and inclusive ‘wellbeing economy’ that Europe needs. The EU Council and the European Commission have a...
by kultur.work | Jan 31, 2020
On February 12th, FDSD co-hosted a reception in the House of Lords to celebrate the Today for Tomorrow campaign for a Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill for the UK. The Bill, modelled on the earlier Welsh legislation, was introduced as a private member’s bill...
by kultur.work | Jan 31, 2020
On February 12th, FDSD will be co-hosting a reception in the House of Lords to celebrate the Today for Tomorrow campaign for a Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill for the UK. The Bill, modelled on the earlier Welsh legislation, was introduced as a private...
by kultur.work | Jan 29, 2020 | News and Comment
FDSD has long supported the wider use of participatory and deliberative processes such as citizens’ assemblies in bringing the voice of citizens into political decision making. We are therefore delighted that the first weekend of the UK Climate Assembly has been a...
by John Lotherington | Jan 13, 2020 | News and Comment
Populism is changing the shape of democracy in a number of countries around the world, in some cases dramatically. That has an impact on international as well as domestic commitments including those supporting sustainable development. In a briefing paper publishd in...
by Graham Smith | Nov 13, 2019 | News and Comment
FDSD was delighted to host a workshop at the University of Westminster to develop the campaign for the Wellbeing of Future Generations Act being led by Lord Bird. The event attracted representatives from around 30 organisations, including UK Student Climate Network,...
by kultur.work | Oct 27, 2019 | News and Comment
Appeals for people to act now in response to the climate emergency surround us. Many of them focus on the responsibility of the individual to act: to eat less meat, to drive less, to fly less. Does this focus on the role of individuals underestimate the challenge of...
by Graham Smith | Jun 30, 2019 | Blog, News and Comment
Citizens’ assemblies could be vital in kick-starting the tough steps needed to respond to the climate emergency, Chair of the FDSD board of trustees, Graham Smith, argues. But the detail of how they will work is critical. (This blog first appeared on The Conversation...
by kultur.work | May 30, 2019
Evening event with the World Leadership Alliance–Club de Madrid on 11 June 2019, 6–7.30pm at Bates Wells, London Jigme Thinley, former Prime Minister of Bhutan, is the special guest of the World Leadership Alliance–Club de Madrid and The Foundation for Democracy and...
by kultur.work | Apr 4, 2019
Together with the FDSD, the School of International Futures (an organisation that helps policy-makers, business leaders and communities make strategic choices, manage risk and become future-ready) is hosting a Round Table on Intergenerational Fairness taking place on...
by Peter Davies | Feb 19, 2019 | Blog, News and Comment
The 2015 Wellbeing of Future Generations (Wales) Act requires public bodies in Wales to incorporate public involvement in their decision making. The explicit emphasis on engaging the public reflects the strong views expressed in the national conversation of 2014 that...
by Graham Smith | Feb 15, 2019 | Blog, News and Comment
2018 witnessed the emergence of a dynamic, new climate change movement—Extinction Rebellion (XR). Building chapters around the UK, Europe and across the world, XR’s most visible action was its day of mass civil disobedience in November, with 6,000 activists shutting...
by kultur.work | Jan 15, 2019 | Blog, News and Comment
Bethan Smith is Goal Convenor for Involvement, Office for the Future Generations Commissioner, Wales. . . . Through the 2015 Well-being of Future Generations Act, all devolved public bodies in Wales are legally required to put sustainable development first; that is,...
by kultur.work | Dec 22, 2018 | News and Comment
Delivering the inaugural Well-being of Future Generations Commissioner for Wales’ Annual Lecture, The Big Issue founder and crossbench peer, John Bird, called for the approach to long-term thinking pioneered in Wales to be rolled out across the rest of...
by kultur.work | Dec 7, 2018 | News and Comment
In 2008, Sara Parkin wrote a provocation for the FDSD: “Are Political Parties getting in the way of the sort of collaborative democracy we need to tackle sustainability? If so, what can we do about it?” Ten years later, she revisits her thinking, “in the...
by kultur.work | Oct 3, 2018
We are delighted to invite you to a joint networking event with the PSA Specialist Group Environmental Politics, GreenHouse, Policy Connect and FDSD on 26 October 2018 in London. Designed as a space for policymakers, academics and environmental NGOs to discuss...
