Latest from the Local Sustainability Center

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18 Israeli Cities Sign Climate Convention [4]	Green Globe For Local Sustainability Center [5]	Our Website [6]

About the Center:

[7]The Center for Local Sustainability aims to advance the capacity for sustainability in Israeli local government by raising awareness and providing training, tools, and support networks for local government officials, advocates, architects, planners and mayors, to develop pilot projects in their communities.

The Center for Local Sustainability was founded in 2006 with the help of a 3-year grant from the EC's Life Third Countries program [8].

Initiatives by participants in the Center's programs so far include: the Mayor of Shoham deciding to make his town a sustainable community; an activist from the town of Taibeh who recruited corporations, government and citizens for implementation of sustainability projects; the establishment of multi-stakeholder committees creating sustainable master-plans for a growing number of towns and regions.

The Center for Local Sustainability is leading the present environmental shift in the role of local government in Israel – for the well-being of urban areas and their residents. The center believes in fostering dialogue and cooperation, good will and shared initiative. Even if our generation will not appreciate these qualities, our children and grandchildren certainly will…

Eitan Atia, Director of the Forum of 15 Largest Cities in Israel

Building capacity for change

The Center for Local Sustainability proposes to instigate large-scale capacity building in local governments in Israel by:

Recruiting, training and networking advocates, municipal professionals and mayors, to engage a critical mass of local governments in sustainable development
Developing state-of-the-art tools for local sustainability in municipal planning, management and legislation, in Hebrew and Arabic
Creating a support network by linking Israeli Local Agenda 21 (LA21) initiatives and connecting them to similar initiatives in other countries

For more information, please visit the Center's site: kayamut.org.il [9]

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