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The Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and Consumption (the Sustainability Funders) was founded in 2001 to directly address the harmful environmental and social impacts of current modes of producing, consuming and disposing of material goods.

We believe it is possible to create a sustainable and just world where people can live healthy and fulfilling lives and natural resources can be conserved for future generations.



News

Let's Be less Productive
May 26, 2012, New York Times

Guide to Sharing: Exchanging Stuff, Time Skills and Space just published by Center for a New American Dream and Shareable.net.
April 25, 2012

Young People Tire of Old Economic Models
April 17, 2012, Dot Earth, New York Times

Can There Be “Good” Corporations?
April 16, 2012, Yes Magazine

The iPhone and Consumer Guilt

March 30, 2012, Huffington Post

McDonald's launches pilot program to drop polystyrene coffee cups
March 21, 2012, GreenBiz

Unsustainable consumption – the mother of all environmental issues?

March 15, 2012, European Environment Agency

Students Seek Books For a Peopled Planet

March 10, 2012, Andrew Revkin, Dot Earth Blog

Why the road to sustainability starts with pollution prevention
March 6, 2012, GreenBiz.com

Take the Subway
March 5, 2012, New York Times

America the Possible: A Manifesto
by James Gustave Speth
March/April 2012, Orion Magazine

Throwing Out the Free Market Playbook: An Interview with Naomi Klein
February 2012 issue of Solutions

Fast Food Packaging Study Finds McD's, Starbucks are Green Leaders
February 22, 2012, GreenBiz.com

Color It Green: Nike to Adopt Waterless Textile Dyeing
February 7, 2012, Greenbiz.com

RFP now available for Local Sustainability Matching Fund
Deadline: March 5, 2012

The case for a 21-hour work week
January 11, 2012, Fast Company

Economic fallacies: is it time to work more, or less? Juliet Schor explains the economic logic of a shorter working week
January 11, 2012, The Guardian Sustainable Business Blog

Worker-Owners of America, Unite!
December 15, 2011, New York Times

Life after the end of economic growth
November 30, 2011, The Guardian

The new story of stuff: Can we consume less?
November 28, 2011, Yale 360

'Peak stuff' message is cold comfort – we need to embrace green technology

November 1, 2011, The Guardian

The Self-Sufficient Office Building
October 4, 2011, New York Times

Peruvian Indigenous Communities Kick Out Canadian Mining Company
September 12, 2011, UpsideDownWorld.org

Less Work, More Living: Working fewer hours could save our economy, save our sanity, and help save our planet.
September 2, 2011, Yes Magazine

Shifting the Suburban Paradigm
New York Times, October 2, 2011

Can Communities Reclaim the Right to Say “No”?
Yes! Magazine, August 24, 2011,

As the Dream of Economic Growth Dies, a New Plan Awaits Testing
The Guardian, August 23, 2011

A Planetary Crisis Is A Terrible Thing to Waste
Yale 360, August 18, 2011


Paul Hawken pays tribute to green-biz visionary Ray Anderson
Grist Magazine, August 12, 2011

New York Times, April 30, 2011
“Officials here want this Boston suburb to become the first city in the United States to systematically track people’s happiness. Like leaders in Britain, France and a few other places, they want to move beyond the traditional measures of success — economic growth — to promote policies that produce more than just material well-being.”

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Webinar recording and list of resources from December 7, 2011 funder briefing webinar on Environmentally Preferable Purchasing now available