Project Aspirations
Steve Charter is developing a range of project and business proposals for which additional partners are being sought. These cover the following areas:
- Project and strategy conceptualisation and development, stakeholder engagement and partnership for sustainability projects;
- Sustainable Communities Planning and Strategy: planning for sustainability and sustainable design and construction; integrating economic, social and environmental needs; integrated planning of energy, water, waste, transport, landscape etc.; Creative communities;
- The Culture of Change: use of standard cultural media - novels, films, music, etc - to provide and promote a positive and realistic vision of the future, and the practical first steps to achieving that vision.
- Sustainable Construction and Design: of sites, including buildings, infrastructure and landscape, of developments and community projects;
- Local and Regional Economic Sustainability: local and regional multipliers, creative economies, closing the loop, skills development and retention, core areas of economic activity, etc.
- Policy planning to encourage sustainable development: LDF and AAP policies, SPG/Design Guides, Development Briefs;
- Sustainable Living: lifestyle change to achieve a sustainable ecological footprint; integrating health and sustainability; high quality of life; the shift to sustainable livelihoods;
- Education for sustainability: integrating environmental education (‘ecoliteracy’), development education, learning creativity/problem solving, learning effectiveness.
- Sustainable Health and Optimum Nutrition: establishment of projects and enterprises that promote natural health and whole health; establishment of UK based food-state super-foods production.
- Consciousness Research, R&D and Manufacturing Cluster: potentially the worl’s first cluster of this type, bringing together consciousness reserach and manufacturing of related products, technologies and services, to be embedded within best practice ecologically designed buildings, which provide an appropriately stimulating and healthy environment for these activities - could be located within a larger life-sciences cluster or be independently located.