Love London

=== Diary London June 2009 ===
*4 - 28 Love London, Love Your Planet, described as Europe’s largest annual green festival.
Love London Festival Showcase. 31 July 2008. About 5 mins. 
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=== Celebrating local action for sustainability across London ===
 London 21 Sustainability Network's largest project to date is London
Sustainability Weeks. This two-week programme
celebrates local action for sustainability in Greater
London, to coincide with World Environment
Day on 5 June. Events are organised by local
organisations and London-wide networks: there
are nine supporting partner organisations, who
work on issues such as food-growing, recycling,
city farms, energy etc. 
=== Origins ===
This was run on a small scale in 2003 (with about
50 events in one week). In 2004, London 21
received financial support for this work and
expanded the event from one to two weeks.
The partnership of organisations supported over
350 local events across the city. Certain days
were designated theme days to focus attention
on issues such as energy, working with black and
minority ethnic groups, cycling etc.
The core idea is that it can be hard for small
projects to get any media coverage on their own.
By working together they are able to provide a
much stronger story for the press and TV.
=== Local government involvement ===
Local authorities are also now actively involved.
Most of London’s 32 local authorities work with
local communities to organise events in their own
areas and also run a major London-wide
conference for secondary schools on an
environmental theme.
=== The idea spreads ===
The idea of ‘local sustainability festivals’ is
now being taken up by other UK cities and the
2004 ANPED AGM also agreed that this was
something that should be developed in other
cities and regions across Europe.
External links
*site not found 17:00, December 8, 2010 (UTC)
References
Building our
own futures:
Local action for sustainable
development across Europe
in the 21st century
A report for ANPED,
the Northern Alliance
for Sustainability, Chris Church, March 2005
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