Sostenibilità sociale e ambientale
LILI
Non Profit ID card. Low-Impact Living Initiative (LILI), a non profit organisation based in the UK.
Non Profit ID card: present your project/organisation/campaign
Questions answered by Dave Darby, Director of LILI.
– Where are you based? UK – nationwide.
– What are you called? Low-impact Living Initiative (LILI).
– What are you doing and why? Helping people reduce their impact on the environment, by providing free fact sheets, books, courses, products and services, magazines, answers to forum questions by specialists and links on over 160 topics; plus we run the office of the WWOOF organisation (volunteers on organic farms). Why? Because if we don’t change the way we live, we’re headed for extinction.
– Do you have a website/email? www.lowimpact.org.
– Do you have a Twitter/facebook link/name? http://twitter.com/lowimpactorg / http://www.facebook.com/lowimpactlivinginitiative .
– What makes you so special? We are aiming to be the hub of a network of specialists all over the UK (and to offer free franchises for people to start LILI overseas).
The turning point
– How did you start? Grew out of the things that people were doing at Redfield Community – 2 of the members started LILI in 2001.
– What keeps you going every day? The fact that the human species is on the wrong path – a path towards extinction; and it’s because we are led by the wrong people. Money gives power – but it gives power to the wrong people.
– Who is your target? Everyone – we want to use fun things like courses, books, forum etc. to deliver a message about extinctions, the insanity of trying to get perpetual economic growth, and lack of democracy to as many people as possible
– How are you financed? Self-financing (people pay to come on courses, buy books etc).
The challenge
– A proud moment? The many e-mails we get telling us that we helped to change people’s lives.
– A problem you face? Money.
– Your personal motto when things get hard? Don’t have one – sorry.
– Another cool project/organisation/campaign you would like to recommend? www.lammas.org.uk.
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