Kitchen Table Sustainability

Kitchen Table Sustainability offers a unique view of sustainability through the lens of community engagement. It takes sustainability out of the ivory towers of universities, government departments and planners to the kitchen tables of the world.
This practical guide distils decades of wisdom from community planning, engagement and sustainability practice internationally into a user-friendly and engaging book that is both inspirational and packed with hands-on tools. The core of the book is a bottom-up approach to participatory community engagement and development, referred to as EATING, that consists of six components: Education, Action, Trust, Inclusion, Nourishment and Governance.

Wendy Sarkissian PhD is an environmental ethicist, community planner, author, and activist with fifty years of professional experience and more than forty awards.She is a Life Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia and co-author of the landmark /Housing as if People Mattered/ (University of California Press).Her Twilight River Trilogy -/Creeksong, Hold Fast,/ and /Opening to Climate Grief/ - addresses personal and climate grief from memoir, reflection, and workbook perspectives.She lives in Vancouver, Canada.

Foreword by Professor Peter Newman Perhaps the World Ends Here by Jo Harjo Preface 1: Introduction 2: The Sustainability Story 3: Community Engagement: A Pathway to Sustainability 4: The EATING Approach... 5: Education 6: Action 7: Trust 8: Inclusion 9: Nourishment 10: Governance 11: Conclusions, Challenges and a Way Forward Index