by Silvia Musso
Soil consumption, waste, sustainable mobility and new life styles: the “Associazione dei Comuni Virtuosi “ (Association of virtous municipalities), in collaboration with the “Movimento per la Decrescita Felice” (Movement for happy decrease) and Città del Bio (Cities of Organic),launches the new edition of the National prize “Comuni a 5 stelle” (5 stars municipalities), aimed to find and award the good administrative practises and promote the bio-economics.
«Our association was born as warning point for the diffusion of politics and daily choices oriented to reduce the ecological footprint of public administrations, the Municipality intended as a common good, from where to start to create a new model of society based on selfproduction and gift, conviviality and solidarity, sobriety and common sense – the promoters explain presenting the new call for proposal 2010 – The fourth edition of the prize wants to be also an opportunity to contribute to the creation of a wider sensibility among the citizens and a bigger encouragement to public actors about the “good practices” topics, throughout the improvement and promotion of examples of already successfully started experiences».
The participation to the prize is open to all public administrations that have started politics focused on the raising awareness about the “good local practises” with a special attention on: territory management (zero cementation option, Brownfield recovery, participated planning, green building); ecological footprint of public administration (energy efficiency, green public procurement, organic canteen, etc.); sustainable mobility (car-sharing, car-pooling, public transport, choice of alternative fuels to oil etc.); new life styles (projects to stimulate among the citizenship sober and sustainable daily choices, such as selfproduction, short commodity chain, organic food in season, sustainable and responsible tourism, promotion of a culture of peace, cooperation and solidarity, spreading of Fair Trade, ethical finance, etc.).
The public actors interested can e-mail to the address info@comunivirtuosi.org a form that summarizes the enterprise to be presented, by June, 30th 2010.
Then a selected jury will evaluate the best enterprises and decide the winners for each category. Moreover they will select also the absolute winner of the “Comuni a 5 stelle”, among those that had organized a transversal integrated action. The award ceremony will be held during a public meeting in Bisignano (CS), September the 4th, 2010.
To get more information it is possible to contact the Prize Secretariat (telephone number +39 334-6535965 e-mail address info@comunivirtuosi.org).
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