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Welcome to Sustainable Swansea!
Here you will find all the information you need about us and what we do.

Sustainable Swansea has been in existence for 10 years since it was established in 2004. It has been at the forefront of sustainability activities and events and raises awareness and understanding of environmental sustainability in Swansea. It aims to make Swansea a more sustainable place to live, work, and visit.
Some of the specific projects and activities we work on include:

• Get Sust! works with individuals, communities and groups on how to be more sustainable. We attend and organise events and activities, sometimes around specific themes and other times, more generally about sustainability.  

• On the Trail; a collection of nearly 30 exemplar projects and locations which forms the Swansea Sustainability Trail. Projects include, Swansea Community Farm, The Environment Centre, Down to Earth Project, Rosehill Quarry, Bishops Wood Nature Reserve, Llys Nini and Penllergare Woods - all of which show sustainability in action.
  

• Digital Media Training: a great informal way of gaining skills with digital photography and editing. 

• Green Map Series: Leading the way in Wales with a growing collection of Green Maps including a Swansea-wide map and community green maps for Penlan, Castle, Townhill, Morriston, Pontarddulais and Gower.

• Sustainable Swansea Awards Scheme: A scheme which rewards sustainable action by schools, businesses, community projects, public agencies, and individuals.

Sustainable Swansea is managed by Swansea Environmental Forum in partnership with the City and County of Swansea, Swansea CVS and the Environment Centre.

Pontarddulais volunteer litter pickers

The Gower Wildflower Cafe on the Sustainability Trail

Digital streams participants

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Wise up to food!
As part of our work in Eastside, we ran a food workshop at Bonymaen Family Centre where local people found out about food miles, local food, packaging and food waste. It was a great event with lots of discussion points from the enthusiastic participants. There was lots of advice and we gave away useful freebies such as measuring spoons, and pasta and rice measurers, fridge thermometers and a storage container. 

Digital Streams - Photography Exhibition

We started to explore the River Tawe in May and took the group out on four trips to photograph various locations on the river with a final day learning to use Photoshop to edit them. The project offered a fun and friendly way to learn about digital photography, to get outdoors and to find out about how the river affects us and how we affect it.
The exhibition of stunning photographic work is currently on display at the Environment Centre - so why not pop along?

Email dai@environmentcentre.org.uk for more information click here

Gower Green Map

The latest green map in the series is available and has been distributed to a number of places around Gower including Post Offices, community centres, Pennard Library and the  mobile Library as well as a number of shops, cafes and visitor attractions.

The map highlights many of the Environmental, Sustainable and Community features of Gower in an easy to use form and will soon be available to download in digital form from the Sustainable Swansea website.
For more information see the Green Map page here.

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The Swansea Sustainability Trail

The Sustainability Trail brings together a collection of local projects and organisations to give practical examples of how we can look after our world and the resources it provides. Each project is happy to welcome visitors (some by prior arrangement only) and provide tours of their site to show how they are contributing to a more sustainable world.

Click here to download the trail leaflet.

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Our funders and partners

Sustainable Swansea would like to thank our funders and partners for their support.