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London Sustainability Weeks: 3?17 June 2007 is London's greenest festival, celebrating projects and organisations that are making a real contribution to creating a more sustainable capital.

This year's London Sustainability Weeks will be launched at The Camden Green Fair on 3rd June. Other events during the fortnight will range from schools concerts to organic food fairs, from naked cycle rides to pond dipping, from community clean ups to business seminars.

Now in its fourth year, London Sustainability Weeks 2007 will provide over half a million of London residents, workers, visitors and media an opportunity to discover and experience the diversity and creativity of local action and community projects that are working to make the city's communities more sustainable.

The London Sustainability Weeks organisor, Love London campaign, works not only with local authorities and major campaigning groups, but is unique in its commitment to promote and assist small, community based, initiatives ? with a particular emphasis on those which are run by and for residents in areas of high social and economic depravation.

LSW was first 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.

Local Authorities are also now actively involved. Most of London's 32 local authorities work with community groups to organise events in their own areas.

The idea of 'local sustainability festivals' is now being taken up by other UK cities and across Europe.

Visit the London Sustainability Weeks website to find an event near you.

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