The North American Sustainable Consumption Alliance (NASCA) is a strategic partnership of people and organizations who are working to promote more sustainable consumption patterns in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. Our mission is to facilitate information exchange, communication and outreach and collaborative action around sustainable consumption.

STATEMENT ON "PRODUCING AND CONSUMING IN NORTH AMERICA" RELEASED

September 5, 2005. On Labor Day, NASCA and other stakeholder groups released their collective statement "Producing and Consuming in North America: A Call for Action and Leadership on Sustainability," one of the results from the spring experts workshop. This statement was also made available to the International Experts Meeting on the 10 Year Framework on Sustainable Consumption and Production, being held in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Producing and consuming in North America (PDF)

WORKSHOP ON N. AMERICAN SPAC FRAMEWORK

Apr/May 2005: The North American Sustainable Consumption Alliance (NASCA) and Integrative Strategies Forum hosted a regional multi-stakeholder workshop to discuss and report on what is happening in North America to promote sustainable production and consumption. One objective of the meeting was to develop a regional framework to improve cooperation and effectiveness. Another function of this meeting was to provide citizen input into the upcoming International Experts Meeting on SPAC to be held in Costa Rica in September 2005.

NASCA/ C2P2 MEETING ON OTTAWA

Apr. 2004 : The Canadian Center for Pollution Prevention and the North American Sustainable Consumption Alliance (NASCA) hosted an experts workshop on "Strategic priorities for promoting sustainable consumption in North America" in Ottawa, Ontario on April 30th 2004. The meeting report is available here.

NASCA/ WORLDWATCH WORKSHOP IN DC

Jan. 2004 : The Worldwatch Institute  and North American Sustainable Consumption Alliance (NASCA) organized an experts workshop on “Strategic Priorities for Promoting Sustainable Consumption in North America” in Washington DC on January 27th 2004. The workshop aimed to advance the process of developing a concrete, constructive, and collaborative strategy for promoting sustainable consumption in North America. The participants, including both NGOs and charitable foundations, discussed possible initiatives in the fields of government initiatives, industry targeted activities, purchasing, communicating and promoting sustainable consumption. As a next step, the participants suggested building on the Sustainable Consumption database created by NASCA.

Read the report