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Celebrating glass, achieving sustainability, inspiring transformation

03 June 2024   (0 Comments)
Posted by: David Moore

Picture of the cover of the book Celebrating glass, achieving sustainability, inspiring transformation

Celebrating glass, achieving sustainability, inspiring transformation

The Worldwide Glass Community will remember 2022 because the United Nations nominated it as the International Year of Glass, an celebration around the globe of the richly diverse and sustainable contribution that glass makes to our daily lives. This book reveals the back story of the application to the UN and records the year-long party that followed in countries from every continent. It is a photographic and written record for all who participated and is a guidebook for others on similar journeys in the future. It encapsulates warm memories, but the authors Alicia Duran and John Parker hope it will also stimulate future action in a world which desperately needs a framework for sustainable living.

Now it’s time to disseminate as wide as possible the results of this project through a free download of the High Definition pdf version of the book (369 MB), where you can access to materials, videos and websites through hyperlinks.

The continuing path of the Age of Glass!


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