encouraging initiative and interpersonal skills
a possibility for mothers to organise a home based activity, by looking after other people’s children as well as her own
...where she gets the information she needs to start a micro-nursery.
a possibility for families to entrust their children to a familiar, competent neighbour
She is helped in initially setting up the space, in order to be in line with rules and regulations.
organising a network organisation a widespread service which facilitates throughout the city an exchange of experience
She is also entered into the database of Microworld, where she keeps contact with families, municipality and suppliers.
Practicability The prospect of micro-enterprise as sustainability agent may seem a far cry from today’s reality. However, it is not a prospect without foundation. There are various reasons to suppose that it has every possibility of carrying out a fundamental role in the creation and subsequent management of sustainable systems. To think up sustainable solutions, put them into action and run them, requires attributes which, by definition, micro-enterprise possesses. In particular these are: » localisation and diffusion: i.e. rooted locally, situated near the problems to be acted on, and with the ca-
pacity to spread throughout the area; » flexibility and reactivity: i.e. the ability to adapt and react to variables by trying to find new opportunities. 125 ı SUSTAINABLE EVERYDAY