Society for Sustainable Development Design (DOOR)

DOOR (Society for Sustainable Development Design) is a civil society organization founded in 2003. DOOR’s mission is the promotion of sustainable development principles in all segments of society, at the local, regional and national levels, primarily in the field of energy. DOOR’s aim is to contribute to achieving a just and carbon-neutral society, adapted to unavoidable climate change, in which the public takes part in delivering, monitoring, and evaluating public policies, and sustainable energy plays an important role in social, economic, and ecological development and decreasing poverty DOOR operates within the three strategic areas: energy efficiency, renewable energy and climate change. In general, DOOR aims to contribute to achieving a low-carbon society, adapted to unavoidable climate change without energy poverty. DOOR has successfully implemented more than 100 projects with goals ranging from climate change mitigation, encouraging citizens’ participation in sustainable energy policy-making, improving education about renewable energy sources,, and alleviating energy poverty. Within the projects more than a hundred workshops, round tables, training, conferences, and other public events were organized, attended by several thousand participants, a dozen manuals were published, a number of study trips were organized and continuous cooperation with numerous organizations from Croatia and abroad was established. 12 employees, 60 members, and depending on current activities and requirements at times over 20 active volunteers.