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LINKS :3
On our website you will find a number of Links that show in many ways what other people are doing right now to get involved. We hope that this will inspire you too!
Al Gore - the star of the film 'An Inconvenient Truth' has brought out a new video about his new thinking on the climate crisis. April 2008. If you would like to watch this video at TED.com please click HERE
Al Gore - His much - anticipated sequel to An Inconvenient Truth is published today November 2nd 2009. To read this Guardian newspaper article about his latest book titled 'Our Choice : A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis' please click HERE
TED.com : Ideas worth spreading
This web site contains a large video collection of talks given by some of the foremost thinkers of our time. To explore this web site please click HERE
Kevin Anderson : Reframing Climate Change
Professor Anderson of the Tyndale Centre, the University of Manchester UK.
One comment - In my opinion this is one of the best summaries of the state of play in climate change right now'. To watch this You Tube video in 4 parts, just follow the links, for part 1 please click HERE
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Resources for a sustainable future - promoting the 350 and 10:10 Campaign
Amid the rows, one truth : the world is still warming
5.2.2010 Guardian Article by Fred Pearce, scientific author and environmental consultant of the New Scientist magazine. To read this article about his views on the current scientific data debate, please click HERE
TED : Ideas worth spreading - Time lapse proof of extreme ice loss
Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of the most vivid evidence yet of climate change. To watch this video please click HERE
Bill McGuire .co.uk
This is the home page of Bill McGuire, professor of earth science at the univ. of London uk, and the author of the challenging book 'Seven Years to Save the Planet', which is full of questions and answers that should encourage us all through these changing times. To explore his site and watch a video please click HERE
The Oil Drum ; Discussions about Energy and our future
This site is full of information, facts, figures and discussions. To explore The Oil Drum please click HERE
Monbiot. com
Are you looking for an independent view on climate change and other important matters? Then George Monbiot is your man. To read these thought provoking articles please click
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Green Alliance.org.uk
On this web page there is a long list of pdf files to read on a wide range of green issues, all packed with useful information. To take a look please click HERE
Richard Heinberg.com
Richard Heinberg is widely regarded as one of the world's most effective communicators of the urgent need to transition away from fossil fuels. To visit his web site and learn more about his vision for a truly sustainable future please click HERE
To see a collection of his You Tube videos please click HERE
Green Alliance. org.uk : Thinking,talking and acting on the environment
With a wide variety of topics under discussion, to visit their home page please click HERE
What is Greenwave? 'Greenwave an initiative co-ordinated by the Green Alliance between 2007/9 and was designed to stimulate new thinking about how we could deepen public concern and accelerate political action on climate change. Greenwave was about learning lessons from our successes and failures, acquiring new insights from other sectors and new research, and developing new approaches that apply these insights'. For more information and pdf files to download please click HERE
Natural Capitalism : Creating the next Industrial Revolution
'The next Industrial Revolution, like the first one will be a response to changing patterns of scarcity. It will create upheaval, but more importantly, it will create opportunities. Business must adjust to these new realities'. To explore this website which is full of information to read how this transition can be achieved, please click HERE
Birmingham recycled : environmental news from the midlands
Aston University backs green scheme for cars - Students at the university have become involved with a project hoping to develop low carbon emitting transport for the UK. To explore this web site and read more about this article please click
Eat the Suburbs. org : Creative suburban adaptations to peak oil and climate change
To explore this site which is full of ideas and useful information, please click HERE
Green Books : Environmental Publishers for over 21 years
With not only the latest green books to browse through, but also the latest news and events on green issues. To explore this web site please click HERE
The Schumacher Society : Promoting Human Scale Sustainable Development
There is much to explore on this web site from the opportunity to attend lectures at the Bristol Schumacher Conference, to browsing the Lecture Archive of some of the foremost thinkers of our time. To visit the society's web site please click HERE
Green Spirit.org.uk
GreenSpirit is a network of people who celebrate the human spirit in the context of our place in the natural world and Earth's own evolutionary journey. Our radical vision brings together the rigour of science, the creativity of artistic expression, the passion of social action and the wisdom of spiritual traditions of all ages. Attracting those of many faith traditions, we are a body of people who believe that human life has both an ecological and a spiritual dimension.
To visit their website, please click HERE
Zero Carbon Britain : An alternative energy strategy
To explore this creative web site and, if you don't have time to read the highly acclaimed full report on 'Zero carbon Britain', please read the summary. Both of which can be downloaded as pdf files if you click HERE
The Centre for Alternative Technology, near Machynlleth, North Wales.Uk
To explore this inspirational and practical website please click HERE
The Sustainable Development Commission - Reports
1 - National Infrastructure - Embedding sustainable development in decision making
2 - Know your environmental limits: A local leaders’ guide
3 - Making sustainable living easier
4 - New Government approach to meeting UK’s transport needs vital to ensure fairness
5 - Coalition Government 'must step up to the plate on sustainable food'
To see the above Reports, please click HERE
LOCAL LINKS
The Bishops Wood Centre, Worcestershire - is recognised nationally and internationally for it's work in environmental and sustainability education with schools and for it's training courses. To visit their web link please click HERE
The Cropthorne Autonomous House. Worcs
To visit this local eco-house project and watch it's development please click HERE
The Farm Animal Sanctuary, Middle Littleton,Evesham.Worcs.
If you would like to visit and offer much needed support for Britain's first farm animal sanctuary please click HERE
Roundabout : working to overcome disadvantage and waste
Help us to help others! Support for local families in need. Minimise waste and encourage re-use. Provide training and volunteer opportunities. Re-use your unwanted household articles. Collection and delivery vans are in your area. To visit their web site please click HERE
Vale Wildlife Rescue Centre, Beckford,Tewkesbury,Glos. - Helping Britain's Wildlife
If you would like to visit this excellent charity and offer your support, at a time of great need, please click HERE
Evesham and Pershore Freecycle - It's a grassroots movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns.
'Freecycle groups match people who have things they want to get rid of with people who can use them. Our goal is to keep usable things out of landfills. By using what we already have on this earth, we reduce consumerism, manufacture fewer goods, and lessen the impact on the earth'. To find out more about Freecycle please click HERE
WCC - Let's Waste Less Campaign
A New Website has been set up so that people living across the county can find all the information they need to help reduce what they throw out and make their waste work for them ! Please visit www.letswasteless.com