Links to Websites

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Direct Action

  • UK Earth First Ecological direct action. See also theEarth First! Summer Gathering
  • Rising Tide Rising Tide UK is a network of groups and individuals dedicated to taking local action and building a movement against climate change.
  • RoadAlert News on anti-roads campaigns.
  • Road Raging A guide to setting up a protest camp. Useful for many different types of protest as it has info on setting up a campaign, raising money, dealing with the media, forming affinity groups, legal support, and various types of direct action.
  • People's Global Action
  • The Wombles London direct action group.
  • Saving Iceland We are a group of people of different nationalities, who do not intend to stand by passively and watch the Icelandic government in league with foreign corporations slowly kill the natural beauty of Iceland.

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Independent Media


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News and Blogs

  • RealClimate RealClimate is a commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists. They aim to provide a quick response to developing stories and provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary. The discussion is restricted to scientific topics and will not get involved in any political or economic implications of the science.
  • Climate Change News Digest Climate Change News is an internet news portal that provides constantly updated links to the latest news on climate change. The aim of Climate Change News is to promote a broader view of climate change and to show how inherently it is linked to political, economic, ethical and even philosophical issues.

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Migration


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Transport

  • Roadblock Road Block is an alliance of groups and individuals campaigning against road-building.
  • Airport Watch AirportWatch is the campaign to oppose unnecessary, unsustainable and irresponsible airport expansion across the UK.
  • Planestupid Planestupid campaigns for an end to airport expansion, a ban on shorthaul flights and the introduction of tax on aviation fuel.
  • Transport 2000 The national environmental transport body.
  • RoadAlert News on anti-roads campaigns.
  • Airport Pledge Pledge against airport expansion.
  • Critical Mass An unorganized coincidence. It's a movement ... of bicycles, in the streets.

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Climate Justice


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Agriculture


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Science and Ecology

  • Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change A few dozen reports on various aspects of climate change from some of the world's most respected climate scientists - comprehensive, and more up-to-date and readable than the IPCC's Third Assessment Report.
  • The Met Office Hadley Centre The Met Office Hadley Centre is leading international research into what could happen under climate change, and the impacts on current and future generations.
  • Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Researching sustainable responses to climate change.
  • Climate.org Climate change and Europe.
  • The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been established by WMO and UNEP to assess scientific, technical and socio- economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation. It is open to all Members of the UN and of WMO.
  • IPCC Working Group 1 2007 Report The IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report will be complete later in the year. You can follow this link to download their preliminary report on the scientific basis of climate change.

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Nuclear Power


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Peak Oil

  • Transition Culture An evolving exploration into the head, heart and hands of energy descent.
  • Power Switch Powerswitch.org.uk is dedicated to raising awareness & discussion of the impending & permanent decline of cheap oil & gas supply, the consequences of which will affect every corner of our lives.
  • Energy Bulletin Peak energy in the news.
  • Post-Carbon Institute Learning to live in a low energy world.

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Economics


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Non-Governmental Organisations


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Government


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Corporations

  • Corporate Watch Corporations have gained a power out of all proportion to their original purpose. We are a research group supporting the campaigns which are increasingly successful in forcing corporations to back down. Corporate Watch is part of the growing anti-corporate movement springing up around the world.
  • Corpwatch CorpWatch investigates and exposes corporate violations of human rights, environmental crimes, fraud and corruption around the world. We work to foster global justice, independent media activism and democratic control over corporations.
  • Oilwatch Oilwatch is a resistance network that opposes the activities of oil companies in tropical countries.

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Greenwash

  • The Heat is Online A blog tracking the disinformation campaign of Big Coal and Big Oil.
  • Art Not Oil Art Not Oil is a rolling exhibition aimed at encouraging artists to create work that explores the damage that companies like BP are doing to the planet, and the role art can play in counteracting that damage.

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Energy and Renewables

  • The Centre for Alternative Technology We offer solutions to some of the most serious challenges facing our planet and the human race, such as climate change, pollution and the waste of precious resources.
  • The World Alliance for Decentralized Energy The World Alliance for Decentralized Energy (WADE) was established in 2002 as a non-profit research and promotion organisation whose mission is to accelerate the worldwide development of high efficiency cogeneration (CHP) and decentralized renewable energy systems that deliver substantial economic and environmental benefits.
  • Trec Trec is an initiative to create massive solar farms in the world's deserts, with the power transported over long distances using high voltage direct current (HVDC) power cables.
  • Biofuel Watch Biofuel Watch campaigns for European government regulation to stop the use of those biofuels which are unsustainable, particularly those linked to rainforest destruction.
  • IEA The International Energy Agency has facts and projections on present and future energy use worldwide.

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Science and Ecology

  • Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change A few dozen reports on various aspects of climate change from some of the world's most respected climate scientists - comprehensive, and more up-to-date and readable than the IPCC's Third Assessment Report.
  • The Met Office Hadley Centre The Met Office Hadley Centre is leading international research into what could happen under climate change, and the impacts on current and future generations.
  • Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Researching sustainable responses to climate change.
  • Climate.org Climate change and Europe.
  • The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been established by WMO and UNEP to assess scientific, technical and socio- economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation. It is open to all Members of the UN and of WMO.
  • IPCC Working Group 1 2007 Report The IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report will be complete later in the year. You can follow this link to download their preliminary report on the scientific basis of climate change.

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Nuclear Power


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Peak Oil

  • Transition Culture An evolving exploration into the head, heart and hands of energy descent.
  • Power Switch Powerswitch.org.uk is dedicated to raising awareness & discussion of the impending & permanent decline of cheap oil & gas supply, the consequences of which will affect every corner of our lives.
  • Energy Bulletin Peak energy in the news.
  • Post-Carbon Institute Learning to live in a low energy world.

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Economics


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Non-Governmental Organisations


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Government


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Corporations

  • Corporate Watch Corporations have gained a power out of all proportion to their original purpose. We are a research group supporting the campaigns which are increasingly successful in forcing corporations to back down. Corporate Watch is part of the growing anti-corporate movement springing up around the world.
  • Corpwatch CorpWatch investigates and exposes corporate violations of human rights, environmental crimes, fraud and corruption around the world. We work to foster global justice, independent media activism and democratic control over corporations.
  • Oilwatch Oilwatch is a resistance network that opposes the activities of oil companies in tropical countries.

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Greenwash

  • The Heat is Online A blog tracking the disinformation campaign of Big Coal and Big Oil.
  • Art Not Oil Art Not Oil is a rolling exhibition aimed at encouraging artists to create work that explores the damage that companies like BP are doing to the planet, and the role art can play in counteracting that damage.

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Energy and Renewables

  • The Centre for Alternative Technology We offer solutions to some of the most serious challenges facing our planet and the human race, such as climate change, pollution and the waste of precious resources.
  • The World Alliance for Decentralized Energy The World Alliance for Decentralized Energy (WADE) was established in 2002 as a non-profit research and promotion organisation whose mission is to accelerate the worldwide development of high efficiency cogeneration (CHP) and decentralized renewable energy systems that deliver substantial economic and environmental benefits.
  • Trec Trec is an initiative to create massive solar farms in the world's deserts, with the power transported over long distances using high voltage direct current (HVDC) power cables.
  • Biofuel Watch Biofuel Watch campaigns for European government regulation to stop the use of those biofuels which are unsustainable, particularly those linked to rainforest destruction.
  • IEA The International Energy Agency has facts and projections on present and future energy use worldwide.

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Carbon Trading

  • Carbon Trade Watch An urgent need for research and network-building on greenhouse gas trading and other forms of pollution trading defines the beginning of Carbon Trade Watch.

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Skills and Training


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Positive Alternatives - People and Community

  • Low-Impact Living Initiative
    Practical courses, books and factsheets on low-impact living plus online shop for ecological building materials
  • Radical Roots Network of radical co-operatives providing support and info on housing and workers' co-ops
  • Co-housing These co-operative neighborhoods balance the traditional advantages of home ownership with the benefits of shared common facilities and sustainable living.
  • Steward Community Woodland A sustainable working woodland and conservation project in Dartmoor.
  • Carbon Rationing Action Groups (CRAGs) A network of 30 groups around the country, striving to live within a carbon budget and trialling personal carbon allowances.
  • Platform London Promoting creative processes of democratic engagement to advance social and ecological justice.
  • The New Economics Foundation An independent think-and-do tank that inspires and demonstrates real economic well-being.
  • Treesponsibility Local climate action group, based in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, enabling people to plant new woodlands and hedgerows as a way of recycling their personal CO2 pollution.
  • Platform Promoting creative processes of democratic engagement to advance social and ecological justice.
  • nef Nuclear power: no solution to climate change.
  • No Nukes Pathways to destruction.
  • Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

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Positive Alternatives - Food


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Positive Alternatives - Low Impact Living

  • The Yellow House The story of how we took a very ordinary English terrace 1930s house and set out on a limited budget to turn it into our dream eco-house.
  • Low Impact Living Onboard Low impact living resources for living on water but many also applicable on land
  • Building with Straw
  • Association for Environment Conscious Building Encourages greater environmental awareness within the building construction industry. It's diverse membership encompasses almost every sector of building construction and management.
  • The Freecycle Network is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns.
  • Local Exchange Trading Schemes Local community-based mutual aid networks in which people exchange all kinds of goods and services with one another, without the need for money
  • The Land Is Ours campaigns for land rights and low impact development
  • Shared Energy - activities and ideas for energy descent
  • Energy Saving Trust Advice from the government on how to reduce energy use at home

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Positive Alternatives - Travel

  • The Man in Seat 61 has travelled all over the UK and the world without flying, and has all the best advice, deals, and routes. Perfect for finding out how to get to Inverness or India by train!
  • Bicycology Cyclists' collective promoting cycling and linking wider issues of environmental and social responsibility.
  • Sustrans The sustainable transport charity - works on practical projects to encourage people to walk, cycle and use public transport in order to reduce motor traffic and its adverse effects.

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Positive Alternatives - Books

  • Eco-logic books Eco-logic books have been selling books that promote practical solutions to environmental problems, for over 15 years, and stock a wide variety of titles.
  • Permaculture Magazine Get your books, tools and products from The Earth Repair Catalogue.
  • Green Books An independent UK publishing company producing books on a wide range of environmental and cultural issues.