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Our speakers recommend:
Websites
- Plane Stupid
- Trying to bring down the aviation industry
- The Coal Hole
- The Coal Hole is part of a growing movement willing to take “direct action” against coal, and the destructive climate change it causes
- Three Trees Don't Make A Forest
- A catalyst for the creation of a zero carbon design industry.
- Monbiot
- George Monbiot’s blogspot
Books
- A Prosperous Way Down
- Author: Howard T. Odum & Elisabeth C. Odum
Description: How can the future be peaceful and prosperous with less fuel?
ISBN: 978-0-87081-908-7 - The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilisation
- Author: Thomas Homer Dixon
Description: There are ways to begin thinking about a better world.
ISBN: 978-0-285-63794-8 - Heat: How We Can Stop the Planet Burning
- Author: George Monbiot
Description: How can we stop the planet burning? One of the best books out there looking at the reality of climate change and what we can actually do about it
ISBN: 0141026626 - The Transition Handbook
- Author: Rob Hopkins
Description: In the face of ‘peak oil’ we are shown how to create self-reliant existence.
ISBN: 978-1-900322-18-8 - Surviving Climate Change
- Author: David Cromwell and Mark Levane
Description: Numerous writers come together to create a book that highlights the requirements for radical rethinking of the social, cultural, economic and political ground rules of our lives
ISBN: 074532567X - Man Made Climate Change
- Author: Olav Hohmeyer
Description: An exploration of the economic aspects of climate change and our policy options in light of this
ISBN: 3790811467
Organisations
- The Carbon Neutral Company
- The world's leading carbon consulting and carbon offsetting company
- Sustainability South West
- A charity raising awareness and providing advice and guidance to accelerate change towards a more sustainable region
- Carbon Rationing Action Groups
- Is a group of people who have decided to act together to reduce their individual and collective carbon footprints
- Centre for Alternative Technology
- 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.
- Transition Town Network
- The transition model emboldens communities to look peak oil and climate change squarely in the eye and unleash the collective genius of their own people to find the answers
