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Websites
- Open The Future
- A scientific blogspot
- Soil Association
- Seminars, conferences, farm walks, shows and talks about organic food, farming and living sustainably
- Greenpeace
- Greenpeace stands for positive change through action. We defend the natural world and promote peace.
- Environment Agency
- Leading public body for protecting and improving the environment in England and Wales
- Riverford Vegetables
- The official Riverford Veg Box website
- Monbiot
- George Monbiot’s blogspot
- Three Trees Don't Make A Forest
- A catalyst for the creation of a zero carbon design industry.
- MaterialConnexion
- Material ConneXion is the leading global platform for material solutions and innovations
- Metcheck
- A company supplying meteorological, hydrological and marine instruments
- Earth As Art
- View our planet through the beautiful images taken by the Landsat-7 satellite
- Carrot Cake Tour
- Imagine what would happen if every visitor to the Glastonbury Festival had to earn their right of passage to see the bands on show
- British Beekeeper's Association
- The BBKA works to promote bees and beekeeping and to provide a range of member services to beekeepers in the UK
- Countryside Council for Wales
- The Countryside Council for Wales is the Government's statutory advisor on sustaining natural beauty, wildlife and the opportunity for outdoor enjoyment in Wales and its inshore waters
- Plants for Life
- About the importance of plants and why we need them
- Welsh Beekeeper's Association
- Keeping Welsh beekeepers informed
- HACAN
- HACAN is an umbrella organization standing up for those who are adversely affected by air traffic through heathrow
- Rising Tide
- A grassroots network of independent groups and individuals working towards building the movement against climate change
Books
- Silent Spring
- Author: Rachel Carson
Description: First published in 1962, this book draws a tragic picture of what the effects of pesticides & insecticides can have on human life.
ISBN: 0141184949 - Song of the Sky
- Author: Guy Murchie
Description: Published in 1954, this book is about the ‘Ocean of Air’, aviation and navigation
ISBN: N/A - Rubbish!: (Dirt on our hands and crisis ahead)
- Author: Richard Girling
Description: An exploration of rubbish, our attitudes towards it, our methods for dealing with it and the huge short falling in our attitudes toward it
ISBN: 1903919444 - The Earth Path
- Author: Starhawk
Description: Grounding your spirit in the rhythms of nature.
ISBN: 0060000937 - 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 - Alone Across Antarctica
- Author: Borge Ousland
Description: Travels in Antartica
ISBN: 82-994379-1-1 - General System Theory
- Author: Ludwig Von Bertalanfy
Description: A collection of essays, exploring the seeds of systems theory, its foundations, development and applications
ISBN: 0807604534 - Do or Die! Voices from the Ecological Resistance
- Author: Earth First!
Description: A collection of inspiring, empowering and important stories from everything from the anti roads movement through reclaim the streets to pixie actions and monkey wrenching
ISBN: N/A - The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference
- Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Description: An explanation of social trends and an exploration of the ‘tipping point’ where ideas, trends and behaviours suddenly ‘catch on’ and spread like wildfire
ISBN: 0316648523 - The Stormrider Guide Europe
- Author: Bruce Sutherland
Description: The best surf spots Europe wide. Whether you’re a surfer or not this book makes you want to chase the waves
ISBN: 0953984052 - The Age of Unreason: New Thinking For A New World
- Author: Charles Handy
Description: It’s about thinking the unlikely and doing the unreasonable. A look at alternative organisational structures and the benefits they could afford us
ISBN: 0099548313 - Planet Earth We Have a Problem
- Author: David Wasdell
Description: Feedback dynamics and the acceleration of climate change
ISBN: - - The Road
- Author: Cormac McCarthy
Description: A story of a father and son walking through a burned America. This story explores the depths of despair and savagery alongside the power of love and self sacrifice
ISBN: 0330447548 - Emergence
- Author: Steven Johnson
Description: When enough individual elements interact and organize themselves, the result is collective intelligence.
ISBN: 0140287752 - Surviving the Century: Facing Climate Chaos & Other Global Challenges
- Author: Herbert Girardet
Description: A combined analysis presents why our current arrangements are failing and what can offer us hope.
ISBN: 1844076121 - Design for the Real World
- Author: Victor Papanek
Description: An early edition to discussing socially responsible design
ISBN: 0500273588 - The Cloudspotter’s Guide
- Author: Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Description: This book helps us enjoy and understand the beauty of clouds
ISBN: 034089590X - The Invention of Clouds
- Author: Richard Hamblyn
Description: Telling the story of Luke Howard’s life and how he named the clouds for the love of it
ISBN: 033039195X - A Pig with Six Legs, and Other Clouds
- Author: Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Description: A small picture book of clouds
ISBN: 0340952423 - The Book of Clouds
- Author: John A Day
Description: Reintroduces us to the Earth’s great skyscape
ISBN: 1402728131 - Philosophy of the Organism
- Author: Alfred North Whitehead
Description: Philosophy of the Organism.
ISBN: 1406775967 - The Scientific Attitude
- Author: C.H.Waddington
Description: Published in 1941 this book honours the awaking of people’s attitudes to science
ISBN: - - Design with Nature
- Author: Ian V McHarg
Description: Offers a practical blueprint for new, healthier relationship between the built environment and nature
ISBN: 047111460X - Eco-Defense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching
- Author: Dave Foreman
Description: The folks who put "Ecodefense" together are tired of talk and collaboration
ISBN: 0963775103 - Fixing Climate: The Story of Climate Science - and How to Stop Global Warming
- Author: Robert Kunzig and Wallace S. Broecker
Description: How Broecker and his colleagues unravelled Earth’s volatile history and discovered man-made climate change
ISBN: 1846688604 - The Hungry Spirit: Beyond Capitalism - A Quest for Purpose in the Modern World
- Author: Charles Handy
Description: Beyond Capitalism a quest for purpose in the modern world
ISBN: 0091801680 - Honeybee Ecology
- Author: Thomas D Seeley
Description: Behavioural biology
ISBN: 0691083924 - Bees of the World
- Author: Christopher O'Toole and Anthony Raw
Description: A reference book for naturalists and amateurs
ISBN: 0816057125 - Guide to Bees and Honey
- Author: Ted Hooper
Description: A guide to beekeeping
ISBN: 1904846246 - Bees at the Bottom of the Garden
- Author: Alan Campion
Description: This book aims to take the mystique out of keeping bees
ISBN: 0907908977 - Plants and Honeybees: Their Relationship
- Author: David Aston and Sally Bucknall
Description: How the European honey bee utilises the flowers and plants in the British Isles
ISBN: 190484619X - Contraction and Convergence: The Global Solution to Climate Change
- Author: Aubrey Meyer
Description: A Schumacher briefing on contraction and convergence
ISBN: 1870098943 - 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 - Walden
- Author: Henry David Thoreau
Description: An extended poem on sustainability from America before the fall
ISBN: 0192839217 - 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 - Do It Yourself: A Handbook for Changing our World
- Author: Paul Chatterton
Description: Covers everything from setting up a community garden to taking direct action, alternative media to why we are what we eat
ISBN: 978-0-7453-2637-5 - Trail Solutions
- Author: The IMBA
Description: IMBA’s guide to building sweet singletrack
ISBN: 0-9755023-0-1 - The Trailbuilding Handbook
- Author: IMBA-UK
Description: A step by step practical guide to planning and building mountainbike trails
ISBN: N/A - The Freeride Guide
- Author: IMBA
Description: The IMBA guide to building freeride trails, what freeride is and how that changes what you need to take into account when building trails
ISBN: N/A
Organisations
- Greenvoice
- Greenvoice is an internet company that raises money and awareness for environmental campaigns on a global basis
- Compass Network
- The Compass Network aims to improve the quality of sustainability communications worldwide
- We Are What We Do
- Our aim is to inspire people to use their everyday actions to change the world.
- Guerrilla Gardening
- An organization of people that come together and garden neglected public spaces
- Architecture for Humanity
- This is a charitable organization that seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian crisis and brings design services to communities in need
- The Soil Association
- UK's leading environmental charity promoting sustainable and organic farming
- Sustain
- The alliance for better food and farming
- UK Food Group
- UK network for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working on global food and agriculture issues. Our vision is a world in which hunger has been banished by food security
- The Organic Research Centre
- Its purpose is to develop and support sustainable land-use, agriculture and food systems
- Greenpeace
- Greenpeace stands for positive change through action. We defend the natural world and promote peace.
- Community Action Nepal
- Community Action Nepal helps and supports remote communities through Education, Health and Community Development programmes.
- Patagonia Land Trust
- Protection and restoration of wildland ecosystems and biodiversity in Patagonia
- MechE: Institute of Mechanical Engineers
- Working on engineering in alignment with key event and technological advances in the world
- The Marine Conservation Society
- The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) is the UK charity dedicated to caring for our seas, shores and wildlife
- The Woodland Trust
- Leading charity dedicated solely to the protection of our native woodland heritage.
- The Ramblers
- The UK’s biggest walking association
- Landlife
- Working mainly in urban and urban fringe areas, to bring nature and people closer together.
- 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
- Permaculture Association
- The Association is an educational charity run by its members and helps people use permaculture in their everyday lives to improve their quality of life and the environment around them
- Leave No Trace - Center for Outdoor Ethics
- Is an educational, nonprofit organization dedicated to the responsible enjoyment and active stewardship of the outdoors by all people, worldwide.
- Arboricultural Association
- The Arboricultural Association, which was founded in 1964, is the leading body in the UK for the amenity tree care professional in either civic or commercial employment at craft, technical, supervisory, managerial or consultancy level.
- 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.
- Tree Advice Trust
- An independent charity whose aims are to research and disseminate practical information and guidance on the cultivation, maintenance and care of trees grown for amenity.
- Kew Garden
- To inspire and deliver science-based plant conservation worldwide, enhancing the quality of life.
- Botanic Gardens, Cambridge
- A 40 acre oasis of beautifully landscaped gardens and glasshouses right in the heart of the city
- BBC
- News site
- Upland Path Organisation
- Charitable Trust that protects our upland paths
