Easy steps to reduce your own carbon emissions
- Rediscover the wonder of travelling by train: The Man at Seat 61
- Unable to kick the flying habit? Off-set your carbon emissions with an air travel calculator
- Thinking of ditching the car? Why not consider pay-as-you-go car. If living in London, Brighton or Southampton check out streetcar.co.uk
- One of the easiest and biggest changes you can make is to change to clean energy supply – and it only takes 5 minutes to do: Good Energy
- A very useful forum addressing practical solutions to tackle individual and community energy descent: Shared Energy
- For practical tips on energy efficiency visit the Energy Savings Trust
- For Home and Business Audits and one-on-one practical advice, book an appointment with Donnachadh McCarthy at 3 Acorns
- For more info on waste reduction, check out Wastewatch
Let the green life come to you
- For great daily or weekly updates on what is happening out there treehugger.com
- For a green audit of your home, get in touch with Action For Sustainable Living or 3 Acorns
- If you want to know more about what you buy and the companies behind the products: Ethical Consumer
- Comprehensive Green Directories: GuideMeGreen, GreenFinder
- A resource for all things life-sustaining and life-inspiring: The Changing Times
- Green news and views in the UK: ecolocal.co.uk
- Elegant eglus delivered to your door for your chickens: omlet.co.uk
- Getting married? Ethical Weddings
- Ethical and eco-friendly wedding stationery, accessories and favours: Dragonfly Invites
- Moving house or office and have excess junk you want to dispose of? Call Ecojunk who will dispose of it all in an environmentally responsible manner.
- Green taxi services, London: GoGreenCar, GreenTomatoCars
- Environmentally conscious decorating company, London: EC Decor
The Bigger Picture:
- A great starting point is Climate Outreach and Information Network
- If you are concerned about climate change and want to find out more, check out Climate Concern UK
- For practical solutions on how to live sustainably and information on renewable energy for your home: Centre for Alternative Technology
- A wonderfully easy-to-use and comprehensive resource providing down-to-earth advice explaining what each of us can do to achieve a low carbon lifestyle: whatyoucando
- For school education on green issues: Education for Sustainability
- Talk Action specialises in social and environmental education, offering workshops and speakers
Want to Get Involved?
See what these organisations are doing, and give them support- Friends of the Earth
- Women’s Environmental Network
- Woodland Trust
- World Wildlife Fund
- Greenpeace
- Stop Climate Chaos Coalition
- Campaign Against Climate Change
- Save our World
Bags bags bags
- Support the fight against the plastic bag in the UK: Ban The Bag
- Another really great site: bringyourown.org
Accreditation
- Forest Stewardship Council
- Wood For Good
- Fairtrade Foundation
- Ethical Trading Initiative
- Sustainable Forestry Initiative
- Global Eco Labelling Network
- Okotex
- Ecocert
Textiles and Production
Chemicals
Useful
- Two really useful articles on Eco-interiors and what to evaluate when redesigning, by Free Spirit Interiors
- Donate your half-empty tins of paint to Community Repaint
- Your trash could be another’s treasure. Why not offer it for free via Freecycle
Raising Awareness
Credits
- Paul Toeman of www.photoe.co.uk for his great photograph of bikes
