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Centre for Sustainable Energy - CSE has three core aims, to promote energy efficiency and sustainable energy policy, to alleviate fuel poverty and promote affordable warmth and to promote a better understanding of sustainable energy development, from the community through to government.
Narroways Millennium Green Trust - An environmental charity in Bristol which manages an open space in the St.Werburghs area of the city called Narroways Hill, which is rich in wildlife.
Sustrans - A civil engineering charity which designs and builds routes for cyclists, walkers and people with disabilities. Sustrans is promoting a 6,500-mile National Cycle Network for the UK.
Victoria Park Wildlife Group - A group of local residents who help to improve Victoria Park, Bristol, for people and wildlife.
The Sofa Project - Charity recycling home appliances and furniture to low income households in the Bristol area. Free delivery and collection.
Bristol Friends of the Earth - Local branch of environmental campaign organisation. News, events, membership details.
South West England Environmental Trust - Bristol based organisation which distributes funds from the Landfill Tax Credit Scheme for investment in various environmental, educational and research schemes throughout the region: information, reports and links.
Avon Wildlife Trust - Voluntary group which manages eight wildlife reserves in Bristol and others in the former county of Avon: membership details, news, activities, diary, school visits and contact information.
Streets Alive! - Local voluntary group that promotes car free street events: news, events, photo gallery, contact details.
Bristol Naturalists' Society - Promotes education and research into natural history, including geology, with special reference to the local district: history, membership information, meetings, publications, library, archives and links.
Bristol Recycling Consortium - Providing waste related information and links to associated sites.
Dundry Hill Group - Conservation group established to care for green belt area on the southern fringes of the city: aims, events, contact details.
Malago Valley Conservation Group - A voluntary group which covers south-west Bristol - the BS13 area: programme, links, publications, projects, contact details.
CREATE - Environment centre located in Hotwells, providing a home for the City Council's Sustainable Development Unit and many environmental charities: services, opening hours, location, contact details, partner organisations.
Windmill Hill City Farm - Information about the work of the farm, cafe, community education, play centre, and adventure playground.
One World Wildlife - Local conservation charity that undertakes and supports ecological research, sustainable development initiatives and environmental education projects: profile, news, and contact information.
Bristol Wildlife - Yahoo! group featuring discussion on local wildlife issues.
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -- Anonymous Green "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson Green The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. -- Brendon Behan Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up. -- Vince Lombardi "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Green I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde Green Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot Green We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. -- Mme de Staël "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill Green Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Green The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -- Antonio Porchi Green "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. -- Bobcat Goldthwait Green I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Green The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -- Nathan Hale LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Green Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot Green If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic. -- Marie Tonkin "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Green A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Green A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty Green It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln Green Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Green In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune Green If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude. -- Oscar Wilde Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment. -- Robert Benchley Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White Green Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith Green An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Green Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. -- Cynthia Heimel You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Green
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