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Home Zones - UK based campaign where cars, pedestrians and bicycles interact in a positive way, shifting road use priority from cars.

The Women's Environmental Network - WEN campaigns on issues that link women, health and the environment. Campaigns promote positive alternatives to polluting practices and consumer items. Information on environmental health, food and genetic engineering.

Sustrans - A charity dedicated to sustainable transport. Instrumental in creating the National Cycle Network. Information on the organisation, projects, maps, and membership details.

eco-action.org - Ecological direct action and wilderness defence, provided by a pro-activism ISP.

Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) - National charity dedicated to the protection of rural England - protecting local countryside where there is threat, enhancing it where there is opportunity.

National Energy Foundation (UK) - A UK charity providing free advice on energy efficiency and renewable energy in the home and, through the Energy Efficiency Accreditation Scheme, also working with larger organisations.

Earth Rights - Provides legal advice and assistance to environmental campaigners. Public interest law firm and environmental charity.

Rising Tide UK - Information on the UK climate movement, subscription details for the newsletter, materials and resources, critiques of carbon trading and a directory of climate "skeptics".

Seeds for Change - Provides training and support to grassroots groups involved in environmental and social justice issues. Aims to share campaigning skills and experience. Site describes training offered and provides pamphlets such as "Organizing Successful Meetings" as well as contact details.

Friends of the Earth UK - National campaigns on the most urgent environmental and social issues of the day.

Christian Ecology Link - Organisation for Christians concerned about care of the environment. Includes CEL's Millennium Certificate, current events information, resources and prayer guide.

Rare Breeds Survival Trust - Supports over 70 rare breeds of sheep, cattle, goats, pigs, horses, ponies and poultry - some of which are rarer than the Giant Panda. Includes approved conservation centres, stock exchange, accredited butchers,discussion group and membership information.

The Wildlife Trusts - The Royal Society for Nature Conservation. News, information, with details of local and regional trusts and their activities in conservation work.

Optimum Population Trust - Organisation carrying out research into optimum population size in relation to environmental sustainability, particularly in the UK. Information about their activities and research.

Friends of the Peak District - An independent voice arguing for protection of the Peak District countryside. Information about the organisation and its campaigns.

The Committee For The Paddock - Group working to protect an area of wild countryside known as The Paddock from becoming swallowed up by development. Information about the area, and the funding needed to purchase and conserve it.

Ethical Consumer - Tips on ethical buying, consumer reports on a wide range of goods, information on UK and worldwide boycotts. Publishes Ethical Consumer magazine and the Corporate Critic database.

Vegan Organic Network - Concerned with ethical cultivation and social justice. Advice on chemical and manure free farming, forest gardens and compost toilets.

Ecovillage Network UK - Assists individuals, projects, and organisations in developing environmentally, socially and economically sustainable settlements.

Nine Ladies Anti-Quarry Campaign - Campaign to stop the re-opening of two dormant quarries near Stanton Moor and the Nine Ladies in the Peak District National Park, Derbyshire.

South Hams Against Rural Destruction (SHARD) - Local action group dedicated on halting the proposed massive housing developments which would change the South Hams landscape forever.

The Battle for Lyminge Forest - Opposition to the Rank Organisation's plans to build a holiday town for over 4,000 people in Lyminge Forest's West Wood in Kent. What is said to be wrong with the idea and what the organisation is doing about it

Friends of Conservation - Details of activities of charity. Plus online donation and carbon/milage calculator.

Worthing says NO to TETRA - Run by Worthing residents protesting against the installation of Tetra police communications by O2 Airwave on grounds of health risk, cost and technical capacity.

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost Organisations If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Organisations "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. -- Alfred Hitchcock Organisations We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein Organisations "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Organisations The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Organisations "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. -- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th Organisations I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Anonymous Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Organisations Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken Organisations Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon Organisations "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -- Robert Schuller God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too. -- Anonymous Organisations "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee Organisations "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. -- Cicero Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. -- H. L. Mencken Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Organisations We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee Organisations I could prove God statistically. -- George Gallup Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. -- Moliere Organisations "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal Organisations Marriage is a rest period between romances. Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais Organisations 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 "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Organisations All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin Organisations It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. -- Madeleine L'Engle Organisations The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Organisations If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig Organisations
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