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Friends of the Earth - Campaigns on biodiverstiy, climate change, gm food, pollution, transport and waste. Includes details of local pollution sources in your neighbourhood.
Trailblazers: Rights of Way - The National Federation of Bridleway Associations and the South Pennine Pack Horse Trails Trust are organizations that promote equestrian access, protect rights of way and ancient lanes, campaign for access to open country, and maintains a list of open and closed bridleways and Current Issues regarding access in the UK.
Centre For Alternative Technology - One of Europe's foremost eco-centres. Includes comprehensive green catalog, with books and products orderable online.
Common Ground - Supporting local diversity across the UK. Provides details of work linking arts and environmental fields.
Revolt - Rural England Versus Overhead Line Transmission. The organisation presses for a co-ordinated UK energy distribution policy.
Waste Watch - Information, publications and advice on waste reduction, reuse and recycling.
Electric Vehicles UK - Campaigning for improved facilities and cheaper electric cars in Britain. Features news and campaign information.
UK Incinerators - Email group in the UK concerning The Incineration Campaign. Local action groups can communicate with each on this issue.
National Urban Forestry Unit - Charitable organisation which works to raise awareness of the positive contribution that trees make to the quality of life in towns.
Lightswitch Programme - Government supported initiative promoting use of energy efficient lighting in the non-domestic sector. News, savings calculator, rebate details and wide range of resources.
Computer Aid - Recycles unwanted computers from Britain for use in schools and community organisations in developing countries. Based in Finsbury Park, North London.
Industry Council for Electronic Equipment Recycling - An association of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) suppliers promoting environmentally sound policies within the industry.
Community Recycling Network - Non-profit-making industrial and provident society formed to promote community recycling schemes. Provides advice and event listings, a newsletter, member links and a bulletin board.
GAIN - Campaign Against Surrey Incinerators - News, gallery and press releases for Guildford Anti-Incinerator Network (GAIN) campaigning against incinerators in Guildford, Surrey.
Groundwork - Environmental regeneration charity. Partnership with local people, local authorities and business to promote economic and social regeneration by improvements to the local environment.
Envocare - Comprehensive informational site with details on a variety of environmental issues and their status in the UK.
Policy Brief - Environment - Environment and Resources Planning initiatives from UK think tanks and public policy institutes.
Leeds Earth First! - Provides information and resources on Green Anarchist politics.
National Recycling Forum: Buy Recycled - Information about buying products containing recycled materials, including a searchable database of recycled products available in the UK and a chat area on market development for recyclables and secondary materials.
Printer Cartridge Recycling Scheme - Organisation that accepts printer cartridges and old mobile phones for recycling and donates the proceeds to children's charities.
UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development - Independent charitable foundation focusing on sustainable business, marine environment, information and communication technologies.
World Wildlife Federation (WWF): UK - Campaigns on a wide range of environmental issues including opposition to new road building.
Clean Vehicles - Information about low emission vehicles, equipment, fuel and the companies that supply them.
Computers for Charity - A voluntary, non-profitmaking organisation that recycles and resells PCs. Has centres across the UK.
Association for Environment Conscious Building - Promotes environmentally responsible practices within building. Includes forum and details of their magazine.
Whitbread Action Earth - A campaign encouraging people to get involved in local environmental projects throughout Great Britain.
ENVIROinsite - UK environment, wildlife and conservation news, message board and events diary.
EU Energy.Com - In depth reports on the liberalisation of the energy sector across Europe.
Global Commons Institute - An independent organisation campaigning on climate change. Promotes a "Contraction and Convergence" solution. Includes a global warming model(Excel spreadsheet or Java applet) recent papers and book reviews as well as contact information.
Living Streets - A campaign of the Pedestrians' Association. Aiming to make every village, town and city more pedestrian friendly. Manifesto, contacts, and livability survey.
Oxford Greenpeace Campaign Group - Environmental pressure group. Details of meetings and other activities.
Rethink Rubbish - This site gives information about the growing problem of rubbish in the UK and some quick and easy steps for everyone to help solve the problem.
Stop Avon Valley Airport - Site allowing readers to register disapproval of the proposed airport. Poll, countdown clock and papers on the issue.
Gaia Watch of the UK - Human population growth and international migration. Consequences for the UK.
Do a little, change a lot. - Guide to helping protect Scotland's and the World's environment.
Campaign Against East Midlands Airport Expansion - Campaign group dedicated to fighting the proposals to expand East Midlands Airport. Includes guide to objecting, messages of support and details of the proposals.
Stop the Mottram Bypass - Campaign site opposed to the A628 Mottram/Tintwistle bypass.
Bucks Residents Against the INcinerator - Group resisting the development of a large industrial incinerator at Newton Longville/Milton Keynes. News, membership, contacts.
BBC - Nature Environment - BBC's introduction to conservation, green guides to help you make environmentally friendly lifestyle choices and careers in the environmental jobs sector.
CleanUp - Government backed initiative encouraging the fitting of emission reduction equipment to high pollution diesel vehicles, especially haulage. Offers grants of up to 75%.
Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership - Action and advisory group promoting the shift to clean low carbon vehicles and fuels.
PowerShift - Energy Saving Trust programme supporting clean fuel vehicles. Includes explanation, buyers guide on alternative fuels and information on grants.
Ecovillage Network UK - Publications, networks and skills index. Assists individuals, projects, and organisations in developing environmentally, socially and economically sustainable settlements.
Surfers Against Sewage - Campaign group with a mission to rid the coastline of sewage.
Sustainability for Citizens and Communities - Directory of up-to-date information on local sustainability in the UK (environmental, social and economic aspects) aimed at ordinary people and community groups.
Campaign for Dark Skies. - Aim to bring attention to the problem of upward-shining lights which waste energy and blot out the night sky. News, general information on what constitutes good lighting, awards granted, how to join and astronomy news
Chebang - E-zine encouraging mutual support for independent local sustainability action in the UK.
The Soil Association - Campaigning and certification body for organic food and farming. Develops and provides practical and sustainable solutions which combine food production and environmental protection and human health.
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history All television is children's television. -- Richard P. Adler Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the commun "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein Environment I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel Environment I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of the workmanship. -- John Renmerde All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy Environment When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. -- Moliere Environment 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, "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright Environment Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. -- George Santayana We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage -- Martin Luther Environment Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint. -- Robert Browning No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde 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 Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Environment A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity. -- Albert Einstein University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Environment There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Environment Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -- Alexandre Dumas pere Environment By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. -- Gloria Steinem I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Environment Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice Environment Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Environment Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln Environment You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Environment Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it." -- Jerry Seinfeld My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates Environment Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. -- Karen Sunde We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -- John Webster "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Environment A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain Environment "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry Environment Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. -- Woodrow Wilson In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. -- Mortimer J. Adler Environment If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Environment Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. -- Rose Kennedy "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Environment
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