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 Affinity Woodland Workers Co-op have established a small low impact settlement based on permaculture principles that aims to combine woodland conservation management with sustainable living.Affinity Woodland Workers Co-op, Steward Community Woodland, Moretonhampstead, Newton Abbot Devon TQ13 8SD. Tel: 01647 440233. Mobile : 07050 674 464. Fax: 07050 674 467. Email: info@stewardwood.org Alternet News. How do you manage the torrent of information in your mailbox? How do you find the really relevant news without swimming through the sea of information? You need The AlterNet News - The GreenNet e-newsletter! GreenNet specialises in networking for environment, peace, human rights and development groups, so we are well placed to keep you informed about the news you need to know. The AlterNet News carries brief news items, campaign updates, a diary of key forthcoming events and announcements.GreenNet 77-74 White Lion Street, Islington, London N1 9PF, Tel (UK): 0845 0554011. Tel (int'l): +44 (0)20 7713 1941 Fax: +44 (0)20 7837 5551. Email: actnow@gn.apc.org Biofuelwatch highlights the environmental impacts of the global biofuel market, especially the vast releases of greenhouse gases and considerable biodiversity losses they can cause. We campaign for regulation to ensure only sustainably-sourced biofuels can be sold in the EU.info@biofuelwatch.org.uk Carfree UK was formed by a group of researchers, transport planners and environmental activists with the aim of promoting carfree development and its environmental, social, financial and health benefits. Our ultimate aim is to see carfree towns and cities in the UK. More immediately we are seeking to encourage the Government, planning authorities and developers to move beyond the small-scale "do-minimum" carfree developments implemented so far.Carfree UK, 64 Mill Drive, Hove, East Sussex BN3 6WD. Email: info@carfree.org.uk RESCUE - The British Archaeological Trust is dedicated to working for the rights of British Archaeology. Today and tomorrow are built on yesterday. The past is the foundation for the future. It is all around us and beneath our feet. It belongs to all of us. It is fragile and cannot be replaced.RESCUE, The British Archaeological Trust, 15a Bull Plain, Hertford, Hertfordshire SG14 1DX. Tel: 01992-553377 Email: rescue@rescue-archaeology.freeserve.co.uk The Centre for Alternative Technology. We are an educational charity striving to achieve the best cooperation between the natural, technological and human worlds. We test, live with and display strategies and tools for doing this. We are working for a sustainable future.The Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynlleth, Powys, SY20 9AZ. UK. Tel: +44 (0)1654 705950 Climate Outreach & Information Network. COIN was formed in October 2002 to provide workshops, materials, and information on the issues and implications of climate change and to promote locally based solutions. It specialises in providing materials to support small organisations working at a local community level.Coin, 16B Cherwell Street, Oxford, OX4 1BG. Tel: +44 (0)1865 727911 Email: info@coinet.org.uk The Composting Association is the United KingdomÕs not for profit membership organisation, promoting the sustainable management of biodegradable resources.The Composting Association, Avon House, Tithe Barn Road, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire NN8 1DH. Tel: +44 (0) 870160 3270 Email: membership@compost.org.uk Council for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) is a national charity which helps people to protect their local countryside where there is threat, to enhance it where there is opportunity, and to keep it beautiful, productive and enjoyable or everyone. We work for a beautiful and living countryside on behalf of present and future generations, and for the more sustainable use of land and other resources in town and country.CPRE 25 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 0PP. Tel: 0171-976 6433. Fax: 0171-976 6373. Email: cpre@gn.apc.org The Crystal Palace Campaign. We are a voluntary group of local people opposed to a plan to build a huge leisure complex on the historic site of the old Crystal Palace in south London. We are a non-political coalition of residents and businesses with no connection to other groups. We are committed to opposing this development by all lawful means at our disposal.Crystal Palace Campaign, 2 Hogarth Court, Fountain Drive, London SE19 1UY. Tel: 0181 244 8399. Email: webmaster@crystal.dircon.co.uk. Disco Daves Tunnel Guide. In the world of NVDA (Non Violent Direct Action) there are few defense tactics that can compare with the protest tunnel. Dangerous, laborious and time consuming, tunnelling is the ultimate and desperate tactic of desperate people in desperate times.Email: disco@teknopunx.co.uk The Ecology Building Society was founded in 1981. We are a mutual organisation, and use the money deposited by our savers to grant mortgages on properties and projects that help the environment.Ecology Building Society, 7 Belton Road, Silsden, Keighley, West Yorkshire BD20 0EE. Tel: 0845 674 5566 Fax: 01535 650780 Email:info@ecology.co.uk Ecovillage network UK assists individuals, projects, and organisations in developing environmentally, socially and economically sustainable settlements. Currently, EVNUK consists of a staff of volunteers based at the Create Centre in BristolCREATE Centre, Smeaton Road, Bristol, BS1 6XN. Tel: 0117 922 4391. Fax: 0117 929 7283. Email: evnuk@gaia.org Earth First! is a network of autonomous local groups, (63 in the UK). It has no central office or paid officers and no decision making boards. It was set up in this country in July 1991 and has been the main network of radical eco-activists since then. EF! is active in 13 countries, (mostly in the 1st and 2nd world).
South Downs EF! c/o PO Box 2971, Brighton, BN2 2TT, UK. Email: savage@easynet.co.uk Environment and road protest camps. Mainly UK and Ireland.Email: weed@wussu.com Free Range Activism. I'm Paul Mobbs, and I'm and independent environmental investigator. I've also been running community campaigns for many years. The purpose of my website is to provide resources to 'ordinary' people to enable them to tackle the problems that face us all today.
Email: mobbsey@gn.apc.org Friends of the Earth.
Over the years we have won many battles with government and industry - achieving bans on ozone-destroying CFCs, reduced trade in rainforest timber, increased support for cleaner energy technologies, and much, much more. The Green Alliance works for a better environment by seeking to ensure that the environment is a prime consideration in all decision-making.Our distinctive role is to:
The Green Alliance, 49 Wellington Street, London WC2E 7BN. Tel: +44 171 836 0341. Email: gralliance@gn.apc.org Greenpeace UK is an independent, campaigning organisation which uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and to force the solutions which are essential to a green and peaceful future.HACAN ClearSkies (now incorporating FANG), with 10,000 individual members, is the largest organization in Europe campaigning to cut aircraft noise.Hebden Bridge Alternative Technology Centre. The green centre of the north.Hebden Bridge Alternative Technology Centre, Hebble End Mill, Hebden Bridge, HX7 6HJ. Tel: 01422 84 21 21 (day). Fax: 01422 84 31 41. Emails: info@alternativetechnology.org.uk thegreenshop@alternativetechnology.org.uk education@alternativetechnology.org.uk Kent Against a Radioactive Environment. KARE was formed in 1990 as an umbrella group campaigning against the importation of spent nuclear fuel.Email: kare@kare.enviroweb.org Low-Impact Living Initiative (LILI) is a non-profit organisation whose mission is to help people reduce their impact on the environment, improve their quality of life, gain new skills, live in a healthier and more satisfying way, have fun, and save moneyLow-Impact Living Initiative, Redfield Community, Winslow, Bucks MK18 3LZ. Email: lili@lowimpact.org Tel / fax: 01296 714184 Open Spaces Society. Britain's oldest conservation society, founded in 1865. It exists to protect common land and public rights of way.Open Spaces Society, 25a Bell Street, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire RG9 2BA. Email: OSSHQ@aol.com. Peat Alert. Resisting peat extraction on Thorne and Hatfield Moors.Peat Alert, c/o crc, 16 Sholebroke Avenue, Leeds, LS7 3HB. Tel: 0113 262 9365 The Permaculture Association supports people and projects through training, networking and research, using the ethics and principles of permaculture.
BCM Permaculture Association, London, WC1N 3XX. Tel: 01654 712188. Email: office@permaculture.org.uk Pesticide Action Network UK. Pesticide Action Network UK (PAN UK) works to eliminate the hazards of pesticides and promote sustainable alternatives. See our website for:¥ details of how to support our work ¥ free on-line Pesticide Information Updates Service ¥ and link to our new research database on www.pesticidelibrary.org Pesticide Action Network UK (former The Pesticide Trust), 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4JX. Tel: +44 (0) 20 7065 0905 / Fax: +44 (0) 20 7065 0907 Primal Seeds exists as a network to actively engage in protecting biodiversity and creating local food security.Email: mail@primalseeds.org Protect Our Woodland (POW!). Formed only weeks ago by a group of concerned Worthing residents, POW! has captured the mood of environmentalists up and down the country. Ancient woodland - some over 10,000 years old with origins in the last ice age - is being lost at an alarming rate. Whether through new housing developments or road building, this wanton destruction of what has been dubbed 'Britain's rain forest' must stop.Reclaim the Law (Ecotort). Positive, powerful, pro-active, re-evolutionary for the environment and social justice. This web site has been written with the aim in mind of firmly establishing the lawful right to legal, decent, honest and truthful environment friendly employment for all of us. In order to achieve this end, it is proposed that the information outlined is made available to as many people as possible, thereby exerting the maximum pressure for change.Email: ecotort@gn.apc.org Rural England Against Overhead Line Transmission. REVOLT represents public concerns about National Grid's proposed 50 mile line of giant pylons through Cleveland and North Yorkshire skirting the North Yorkshire Moors National Park. More generally REVOLT presses for a co-ordinated UK energy distribution policy, very much in line with the government energy policies at last emerging, but which the National Grid line would thwart.REVOLT, 25 Queens Gardens, Sowerby, Thirsk YO7 1NH. Email: ocarroll@weights.demon.co.uk Soil Association. Since 1946 the Soil Association has been campaigning for safe, healthy food, protection of the environment and policies for sustainable farming and forestry in Britain and around the world.The Soil Association's founders believed that post-War farming, based on the increased use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides, was damaging the sustainable relationship between the health of the soil, plants and animals, and that consequently the health of the human population was being dangerously undermined. The Soil Association set up research programmes to identify the solutions to these concerns. The solution that came from that research was organic farming. The Soil Association is the originator of the organic farming movement-defining and operating standards for organic food production. Those standards are now enshrined in law. Soil Association, Bristol House, 40-56 Victoria Street, Bristol BS1 6BY. Tel: 0117 929 0661. Fax: 0117 925 2504. Email: info@soilassociation.org Surfers Against Sewage campaign for the cessation of all marine sewage and toxic waste discharges and represent not just surfers, but twenty million people who use the British Coastline every year. SAS have proved that a significant health risk exists from bathing in sewage contaminated waters and have presented evidence to the European Commision, The House of Lords, UK Government Select Committees and august bodies. Spread The Word!Surfers Against Sewage, The Old Counthouse Warehouse, Wheal Kitty, St.Agnes, Cornwall, TR5 0RE. Tel: 01872 553001 +44 1872 553001 Fax: 01872 552615 +44 1872 552615 Email: info@sas.org.uk Trees for Life A Scottish conservation charity dedicated to the regeneration and restoration of the Caledonian Forest in the Highlands of Scotland.Trees for Life, The Park, Findhorn Bay, Forres IV36 3TZ, Scotland, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1309 691292 Fax: +44 (0)1309 691155 Email: trees@findhorn.org United Kingdom Noise Association. We are a new campaign that was launched in April 2000 to bring together all the groups/individuals and academics involved in noise campaigning. Our aim is to raise the profile of noise - the forgotten pollutant.13 Stockwell Rd, London, SW9 9AU. Tel: 020 7737 6641 UK Rivers Network. The world's rivers have never been under such stress. Even in the UK, rivers are under huge pressure from human activities.Email: info@ukrivers.net WaterWatch Anglia are a campaigning forum of consumers, environmentalists, groups and individuals concerned with water issues. It operates as a network, putting campaigners in touch with others who have relevant expertise, knowledge or experience. It also campaigns in its own right.
It brings together people and groups who are interested in consumer issues, environmental problems, water quality and the regulatory framework. WaterWatch also campaigns on issues of shareholder democracy within the water industry. Women's Environmental Network. WEN is a unique, vital and innovative campaigning organisation, which represents women and campaigns on issues which link women, environment and health.PO Box 30626, London E1 1TZ. Tel: 020 7481 9004. Fax: 020 7481 9144. Email: info@wen.org.uk The Woodland Trust is the UK's leading woodland conservation charity dedicated solely to the protection of our native woodland heritage.The Woodland Trust, FREEPOST, Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG31 6BR. FREEPHONE 0500 95 95 54. |