Resources

It's Not Easy Being Green
The Strawbridge family web site, featured on the BBC TV series. A site full of useful advice and links
Click here...

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Schnews is a weekly direct action newsletter from Justice? It's also a huge resource of archived info and resources on their website.

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New Internationalist Magazine
Reports on issues of world poverty and inequality; focussing attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless in both rich and poor nations

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www.medialens.org
Big corporations control so many things, this site is a counterbalance to their manipulation of the media

Organisations

Making life better for people by inspiring solutions to environmental problems

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The independence and global reach to defend nature and promote peace.

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Surfers Against Sewage
campaign for clean, safe recreational waters, free from sewage effluents, toxic chemicals and nuclear waste.

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In Britain and Ireland we have some of the most powerful landscapes on earth. Heritage Action is about defending these extraordinary places.

Shopping

Ethical, eco-friendly, fair trade, organic, you name it they have it - We haven't tried them out yet but it looks good.

Attitude

The Spiral Earth attitude? Not taking everything at face value; Not believing what the politicians want us to; Believing that peaceful protest can have an effect; Believing that you and I can make a difference...

Things we care about...

PlanningDisaster.co.uk

'Major new developments including nuclear power stations and airport runways could soon be forced through as part of a major overhaul of planning.

The proposals, included in a Government White Paper will leave affected communities with no meaningful say in how their area is developed. A coalition of civic and environmental organisations with over 5 million members is calling on the Government to rethink their plans and introduce a planning system which allows people a say on the decisions that affect them.'

This looks like a really good web resource.

http://www.planningdisaster.co.uk/

Building a road throught the historic monument of the Hill of Tara in Ireland

Anyone with a scrap of interest in preserving national heritage should be opposed to the routing of the twice-tolled motorway through the Gabhra (Skryne) Valley in Co. Meath, Ireland. it goes right by the internationally important historical site of the Hill Of Tara.
http://www.savetara.com/
http://www.hilloftara.info/
http://www.tarawatch.org/

School governor takes on the government, oh, hang on he's funded by an anti-environmentalist quarrying magnate...

From the Observer Sunday oct 14
'The school governor who challenged the screening of Al Gore's climate change documentary in secondary schools was funded by a Scottish quarrying magnate who established a controversial lobbying group to attack environmentalists' claims about global warming.'
Read the full article
Now if he was a governor of my kids school I'd be kicking up one hell of a fuss. Despite the fact that he and his backers are obviously full of the soft brown stuff, he's also abusing his position as a school governor.
Read the MediaLens article

Expanding Airports

Scientists are in agreement that global warming is happening and humans are playing a part in it. Our government is looking at ways of taxing us to tackle the issue, we already pay the highest fuel duties in Europe so you would think they would have been at the forefront tackling the issue (no, stop laughing, this is serious). So why the hell are they expanding two of the busiest airports in the world?
http://www.stopstanstedexpansion.com/
http://stopheathrowexpansion.com/