Environmental & Ecology Related Sites:

Auroville - wants to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realise human unity
Campaign Against Arms Trade - working for the reduction and ultimate abolition of the international arms trade
Campaign Against Drunk Driving - provides support for the families of victims killed and injured by drunk and irresponsible drivers
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Centre for Alternative Technology - (CAT) seven acres of environmental solutions to inspire, inform and entertain
Climate Denial - explores the topic of our deep and profound denial of climate change- with observations and anecdotes about our weird and disturbed response to the problem.
Climate Wire - climate change information service
Critical Mass - the ".org" domain notwithstanding, Critical Mass is not an organization, it's an unorganised coincidence. It's a movement ... of bicycles, in the streets. There is a UK specific listing
Eco-logic Books - book shop in Bath England, that specialises in books ecological and environmental matters
Ecologist Magazine UK
Ecology Building Society - provides mortgages to finance the purchase of properties that give an ecological payback. They even do buy-to-let mortgages. Also available are several types of savings accounts
Enviropedia - 300+ topics about the Environment
Energy Savings Trust - provide information on how to save energy around the home
Environmental Transport Association - a green alternative to the major breakdown services (e.g. RAC, AA). ETA also offer a cyclists' rescue service
Ethical Consumer Magazine - investigates different companies and products in order to give the readers an insight into which companies are behaving ethically
Ethical Investment Research Service - can help investors find companies that match their ethical preference. If you feel strongly about the arms race, tobacco, pollution of the environment, genetic engineering, pesticides, human rights, etc, then EIRiS can identify companies who make their profits from these areas
Friends of the Earth - (UK) campaign internationally and locally to protect the environment and create sustainable societies
George Monbiot - Author and Environmentalist
Global Action Plan believe that everyone can do their bit to help the environment. They believe that by educating people into making small changes in their habits, such as not leaving the TV on standby, they can achieve larger changes
Global Resistance - based in the UK bring together direct action activists and organisations from many strands of the anti-capitalist movement
GreenFacts - brings reports on health and the environment to the reach of non-specialists
Greenpeace - campaign to: stop climate change; protect ancient forests; save the oceans; stop whaling; say no to genetic engineering; stop the nuclear threat; eliminate toxic chemicals; encourage sustainable trade
Green Shopping Guide - UK based directory for green shopping
Groundwork UK - is a network of non-profit companies who work with local communities to improve the environment in which they live
Henry Doubleday Research Association - is concerned with organic gardening. Membership gives you a quarterly magazine, discounts in HDRA's extensive organic gardening catalogue and use of the reference library
Last Hours - Thom Hartmann's site. Thom is the author of: The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, Screwed - The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class, Walking the Blues Away.
Letslink UK - promote the idea of bartering goods and services. Local communities form a club where they can trade goods and skills amongst themselves, using their own form of credit
Living Streets - an organisation that works on practical projects to create safe, vibrant and healthy streets for all
MarkLynas.org - Mark is the author of High Tide - News from a warming world. His site is a good source of information on climate change
Neighbourhood Initiatives Foundation - work with local groups to improve housing estates, encourage local economic regeneration and to involve communities in the planning process
New Ways to Work - state that their aim is to change the culture in the workplace to give real freedom of choice to individuals who cannot and do not wish to work traditional patterns
Paul Kingsnorth - author and anti-globalisation campaigner
The Pedestrians' Association works to make walking safer, easier and more convenient. They promote walking (as opposed to using the car) for short journeys and promote the rights and safety of the people on foot
Permaculture Association - permanent agriculture, permanent culture. The concept is that people should design sustainable systems for living, drawing on traditional methods, the best of modern science and the ethics of caring for the earth
Plane Stupid - a coalition of airport residents and environmentalists who use direct action to stop the destruction of the environment and communities caused by airport expansion and aviation
Planet Ark - works to show people the many ways they can reduce their day to day impact on the environment
Powerwatch - concerned about mobile phone safety or the effects of living near a mobile phone mast? Operating since the 1980s, Powerwatch co-ordinate the work of a group of experts in this field. Their input to the EMF/health debate is acknowledged by policy makers
Rain Forest Action Network - works to protect the Earth's rain forests and supports the rights of their inhabitants through education, grass roots organising and non-violent direct action
RealClimate - climate science from climate scientists
Reclaim the Streets - came together to campaign and organise direct action against roads being built in the mid-90s
Road Block - an alliance of groups and individuals campaigning against road-building
RoadPeace - Britain's charity for all road traffic victims. RoadPeace campaigns to make the roads safer for everyone, including drivers, with slower speeds, better enforcement and changes in the law to create a real deterrent to irresponsible drivers and to raise public awareness of the scale of the human suffering and the cost to the taxpayer of ten deaths and 1,400 injuries (hospital data) every day on Britain's roads
Safe Wireless Initiative -a program of the Science and Public Policy Institute
The Simple Living Network - Tools, Examples & Contacts For Conscious, Simple, Healthy & Restorative Living
The Simplicity Resource Guide - this site a wide spectrum of resources related to voluntary simplicity, a way of life that addresses the widespread yearning in North America and other western countries for a slower pace of life with more time for joyful relationships, fulfilling work, and living one's dreams. For some, though not all, people, to live more simply involves working less, wanting less, and spending less
Slower Speeds Initiative - campaigns for lower and better enforced speed limits
Socialist Alliance - an electoral alliance offering a left alternative to New Labour, challenging the government on from its privatisation of London Underground to the scapegoating of asylum seekers
Sustrans - (sustainable transport) aim to reduce the amount of motor traffic on UK roads by encouraging people to walk and cycle more. Sustrans' big project is the National Cycle Network that aims to connect together 8,000 miles of cycle routes
Transport 2000 - independent UK national body concerned with sustainable transport. It looks for answers to transport problems and aims to reduce the environmental and social impact of transport by encouraging less use of cars and more use of public transport, walking and cycling
Triodos Bank - boasts that it is an ethical bank, lending only to businesses, charities and enterprises that are building a sustainable future. The Bank invests in such areas as: organic farming, renewable energy, social housing and fair trade organisations
Waste Watch - a UK national charity aimed at promoting the reduction, reuse and recycling of waste. They publish a whole series of leaflets and books to help individuals, schools, communities and businesses combat waste
World Development Movement - network of individuals and local groups campaigning against world poverty