Here you will find links to a whole host of national, regional and local organisations whose work relates to, challenges and informs the South West Debates' themes.
Links to other related websites.
BBC Climate ChangeNews, explanation and opinion on climate change from around the BBC, including news, features and programme clips.
Christian Aid- Stop Poverty
Global trade could help solve global poverty. Right now it’s part of the problem.
Climate Challenge
A really useful website to educate, excite and inspire us all so that we can start working together to tackle climate change. The information on this website can help you understand, and tell the climate change story. The website includes The Act on CO2 Calculator measuring CO2 emissions.
Development Education Association
DEA’s mission is to promote education that puts learning in a global context, fostering critical and creative thinking; self-awareness and open-mindedness towards difference; understanding of global issues and power relationships; and optimism and action for a better world. A range of DEA resources offer guidance and support for developing global perspectives and delivering development education. Many of them feature case studies of development education in action.
Devon County Council
Just one of the region’s local authorities that is providing lots of practical information and advice about reducing your carbon footprint and making one planet living within environmental limits the reality it needs to be.
Equality South West
Equality South West is dedicated to promoting equality and diversity throughout the region. They work with partners to tackle discrimination on the grounds of age, disability, faith, gender, race and sexual orientation. Their work covers policy development, capacity building, best practice, awareness raising, training and research and they aim to work with our regional networks and partners in all of these areas. Their website aims to provide the region with quality information on legislation, rights and links to other equality organisations.
ESRC Society Today
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK's leading research funding and training agency addressing economic and social concerns.
Fair Shares, Fair Choice
SSW is the independent Champion Body for sustainable development in the South West of England. The Fair Shares, Fair Choice initiative supports everyone to live and work within a 'fair carbon share' and is being taken forward as the South West's sustainability 'Big Idea'. Users of the FSFC website can explore how to make their carbon budget go further along with sharing their 'carb-cutting' stories. Everyone - whether it's local teams or local authorities - is invited to join the FSFC movement to support the principle of living within a globally fair and safe share of CO2 emissions (signing up takes 30 seconds!).
Forkbeard Fantasy
This South West based performance company tour Invisible Bonfires: a Cataclysmic Cabaret, a show all about climate change from September 2007 - March 2008. Forkbeard’s quirky and eccentric humour is brought to bear on a subject often hard to deal with amidst the challenges of our daily lives. In the best tradition of theatre the show is illuminating, challenging and above all, entertaining.
Global Action Plan
Global Action Plan is the practical environmental charity that helps people to make positive changes at home, at work, at school and in the wider community.
Global Eye: Focus on Globalisation
The ways in which goods and information are moved between countries are becoming easier. Information technology is driving these improvements by enabling companies to move money and ideas instantly at the click of a mouse. Consequently, people are becoming more interconnected and interdependent, a trend known as 'globalisation'.
Go Zero
Go Zero is a community project based in Chew Magna that raises awareness of the environmental and social impact of our everyday actions.
Leadership Now
A website looking to change the way you think about leadership. Leadership is everybody’s business. It is for men, women and children. It is for families, business and communities. It is for you.
Modbury: Plastic bag free town
Read all about Great Britain’s first plastic bag free town – in the South West, of course - as widely reported in the national news.
Stepping Forward
The Stepping Forward project has carried out a resource flow analysis, ecological footprint analysis and sustainability assessment of the South West of England.
Sustrans
Sustrans is the UK's leading sustainable transport charity. Their vision is a world in which people can choose to travel in ways that benefit their health and the environment. Every day they are working on practical, innovative ways of dealing with the transport challenges that affect us all.
The Fairtrade Foundation
The FAIRTRADE Mark is an independent consumer label, which appears on products as an independent guarantee that disadvantaged producers in the developing world are getting a better deal. Their website tells you about Fairtrade products and suppliers and how to get your local community, school or workplace involved.
Waste Online
In depth information on waste- Rubbish, waste, garbage....Whatever you want to call it, most peole don't think about the rubbish they produce. Or how much of it. This site gives you the information!
We are What We Do
We Are What We Do is a movement that aims to inspire people to use their everyday actions to change the world. Whoever they are. And wherever they are. And that includes you. They’ve created 100 simple, everyday actions that can improve our environment, our health, and our communities and make our planet and the people on it much happier.
Wildlife Trusts
The 47 Wildlife Trusts across the UK are working for an environment rich in wildlife for everyone. Check out their website for ideas on how to make a difference and influence policy makers.
World Environment Day
5 June 2007 may be past now, but there’s lots of interesting information to read and images to download from the site - inspiration so you get involved next year!
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