PRACTICAL ACTION LINKS
Crediton Fairtrade Partnership
Choosing to buy Fairtrade products as an individual is an important way to ensure that the people who have made those products are being treated fairly.
For more information about Fairtrade in Crediton visit the website at the link within the title above.
Centre for Alternative Technology
Download a copy of Zero Carbon Britain here
P10 Earth Help to go Carbon Neutral as a household?
A Sustainable Crediton supporter currently living at Beech Hill has set up a website to help you achieve carbon neutral status as a household. To visit and register which is free go to the heading's link
Through an innovative approach to learning and with experts from round the world, Schumacher College has helped thousands of organisations and individuals in understanding and finding solutions for the most pressing ecological and social concerns of modern life.
For practical energysaving information from buying lightbulbs to installing solar panels and where to get them. Tel 0800 512012.
Tel 0800 0852005 for advice to businesses on how to cut energy and carbon emissions.
Central government campaign site with help and advice for consumers to help them reduce their emissions.
Devon County Council Environment site
Advice to householders on calculating carbon emissions and cutting down consumption
Devon Association for Renewable Energy offers facts, figures, help and funding advice on renewable energy
Exeter Freecycle group match people who have things they want to get rid of with people who can use them.
A site which encourages people to think and act in ways which protect and improve the natural environment.
Ecotricity
Ecotricity - our preferred green electricity supplier. Join up at the link.
Outstanding, accurate carbon footprint calculator - one of the best.
YouGen is here to make it easy for you to improve the energy efficiency of your home, find a suitable renewable energy technology and buy with confidence.
LOCAL LINKS
Local Dartmoor website
Devon Local event listings
Sustainable Sidmouth website
The Devon wide network of climate action groups including Sustainable crediton.
Devon Transition Towns Contact List
Lists contact details of all the Transition and climate action groups in Devon.
CLIMATE CHANGE LINKS
Authorative information on all aspects of climate change.
BBC News Guide to Climate Change
Everything you need to know summarised on this site.
Graphic report from the BBC October 2007on all the crises facing the Earth
Climate Change controversies - a simple guide
The Royal Society has produced this overview of the current state of scientific understanding of climate change to help non-experts better understand some of the debates in this complex area of science.
The IPCC synthesis report November 2007
The future of our planet in 22 pages. An integrated view of climate change as the final part of the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report
Climate Myths and Misconceptions
To convince the people out there who STILL think there is no scientific consensus that climate change is man-made.
The Met Office’s Hadley Centre
Has produced a collection of publications containing the latest science, and studies on the state of the climate and projections for the future all available free to download.
According to the Green New Deal Group, humanity only has 100 months to prevent dangerous global warming
BBC News - The arguments made by climate change sceptics
50 Reasons why global warming is not natural
10 Steps to Tackle Climate Change
TRANSPORT LINKS
A website that shows alternative motoring is not a fantasy. It is here and today – and you can get your foot onto driving electric cars without any restrictions.
Hydrogen taxi cabs are to serve London by 2012 Olympics. These new taxis were developed by Lotus and Intelligent Energy and their hydrogen tanks can travel for 250 miles at up to 81mph.
PEAK OIL & ENERGY LINKS
‘Green energy makeovers’ of homes needed to meet climate change targets
Plans for British homes to have “smart meters”
Carbon Trust calls for businesses and consumers to “try before you buy” a turbine
Comment: My battle to cut carbon
Oil crunch just five years away
A group of business leaders warn the government of an impending oil crunch.
RENEWABLE ENERGY LINKS
2010 switch on for wave project
SW region leads the way in Top Ten chart of UK's solar hot spots
Energy Saving Trust Feed-in tariff Site
All you need to know about the new Government clean energy cash back scheme.
FOOD LINKS
The National Allotment Gardens Trust
The palm oil scandal: Boots and Waitrose named and shamed
RECYCLING LINKS
Pay packaging recycling costs, stores told
Voyage to study plastic ‘island’
Recycling targets ‘unfair on public’
