Links

Last updated: 17 December 2005

This is our page of general links; for more specific links about the nuclear issue, please see our background page.

Environmental groups and campaigns

Photo credit: Satellite dish links by Ian Britton from FreeFoto.com.

• Activists' Legal Project: "The Activists' Legal Project provides information about the law to people who are thinking of taking direct action, or who have taken direct action".
• Arboricultural Information Line
• Archaeologists and Development: Saving archaeology and heritage from development
• Campaign for Planning Sanity (CfPS): planning advice and support for community groups and campaigns
• Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND): opposing nuclear weapons and nuclear energy
• Centre for Alternative Technology: Renewable energy and low-impact technology
• Chapter 7: The Lands is Ours Planning Office: Good material on rural sustainability, sustainable woodlands, and low-impact developments
• Christian Aid: Christian charity campaigning to relieve poverty
• The Civic Trust: Improving quality of towns and cities and preserving urban heritage
• Climate Law: Enforcing climate change law
• Common Ground: Celebrating "local distinctiveness"
• Composting Association: Promoting composts and composting
• Council for British Archaeology: Supporting British archaeologists
• Council for National Parks: Looking after our "wilderness areas"
• Council for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE): Countryside campaigners
• Earth First!: Radical environmental campaigners
• Ecological Design Association: Designing buildings with the environment in mind
• Eco-Village Network: Supporting sustainable eco-villages
• FARM: The independent voice of farmers
• Forest Action Network: Campaigning to save forests from logging
• Friends of the Earth: Environmental pressure group based on network of local groups
• Future Forests: Buy and plant trees in conservation areas using the Internet
• Green Party: Political party based on environmental values
• Greenpeace UK: UK wing of international pressure group
• Greenpeace International: Environmental pressure group
• International Rivers Network and European Rivers Network : Restoring rivers, decommissioning dams, opposing diversions
• Internet Rights: Helping people to use the Internet to increase democracy and to campaign on social justice issues.
• The Land Is Ours: land rights issues
• Liberty: promoting civil liberties and human rights
• Marine Conservation Society: Sea conservation issues
• National Park Portal: Links to groups working on national park issues from Oliver Tickell
• National Society for Clean Air (NSCA): Campaigns on air pollution and toxics
• National Trust: Conserving environment and heritage by buying threatened places
• Pesticides Action Network: pesticides and chemicals issues
• The Ramblers: Walkers who support footpaths and rights of way
• REVOLT: Fighting powerline proposals and pylons
• Road Alert: Campaign against road building and airport expansion
• Road Block: Networking information about UK anti-road campaigns
• RSPB: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
• RSPCA: Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
• Schnews: The radical weekly news-sheet from Brighton
• School Energy: Energy saving grants for schools
• Society for Ecological Restoration: Conservation by regeneration and restoration
• Soil Association: Promotes organic farming
• Surfers Against Sewage: UK campaign against sea and beach pollution
• Trees of Time and Place: Planting native trees for the millennium
• UK Rivers Network: river campaigns and community action across the UK and Ireland
• URGENT: Urban Regeneration Greenfield Environment Network of UK housing campaigns
• The Wildlife Trusts: County-based wildlife conservation groups
• The Unofficial Wildlife Trust page: comprehensive links to wildlife and environment groups maintained by Oliver Tickell
• The Woodland Trust: Buying land and creating/managing woodlands.
• World Development Movement: Relieving poverty in developing countries
• World Voices: International environmental forum for young people
• WWF: International conservation organization focussed on threatened wildlife and habitats

Campaigning tips

• Campaign Strategy.org: free campaign planning advice from Chris Rose
• Environmental activism online useful tips from WWF
• Free Range Activism website: (formerly Paul Mobbs home page)
• Campaign for Planning Sanity
• The Campaigning Handbook by Mark Lattimer. DSC Publications. Tel +44 (0)207 209 5151.
• Environmental campaigners guide to archaeology
• An Introduction to Campaign Strategy
• Roadblock: How people power is wrecking the roads programme by Alarm UK. Lessons learned from fighting road schemes can also be applied to most other campaigns.
• The Activist Toolbox: A marvellous bag of tricks from the UHC Collective.

Government

• Central Office of Information: government press releases
• Government News Network: UK government press releases
• Charity Commission
• Countryside Agency
• Department for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
• Department for Transport
• Department of Trade and Industry
• English Heritage
• English Nature
• Environment Agency
• Highways Agency
• Houses of Parliament
• Environment, Transport, and Regions Select Committee of the House of Commons
• Human Rights Unit
• Local Government Ombudsman
• The Planning Inspectorate
• Scottish Parliament
• Stationery Office: Official Documents Home Page