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Websites

The GalGael Trust
Deep elemental work with folks living in a hard-pressed urban situation
James Nayler Foundation
A Quaker website dedicated to dealing with issues of personality disorders and the violence related to them

Books

Eco-Defense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching
Author: Dave Foreman
Description: The folks who put "Ecodefense" together are tired of talk and collaboration
ISBN: 0963775103
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilisation
Author: Thomas Homer Dixon
Description: There are ways to begin thinking about a better world.
ISBN: 978-0-285-63794-8
Alone Across Antarctica
Author: Borge Ousland
Description: Travels in Antartica
ISBN: 82-994379-1-1
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Description: An explanation of social trends and an exploration of the ‘tipping point’ where ideas, trends and behaviours suddenly ‘catch on’ and spread like wildfire
ISBN: 0316648523
A Long Way Gone: The True Story of a Child Soldier
Author: Ishmael Beah
Description: This is a first hand account of how wars are now fought: by children, on drugs, with AK-47’s by a child who has been to the brink and returned to tell his story
ISBN: 0007247095
If you Fall: It’s a New Beginning
Author: Karen Darke
Description: A story of courage and climbing
ISBN: 1905047886
Fixing Climate: The Story of Climate Science - and How to Stop Global Warming
Author: Robert Kunzig and Wallace S. Broecker
Description: How Broecker and his colleagues unravelled Earth’s volatile history and discovered man-made climate change
ISBN: 1846688604

Organisations

Walk It
We want to get people walking more
Architecture for Humanity
This is a charitable organization that seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian crisis and brings design services to communities in need
Central Asia Institute
To promote and support community based-education for girls in remote regions of Pakistan and Afganistan
The Marine Conservation Society
The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) is the UK charity dedicated to caring for our seas, shores and wildlife