Do something.
Our speakers recommend:
Websites
- Pledge Bank
- A site that helps people get things done
- Kiva
- A site used to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty
- I like
- Blogspot about things ‘I like’
- MetaFilter
- This website exists to break down the barriers between people, to extend a weblog beyond just one person, and to foster discussion among its members
- FFFFOUND!
- Post and share your favorite images found on the web
- Open The Future
- A scientific blogspot
- Bread Bakers Guild of America
- Shaping the knowledge and skills of the artisan baking community
- International Fellowship for Reconciliation
- A mine of material on non-violence
- The Quietus
- A new rock music and pop culture website
- Climate Camp
- The online reports of the camp in which anyone who wants to take action on climate change should attend
- Earth First
- A “non-hierarchical organisation and the use of direct action to confront, stop and eventually reverse the forces that are responsible for the destruction of the Earth and its inhabitants”
- The Coal Hole
- The Coal Hole is part of a growing movement willing to take “direct action” against coal, and the destructive climate change it causes
- Surfers Against Sewage
- The official surfers against sewage website
- Kulika
- Kulika was established in 1981 in the UK as a grant-making charitable trust specialising in the provision of educational scholarships for East African students
- Seeds for change
- Non-profit coop providing training and resources to grassroots campaigners, NGOs, Co-ops and other community groups and organisations in the social sector
- Trapese
- ‘Taking Radical Action through Popular Education and Sustainable Everything!’ Trapese is a Popular Education Collective
- Rising Tide
- A grassroots network of independent groups and individuals working towards building the movement against climate change
- The Commons
- flickr account that increases access to publicly-held photography collections, and provides a way for the general public to contribute information and knowledge
- The Centre for Human Ecology
- Runs inspiration courses for transformative learning
Organisations
- Greenvoice
- Greenvoice is an internet company that raises money and awareness for environmental campaigns on a global basis
- Wiser Earth
- It is a community directory and networking forum that maps and connects non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and individuals addressing the central issues of our day
- Walk It
- We want to get people walking more
- We Are What We Do
- Our aim is to inspire people to use their everyday actions to change the world.
- Welcome Collection
- Wellcome Collection is a unique mix of galleries, events, and meeting, reading and eating places where you can consider what it means to be human.
- Guerrilla Gardening
- An organization of people that come together and garden neglected public spaces
- Architecture for Humanity
- This is a charitable organization that seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian crisis and brings design services to communities in need
- My Society
- Teaching people how to use the internet charitable project and work
- Open Rights Group
- The Open Rights Group is a grassroots technology organization, which exists to protect civil liberties wherever they are threatened by the poor implementation and regulation of digital technology. We call these rights our “digital rights”
- Community Action Nepal
- Community Action Nepal helps and supports remote communities through Education, Health and Community Development programmes.
- Patagonia Land Trust
- Protection and restoration of wildland ecosystems and biodiversity in Patagonia
- Central Asia Institute
- To promote and support community based-education for girls in remote regions of Pakistan and Afganistan
- BBC
- News site
- The Marine Conservation Society
- The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) is the UK charity dedicated to caring for our seas, shores and wildlife
- Local Surf Club
- Blogspot from local people about local surf and skate
- The Woodland Trust
- Leading charity dedicated solely to the protection of our native woodland heritage.
- The Ramblers
- The UK’s biggest walking association
- Landlife
- Working mainly in urban and urban fringe areas, to bring nature and people closer together.
- Sustainability South West
- A charity raising awareness and providing advice and guidance to accelerate change towards a more sustainable region
- Carbon Rationing Action Groups
- Is a group of people who have decided to act together to reduce their individual and collective carbon footprints
- Transition Town Network
- The transition model emboldens communities to look peak oil and climate change squarely in the eye and unleash the collective genius of their own people to find the answers
- Social Centre Network
- Provides a portal to radical social centres and autonomous spaces around the UK
- Permaculture Association
- The Association is an educational charity run by its members and helps people use permaculture in their everyday lives to improve their quality of life and the environment around them
- Leave No Trace - Center for Outdoor Ethics
- Is an educational, nonprofit organization dedicated to the responsible enjoyment and active stewardship of the outdoors by all people, worldwide.
- The Soil Association
- UK's leading environmental charity promoting sustainable and organic farming
- Greenpeace
- Greenpeace stands for positive change through action. We defend the natural world and promote peace.
