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Our speakers recommend:
Websites
- The Centre for Human Ecology
- Runs inspiration courses for transformative learning
- InventorEd
- Educating inventors & entrepeneurs
- MAKE
- Blogspot about making things
- National Physics Laboratory
- The National Physics Laboratory is the UK’s national measurement institute
- Pledge Bank
- A site that helps people get things done
- Information Aesthetics
- Weblog explores the symbiotic relationship between creative design and the field of information visualization
- 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
- Environment Agency
- Leading public body for protecting and improving the environment in England and Wales
- FloralImages
- Pictures of wildflowers and garden flowers grown in West-England, Ireland and the Pyrenees, indexed by botanical and common names.
- Plantlife
- Plantlife International - the only charity in the world working solely for the conservation of wild plants and fungi, wildflower Christmas cards.
- BGCI: Plants For The Planet
- It is estimated that up to 100,000 plants, representing more than one third of all the world's plant species, are currently threatened or face extinction in the wild. BGCI brings together the botanic gardens to work for plant conservation through science, education and horticulture.
- Botanical Keys
- A database powered web application to help identify the native and naturalised flora of Great Britain.
Books
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed
- Author: Paul Freire
Description: A seminal text in education looking at the roles of suppression, political domination and authoritarian teaching
ISBN: 014025403X - Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
- Author: William McDonough and Michael Braungart
Description: This book explains how products can be designed from the outset so that, after their useful lives, they will provide nourishment for something new
ISBN: 10865475873 - How to Win Campaigns: 100 Steps to Success
- Author: Chris Rose
Description: This book explores what works in campaigning – a practical how-to guide
ISBN: 1853839620 - Patents, Registered Designs, Trade Marks & Copyright for Dummies
- Author: John Grant, Charlie Ashworth, and Henri J. A. Charmasson
Description: A guide helping creative people to define, protect, develop and benefit from their good ideas
ISBN: 0470519975 - Inventing for Dummies
- Author: Peter Jackson and Philip Robinson
Description: This book takes you all the way from the gleam-in-the-eye idea to a successful product bringing you respect, rewards and recognition
ISBN: 0470519967 - Do It Yourself: A Handbook for Changing our World
- Author: Paul Chatterton
Description: Covers everything from setting up a community garden to taking direct action, alternative media to why we are what we eat
ISBN: 978-0-7453-2637-5
Organisations
- Long Now Foundation
- The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996 to creatively foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years
- Guerrilla Gardening
- An organization of people that come together and garden neglected public spaces
- 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”
- Greenpeace
- Greenpeace stands for positive change through action. We defend the natural world and promote peace.
- Sciencewise-ERC
- Contains resources and support services to help policy makers commission and use public dialogue to inform policy decisions
- Community Action Nepal
- Community Action Nepal helps and supports remote communities through Education, Health and Community Development programmes.
- Jonathan Conville Memorial Trust
- The trust encourages safe and enjoyable practice in mountaineering, by operating subsidised training
- Central Asia Institute
- To promote and support community based-education for girls in remote regions of Pakistan and Afganistan
- Open University
- Provides high-quality university education to all
- The Marine Conservation Society
- The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) is the UK charity dedicated to caring for our seas, shores and wildlife
- Sustainability South West
- A charity raising awareness and providing advice and guidance to accelerate change towards a more sustainable region
- BBC
- News site
