Campaigns

10:10 is campaign calling for the UK government, business and citizens to reduce carbon emissions by 10% in 2010.
http://www.1010uk.org/

ActonCO2 is the government’s campaign to create awareness and need for climate change action.
http://actonco2.direct.gov.uk/actonco2/home.html

The Prince’s Rainforest Project is a campaign calling for urgent action to protect the world’s rainforest given their important in climate change, biodiversity and livelihoods.
http://www.rainforestsos.org/

Carbon Calculators

ActonCO2 Carbon Calculator answer a series of questions about your home and travel habits to get an estimate of your household and personal carbon footprint.
http://carboncalculator.direct.gov.uk/index.html

Footprinter is developed by Bestfoot Forward - a business specialising in the calculation of environmental impacts.
http://www.footprinter.com/

SMEasure is a web-based building energy measurement and carbon monitoring tool we have developed for small and medium-sized business.
http://www.smeasure.org.uk/

Community Projects & Initiatives

ClimateXChange is a project is working with Oxfordshire-based organisations and initiatives to support and build a network engaged and acting on climate change. The project is run by the Environmental Change Institute.
http://climatex.org/

Transition Towns a fast growing grassroots movement for creation of sustainable communities and the site provides advice on how to achieve them.
http://www.transitiontowns.org

Ecovation
Read about people's personal journeys and efforts to improve the energy efficiency of their homes and cut carbon emissions.
http://ecovation.org.uk/

Government Departments

Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) brings together the government’s policies, regulations and programmes to reduce energy use and produce clean energy sources alongside efforts for climate protection and adaption.
http://www.decc.gov.uk/

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is responsible for policy and regulations in each of these areas. The environmental issues Defra focuses includes water, waste and biodiversity.http://www.defra.gov.uk/

Energy Savings Trust (EST) was set-up by the government to help householders to save energy and cut carbon emissions. There is information about EST recommended appliances, clean technologies (e.g. solar thermal panels), grants and tools to help (e.g. energy saving assessments)
http://www.est.org.uk/

Media

Nature News – a leading academic science journal but also does a great news feature for all of us to enjoy without needing to be experts!
http://www.nature.com/news/index.html

Physorg - a news portal providing the latest news on science including: physics, space science, earth science, health and medicine.
http://www.physorg.com/

TED is a small non-profit organisation devoted to ‘Ideas Worth Spreading’ – you’ll find videos of some of most inspiring people and ideas
http://www.ted.com

The Guardian provides news updates and information on energy efficiency.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/energyefficiency/

Real Climate information on climate science from the climate scientists.
http://www.realclimate.org/

Treehugger
A one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information.
http://www.treehugger.com/

Transport

How to travel by train or ferry from the UK into Europe & worldwide. Get advice and information about schedules, fares and how to buy tickets.
http://www.seat61.com

The Green Car Guide updated monthly you will find the latest information on the low emission cars
http://www.green-car-guide.com

The Car CO2 Emissions Guide examines the exhaust emissions and classification of every major new UK Car plus fuel consumption data and specifications.
http://www.carpages.co.uk/co2/

The official UK source for car fuel consumption and exhaust emissions figures. The database includes information on new and use cars that were first registered on or after 1 March 2001.
http://www.vcacarfueldata.org.uk/

UK Academic Energy and Climate Change Research Centres

Environmental Change Institute (ECI) is an interdisciplinary unit within Oxford University. It has three focal areas of research: climate change governance, energy and terrestrial ecosystems. ECI is the academic-base for SMEasure.
http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/

RESOLVE based at Surrey University is a research group exploring the links between lifestyles, values and environment. The groups draws on the academic disciplines of sociology, psychology, economics and environmental science.
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/

Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (Tyndall Centre) is developing sustainable responses to climate change through multi-disciplinary research. The Centre brings together scientists, economists, engineers and social scientists.
http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/

UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) is the focal point for UK research on sustainable energy.  The Centre brings together people with specialist training in engineering, economics as well as the physical, environmental and social sciences.
http://www.ukerc.ac.uk/