Schumacher UK

Info:  Exists to challenge such developments as economic globalisation and to propose alternatives. It provides a unique forum for promoting human scale solutions to the social and environmental problems facing us. They seek to address the growing unease many people feel about the global economic and political structures over which they have little control. It is apparent that many people are seeking human scale solutions for themselves and their communities.

SEPA

Info:  The Scottish Environment Protection Agency is Scotland's environmental regulator. Our main role is to protect and improve the environment. We do this by regulating activities that can cause pollution and by monitoring the quality of Scotland's air, land and water. We are also responsible for delivering Scotland's flood warning system.

The British Land Reclamation Society

Info:  Is an interdisciplinary organisation - and Registered Charity - concerned with the reclamation, regeneration and restoration of land. This includes contaminated, derelict and abandoned land from mineral working and former urban and industrial uses.

As an organisation they cover education, best practice and research over the many subject areas involved in the science and practicalities of land reclamation in England, Scotland and Wales. This could be from ground work engineering and geotechnics, to economic regeneration and sustainable urban reclamation. It covers a wide range of expertise and we encourage continuing development across disciplines.

The College of Animal Welfare

Info:  Is a ‘not for profit’ organisation specialising in veterinary nurse and animal care training and operates from five training centres based in the UK including two of the UK’s leading veterinary schools. They are one of the leading bespoke training providers in the UK and provide training to most of the UK’s leading animal welfare charities. They provide a range of services for those working with animals including: bespoke training for animal welfare charities, courses for animal care professionals working in local government, consultancy services that includes government agencies and foreign animal welfare groups as their clients, the general public looking to further their animal knowledge.

The Environment Council

Info:  Works to put environment at the heart of people's choices, decisions and aspirations. Their goal is to help society deliver the best outcomes to the most challenging sustainability issues through ensuring they and others apply the right engagement strategies, at the right time and in the right place with the right people. With nearly 40 years' experience of raising awareness, training, and facilitation, and providing a forum for dialogue, they demonstrate what is possible, helping all kinds of organisations make the difficult and complex decisions needed for a sustainable future.

The Environment Site

Info:  Exists to help you protect the environment at no cost to yourself.

The Environment Trust

Info:  Is a development trust and charity based in London's East End. Their aim is to achieve sustainable development by improving the social, economic and physical environment for community benefit, and this is reflected in the variety of their work.

The Greenhouse

Info:  Is Norwich's Environment Centre. The website continues to be developed as a way of promoting events, information and goods available from the Greenhouse. The Greenhouse runs regular second-hand book sales and sells books on line in order to increase both the level of access to our education materials and local fundraising. The Cobb charity, the Naturesave Trust and the National Lottery all provide grants to enable the Trust to develop our volunteer training, and education and briefing materials.

The Green Organisation

Info:  Is an independent, non-political, non-activist, non-profit environment group dedicated to recognising, rewarding and promoting environmental best practice around the world. While we support the work of other environmental groups that play the role of environmental watchdog, there is also a need for an organisation like ours that concentrates more on the positive aspects of environmental endeavour -- the carrot as well as the stick. We are best known for organising The International Green Apple Environment Award campaigns -- one for environmental best practice, and one for enhancing our built environment and architectural heritage.

The Tree Advice Trust

Info:  Is an independent charity whose aims are to research and disseminate practical information and guidance on the cultivation, maintenance and care of trees grown for amenity. The Trust is responsible for the work of the Arboricultural Advisory and Information Service (AAIS). Located at the Forest Research Station near Farnham, Surrey, the Arboricultural Advisory and Information Service has been giving independent and impartial advice to the public and the arboricultural profession for over 20 years.

UnwantedMail

Info:  Many people don’t have a problem with direct mail. However, some direct mail is poorly targeted and irrelevant and is thrown straight in the bin. Our goal is to reduce the amount of unwanted mail delivered to Scottish householders by 10 per cent by 2010. If you would like to reduce the amount of unwanted mail you receive and benefit the environment, follow the five easy ways to do it.