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Useful sustainability web sites and other resources

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Climate Change/Sustainability web sites
A good selection of web sites of interest when exploring issues of climate change and sustainability.

DEFRA
Department for Environment and Rural Affairs.
Some very good educational material on climate change and sustainability.

NorthSouthEastWest
Covers the environmental agenda from a global perspective.  Also includes the exhibition material which is travelling to major cities worldwide (eg GZ in China).

Think Leadership
Leading today with tomorrow in mind.  An environmental audit tool with a green school audit facility, snapshot, benchmarking and action plan alongside useful links.

Tide~
Teachers in Development Education is a teachers' network which supports creative work to meet young people's educational entitlement.

Sustainability Action Plan for Education and Skills
This Action Plan from the DfES sits within the wider aspects of the UK Sustainable Development strategy.

Monbiot.com
Junk Science - destroying the myth that climate change doesn't exist.

The Globe Programme
International environmental education using the internet.

Education for Sustainable Development
Education for sustainable development (ESD) is an approach to the whole curriculum and management of a school.

Eco Schools
Get your whole school community working together to improve the environment, encourage citizenship, promote healthy lifestyles, and much more besides.

Environment Agency
"We are the Environment Agency. It's our job to look after your environment and make it a better place - for you, and for future generations."

Farming and Countryside Education
(FACE)  024768 8261.  Bringing the countryside into the heart of the classroom.

CREATE
CREATE motivates and educates people in businesses, communities and schools to achieve more sustainable uses of energy and reduce carbon emissions.

Environ
Making waste work - a DIY toolkit for teachers.

Lessons in Sustainability
What on Earth is Happening? How do we respond?
Tide 0121 202 3290  wmc@tide.org

WWF Lifelines, News and ideas for teachers. Summer 2004
“Adrift”. What ever happened to the OfSTED action plan on ESD.

Geography and the New Agenda
Geographical Association. ISBN 1-899085-84-X

How We Can Save the Planet
By Mayer Hillman.  ISBN 0-141-01692-2

Factor Four - Doubling Wealth
Halving Resource Use. Earthscan. ISBN 1 85383 407 6

Farmageddon.  Food and the Culture of Biotechnology
ISBN 0-86571-394-4

Focus on sustainable development
Primary Geographer, Issue 43 - January 2001.  Geographical Association.

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