Explore a collection of UK resources on sustainability, renewable energy, and environmental practices. Find useful information to support green living.
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Commons UK[edit | edit source]
News and comment
“We live in a mere shadow of the world we could have”. Dil Green—building commons by means of housing and local trading, in Stroud and Liverpool—has a pathway, Daily Alternative (Nov 03, 2024)
- The Stroud Commons aims to shift housing, energy, land, food, water, transport, social care & the means of exchange into community ownership, The Daily Alternative (Jul 08, 2023)
2020
♥ Universal Basic Everything by @TessyBritton[1] May 30...Towards sustainable economies UK
2019
Plunder of the commons: compensate the commoners! Sep 13[2]
2017
Building a new social commons, May 2[3]
See also
Commons - Community currencies UK - Food UK - Sharing UK - Towards sustainable economies UK - Community resources UK
External links
- Shared Assets, Land Explorer, a project from Shared Assets, helping you find information on land in the UK
Apps for sustainability[edit | edit source]
News and comment
2017
The Liverpool app that sidesteps the banks, Sep 14[4]
Funding[edit | edit source]
- 95 tips to help your community crowdfund, Just Act
- Community Shares, Microgenius, national platform for community share offers
- Crowdfunder
- CrowdingIn, Find a crowdfunding platform
- CrowdJustice, Crowdfund public interest law
- Edge Fund, "grant-making body with a difference. We support efforts to achieve social, economic and environmental justice and to end imbalances in wealth and power – and give those we aim to help a say in where the money goes."
- Funding Central
- People's Republic, crowdfunding platform
- Spacehive, a civic crowdfunding initiative. In their first five years, they have raised 6.7 million pounds for 306 projects, and many of these projects have been getting support directly from the Mayor of London. His office has pledged 800,000 pounds towards these community-proposed projects. It was basically a pound for pound match against the 900,000 pounds that had been raised.[5]
- Students' Green Fund
News and comment
2018
Research and development funding for ecosystems, Oct 31[6]
2017
Can Bristol crowdfund its way to a sustainable future? Aug 2[7]
UK Innovation Group Releases Report on Civic Crowdfunding For Cities, Jul 6[8]
Images[edit | edit source]
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Maps[edit | edit source]
- Environment and Health Atlas
- How much of your area is built on? BBC News, Nov 9, 2017
- Land Explorer, a project from Shared Assets, helping you find
information on land in the UK
- Map of Green Britain, Friends of the Earth
- MAGIC website providing geographic information about the natural environment from across government. The information covers rural, urban, coastal and marine environments across Great Britain
- UK Tax Haven Map
- Waste of space map, campaign (July 2014) to raise awareness of the 'brownfield first' solution - Wellbeing mapper
- Fascinating new map shows EVERY river basin with a different colour @MailOnline, 20 December 2018
Commons: Atlas of the United Kingdom
News and comment[edit | edit source]
- Who owns Norfolk? It's an extraordinary story of mostly very, very old inherited wealth. But the digital mapping would benefit any area, Daily Alternative (Oct 18, 2024)
2023
- What are the neighbourhoods of Sheffield and why are they crucial to the city's emerging future? We're finding out, nowthenmagazine.com (Nov 23, 2023)
2017
"Human beings being human: Part two of Connecting well" by David Robinson, Oct 20[9]
This is how we take back control: from the bottom up, George Monbiot, Feb 8[10]
2015
My data is bigger than yours - five steps towards better data projects - RSA, December 10[11]
How the Soup project is changing the UK, October 3[12]
Rekindling Kindliness: Learning from Hebden Bridge, March 31[13]
2013
Simple Map Making With Google Fusion Tables, May 1. Attribution: Tony Hirst.[14]
Edge Fund: a new grassroots fund for social justice, April 3[15]
2012
A long-held ambition realised as the ODI opens officially, December 4[16]
Near you[edit | edit source]
Resources London - Resources Scotland - Resources Wales
local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages
See also[edit | edit source]
- Topic overview: Resources for community action
- Community currencies UK
local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages
External links
- Citizens Advice (previously Citizens Advice Bureau and also known as Cyngor ar Bopeth in Welsh) is a network of 338 independent charities throughout the United Kingdom that give free, confidential information and advice to assist people with money, legal, consumer and other problems. The twin aims of the Citizens Advice service are "to provide the advice people need for the problems they face" and secondly "to improve the policies and principles that affect people's lives" a research and campaigns agenda known as "social policy". W
- Community How To, doing more with digital
- Just Act, "practical advice for anyone wanting to make a difference and improve their community."
- yourrights.org.uk, Liberty's guide to Human Rights. Liberty (formally known as the National Council for Civil Liberties]) is an advocacy group, which campaigns to protect civil liberties and promote human rights – through the courts, in Parliament and in the wider community. W
- You've got the power: a quick and simple guide to community rights gov.uk
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