Global issue|Local solution
Resources
DEMOS publication: 'Unlocking Innovation', looking at how public services
can better engage their users based on examples of best practice in the
public and private sectors
Unlocking
innovation
Defra: main website
www.defra.gov.uk
Defra: communities and climate change
Defra’s climate challenge
www.climatechallenge.gov.uk
Every Action Counts
http://www.everyactioncounts.org.uk/
A study on the effect on consciousness of visible community generation
schemes
http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/pages/291005.html
An example of effectiveness of combining council tax incentives with
efficiency schemes
www.defra.gov.uk/news/2006/060313a.htm
Some interesting car share initiatives beginning to take off. For an
example:
http://www.carplus.org.uk/
For business community travel stuff
http://www.transport2000.org.uk/campaigns/maintainCampaigns.asp?CampaignID=19
For an American perspective
http://www.smartcommunities.ncat.org/
DTI report on carbon emissions
http://www.dti.gov.uk/files/file32387.pdf
The Stern review
Stern
Review on the Economics of Climate Change
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change
www.tyndall.ac.uk
The Energy Savings Trust
www.energysavingtrust.org.uk
Global Action Plan
www.globalactionplan.org.uk
London Sustainability Exchange
http://www.lsx.org.uk/
Transition Towns
www.transitiontowns.org
RSA/Tesco carbon calculator
www.carboncontrol.org.uk
NESTA/Demos ‘Disrupters’ report
http://www.nesta.org.uk/informing/policy_and_research/highlights/the_disrupters.aspx