Links

Arts and Crafts

  • Truro in Bloom The website of Truro in Bloom with pictures of the stunning flower displays in the city and details of ‘In Bloom’ and how to participate.

Building

  • A Guide to Green Homes A useful guide to making your home more energy efficient and greening your lifestyle, with advice on government initiatives and some useful links.
  • Co-housing Network Cohousing is a way of living which brings individuals and families together in groups to share common aims and activities while also enjoying their own self-contained accommodation and personal space.
  • Retrofitting the suburbs for sustainability Retrofitting the suburbs for sustainability by David Holmgren, co-originator with Bill Mollison of the Permaculture concept, an innovative environmental design consultant based at Hepburn Springs in central Victoria, where he maintains
  • The Ecofriendly Guide to Cleaning Your Home Lots of useful information on ‘cleaning your home in an efficient, affordable and emminently eco-friendly manner’
  • The Essential Guide to Flood Planning & Preparation This guide contains helpful information about flooding risks, how flood can affect the value of one’s home or property, and offer some practical tips on flood preparation and safety.

Climate Change

  • Cornwall Community Climate Forum CCCF was formally established in 2006. The three main aims of the Forum are to provide peer support, to develop and coordinate joint networking, to provide an interface between community and strategic policy.
  • Exeter University – Nature & Environment – Climate Change: Solutions Discover solutions to climate change – Free course Explore the potential solutions to climate change and how they relate to the UN’s sustainable development goals. Man-made climate change is one of the biggest threats to the world. The effects are alre

Community

  • Co-housing Network Cohousing is a way of living which brings individuals and families together in groups to share common aims and activities while also enjoying their own self-contained accommodation and personal space.
  • Cornish Culture Guide to the culture of Cornwall.
  • Eco-friendly transportation Here’s a good American website about eco-friendly transportation especially electric school buses. This link was passed on to us via a student, Jimmy, and his tutor Bryan Sutton who is running a Winter program about eco-friendly transportation.
  • Fritjof Capra – 'Ecoliteracy' If you’ve not seen this recent article by Fritjof Capra in The Ecologist, take a look if you can. Excellent and so broad ranging. ‘Ecoliteracy’ is urgent and necessary if we are going to build resilient and sustainable human communities.
  • The Essential Guide to Flood Planning & Preparation This guide contains helpful information about flooding risks, how flood can affect the value of one’s home or property, and offer some practical tips on flood preparation and safety.
  • Truro Eco Energy (TREE) TREE is a group of local residents, local councilors and members of other like-minded groups who have come together with a vision of reducing the carbon footprint of Truro and surrounding parishes, reducing fuel poverty and increasing community cohesion.
  • Truro in Bloom The website of Truro in Bloom with pictures of the stunning flower displays in the city and details of ‘In Bloom’ and how to participate.

Economics

Local economy and livelihoods

  • Freeconomy To allow people to make the transition from a money-based, communityless society to more of a community-based moneyless society. Includes toolshare, skillshare, spaceshare and landshare.
  • Fritjof Capra – 'Ecoliteracy' If you’ve not seen this recent article by Fritjof Capra in The Ecologist, take a look if you can. Excellent and so broad ranging. ‘Ecoliteracy’ is urgent and necessary if we are going to build resilient and sustainable human communities.
  • Hubbert's Prescription for Survival, A Steady State Economy his thesis is that society is seriously handicapped because its two most important intellectual underpinnings, the science of matter-energy and the historic system of finance, are incompatible.
  • Kabin – Social Economy & Cooperative Development Cornwall Kabin is the trading name of Social Economy & Co-operative Development Cornwall Limited, a Co-operative Development Body based in Cornwall.
  • New Economics Foundation Independent think-and-do tank that inspires and demonstrates real economic well-being. Economics as if people, animals and the planet matter.
  • Social Enterprise Non profit making enterprises benefitting the environment and communities
  • Steady State Economics The Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE). Is a nonprofit, organisation dedicated to advocating a sustainable economy with stabilized population and consumption. This economy is called a “steady state economy.”
  • The Story of Stuff The life-cycle of consumer products

Education

  • Exeter University – Nature & Environment – Climate Change: Solutions Discover solutions to climate change – Free course Explore the potential solutions to climate change and how they relate to the UN’s sustainable development goals. Man-made climate change is one of the biggest threats to the world. The effects are alre
  • New Economics Foundation Independent think-and-do tank that inspires and demonstrates real economic well-being. Economics as if people, animals and the planet matter.
  • Permaculture links page This page is only a small taster of what is available…
  • Permaculture videos A selection of videos about Permaculture.
  • The Soil Association's fortnightly podcast The Soil Association’s fortnightly podcast tackles current environmental and organic issues. Exclusive interviews with key people from the Soil Association give you a deeper insight into the issues of the day. There’s also a wonderful archive of podcasts.
  • Weston A. Price Foundation The Weston A. Price Foundation (American) is dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to the human diet through education, research and activism. It supports a number of movements that contribute to this objective.

Energy

  • A Guide to Green Homes A useful guide to making your home more energy efficient and greening your lifestyle, with advice on government initiatives and some useful links.
  • Biofuels – Food or fuel? A common objection to biomass energy production is that it could divert agricultural production away from food crops in a hungry world — even leading to mass starvation in the poor countries. True or not?
  • Combined heat and power (CHP) Energy isn’t just wasted in the places that we finally use it; most of the waste in our electricity system happens before it even reaches our homes and businesses.
  • The Oil Drum Discussions about energy and our future.
  • Truro Eco Energy (TREE) TREE is a group of local residents, local councilors and members of other like-minded groups who have come together with a vision of reducing the carbon footprint of Truro and surrounding parishes, reducing fuel poverty and increasing community cohesion.

Environment

  • Eco-friendly transportation Here’s a good American website about eco-friendly transportation especially electric school buses. This link was passed on to us via a student, Jimmy, and his tutor Bryan Sutton who is running a Winter program about eco-friendly transportation.
  • Ecological Internet An uncompromising criticism of governments, banks, mncs and other international institutions that are complicit in deforestation
  • Exeter University – Nature & Environment – Climate Change: Solutions Discover solutions to climate change – Free course Explore the potential solutions to climate change and how they relate to the UN’s sustainable development goals. Man-made climate change is one of the biggest threats to the world. The effects are alre
  • Fritjof Capra – 'Ecoliteracy' If you’ve not seen this recent article by Fritjof Capra in The Ecologist, take a look if you can. Excellent and so broad ranging. ‘Ecoliteracy’ is urgent and necessary if we are going to build resilient and sustainable human communities.
  • Permaculture links page This page is only a small taster of what is available…
  • Permaculture videos A selection of videos about Permaculture.
  • Square Foot Gardening: An Absolutely Fantastic Way to Grow Vegetables So if you’re on the fence about gardening because you think it’s hard, use this method and you’ll be on your way to grow some awesome vegetables.
  • Terra Preta – Intentional use of charcoal in soil Charcoal can be promoted as a universal “carbon balancing” mix; a safe, ecology promoting, soil and soil mixture additive.
  • Terra Preta – Saving The Planet While Saving The Farm For many years, it had been known that among the extremely weathered and infertile soils of the Amazon basin, some of the least-fertile soils on the planet, there are large, widespread patches of highly fertile soil.
  • The Essential Guide to Flood Planning & Preparation This guide contains helpful information about flooding risks, how flood can affect the value of one’s home or property, and offer some practical tips on flood preparation and safety.
  • The Lazy Environmentalist blog …to let you know of the steps that are being taken, not just internationally, but nationally, locally and on an individual level – so that you can see what developments are taking place and shaping our new world.
  • The Story of Stuff The life-cycle of consumer products

Food

  • Building a square foot garden Square foot gardening is a clever approach to growing food. It’s easy to do, easy to manage, very adaptible, and it produces high yields of top-quality food.
  • Building a square foot garden – Ultimate Guide This simple method of gardening, has resurfaced over the years, and has become the next new gardening trend that everyone is digging into.
  • Ecology Action Grow Biointensive Aware of intensifying world challenges and the basic need of people to feed themselves, we have developed a small-scale agricultural system — GROW BIOINTENSIVE® Sustainable Mini-Farming — that nurtures soil, produces high yields, conserves resources
  • Food and Behaviour Research Nutrition can play an important role in the prevention and management of many kinds of difficulties in behaviour, learning and mood
  • Printable Seasonal Food Chart (UK) Naturaler is a website for people looking to live a more natural, chemical-free and eco-friendly life.
  • Soil Association All aspects of organic food production and information on community supported agriculture
  • Square Foot Gardening: An Absolutely Fantastic Way to Grow Vegetables So if you’re on the fence about gardening because you think it’s hard, use this method and you’ll be on your way to grow some awesome vegetables.
  • Terra Preta – Intentional use of charcoal in soil Charcoal can be promoted as a universal “carbon balancing” mix; a safe, ecology promoting, soil and soil mixture additive.
  • Terra Preta – Saving The Planet While Saving The Farm For many years, it had been known that among the extremely weathered and infertile soils of the Amazon basin, some of the least-fertile soils on the planet, there are large, widespread patches of highly fertile soil.
  • The Soil Association's fortnightly podcast The Soil Association’s fortnightly podcast tackles current environmental and organic issues. Exclusive interviews with key people from the Soil Association give you a deeper insight into the issues of the day. There’s also a wonderful archive of podcasts.
  • Weston A. Price Foundation The Weston A. Price Foundation (American) is dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to the human diet through education, research and activism. It supports a number of movements that contribute to this objective.
  • What to do now in your vegetable garden Organic gardening advice… Garden Organic, the UK’s leading organic growing charity, has been at the forefront of the organic horticulture movement for 50 years and is dedicated to researching and promoting organic gardening, farming and food.

Health and Wellbeing

Miscellaneous

Other Local Websites

Other websites local to Truro that don't fit into any other category

  • Cornish Culture Guide to the culture of Cornwall.
  • Cornwall Community Climate Forum CCCF was formally established in 2006. The three main aims of the Forum are to provide peer support, to develop and coordinate joint networking, to provide an interface between community and strategic policy.
  • Kabin – Social Economy & Cooperative Development Cornwall Kabin is the trading name of Social Economy & Co-operative Development Cornwall Limited, a Co-operative Development Body based in Cornwall.
  • Truro in Bloom The website of Truro in Bloom with pictures of the stunning flower displays in the city and details of ‘In Bloom’ and how to participate.

Partnerships

  • Cornwall Community Climate Forum CCCF was formally established in 2006. The three main aims of the Forum are to provide peer support, to develop and coordinate joint networking, to provide an interface between community and strategic policy.
  • Kabin – Social Economy & Cooperative Development Cornwall Kabin is the trading name of Social Economy & Co-operative Development Cornwall Limited, a Co-operative Development Body based in Cornwall.
  • Transition Cornwall Network Transition Cornwall Network website
  • Transition Falmouth Engaging the community in designing a vibrant low energy future for Falmouth and the surrounding area to face the twin challenges posed by Peak Oil and Climate Change. Please join us and participate in the process.

Peak Oil

  • Future Scenarios – David Holmgren David Holmgren, co-founder of the Permaculture Design principles with Bill Mollison, discusses the unprecedented challenges for human civilisation that the simultaneous onset of climate change and the peaking of global oil supply represent.
  • The Oil Drum Discussions about energy and our future.

Peak Oil and Climate Change

Publicity

  • Transition Truro poster You can print out the Transition Truro poster (A4, 35KB pdf file) on your inkjet or laser printer as and when required. Pin one in your kitchen for your friends to see, or a notice board at work. If it’s out of doors you can get it laminated

Transition Initiatives

  • 10 First Steps for a Transition Town Initiative The Transition Town concept, as championed by Rob Hopkins… Transition Town initiatives engage the community in peak oil and climate change awareness, planning and action, building on the influential Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan concept.
  • Transition Cornwall Network Transition Cornwall Network website
  • Transition Culture Rob Hopkins’ website. An Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent.
  • Transition Falmouth Engaging the community in designing a vibrant low energy future for Falmouth and the surrounding area to face the twin challenges posed by Peak Oil and Climate Change. Please join us and participate in the process.
  • Transition Helston Transition Helston is a new, voluntary initiative set up to work within Helston and district to engage all sectors of our community in dealing with the twin challenges of Peak Oil and Climate Change.
  • Transition Network Transition Network is a charitable organisation whose role is to inspire, encourage, connect, support and train communities as they self-organise around the Transition model, creating initiatives that rebuild resilience and reduce CO2 emissions.
  • Transition Penwith …working to engage all sectors of the community in addressing two of the greatest challenges of our time: climate change and fossil fuel depletion.

Transport

  • Carplus National organisation promoting shared mobility
  • Eco-friendly transportation Here’s a good American website about eco-friendly transportation especially electric school buses. This link was passed on to us via a student, Jimmy, and his tutor Bryan Sutton who is running a Winter program about eco-friendly transportation.

UK - Cornwall & Scilly Isles

  • Transition Cornwall Network Transition Cornwall Network website
  • Transition Falmouth Engaging the community in designing a vibrant low energy future for Falmouth and the surrounding area to face the twin challenges posed by Peak Oil and Climate Change. Please join us and participate in the process.
  • Transition Helston Transition Helston is a new, voluntary initiative set up to work within Helston and district to engage all sectors of our community in dealing with the twin challenges of Peak Oil and Climate Change.
  • Transition Penwith …working to engage all sectors of the community in addressing two of the greatest challenges of our time: climate change and fossil fuel depletion.

Waste and Recycling

  • A Guide to Green Homes A useful guide to making your home more energy efficient and greening your lifestyle, with advice on government initiatives and some useful links.
  • Combined heat and power (CHP) Energy isn’t just wasted in the places that we finally use it; most of the waste in our electricity system happens before it even reaches our homes and businesses.
  • The Story of Stuff The life-cycle of consumer products
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