Local News and Local Contacts
Indimedia in the North: News from the street ...
Indymedia provides a platform to co-ordinate, encourage, and strengthen grassroots campaigning in the North of England. It is open to all groups acting on a local level which are progressive, open, and working for a free and fair society.
Andy D'Agorne: Fishergate councillor ...
For a Green Party councilor's view of what is happening in York.
Christian Vassie: Lib Dem green champion ...
Is it a co-incidence that the European contries who have the worst greenhouse emissions tend to have first-past-the-post voting systems, and the countries with the best performance have propotional systems?
Kate Lock: A woman on a mission to go green.
A collection of Kate's writings as a journalist and author.
Alligator Wholefood shop
Providing York with the best in organic food and wholefoods for over thirty years.
The Yorkshire Food Company
Their aims: ‘quality food, with minimal food miles, and to support Yorkshire businesses’.
Anthony Day: Consultant, Sustainable Business Strategies.
Help for companies to draw up a Green Energy action plan.
Anna Semlyen: Traffic Reduction Consultant.
Link to her book which has sold over 110,000 copies.
Community-owned wind turbines
Steve Carney and his company, Origin Energy, helps communities in Yorkshire and Humberside to live a more prosperous and sustainable life-style. The company helps communities make money through the sale of renewable energy and then find ways that the funds can be used to promote longer term prosperity of the community.
Climate Change Partnership for Yorkshire & Humber.
Information about the expected impacts of climate change by 2050, with recommendations about how York can adapt to the changes can be found here.
The Climate Change Partnership brings together various organisations to encourage work to tackle the cause and effect of climate change. The Climate Change Partnership will take forward delivery of the Climate Change Plan.
