I started this but haven’t got very far. So the list is short and sweet.
Alter-EU ALTER-EU is the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation. Over 160 civil society groups, trade unions, academics and public affairs firms concerned with corporate lobbyists influence over the political agenda in Europe, the resulting loss of democracy in EU decision-making and the postponement, weakening, or blockage even, of urgently needed progress on social, environmental and consumer-protection reforms.
Liberate Tate http://liberatetate.wordpress.com/ This is the blog for a group attempting to get the Tate to stop accepting sponsorship from BP. Worth following.
“Catalyst Radio was initially conceived in late 2010 during a Hacktionlab convergence in Bradford, UK, by a number of radical radio producers and independent media makers, including Dissident Island (London), Radio Interference (Bradford), Radio Kebele (Bristol), Redbricks Radio (Manchester) and other independent media producers, such as Radio Vague.
It was born from a desire to create a UK wide radical radio network that collectively uses a single Internet platform for the streaming of live and pre-recorded radio content presenting points of view generally diverging from those of the more established, and mainstream, media.
Given its political and techno-social foundations, Catalyst is designed to encourage and multiply independent, DIY (do-it-yourself) and DIT (do-it-together) media production, specifically radio, as well as connect and support radical radio makers and media enthusiasts.”
Image from GeorgeOrwellLinks website
George Orwell, 1946, Politics and the English Language
Energy Saving Trust, 2011, link to downloadable report, The elephant in the lIving room (PDF,1.9MB)
Brenda Boardman, 2007, Home Truths: A Low Carbon Strategy to Reduce UK Housing Emissions by 80% by 2050,University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute
Dieter Helm, EU Climate-change Policy, in Dieter Helm & Cameron Hepburn (editors) (2011) The Economics and Politics of Climate Change, Oxford University Press, Oxford, also available free online (PDF)
Frank Ackerman & Kevin Gallagher (2000) Getting the Prices Wrong: The Limits of Market-Based Environmental Policy, Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, Medford MA
Steffan Bohm & Siddhartha Dabhi (editors)(2009) Upsetting the Offset: The Political Economy of Carbon Markets, MayFly Books, London, available free online (PDF)
Sandbag Climate Campaign
Sandbag Climate Campaign, UK (2011) Carbon Fat Cats 2011-The Companies profiting from the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
