A separate page covers International Aid and Development – training, codes of conduct, etc. as well as contacts.
Environment, including Sustainable Development
- Black Environment Network.
- Centre for Human Ecology Think tank which also runs professional development courses.
- Community Recycling Network for Scotland, London Community Resource Network.
- Community Land Scotland represents Scotland’s new generation of community land owners.
- Community Woodlands Association – Scotland.
- Campaign to Protect Rural England.
- ENDS Europe’s environmental news service.
- Environment Agency Governmental body.
- Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens.
- Findhorn Foundation Rather too ‘new agey’ for some, but a good source of ideas and info. on environmental living.
- Friends of the Earth Loads of material, good links page.
- Re-use Network.
- Green Alliance A parliamentary forum and service for green issues.
- GreenNet Apart from web hosting a stack of organisations dealing with green issues, there is an events calendar and bulletin board.
- Greenpeace.
- Institute for European Environmental Policy Based London.
- International Institute for Sustainable Development.
- Pesticides Action Network.
- Scottish Environmental Protection Agency.
- UK Food Group network for non-governmental organisations working on global food and agriculture issues.
- Wildlife Trusts.
- Wildlife and Countryside Link brings together environmental organisations with “common interest in the conservation and enjoyment of the natural and historic environment” (England).
- Northern Ireland Environment Link national forum and networking body for organisations interested in the environment.
- Scottish Environment Link – the forum for Scotland’s voluntary environment organisations.
- Wales Environment Link is the umbrella body for environmental and countryside non-governmental organisations in Wales.
Sustainable Business, Corporate Responsibility, Trade
See also Resource Extra – Ethical Investment and Social Economy pages.
- AccountAbility Institute of social and ethical accountability.
- Ashridge Centre for Business and Society.
- Business in the Community – see our Information Sources page.
- Centre for Business Relationships Accountability Sustainability & Society (BRASS) at Cardiff University closed 2012 – see their Sustainability Places Research Institute for archive etc.
- Corporate Watch Radical research and publishing group, aiming to support activism against large corporations.
- Ethical Trading Initiative A variety of companies, voluntary orgs and trade unions working together to promote codes, monitoring on labour conditions etc.
- GATSwatch European flavoured news and critical information on the current WTO negotiations on the General Agreement on Trade in Services.
- Global Reporting Initiative ‘a common framework for sustainability reporting’.
- Institute of Business Ethics Aims ‘to emphasize the essentially ethical nature of wealth creation’, publishes a Code of Business Ethics.
- International Business Leaders Forum.
- International Chamber of Commerce Look under Business in Society.
- mallenbaker.net A personal (but quite broad) look at CSR from the Development Director for Business in the Community.
- Net Impact A US based network of ’emerging business leaders committed to using the power of business to create a better world’.
- Protect (was Public Concern at Work) Help and advice for whistleblowers.
- SustainAbility.
- UN Global Compact. Their attempt to get global business to sign up to 9 principles in human rights, labour and environment.