Websites that promote simplicity
Have you ever wondered what your carbon footprint is? Follow this link to check out the earthday website and work out what size shoe you need!
Follow the links to Planet Ark and Plastic bag free to find out more about the effects of plastic bags.
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. http://www.storyofstuff.com/ is a, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.
You, Me & The Climate (YOMAC) is a youth-leadership initiative supported by the National Trust, which empowers young people aged 16-19 to become leaders or “Climateers” on climate change and encourages them to take action in their local communities. See http://www.youmeandtheclimate.org/ for more information.
"Adbusters is an ecological magazine, dedicated to examining the relationship between human beings and their physical and mental environment. Adbusters want a world in which the economy and ecology resonate in balance. Adbusters try to coax people from spectator to participant in this quest. Adbusters want folks to get mad about corporate disinformation, injustices in the global economy, and any industry that pollutes our physical or mental commons."