Alternative Technology

Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT)
CAT is concerned with the search for globally sustainable, whole and ecologically sound technologies and ways of life. Within this search the role of CAT is to explore and demonstrate a wide range of alternatives, communicating to other people the options for them to achieve positive change in their own lives.
This communication involves:
Inspiring - instilling the desire to change by practical example
Informing - feeding the desire to change by providing the most appropriate information
Enabling - providing effective and continuing support to put the change into practice.

CAT has a holistic approach to its work, integrating ideas and practice relating to land use, shelter, energy conservation and use, diet and health, waste management and recycling.Through its resident community and work organisation, CAT is also committed to the implementation of co-operative principles and best achievable environmental practices.

BioRegional Development

BioRegional Development Group
BioRegional Development Group is an entrepreneurial, independent environmental organisation. We develop award winning, commercially viable products and services which meet more of our everyday needs from local renewable and waste resources, to help enable One Planet living – living within our fair share of the Earth’s resources.

Book Publishers

GreenBooks
Green Books is a publishing company whose aim is to inform and inspire the general reader about ecological, spiritual and cultural issues of our time.

Coaching

The Gaia Coach Institute
The Gaia Coach, a company founded by Stephen Powell to help the shift to a sustainable society, works with clients seeking clarity on what they can offer the world in these very turbulent times. Stephen, a former Reuters correspondent, trained as a coach at the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara. He has lived and worked on every continent.

Councils

World Future Council
The World Future Council (WFC) aims for a global membership of wise thinkers, practical pioneers and young leaders. It will identify the "implementation gaps" between current practices and necessary measures to assure a sustainable and equitable world. As an institution representing humanity's common values, the WFC will provide an ongoing forum for debate and action.

Economics

The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability (FEASTA)
The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability (FEASTA) aims to identify the characteristics (economic, cultural and environmental) of a truly sustainable society, articulate how the necessary transition can be effected and promote the implementation of the measures required for this purpose.

New Economics Foundation
The New Economics Foundation (NEF) works to construct a new economy centred on people and the environment.

James Robertson
“An outstanding example of a modern thinker at the service of society” – citation from Mikhail Gorbachev (2003)
James Robertson is author of many books on New Economics including the Schumacher Briefing No 1: Transforming Economic Life.
Sustainable Development. People-centred Globalisation, combining economic efficiency with economic justice. Progress that is socially just and environmentally benign. Money and Finance as servants not masters. Are these ideas and concepts just pipe-dreams or are they essential practical goals for a one-world community?

Prosperity Newsletter
Prosperity - Freedom from Debt Slavery. A newsletter site with features on economics, monetary reform and politics.

Education

Centre for Human Ecology (CHE)
Centre for Human Ecology is a Scotland-based organisation carrying out action, research and education for personal development, environmental sustainability and social justice.

Commonwork
A group of organisations based on an organic farm and study centre, working towards sustainable solutions in farming, the environment and education.

Envision
Envision seek to empower young people by providing opportunities for increasing their understanding of, and respect for, the natural world. This can be achieved through raising awareness, hands-on action and personal development of theory and practice. The aim is to give back responsibility to individuals by demonstrating that they can ‘make a difference’. This will thereby inspire people to make sustainable choices in the future, the only path to a truly sustainable society.

Gaia Cooperative
Weekend Events & Courses in the Welsh Borders nr Hay-on-Wye - Exploring creative new insights in science, spirituality & the arts. Teachers include; Satish Kumar,Stephan Harding, Brain Goodwin, Tom Butterworth Peter Harper, Scilla Elworthy, Chloe Goodchild. These residential weekends include experience of an holistic lifestyle including solar hot water, swimming pool and solar electricity, home-grown organic food, wildlife and countryside.
0845 458 4718, info@gaiacooperative.org, www.gaiacooperative.org

Human Scale Education
Human Scale Education is an educational charity promoting small schools and small classes because of the many educational benefits which small size can bring.

Schumacher College
SCHUMACHER COLLEGE was founded in 1991 on the conviction that a new vision is needed for society, its values and its relationship to the earth. Over the last decade the college has become a centre of excellence and established an international reputation for the inspiration, quality and breadth of its teaching.

Ethical Money

The Ecology Building Society
The Ecology Building Society was founded in 1981. We are a mutual organisation, and use the money deposited by our savers to grant mortgages on properties and projects that help the environment.

GAEIA
Ethical Financial Planning. GAEIA are an Independent Financial Adviser firm specialising in ethical investment, as well as environmental & socially responsible investments.

John Scott & Partners Ltd
Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) considers the ethical, social and environmental performance of companies, as well as their financial potential. (sponsors of the Bristol Schumacher Lectures)

Rathbone GreenBank Investments
Leading Ethical Investment management company. ( sponsors of the Bristol Schumacher Lectures)

Triodos Bank
Triodos Bank is one of Europe’s leading ethical banks. [sponsors of the Bristol Schumacher Lectures]

Forums

Forum for the Future
Forum for the Future is recognised as the UK’s leading sustainable development charity. Our object as a charity is to promote sustainable development and to educate different groups in sustainable development, in order to accelerate the building of a sustainable way of life, taking a positive solutions-oriented approach.

Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future (Used to be called 'UNED Forum')
UNED Forum has changed its name to ‘Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future’ as of January 1, 2002. The new name expresses the character and central purpose of this dynamic initiative to support international civil society organisations concerned with sustainable development. It includes organisations representing all the major groups recognised by the UN including business, labour, parliamentarians, local government, NGOs, indigenous peoples, women, youth, farmers and scientists.

International Development

Practical Action
Practical Action (used to be called Intermediate Technology Development Group) specialises in helping people to use technology for Practical Answers to Poverty.

Law

Environmental Law Foundation
The Environmental Law Foundation (ELF) is the national UK charity linking communities and individuals to legal and technical expertise to prevent damage to the environment and to improve the quality for all. Through its network of members, ELF provides people with information and advice on how the law can help resolve environmental problems such as pollution, development and health. ELF also provides education and training, promotes lectures, conferences and seminars, produces publications, encourages policy development. Above all, it provides a voice for communities and individuals.

Magazines

The Ecologist magazine
Founded in 1970, we are the world's most widely-read environmental magazine. And we are non-profit. Published in four continents, The Ecologist is read by over 200,000 people in 150 countries. A key player in major environmental campaigns against GM crops, rainforest destruction, climate change and the impact of globalisatio. The Ecologist's early-warning signs have helped set environmental and political agendas across the world. The Ecologist is edited by Zac Goldsmith.

Resurgence
Resurgence is a bi-monthly magazine of vision and action. Resurgence brings its readers a unique blend of news and views on a range of topics that includes ecology, development, education, health, science and politics, together with art, culture and spirituality.

News

Positive News
More and more people around the world believe that Another World is Possible and are working for change. Positive News reports their stories and events.

Organic Agriculture

Soil Association
The Soil Association exists 'to research, develop and promote sustainable relationships between the soil, plants, animals and the biosphere, in order to produce healthy food and other products while protecting and enhancing the environment'.

Politics

The International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO)
The International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO) is a growing association of citizens worldwide who use their votes in a coordinated, effective way to drive all nations to co-operate in solving our planetary crisis. ISPO goes beyond merely demanding greater political accountability by offering citizens a new way of restoring genuine democracy lawfully and peacefully, one vote at a time.

Property Development

Under the Sky
A not-for-profit urban renewal social enterprise. The foundation of Under the Sky was inspired by John Pontin of the JT Group, Bristol, which has a track record of 40 years of enlightened property development in the city. His key idea is that there are sites and buildings in Bristol and the West of England that need to be transformed for the benefit of the community but are outside the normal scope of private developers, housing associations or other organisations. To this end he has brought together a group of like-minded individuals with relevant business and professional skills who are committed to undertake socially and environmentally sustainable urban – and rural – renewal freed from the bonds of conventional thinking.

Telecommunications

The Phone Co-op
SCHUMACHER UK has joined with The Phone Co-op, the UK's only telecoms co-operative to offer three great deals to our supporters.

The Phone Co-op offsets all CO2 emissions, uses recycled paper and green energy throughout its business and promotes the use of public transport by its employees. As a consumer co-opperative, owned by its customers, they also invite all their customers to become members and thus have a say in the way that they are run, as well as receiving a dividend each year derived from the amount you spend with them.

This partnership will save you money and helps SCHUMACHER UK because we receive 6% of the ongoing value of your phone calls and broadband use. The Phone Co-op has phone and broadband tariffs to suit every type of customer.

For further information on tarriffs download residential tariffs (pdf 38KB). You can also call 0845 458 9040 and make sure you quote "Affinity 250/AF0316 SCHUMACHER UK", or visit their website.