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Carbon Footprints and Saving Energy

• Carbon Footprint
  Use the Carbon Calculator to estimate and reduce your greenhouse gas emissions.
  
• Climate Outreach and Information Network
  Tips for reducing energy consumption and the latest information on climate change.
  
• Carbon Footprint
  Estimate and reduce your greenhouse gas emissions.
• CarbonNeutral Company
  Advice on how to lead a carbon neutral life and links to carbon neutral shopping.
• Climate Care
  Offset your carbon emissions by supporting sustainable energy projects.
• BBC News: How do you live a carbon-neutral lifestyle?
  Small changes in your life can make a big difference to tackling global warming.
• Car Fuel Data Website
  Find out what your car's Co₂ emissions are.

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

• SODC Recycling
  South Oxfordshire District Council's website for recycling advice, practical information and details of how to receive a kerbside recycling box.
  
• Sustainable Wallingford
  Get involved with Wallingford residents committed to making Wallingford more environmentally sustainable and reduce its ecological impact.
• Recycling Banks
  List of Recycling Banks in South Oxfordshire where you can take unwanted clothes, textiles and books.
• Recycle-more.co.uk
  The one-stop recycling centre. Tips and advice for recycling at home, school and at work.
• Recycle Now
  Recycling, Green Shopping, Composting and fun activities are all available on this detailed website.
• Freecycle.org
  When you want to find a new home for something -- whether it's a chair, a fax machine, piano, or an old door -- you simply send an e-mail offering it to members of the local Freecycle group. There are over 2,830,416 members worldwide - visit the website to find your local group.

Wildlife Gardens

• FREE RSPB Booklet - Attracting birds to your garden
  Apply for this free booklet to help you turn your garden into a haven for birds.
• RSPB - Bird food advice
  Learn what should and shouldn't be left out for birds during the different seasons.
• BBC Gardening
  Tips for attracting wildlife to your garden.
• BBC Nature: Helping wildlife through the winter
  Learn about how you can help birds, hedgehogs and other garden creatures through the winter.
• BBC Nature: Pond Life
  Frogs, toads and newts are all looking for homes, can you help?
• BBC Nature: Build a pond
  Make sure your garden pond has the right profile and positioning to attract wildlife.
• English Nature: Wildlife Gardens
  Download free pdfs covering every aspect of gardening including composting, minibeasts, wildflowers, ponds and butterflies.
• Wildlife Gardening
  Develop habitats which can attract birds, butterflies and insects.
• Nature's Calendar
  Maintain a wildlife calendar, recording the first snowdrops, cherry blossom, swallows etc in relation to weather patterns.

Composting

• Recycle Now - Composting
  Follow the 5 easy steps to successful composting at home. Composting Association
  Latest news, research and events from the organisation promoting sustainable management of biodegradable resources.
• Waste Online - Composting information sheet
  The how's, where's and what's of composting.
• Garden Organic - How to make compost
  Hints, tips and all your composting questions answered.
• BBC Gardening - Making Compost
  Play the composting game to build your own compost heap.

Buy Local Food

• Big Barn
  Enter your postcode to find a detailed list of your local food producers.
• Thames Valley Farmers' Market Co-operative
  Dates and information about Farmers' Markets in the Thames Valley area.
• Local Food Works
  Information on the benefits of buying local food.
• Buy Local Food
  Where to buy locally produced food and information on Farmers' Markets in South East England.
• Soil Association
  Information, education and advice on going organic and local producers.

Local Action Groups

• Friends of the Northmoor Trust
  Become a Friend of the Northmoor Trust to get involved with conservation work, recycling projects or volunteer at new Project Timescape visitor centre.
• Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust (BBOWT)
  Nature reserves to visit, wildlife advice and how to get involved with your local conservation group.
• Sustainable Wallingford
  Find out about sustainable energy, recycling, biodiversity and transport initiatives in Wallingford.
• Community Action Groups - Oxfordshire
  Get involved with one of the Community Action Groups in Oxfordshire to tackle waste and encourage recycling.
• Oxfordshire Nature Conservation Forum
  Sign up for the weekly e-newsletter to keep up-to-date with conservation and environmental events around Oxfordshire.
• BBC Action Network
  Join a local Action Group or set up a new group of your own.

Conservation

• Oxford Urban Wildlife Group
  Discover Oxford's city wildlife and wild places.
• Oxfordshire Nature Conservation Forum (partnership of local conservation bodies)
  Sign up for the ONCF weekly bulletin giving details of events, talks and voluntary opportunities across Oxfordshire.
• Berks Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust
  Find out about nature reserves to visit, great days out, wildlife advice and how you can get involved.
• National Wildlife Trusts Partnership
  Wildlife Trusts across the UK are working for an environment rich in wildlife for everyone.
• BBC Breathing Places
  Join in with the BBC campaign to create breathing spaces across the UK.
• UK Climate Impacts Programme
  The UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) provides scenarios showing how our climate might change in the future.
• WWF: World Wildlife Fund
  WWF was established in 1961, and operates in more than 100 countries working for a future in which humans live in harmony with nature.