Caithness
Caithness Nature and Environment Section
HomeAid - Furniture and other goods
recycling
Caithness Environmental Groups
Orkney
Environmental
Concern Orkney Pressure Group
Lady Godiva
Idiosyncratic, Sceptical, Green
Highland
Highland Biodiversity
Conservation
Group Highland details
Further Afield
Greenpeace
Sustainability
Do
Change
Scottish Executive web site with advice on transport, home
and more to help the environment
Greenpeace
- Get Active
Get Active in your local community! This site contains all you need to
know about setting up and managing your own social and environmental
campaigns, drawn from the experience of Greenpeace Australia campaigners
with contributions from a range of environmental and social change
activists.
Waste Watch - Recycling opportunities
Earth's Safer Chemicals Campaign Double F -Environmental Scientist Site
Global Environmental Change Programme
Funding Opportunities
Moray
Firth Partnership
About the grants scheme
The Moray Firth Partnership Community Grants Scheme has been set up to
help community groups and schools undertaking economic, environmental or
cultural work in their local area on the coast and sea of the Moray Firth
from John O’Groats in Caithness to Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire.
The aim of this new grants scheme is to help meet the objectives of the
Partnership by improving the future well-being of the Firth’s many
assets, at a local level. These might be projects that seek to improve the
economic, environmental, recreational or cultural assets of the Firth, and
ideally a combination of 2 or more of these.
The scheme is particularly keen
to encourage different interests to work together and involving local
people in the management of their local coastline and sea.
Naturenet
Yell.com award nominee
Natureweb
Nautical Archaeology Society
New Lanark Conservation Trust
National Farmers Union -
Countryside
Northern Environmental Monitoring
Services Scottish Environment Link
Survival International Use it Again
Yorkshire
Dales National Park Authority
The
EnviroWeb – Environmental information.
Environmental
Organisation Directory – Green sites.
Royal Society for the Protection of
Birds.
British Geological Web
site. Lots
on earthquakes.
Recycycling
Net Big on saving things.
Department
of Environment, Transport and the Regions.
Bat
Conservation Trust
Biological Recording in Scotland
British Dragonfly Society
British Trust for Ornithology
Botanical Society for the British Isles
British Trust for Conservation Volunteers
Butterfly Conservation (Scotland)
Froglife
Hebridean Whale & Dolphin Trust
International Otter Survival Fund
John Muir Trust
Joint Nature Conservancy Council
Life Peatlands Project
Mammal Society
Marine Conservation Society
Moray Firth Partnership
Plantlife
Scottish Ornithologists Club
Scottish Wildlife Trust
UK Biodiversity Action Plan
Conservation Related
Local land managing
organisations:
Elsewhere in UK:
International
Radio Programmes And Web Sites
Scottish Sites
John Muir
Miscellaneous
British Library
Information Service
British Official Publications
Current Awareness Service
BUBL
- Environment & Conservation Links
Environment
& Nature Web Rings
For Younger People
Globe
80 country project for children.
Environmental
Groups in Caithness, Orkney Etc
Campaign Groups
The Salmon
Farm Monitor
See Also
Atomic Energy
Composting In Caithness
Recycling
Waste Management
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Caithness.org
Scottish Companies with Money to Burn
UK businesses lose a staggering 4.5 per cent of their turnover every
year with Scottish companies also lagging behind when it comes to waste
recycling.
Research undertaken by NetRegs
www.netregs.gov.uk
the online environmental regulation advice service for small
businesses found that Scotland produces an annual 15 million tonnes of
waste each year, enough for each person in the country to fill one and
half refuse bags per day!
However, businesses could save around £1000 per employee through simple
energy efficiency programmes as basic as switching off unused lights.
John Downie, parliamentary officer for the Federation of Small Businesses
(FSB), commented: "Businesses can make lots of savings by taking simple
steps to reduce wastage in their business. 50% of money spent on
electricity is for lighting, so there's a real incentive to make sure
unused rooms are not bathed in light and costing you a fortune. Turning
off lights and other equipment can make real savings, for example
switching computers off at night and over the weekends can cut costs by
75%"
"These statistics from NetRegs make stark reading and I would encourage
our members to find out about simple savings that will benefit their
bottom line as well as the environment."
An online poll for the Forum of Private Business found that more than 55
per cent of members didn't know if their business complied with
environmental legislation. The environmental regulation website NetRegs
was launched in May 2004 to address this lack of awareness
The NetRegs website www.netregs.gov.uk
has been developed by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)
and its counterparts in England and Wales (the Environment Agency) and
Northern Ireland (the Environment and Heritage Service , to help smaller
businesses understand their environmental obligations.
The website provides free, plain language advice on the relevant
environmental regulations for organisations working in every sector of
business across Scotland, from office businesses to agriculture.
Research commissioned by NetRegs revealed that many smaller businesses
have poor awareness of environmental legislation. The survey of more than
8600 small and medium-sized businesses throughout the UK found that:
* Only 19% of those asked could name any environmental regulations
affecting their activities
* Only 18% had an environmental policy in place* 32% wanted more help and
advice on environmental matters
Environmental
Organisation Web Directory
Glynwood Center
North America/UK
Countryside Exchange - to swap information on countryside issues.
Better
Planet
Earthshare
Global
Change
Lets
Recycle
Environmental
Database - Edinburgh University Ecological Society
British
Trust for Conservation Volunteers
Global
Environmental Change Programme
Global
Environmental Change -Main site
Environmental
News Network
Environment
Agency
Scottish
Environment Protection Agency(SEPA)
OECD
Environment Directorate
UN
Environment Programme
US
Environmental Protection Agency
Environment
- Virtual Library
British
Trees Trees For Life
John Muir
Trust
Alana
Ecology
British Trees
British Trust for Conservation
Volunteers
Campaign for Dark Skies
Ecology Net
English Nature
Environment Matters
Environmental Information Service
Forest of Avon
Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth Scotland
Great Western Community Forest
Greenforce
Careers in conservation and voluntary expeditions
Green Net
Resources for networking environmental groups.
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
International Bracken Group
International Tree Foundation
National Recycling Forum
Natural Environment Research Council
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