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London Environmental Education Forum

LEEF Links

Environment:

London Green Map

London Wildlife Trust

RSPB in London

The Black Environment Network

The Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens

The Women's Environmental Network

Trust for Urban Ecology [TRUE]

Wildweb - A guide to London's Nature Reserves and green spaces

Sustainability:

London 21 - A network of community groups.

London Sustainability Exchange

London Sustainability Weeks 2005

Outdoor Learning:

Growing Schools [teachernet]

Learning through Landscapes

Funding:

Funder Finder

The Big Lottery Fund

Trust Funding

UK Fundraising

Food:

Allotments Regeneration Initiative

City Farmer - Canadian site with good features

Eat the View - Countryside Agency site

Food Vision - See Food Initiatives & Toolkits

London Farmers Markets - recipes & news

Sustain - London specific goldmine of food facts

Research facts:

Biomimicry - How nature can show us how to develop technology

CIA World Factbook - Data on countries (CIA site - factually very good)

Fish base - A global information portal on fish.

Global Education Project - world maps and stats

Green Facts - Findings from Millennium Assesment

International Research Institute for Climate Prediction - datasets of World weather records, v. technical site but full of raw data.

Millennium Assesment - World ecosystem audit

Species 2000 - A catalogue of life on Earth

Tree of Life - A list of biological diversity and evolution

Recycling / Composting:

Capital Waste Learning

London Community Recycling Network

London Remade

Ollie's World (Australian interactive site for children)

Plants/Gardening:

Carry on Gardening - A site linked to THRIVE

Chelsea Physic Garden

Ecological Database of the British Isles

Homes Fit For Birds - wildlife gardening info

London Wildlife Trust - Wildlife Gardening

Plants and cultures - linked to Kew Gardens

Royal Horticultural Society

The Henry Doubleday Research Association

The Institute of Horticulture

Technology / Energy:

Centre for Alternative Technology

The SEA/RENUE Alliance

Teaching resources:

Association for Science Education - Resources

BBC Learning - Environmental Studies

CABE - Resources using the built environment

Capital Waste Learning

Citizenship Education - Global issues

Council for Environmental Education - See Resources under Information Centre

Create - Energy based topics

E4S - Sustainable resource use

Food and Farming Partnership - Welsh food site

Global Warming - DEFRA site with games/lessons for 7-11 & 12-16 year olds and A-level students.

National Association For Environmental Education - teachers' info

National Grid for Learning - Gov't education portal

Natural History Museum - Biodiversity for GCSE & A-Level

Oxfam Coolplanet - Trade and global issues

Readings for Weddings

RSPB - Teachers resources

Teachernet - sustainable development resources

Topic online - The website for practical applications of research in education

WWF - Teachers pages for ESD

 

Did you know...

Over 60% of London's area is green space or water – home to 1500 species of flowering plants and 300 types of birds.
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