Campaigning against the use of bioenergy from unsustainable sources.

Taking its cues from the fantastic US site ZNet, UK Watch provides a digest of great new articles on radical politics in the UK. It not only gives information and analysis, but stimulates action in the belief that we not only urgently need drastic positive social change, but that it is achievable.

Taking the successful grassroots Indymedia format and applying it to the most important issue of our time, Climate Indymedia compiles mass-media reports with direct action write-ups and activist inspiration and networking.

Caterpillar supply armoured bulldozers for the Israeli government to destroy Palestinian homes and build the separation wall, in breach of international law and human rights.

Publicising Coca-Cola's grisly methods at bottling plants in Colombia

Books and Fair Trade products from this funky shop in North-West Leeds

"The Essential Resource For Everyone Who Cycles...Or is Thinking About it"

As most of the alternative and radical bookshops have closed in the UK, ABO offers an online way to get the publications you don't find in the chain store bookshops. There's secure online ordering and as the publishers send items direct to you delivery is usually swift too. The catalogue's growing all the time, so check back. And if you don't see what you want, they actively encourage suggestions and requests.

Information about global issues and progressive comment on global issues from a universalist perspective. Argues for a liberal and rational worldview in which the interests of people everywhere are treated as of being of equal importance.

The Mooncup is a small rubbery cup used to catch menstrual discharge.

How it it better than tampons?

Better for you: It does not put fibres, bleaches, deodorisers or absorbency gels into your body. It allows the mucous membranes of the vaginal wall to continue their essential cleansing and protective functions. It does not cause Toxic Shock Syndrome.

Better for the environment: Nearly a billion tampons are used in the UK every year, creating an environmental nightmare of landfill sites and water pollution. The manufacture is also resource-intesive, using bleaches to treat cotton and/or rayon. Cotton is the most chemically intensive crop on earth, using around 20% of all agri-chemicals.

Better for your purse: Imagine how much you'd spend on tampons in the 10 or 20 years that the Mooncup will last.

More convenient: It is washed and reused, so there's no need to carry spares.

A wealth of information on veganism, healthy eating, food & drink, nutrition, animal free shopping and all you need to know about an ethical and compassionate lifestyle that benefits humans, animals and the environment.

Schools make most pupils brutal or brutalised. They widen generation gaps and encourage compliance and obedience. Eductaion Otherwise is a network of people who educate their children without schools. It's easier than you think.

Cut down on your carbon emissions and your travel costs with this organised hitch-hiking site. Europe-wide lifts offered.

The Aldo Leopold Foundation strives to promote the care of natural resources and foster an ethical relationship between people and land.

Ever wondered where to get that clockwork transistor radio/mobile phone charger/torch? Also loads of gifts and books. Recycled products are the norm. Online ordering.

Great jobs and volunteering opportunities in the environmental sector. Our aim is to make it as easy and as cheap as possible for environmental organisations, however small, to advertise nationally. Database of available jobs. (UK)

Fiona Oakes cares for over 200 rescued animals, domestic & ex-farm, entirely on her own. Please check the site out to see how you might help her. Thank you

London-based distributors of a massive range of cool underground and countercultural books and pamphlets and suchlike from around the world. There's something new and interesting for any inquiring person of conscience.

Just as most corporations are getting out of GM crops, German-based multinational Bayer are buying in. They've taken over Aventis, and so they are now responsible for the overwhelming majority of GM crop trials in the UK, and are pushing the hardest for commercialisation. If we can get Bayer to pull out of GM, the whole UK GM market will collapse. With plenty of other interests in the Uk, they're easy to target. This site is part of the campaign to make sure that happens.

The Electronic Intifada publishes news, commentary, analysis, and reference materials about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from a Palestinian perspective. EI is the leading Palestinian portal for information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its depiction in the media. Together with sister site Electronic Iraq, both websites see between 300,000 and 1,000,000 unique visits each month.

The Surface is a chronicle of observation and comment. A shop window for aspiring writers, poets, illustrators, photographers, journalists and essayists. We offer no fee. The Surface is completely, wholeheartedly and fiercely independent - it involves no charge at any time to either reader or contributor - the surface is self funded by donations. If you would like your work to be made available to literary agents, art directors and editors then please feel free to contribute.

Non Violent Direct Action to save the lives of hunted animals. The HSA has been saving deer, hares, mink, foxes and other wildlife for nearly 40 years.

Registered charity in Northern Scotland - home to over 300 rescued animals.

unique information tower of all things past/future, scientific/spiritual- from robotics to xamanism...inteligent and creative. not a bit of net-sensationalism.

"SQUALL Magazine Online is a forum for radical quality journalism and photography. It presents accessible and factually reliable investigations into issues which the mainstream media dare not touch. SQUALL is independent of any political group or commercial proprietorship."

With supermarkets abusing their power and forcing farmers to sell for less while they charge us more, many farmers have bravely decided to go direct to us. All over the UK there are Farmers Markets, where the produce has been grown and/or amde by the stallholder. No more paying over the odds to fatcat supermarket shareholders, and you can also ask the producer any questions about the produce. The site features what, why, and most usefully where the markets happen. Get fresher food, support organic growers, and give the finger to the supermarkets all in one!

Based in Norfolk, England, Hillside cares for loads of unwanted and rescued animals, with many having been saved from factory farming. They also do excellent work investigating animal abuse and getting those reponsible prosecuted. They rely entirely on donations. For only £6 a year you can adopt an animal and get a letter written to you from the animal! A friend of mine has adopted two cows for me. Hillside is a wonderful example of lovely, loving, practical animal care.

Tom Tomorrow's cartoons and commentary... an enjoyable way to keep up on the day's events.

"Named after Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we work worldwide to combat censorship by promoting freedom of expression and access to official information."

The Long Now Foundation... Plans to build a 10,000 year clock and accompanying library, with online forums and backrgroung information - spearheaded by physics maverick Stewart Brand, with pioneer (clockmaker) engineer Danny Hillis. Founder members include Brian Eno, Esther Dyson, Kevin Kelly and Paul Saffo.

Publishing coolective of Merrick, Mahalia, Phagus and Gyrus. Books, pamphlets and articles on a broad range of countercultural stuff from hitch-hiking to drugs to monogamy to beards. The site has extracts from all the publications, some other writings and a bunch of wholly worthwhile links.

The Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh (ACE) is a self funded campaigning and social centre, for people who wish to take control of their lives by working collectively against social, economic and ecological injustice and exploitation; rather than looking to politicians, bosses and bureaucrats for solutions.

With big changes to the cannabis laws potentially on the horizon, there's no better place to find out just what's afoot - and to keep informed on the latest news about the "Dutch Experience" campaign. Groove on!

All the reasons why we don't need anymore airports and why we do need aviation fuel to be taxed. Short and lighthearted.

Surely one of the greatest uses of the internet, Indymedia is news (written and video) from around the world told by those who are there and without any corporate bullshit. Originally set up to cover the Seattle WTO protests, it was immediatley clear that this kind of reporting is eesential in most major stories that we see on the corporate news, and - especially - for the stories the corporate media won't cover. Radical, unflinching, intelligent, vital. Probably the best news source in the world.

Just started and ready to join the ranks of independant radical TV news sites like Indymedia, Beyond TV aims to use film festivals, the Internet and other multimedia to reach a wider audience for inspirational campaign videos and other forms of alternative media features. Beyond TV will incorporate text, photographic, audio and video in its alternative news reports on a variety of important issues. Beyond that it will also widen the scope of the information presented to include Media reports of "Positive Solutions" to current environmental and social problems. Beyond TV will make independent news items freely available on the Internet, facilitating access to a global audience. This will be a website for alternative opinions on topical news stories. Beyondtv.org will also contain up-to-the-minute research, as well as links to related sites, providing an invaluable academic and journalistic audio-visual on-line resource.

Thorne and Hatfield Moors are the largest remaining lowland peat habitats in England. But this is not enough to stop them being ravaged by US multinational Scotts, extracting millions of tons of peat to sell to garden centres and farmers around the country. We want to stop the destruction. Resistance in the area has been increasing throughout 2001, but we're not going to stop until we've saved the moor, and preferably put Scotts out of business. But for this we need you, so read on...

The Martian analysis of their monitoring of the Earth. Nothing more to say!!!

Brilliant, extensive resource of political essays, debates, rants by all sorts of folk including Chomsky, Pilger, Monbiot and many others. Currently excellent articles on the so-called "War on Terrorism", anti-corporate stuff etc etc...

Broad anti-capitalist activist grouping with a common agreement to think and build BIG. Faced with state violence against our rising tide, this perspective is becoming more important. The site is a very useful starting point for mass-mobilisation on international demonstrations and promoting anti-capitalism to a new audience. GR famously sent a train to Genoa.

Britain's most prominent compassionate journalist, George Monbiot writes powerfully and eloquently on a whole range of issues of social and environmental justice. This clear and well-organised site archives most off his material since 1995 and is frequently updated.

The internets most ambitious humanitarian endeavour. It's you and me and us, LET'S GO!

Global Exchange is a human rights organization dedicated to promoting environmental, political, and social justice around the world. Globalisation is a key issue affecting us all.

A cool little book store in Seattle, check out their titles. The name pretty much says it all.

Dischord is the e-zine of music, literature, politics and trash culture which aims to inform and provoke you, and question some of the received wisdom that threatens to turn us all into passive consumers of culture.

Record label of the brothers Kilbey. Steve Kilbey of Church fame ("see Head On" to find out what a fungi he is) releases some of his music here. The site is an excellent mix of free music, fabulous eastern graphics and political thinking.

Grassroots campaigning for action against climate change, very vibrant and active, yet accessible too. Feastures the superb '90% for 90%', a campaign to help get 90% carbon emission reduction by cutting public transport fares by 90%. Get on a train and offer 10%! They've done it and it's *worked*!

A multimedia resource for environment and development policy makers.

Human Rights news and links for people to take action!

This website is a must read for all women. There's information on this site that I was having real difficulties finding anywhere else. The really rare information here is the stuff on herbal abortion, it's really empowering to find that you can have control over your own body in an area previously the exclusive domain of doctors. It's not sugesting the complete abandonment of the medical profession, it just gives you sound, reliable information about another choice that isn't widely known about. Theres also great information and charts on knowing your own menstral cycle and why you need to, and how you can affect it.

RAWA Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan please have look at this site an incredibly discouraging situation please send some hope through the activities of this group thank you SL

Coming out of Washington, D.C., this site is packed to the gills with information of interest to radical leftists of an anti-authoritarian bend, with a very well maintained news section, editorials, historical features, and a comprehensive links section. Help throw off the shackles of tyranny by staying informed and up to date . . . EDUCATION!

The Ethical Consumer lists of who should by boycotted is daunting, but an important reminder that we do have choices and we shouldn't by Nestle products if Fairtrade ones are available. Great links too.

Debate & information & Links on Fair Trade/Globalisation. Excellent new site, set up by the pupils of Hampstead school, after their brilliant grilling of David Husselbee (global affairs director of Adidas) on the Mark Thomas Product. As one visitor commented 'thanks for reviving my faith in the so called 'disaffected youth'!

Everyone should sign this. The whole site is an excellent reference source for peace action worldwide. The primary focus is the abolition of nuclear 'deterrents'.

campaign, festy, gig and party listings for the south-east and beyond ...

Web-site for Mark Thomas's new C4 series. Telling you what you need to know, and how you are being conned by THE MAN!

Good to see so many people resisting the pressure of genetic modification as consumers, and there's a load of manufacturers doing the same. Check this out for info on all kinds of GM-free stuff. Oh, and while I mention it, don't be fooled into thinking supermarkets are all cuddly cos they've stopped flogging GM stuff. They still happily sell GM cotton, and most milk and dairy products are made with milk form cows who've had GM feed. Support your local stores!

Fancy doing something to help the kids in countries less well-off then your own? Plan International are one of the biggest Child Sponsership organisations in the world and have been going for over 60 years. It doesn't take much to sponser a child, and it's so worthwhile that you'll hit yourself over the head for not doing it before. And if you do I'll buy you a pint.... how about that?

Toronto (Canada) is currently experiencing a problem with where to put its garbage. Of the governments involved do a very stupid thing and risk people and the envireonment for convenience and a little money. Find out what's going on (this site is against the dump) so they can't do this to you.

This is a HUGE load of veggie info, with a massive recipe section (15 categories of bread alone!), extensive listings explaining what various food products are, a Q&A section if you want any info/help from anyone who might know stuff you don't and a whole lot more. It's very well laid out, easily navigable and well thought-out (eg all the recipes have an 'email this to a friend' thingy). Throughtout the site there's an awareness of the reasons for veggieness being varied and leading on to other things, so if you're coming at it from an angle of veganism, organics, kosher or whatever then you're well catered for. Incidentally, I found this site as a link from a Courtney's favourites bit on the Hole website (www.hole.com)

Tired of listening to your own voice? Want to save the world? A UK-based 'Big Board' of environmental discussion/action.

A way to make a small difference: donate food for free. The words drop and ocean come to mind, but for a couple of mouse clicks you can help. Also, access The Rainforest Site from the front page to donate land free.

One of the best resources on the net. Covers political actions, urban living, the free party scene and a very useful drugs information section. Huge site.

For those, like me, who would never trust the BBC of The Guardian to tell it to me like it is.

The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society of the U.K. is there to protect and support our friends in the sea who have, lately, been largely forgotten.

Environmental Issues from a women's perspective.

An on-line collaborative effort among many animal rights/defense/welfare organisations and the EnviroLink Network.

Committed to promoting the health, environmental and animal welfare benefits of a vegetarian diet.