Organizations
There are several initiatives in the UK, let us cite
- the idea of downshifting week that took place in April http://www.downshiftingweek.com/
- A large movement of transition towns is taking place, the idea is to make towns, villages, forests… more resilient with facing increasing prices of energy, greenhouse effect… See the list of participating cities on www.transitiontowns.org
In french http://developpementdurable.revues.org/document6243.html.
Bibliography
- Rob Hopkins, 2008, The Transition Handbook. From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience, Green books, 224 p. http://transitionculture.org/shop/the-transition-handbook/
- Contraction and convergence everyone - regardless of status - is now increasingly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, the rich have little choice but to share the burden of contraction fairly. The Global common institute has devised a greenhouse gas abatement methodology based on «Equity and Survival» . We call it «Contraction and Convergence». The C&C campaign has received widespread support from many quarters. http://www.gci.org.uk/contconv/cc.html
- The new economics foundation http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/
- http://www.greeneconomics.org.uk
- http://transitionculture.org/
- zerocarbon cities http://www.britishcouncil.org/zerocarboncity.htm en francais : http://www.britishcouncil.org/fr/france-science-zerocarboncity.htm