Campaigns UK

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This page gives an overview of campaigns, including campaigns by topic from within the pages of the Ideas Bank. Short, time-limited campaigns can be included in Diary pages.

Please do not include in this listing more general 'initiatives' or links to websites only partially about campaigns - although of course these might be appropriate for topic pages within the Ideas Bank

Biodiversity

 * Northern Ireland Tree Campaign

Climate change

 * Blackout Britain
 * Decentralising the UK's energy system
 * Stop Climate Chaos Coalition of 18 groups to campaign against climate change
 * www.thebigask.com climate change campaign by Friends of the Earth
 * Campaign against Climate Change

Environment quality

 * Keep Britain Tidy

Food

 * FoE's Real Food campaign
 * Feed Me BetterJamie Oliver's school meals campaign

Local needs met locally

 * Campaigning to save local shops and services
 * Local Works Campaign for a Sustainable Communities Bill

Peak oil & Energy Awareness

 * Campaigning to raise awareness of Peak Oil and its impacts on our sustainability
 * PowerSwitch

Reduce, reuse, repair & recycle

 * Real Nappy Campaign

Rewarding work

 * Labour Behind the Label campaign that supports garment workers' efforts worldwide to improve their working conditions.

Spatial planning

 * Planning Disaster, launched January 2007, in response to concerns that proposed changes to the planning system will reduce public involvement in decisions about the development of their communities.

Sustainability indicators

 * Free Our Data, a Guardian Technology campaign

Sustainability networks

 * Campaigns for affordable conferences

Towards a sustainable Olympics 2012

 * lifeisland.org - Support website for Manor Gardening Society Allotments in Hackney Wick, whose future (as of February 2007) is in jeopardy due to pending eviction from the current site. The allotments have ended up in the middle of the planned Olympic Park. Sign lifeisland's Petition to Downing Street