Personal Carbon Rationing
COIN's guide to carbon rationing.
Mayer Hillman's article in the BMJ on personal carbon rationing.
The BMJ's carbon rationing discussion.
Chooseclimate's aviation carbon calculator.
The RSA's Carbon Limited website
National Carbon Rationing
Tradable Energy Quotas: rations for citizens, industry and government.
Investigating Domestic Tradable Quotas (2005) by Richard Starkey and Kevin Anderson.
A brief introduction to personal carbon rationing by Mayer Hillman and Tina Fawcett.
A Rough Guide to Individual Carbon Trading (2006) by the Centre for Sustainable Energy.
What is wrong with the draft Climate Change Bill a draft response (2007) by the Tyndall Centre.
Carbon Allowances: a discussion on the UK Environment Secretary's blogsite.
Personal Carbon Allowances: DEFRA's home page on PCA.
Carbon Credit Cards: more discussion on the UK Environment Secretary's blogsite.
Why only carbon rationing can lead to true energy saving by Mark Lynas.
The Struggle against Ourselves - George Monbiot's speech to the Climate March in London 3 Dec 2005.
Global Carbon Rationing
Global Commons Institute: Contraction & Convergence
Feasta's Cap and Share
Contraction & Convergence - Healthy response to climate change from the BMJ (2006).
Carbon Trade Watch: keeping tabs on the carbon trade.
Sinks Watch: keeping an eye on forestry carbon sinks.
Biofuel Watch: explaining the difference between good biofuels and bad biofuels.
Carbon Pledges and Community Projects
The 25/5 Challenge
CRed's Carbon Pledge
Stop Climate Chaos Pledge
The Energy Savings Trust's Save Your 20%
Gosport Council's Carbon Pledge
Ashton Hayes in Cheshire Going Carbon Neutral
Brilley in Herefordshire Going Carbon Neutral
Riverside in Stirling Going Carbon Neutral
Biggar in Lanarkshire Going Carbon Neutral
Go Zero in Chew Magna in Somerset
Transition towns self-organising for an energy lean future
The other half of our footprint!
The impact of UK households on the environment through direct and indirect generation of GHGs:
a report by the Office of National Statistics (2004), see especially pp 54-57
Food facts from Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming
Other Reading
No-one ever is to blame : all the reasons not to act
UK carbon emissions and the implications for UK air traffic :a report by Tyndall Centre (2006)
Predict and decide: aviation, climate change and UK policy : a report by the Environmental Change Institute(2006)
Recommended Books
How we can save the planet (2004) by Mayer Hillman and Tina Fawcett.
High Tide - news from a warming world (2005) by Mark Lynas.
Heat - how to stop the planet burning (2006) by George Monbiot.
Last Generation - how nature will take her revenge for climate change (2006) by Fred Pearce.
Car Sick - solutions for a car-addicted culture (2006) by Lynn Sloman.