and there's more ...

Green grow the rushes, ho.
Emissions from cremation are significant. A green burial is one where people use a wicker or cardboard coffin and may have a tree planted on top. Natural burial sites are being established as nature reserves, copses and wildflower meadows; there is a local site near Lower Tysoe. One of the other relevant websites, Native Woodland offers to contact your local "wildlife/forest trust, country estates and your local authority to see whether we can jointly create such an amenity". Anybody got a field to spare?
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mailprefs

Junk mail often goes straight in the bin, hopefully the recycling bin. But you can opt not to receive it in the first place. The Mail Preference Service is entirely free. Just choose the mail you want, but there are some things to think about in doing so. Have a look at their website.

Providing telephone and broadband services, this Chipping Norton based company is owned by its customers, It has a written ethical policy and is committed to environmental best practice.
phonecoop

Other Oxfordshire County Waste Recycling Centres
National Community Wood Recycling Project
Eco-Schools
Women's Environmental Network
Permaculture - Solutions for Sustainable Living

The broader picture; further reading if you're really hooked

In the words of Twit Conway alias the late great Peter Sellers (and presumably many before him): "So much to learn - so little time".

Friends of the Earth - Banbury branch

ClimateXChange is an Oxfordshire based project to help us all to get imaginative about climate change.

Transition Towns is an umbrella organisation encouraging towns to prepare for life after oil; there's a movement in Oxford and a nucleus of one in North Oxfordshire.
Stop Climate Chaos is an organisation to mobilise UK public concern and to take political action to stop climate chaos. And of course you've heard of Greenpeace.

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incontruth
An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's fervent crusade to halt global warming's deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it. An Inconvenient Truth is available on DVD from Amazon among others.
The Ecologist
The New Scientist
Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change
UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report
ecologist magazine
 

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