Gardening in a changing climate
Further information & resources
Websites
The following websites have information on, or take an interest in, changing climate.
Let us know if you know of any others that deserve mentioning
BBC Four
Watch eight short films about climate change around the world, made as part of the BBC Four’s Climate Chaos season.
BBC Science and Nature website
General information, plus play the Climate Challenge game - would the world survive if you were in power?
BBC Weather Centre
Easy to understand information on climate change evidence, possible impacts, ideas on adapting our lives, and audio interviews.
Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI)
Information on the effects of climate change particularly on plant diversity.
The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM)
An independent professional body and charity advancing the science and practice of water and environmental management.
Climate Challenge
This is part of the Climate Change Communication Initiative led by Defra, in partnership with the Environment Agency, the Carbon Trust, the Energy Saving Trust, the UK Climate Impacts Programme, the Department for Transport and the Department of Trade and Industry.
Climate Change Communication Initiative
Led by Defra, and partners. Information, advice, and video diaries from the winning climate change champions competition.
Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia
Includes factsheets for the layperson on causes of climate change, changing rainfall over Britain, and climate-change scenarios.
Climate South East (formerly South East Climate Change Partnership)
ClimateXChange
The Oxfordshire ClimateXChange is a new Climate Change project for Oxfordshire.
Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Includes information on emissions trading, and science and economics.
Directgov government website
Environment & greener living
Greener garden
Don’t Dump That
Organisation helping people preseve the environment by keeping perfectly good but otherwise unwanted items out of landfill.
Energy Saving Trust
The Energy Saving Trust
Includes information on energy-saving products, generating your own power, and lots of energy-saving tips.
Environmental Change Institute of Oxford University
Freecycle
A non-profit network to keep unwanted items out of landfill. Members donate items, which other members can have for free.
Friends of the Earth (FoE)
News and general information, including a section on fossil fuels and nuclear power, and FoE climate projects around the world.
Garden Organic
The national charity for organic growing, formerly known as the Henry Doubleday Research Association.
Global Gardening
Gardening in a changing climate.
Green TV
The broadband television channel for environmental films produced in partnership with the UNEP.
Greenpeace
Includes a huge section of solutions to climate change, information on types of renewable energy, and more.
Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
The Meteorological Office’s centre for research, partly funded by Defra. Informs and advises the UK government.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The IPCC assesses the latest scientific, technical and socio-economic research and literature produced worldwide.
Mayor of London:
Climate change
Right trees for a changing climate
Netweather.tv
Long-range weather forecasts for the UK.
New Scientist
A special report on climate change, which includes articles, news stories and extracts from longer features.
PlantforLife - inspired living
An initiative spearheaded by the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) aimed at raising the awareness of plants and the role that they can play in enhancing people's quality of life.
RealClimate
Climate science from climate scientists.
Recycling Guide
Includes information on how and where to recycle different materials, and what happens to them in the recycling process.
RecycleNow
Includes composting advice and a video with Diarmuid Gavin. Plus tips on how to reduce your rubbish.
Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Plus annual flowering records since 2001 of 100 varied outdoor plants in the gardens; www.kew.org/wild/phenology
The Royal Society
Climate change issues including climate science, UK, EU and global climate change policy, and facts and fictions.
UK Government Sustainable Development
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP)
Funded by Defra, based at the University of Oxford. Provides climate change scenarios and co-ordinates research on future climate.
University of Birmingham, Winterbourne Botanic Garden
Details the climate change model garden and its aims.
Walker Institute for Climate System Research, University of Reading
Brings together the breadth and depth of climate expertise that exists within the University of Reading.
Woodland Trust
Plus takes an interactive tour of an online garden to learn about how climate change could affect plants and wildlife; www.woodland-trust.org.uk/garden
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Includes large sections on solutions for business, industry and government, and action ideas for individuals.
Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP)
WRAP works in partnership to encourage and enable businesses and consumers to be more efficient in their use of materials and recycle more things more often.