Useful Further Information
In this section you will find a number of different websites to visit for more accurate, up to date, reliable information on a variety of environmental topics. Where relevant research reports are also included along with potential sources of funding.
Click on the short cut links below to find the information you are looking for.
| Energy | Food | Anaerobic Digestion | Carbon / Climate Change |
| Water | Pollution | Nature and Conservation | Other |
- Department for Energy and Climate Change
- Borrow an Energy Monitor for free to use in your own home
- Energy Saving Trust
- Top 10 tips for saving energy from the Energy Saving Trust
- National Energy Foundation
- Carbon Trust
- Save Energy
- Feed In Tarriffs
- Renewable Heat Incentives
- GAIA - Empowering businesses to save energy
- Energy Share - funding for community renewable energy projects
- Big Barn - Buy local, seasonal, fresh food
- Deliver Milk - Find your local milkman
- Farmers Market - Find your local one
- Fairtrade Foundation
- Love Food Hate Waste Campagine
- Charnwood Borough Council Fairtrade
- Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council Fairtrade
- Go Leicestershire - Information on buying local food
- Royal Horticultural Society
- LEAF - Linking Environment and Farming
- Flytipping
- Keep Britain Tidy
- Litter Action
- UK air quaility and statistics database
- Environment Agency - River Quality
- The Water Pollution Guide
- Noise from East Midlands Airport
- Noise Pollution - Direct Gov
- Dealing with Noise Pollution - Business Link
- Anti-social behaviour
- Contaminated Land
- Contamlinks
- Hazardous Waste Disposal
- Anaerobic Digestion – Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
- Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association
- Anaerobic Digestion – UK Anaerobic Digestion Portal
- International Energy Agency (IEA) – Bioenergy Task 37
- National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP)
- Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) – Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC)
- Renewable Obligation Certificates for Anaerobic Digestion
- Feed-in Tarrifs for Anaerobic Digestion
- Environmental Transformation Fund - WRAP
- Bio-Energy Capital Grant Scheme – Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC)
- Waste Strategy for England 2007 – Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
- Accelerating the Uptake of Anaerobic Digestion in England: an Implementation Plan
- Potential for Renewable Heat – A call for evidence – BERR (pdf 1.28mb)
- Anaerobic Digestion – Shared Goals
- Dealing with Food Waste in the UK – Eunomia study for WRAP (pdf 791kb)
- UK Biomass Strategy 2007, Working Paper 3 – Anaerobic Digestion (pdf 148kb)
- BSI PAS110: Specification for digestate
- Conservation and the Natural Environment
- Leicestershire Countryside
- British Trust for Conservation Volunteers
- The Woodlands Trust
- Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust
- NatureSpot
- Walking Works
- Act on Co2 - Calculate your carbon footprint
- Ashton Hayes going carbon neutral - aiming to be Englands first carbon neutral village
- BBC Climate Change - Latest news on Climate Change
- Shire Community Climate Change Grant - Funding opportunity
- Climate Week
- Department for Energy and Climate Change - 2050 pathways analysis
- DEFRA - Climate Change
- Direct Gov - Climate Change
- IPCC - Intergovenermental panel on Climate Change
- Google Earth Outreach - Climate Change in our world
- UKCIP - UK Climate Impacts Programme
- De Montford University - Insitute of Energy and Sustainable Development
- Envirowise - Resource efficency
- Global Action Plan - Environmental Charity
- Groundword Leicester and Leicestershire - Environmental Charity
- North West Leicestershire Green Footprint Challenge
- Shire Community Climate Change Grant - Funding opportunity
Page Last Updated: 25 April 2013
