Lancashire Libraries's List: Find: Environment

The A to Z Climate Change Guide is a new, easy to use guide, packed full of helpful tips to limit you CO2 emissions. Also, it explains some of the jargon surrounding climate change with easy to understand definitions and explanations.

Lancashire County Council has launched a new scheme to help residents of Lancashire reduce their electricity bills by monitoring the electricity used in their household. By using an electronic energy monitor you can see how much power you are using for each appliances. Managing where you are using electricity in the home can help you save money.

The website of the official UK recycling campaign provides a complete guide to recycling, showing you what you can recycle and where it can be recycled locally, explaining recycling symbols and offering tips on how to get started at home, work and school.

EarthTools provides an easy-to-use interface to allow you to find out about various aspects of a point on the Earth, such as the sunrise and sunset time there, the local time and time zone, latitude/longitude or the height above sea level. You can navigate to a particular place using the map or by searching for a named place. 

Reduce Reuse Recycle gives advice on how to recycle just about everything and even how to make some money doing it.

At Recycling Guide you can find out - How to recycle at home. Why recycling is important. How materials are recycled. Where you can recycle. Recycling activities and resources, plus the latest Recycling News.

This site comes from Wastewatch, a UK environmental charity promoting sustainable resource use. It is aimed at children, schools and teachers and provides advice on recycling at home, work and school.

The "one-stop recycling information centre". It provides advice on recycling at home, work and school. It has a postcode search for 'recycling near you'.The site is published by Valpak Ltd a company that provides recycling solutions for UK businesses. 

Part of the official UK recycling campaign, Recycle Now, this schools site provides help with recycling in schools, fun activities for 5-11 year olds, downloads of useful materials and teaching resources for KS3 citizenship.

Energy Chest has been developed for pupils aged 8-14 years as an aid to energy studies. The site includes basic information on energy and its use, curriculum activities, notes for teachers and a library of links to other energy and environmental sites.

The Government in England wants every school to be a sustainable school by 2020.Eco-Schools is an international award programme that guides schools on their sustainable journey, providing a framework to help embed these principles into the heart of school life. Joining the Eco-Schools programme is free and it makes tackling sustainable issues manageable and easy for all schools.

Do your bit for the environment and get stuff for free! EcoBees.com is a grassroots movement of people who are giving, getting and sharing stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reducing, re-using, recycling and saving the planet. Membership is free.

MAGIC is an interactive map which brings together information on key environmental schemes and designations in one place. It is a partnership project involving various government organisations. The site can be used to show locations of environmentally sensitive areas, green belt areas, nature reserves, urban settlements etc.

Waste Warriors is a child friendly website with games and ideas for recycling in the home, at school, in the park and at the recycling centre.