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Here are some other organisations that we think follow our philosophy for low impact life styles:

Slow Food Bedford

- a non-profit making organisation that was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.

Sustrans

Sustrans is the UK's leading sustainable transport charity. Our vision is a world in which people can choose to travel in ways that benefit their health and the environment. Every day we are working on practical, innovative ways of dealing with the transport challenges that affect us all.

Buy-Local.net

- a unique and convenient local shopping experience, where you can buy quality local (Bedfordshire sourced) goods on-line and have them delivered to your door.

Low Impact Living Initiative

(LILI) - a non-profit organisation whose mission is to help people reduce their impact on the environment, improve their quality of life, gain new skills, live in a healthier and more satisfying way, have fun, and save money

Vandanamu Fair Trade

- a fair trade organisation helping people in the developing world to develop sustainable livelihoods which includes help with training, facilities to enable people to apply and develop their skills, and crucially, the establishment of indigenous and export markets for them to supply. Supplier of the ZCC fairtrade organic cotton bag.

Dunton Community Garden

- this is a community garden Group in Dunton near Biggleswade in Bedfordshire. There is a greenhouse, vegetable and soft fruit growing, a small orchard, ornamental trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants, a formal pond, herbs, plant production, compost areas, seating, trial beds, hedging, willow structures and wildlife areas.

Schumacher College

- helps organisations and individuals in understanding and finding solutions for the most pressing ecological and social concerns of modern life.

Bedfordshire Climate Change Forum

The Forum is open to all individuals and organisations who are concerned about climate change and have a vision of a sustainable energy future.