Cultural Sector Initiatives – facilitating creative ideas
RSA’s Arts & Ecology strand: a programme of events, essays and art work, and an online social network
Tipping Point – aims to ‘harness the power of the imagination to help stabilise the climate’.
British Council’s Climate Challenge Europe Programme
Long Horizons – a collection of essays about arts and climate change commissioned by British Council, curated by Julie’s Bicycle
Cape Farewell: committed to the notion that artists can engage the public on climate change, through creative insight and vision, the project brings together scientists, artists, the media and educators.
International Federation of Arts Councils and Cultural Agencies: Arts Council England and IFACCA worked together to collate examples of good practice in supporting artists or arts organisations with creative and practical responses to ecological concerns such as environmental sustainability and climate change.
Artists Project Earth: aims to create a better world by bringing the power of music and the arts to 21st century challenges. It supports effective projects and awareness raising initiatives to combat climate change and raises funds for natural disaster relief through selling music donated by artists.
Ashdenzien – Robert Butler writes on culture and climate change
Culture Futures: a partnership with British Council, Arts Council England, Danish Cultural Institute, Arup, Asia Europe Foundation, RSA to build partnerships and demonstate the value of cultural practice in responses to climate change.
Empty Shops Network – artistsandmakers.com online initiative – a network to facilitate projects in empty shops and slack spaces across the UK. The Empty Shops Network is a loose coaltion, an informal collective, a timely coming together of meanwhile art galleries, pop-up shops, short-term community spaces, informal activity hubs, and temporary studios.
Helen Carnac’s blog looking at Craft in the Slow Movement

Cultural Sector Initiatives – facilitating organisational change
Mission Models Money’s/Era21′s Sustainable Ability project: mapping the current response to climate change and resource scarcity and  understanding the practical and behavioural barriers preventing greater breadth and depth of response.
Mission Models Money Thriving on Less initiative
Theatre Trust’s Ecovenue Project – open to London performing arts venues wishing to improve their environmental sustainability
Greening Theatres resources and case studies for theatre professionals interested in tackling climate change
Better Batteries campaign resources :the music & theatre industries seek to switch over to rechargeable battery systems
Julie’s Bicycle running projects focussed on the music industry and festivals, as well as the theatre sector.
Industry Green – an online toolkit by Julie’s Bicycle for the creative industries.
SMEasure – University of Oxford’s free online business energy and carbon monitoring tool
ArtsEnergy – toolkit from Arts Council England to help organisations analyse energy use and energy bills.
Climate Action in Cultural Heritage: Bridget Mackenzie’s provocative blog
Envirodigital – ideas for sustainable ability using digital technologies.
The 2020 Network’s arts transition handbook: combines technical plans for reducing emissions with inspiring ideas for commissioning artists, developing new marketing strategies and ways of communicating to public.
MLA’s Green Museum’s project
Rural Museums’ Network Turning Green Toolkit
Scottish Arts Council’s Carbon Management Plan [2009]
2020 Network’s Slowboat Conference resources, which explored the environmental impact of touring, and new sustainable models for international artists’ exchange.

Cultural Sector Case Studies – organisational change
Arcola Energy
Northern Stage’s Switch off the Theatre initiative
National Theatre Wales’ sustainable digital development
Festivals Edinburgh Green Venue initiative
The Mill at Sonning’s Hydro Theatre scheme
The Eden Project
Grizedale Arts
“Ionad Naomh Moluag” – Isle of Lismore’s Heritage Centre
Killhope North of England Lead Mining Museum – Green Tourism Business Scheme Gold award, Green strategy and team
Manchester International Festival – A significant international Festival that trialed the British Standard in Sustainable Events Specification BS8901
Metal at Chalkwell Hall: Located in the heart of the Thames Gateway regeneration area, the low-carbon Chalkwell Hall is a great example of how the renovation of older buildings can apply renewable technologies.
Museum of East Anglian Life – holistic approach including change to growth economy and wellbeing, social enterprise created to sell plants and produce from the Museum’s land in the shop, Tony Butler the museum’s director also blogs on sustainable museum practice.
National Museum Directors’ Conference’s guiding principles for reducing museums’ carbon footprint
National Theatre’s greener choices
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester is the first art gallery in the UK to use an environmentally friendly and sustainable heating and cooling system.
Radiohead strive to reduce the carbon footprint of their touring through many initiatives
Royal College of Art’s Sustain programme, cross organisational project to raise issues and a showcase for work.

Cultural sector-specific research
Julie’s Bicycle reports on managing the carbon outputs of touring (theatre, orchestras, bands); audience travel to festivals; carbon emissions of recorded music and CD packaging; carbon emission of digital music.
Dr Joe Smith, Open University, researcher on cultural discourse of environmental change issues.

General Creative responses calling for change
Do the Green Thing
The Age of Stupid
An Inconvenient Truth / The 11th Hour
The Now Show presents Marcus Brigstocke’s Dr Seuss-style take on what happened at Copenhagen
Natasha Rivett-Carnac‘s article, The Artist’s Role During Climate Change, and other articles on the cultural response to climate change.

General Initiatives – organisational change
10:10 Campaign – video of launch of 10:10 UK at the Tate
10:10 Global
Environment Agency
Scottish Environmental Protection Agency
Scotland’s 2020 Climate Group – scenario planning for a low carbon future, with industry case studies.
The Carbon Trust
Envirowise
The Sustainable Development Commission – the government’s independent watchdog
Transition Network- an introduction to the concepts, principles and practices of Transition around the world
The Ashden Trust and its awards: a grant-making charity that focusses, primarily, on environmental projects.

General Case Studies – organisational change
The Necessary Revolution, how individuals and organisations are working together to create a sustainable world – Peter Senge, et al.
Eigg’s Islands Going Green initiative and case study
Book: The Green Museum
The Green Tourism Business Scheme (and awards)

Environmental News
Guardian – Environment
Green Futures
New Scientist – Environment
Rob Edwards’ Blog
Greenpeace blog
Friends of the Earth

Latest Philosophy around Climate Change
Clive Hamilton – Requiem for a Species
Resilience Alliance – Panarchy
New Economics Foundation – The Great Transition
Climate Denial – a blog exploring the topic of the psychology of climate change denial

Latest Science
Plugged In – The end of the oil age, A World Wildlife Fund Report, by Gary Kendall
Mark Lynas, climate change blogger and author of Six Degrees
DECC’s 10 facts on climate science
New Scientist’s Environment Instant Expert
Real Climate – Climate Science from Climate Scientists
See the changes yourself via NASA’s Earth Observatory

Sustainable development & politics
DCMS’ Climate Change Plan
Lib-Con Coalition’s Climate Change Programme
Department of Energy & Climate Change
Green Party
Scottish Green Party
The Constant Economy – Zac Goldsmith
Jonathon Porritt
Green Alliance – environmental thinktank

Small Green Footsteps
Julie’s Bicycle’s Green Music Guide – a How To… resource
Julie’s Bicycle’s Green Orchestra Guide – a How To… resource
Envirodigital’s Get digital, be greener blog
Freecycle – online network encouraging the reuse of all sorts of household and office items
Low Carbon Communities Network
Planet Ark works to show people and businesses the many ways they can reduce their day to day impact on the environment – at home, at work and in the community.
The EIRIS 2010 European Climate Change Tracker Report focuses on the activities of 300 companies listed on the FTSE Eurofirst Index and analyses both the extent of their climate change impacts and also the quality of their responses to climate change.
The Guardian’s personal carbon footprint calculator. See for yourself how changes you make personally and organisationally affect climate change.
English Heritage’s Climate Change in your Home website and toolkit
National Maritime Museum’s Your Ocean project helps teachers and school aged children through a number of activities that raise the importance of looking after the oceans for a more sustainable environment.
Meegan Jones’ Sustainable Event Guide