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
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-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.