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Extract from The End Of Cheap Oil, By Daniel Leeming , 19 December, 2005, Ontario Planning Journal

City Farmer (Urban Agriculture Notes)
Web: www.cityfarmer.org
Urban Agriculture Notes is written for those who want to start up their own "Office of Urban Agriculture", for those who have already done so, and for gardeners who are curious about what we refer to as political horticulture.

Cities Feeding People (International Development Research Centre)
Web: www.idrc.ca/cfp
This site provides information about the program initiative on urban agriculture (UA) at Canada's International Development Research Centre. IDRC supports applied, multidisciplinary research on food security and urban policy issues in the South.

International Council for Local Environment Initiatives
Web: www.iclei.org
The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) is an association of local governments dedicated to the prevention and solution of local, regional, and global environmental problems through local action.

Resources on Urban Agriculture and Forestry (RUAF)
Web: www.ruaf.org
This is a comprehensive resource centre for urban agriculture and food.

United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organisation
Web: www.fao.org
The Food and Agriculture Organization was founded in October 1945 with a mandate to raise levels of nutrition and standards of living, to improve agricultural productivity, and to better the condition of rural populations.

World Health Organisation
Web: www.who.org
The objective of WHO is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health.


Europe

EU Sustainable Towns and Cities Campaign
Web: www.sustainable-cities.org
Campaign Interactive supports transfer of knowledge and exchange of experience in the field of urban sustainability and Local Agenda 21 in Europe, thereby helping implement the concept of sustainable development. It provides central access to comprehensive and up-to-date information relevant to all those working towards sustainability in an urban context.

Local Sustainability- the European good practice information service
Web: http://cities21.com/europractice/
' Local Sustainability' has been conceived and developed as a service of many partners, disseminating and making accessible the good practice experiences of European cities, towns, counties and their associations, national and regional governments, research and educational institutions, and Directorate Generals of the European Commission.


UK

Agro Forestry Research Trust
Web: www.agroforestry.co.uk
The Agroforestry Research Trust is a non-profit making charity, registered in England, which researches into temperate agroforestry and into all aspects of plant cropping and uses, with a focus on tree, shrub and perennial crops.

Common Ground
Web: www.commonground.org.uk
Common Ground is internationally recognised for playing a unique role in the arts and environmental fields, distinguished by the linking of nature with culture, focussing upon the positive investment people can make in their own localities, championing popular democratic involvement, and by inspiring celebration as a starting point for action to improve the quality of our everyday places.

Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens
Web: www.farmgarden.org.uk
The Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens (FCFCG) is the British (UK) organisation representing groups involved in community led development of open space through locally managed farming and gardening.

Foundation for Local Food Iniatives
Web: www.localfood.org.uk
Our aim is to promote and support the growth of healthy local food economies, as a key contribution to sustainable development.

Henry Doubleday Research Association (UK)
Web: www.hdra.org.uk
Researching and promoting organic gardening and food.

Learning Through Landscapes
Web: www.ltl.org.uk
Learning through Landscapes is the national charity dedicated to helping schools improve their grounds for the benefit of children.

National Association of Farmers' Markets (UK)
Web: www.farmers-market.org
Lists farmers markets for the UK.

National Society of Allotments and Leisure Gardens (UK)
Web: www.nsalg.demon.co.uk
The NSALG is the ONLY Organisation representing the interests of Allotments and Allotmenteers at a National level.

Plants for a Future
Web: www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/pfaf/index.html
Plants For A Future is a resource centre for rare and unusual plants, particularly those which have edible, medicinal or other uses.

Royal Horticultural Society
Web: www.rhs.org.uk

THRIVE
Web: www.thrive.org.uk
Thrive is the national horticultural charity which exists to enable disadvantaged, disabled and older people to participate fully in the social and economic life of the community.


London

Dartford Road Allotments
Web: www.btinternet.com/~richard.wiltshire/draal.html

Green Adventure
Web: www.greenadventure.demon.co.uk

London 21
Web: www.london21.org

London Food Link
Web: www.londonfoodlink.org

London Farmers Markets
Web: www.lfm.org.uk

The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Web: www.rbgkew.org.uk/others.html


Edible Buildings

Architecture Foundation
Web: www.architecturefoundation.org.uk

Centre for Alternative Technology
Web: www.cat.org.uk

Ecological Design Association
Web: www.eda.org (This site goes live in late March)

Ecological Design Institute (USA)
Web: www.ecodesign.org/edi/

Green Roofs for Healthy Cities (Canada)
Web: www.peck.ca

National Sustainable Tower Blocks Initiative
The National Sustainable Tower Blocks Initiative is an informal grouping of voluntary organisations. The Initiative is seeking to discover and implement ways to make Tower Blocks more sustainable places to live.
Web: www.towerblocks.org.uk

Permaculture Association (UK)
Permaculture is a way of designing and creating sustainable environments and systems.
Web: www.permaculture.org.uk

Rooftop Garden Resource Group (Canada)
To contribute to the promotion and realization of Healthy City principles by raising the public's awareness of the benifits of Rooftop Gardening.
Web: www.interlog.com/~rooftop/

Scottish Ecological Design Association
Web: www.seda2.org