Resources

Making The Case for Emergency Climate Action: Climate Emergency Messaging – A free booklet about how to communicate the climate emergency, including talking about the threat, the solutions and climate action. 

Mayfield Press – A local FSC® certified firm with active sustainability aims and procedures.

Oxford Green Print – A workers’ co-op providing eco-friendly print services including risograph printing.

Seacourt Printing Oxford – Seacourt provide their clients with Planet Positive Printing™ – meaning that their printed materials are actually benefitting our environment and society.

Sustainable Flyering/Printing Top Tips – Reduce the environmental impact of your production by following Staging Change’s top tips for flyering and printing more sustainably.

A Good Thing – An app making it easy for businesses to donate unwanted items to local charities.

Emmaus Oxford – The largest charity shop in Oxford. They offer a huge range of good quality, used and second-hand furniture and electrical items, as well as household goods, bric-a-brac, CDS, DVDs, and books. 

Environmental Impact Guide for Exhibitions – A free guide by the Design Museum which examines the opportunities for reducing impact across areas including shipping and transport, programming, design and construction, materials, communications and energy use. 

Follow @greendesigns_ – ‘A sustainable design playform’. Discover eco brands and sustainable design concepts.

Freecycle Oxford –  A grassroots & entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving and getting stuff for free in their own Towns. It’s all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills.

Making Design Circular with Katie Treggiden – A podcast exploring the nuances, complexities and mindset shifts we all need to embrace to move towards a more circular and regenerative economy – seen through the lens of craft and design. 

Orinoco – Scrapstores in Banbury and Templars Square Cowley selling scrap items for art, crafts, play and creative projects as well as new art materials, refurbished tools and DIY stuff.

Oxfordshire Wood Recycling – Provides domestic and commercial wood collections, wood recycling, reclaimed wood and reclaimed wood furniture and are based in Abingdon.

RAW – RAW will collect any unwanted timber or sheet material from full panels/lengths of timber to off cuts and aim to reuse or recirculate as much as possible. They will cut timber and sheet material to specified sizes, and can be useful for smaller organisations and individual artists who are looking for smaller quantities of material and don’t have access to power tools/professional workshop facilities.

SHARE Oxford Library of Things – Enables you to borrow instead of buy items needed only occasionally, such as outdoor, domestic, cooking equipment and more. With anything from extension cables to disco balls, utilising this platform is a brilliant way to reduce the impact that your project could have on the planet. Do you have anything you would like to share with the Oxfordshire community? Consider donating it to the Library of Things.

A Good Thing – An app making it easy for businesses to donate unwanted items to local charities.

Good Food Oxford – A network for a better food system in Oxford, working together for healthy, fair, sustainable and tasty food.

How to recycle electronics and electricals – With over 13,000 electrical recycling and reuse points in the UK, you’ll find the right place for your old tech near you.

Making Design Circular with Katie Treggiden – A podcast exploring the nuances, complexities and mindset shifts we all need to embrace to move towards a more circular and regenerative economy – seen through the lens of craft and design. 

Oxford Council A-Z Waste and Recycling Guide – Use the Oxford Council’s A-Z waste and recycling guide to help plan disposal and their Waste Wizard search engine to help see how items could be reused or sustainably disposed of.

SHARE Oxford Repair Café – Got things which need some TLC, are perhaps a bit broken and you haven’t had the time or skills to fix them yourself? Don’t throw them away, bring them to SHARE Oxford’s regular repair café, where volunteers will have a go at fixing them.

Carbon Management

Carbon Literacy Toolkit for Museums – a powerful resource for your museum’s climate action journey – empowering your staff and offering them the skills and confidence needed to take impactful action within your museum.

Carbon Management Toolkit – Creative Carbon Scotland have three spreadsheet based tools to allow you to integrate your emissions recording and planning work.

ClimateHero Carbon Calculator – A quick test to estimate your carbon emissions based on housing, travel and consumption. 

Emissions Accounting for Businesses – Guidance on how to calculate your organisation’s carbon footprint.

Environmental Impact Guide for Exhibitions – A free guide by the Design Museum which examines the opportunities for reducing impact across areas including shipping and transport, programming, design and construction, materials, communications and energy use. 

Environmental Policy and Action Plans: An Overview – This guide will take you through the process of producing a policy and action plan for your cultural organisation with how-to guides, tips, templates, examples & useful resources.

Greenhouse Gas Reporting: Conversion Factors – These emission conversion factors are for use by UK and international organisations to report on greenhouse gas emissions.

SAIL Carbon Roadmap – Take a look at how Sustainable Arts Leeds are paving the way towards net-zero by 2030. Developed by Julia Bachmann, the net zero roadmap aims to help creative and cultural organisations meet the net zero by 2030 ambitions of the city of Leeds.

Sustainable Procurement : Guidance to the Flexible Framework – The framework is a self assessment mechanism that allows organisations to measure and monitor their progress on sustainable procurement over time.

Sustainable Production Guide – A series of checklists, for each role in the production process, separated into pre-production, production, and post-production.

The Art of Zero – An indicative carbon footprint of global visual arts and the transition to net zero by Julie’s Bicycle.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Glossary of Terms

Energy Efficiency

Become an Energy Champion – Join a team of volunteer Energy Champions across Oxfordshire to provide advice and support to people facing difficulties because of the energy crisis.

Community Building Checklist – Are you running a community building in Oxfordshire? Are you thinking of making improvements to save energy or installing low carbon technologies like solar panels? These tips and resources can help. 

Consider Participating in DSR – Demand side response (DSR) is all about intelligent energy use. Through DSR services, businesses and consumers can turn up, turn down, or shift demand in real-time.

Cosy Homes Oxfordshire Plan Builder – Create a refurbishment plan to make your home warmer, reduce your CO₂ emissions and cut your energy bills.

Energy Saving Grants and Advice in Oxfordshire – Directory to advice and grants to help manage the impact of rising energy bills.

Energy Solutions Oxfordshire – An energy efficiency service, to guide businesses in reducing energy costs.

Digital Sustainability

Eco Index – A project helping you to understand the environemental impact of your website.

Green Web Foundation – The internet is the world’s largest coal-powered machine. Check if your website runs on green energy — and help make the internet fossil-free.

Supercool – Creating environmentally responsible websites and digital strategies.

Website Carbon Calculator – Estimate your web page carbon footprint.

Website Energy Efficiency – 20 ways to make your website more energy efficient.