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Peter's Links

environment and sustainability

www.lowimpact.org | courses, books, paints, insulation, solar hot water etc. and free information sheets about planet friendly living (~ I work there part-time)

www.greenandaway.org | delightful outdoor eco conference venue (~ I volunteer there every summer: truly revitalising)

www.downsizer.net | a sort of magazine/forums site about simpler, more environmentally friendly living (~they emailed me, and I liked their site)

www.greenparty.org.uk | a political party for social justice, peace, and sustainability (~ I'm a member, and stood for parliament at the 2005 general election as a Green Party candidate.)

Stroud Green Party | branch of the above for Stroud, the place where I live

phone coop

Join the Phone Coop for cheap ethically provided phone and broadband services.

sustainable holidays and outdoors

A good place to buy a tent, yurt or tipi: world tents | a company run at Redfield Community by a very knowledgeable and nice guy.

resources

wikipedia | democratic encyclopaedic guide to everything (~ it's my reference work of choice these days)

financial times currency converter | jolly useful for, err, converting from one currency to another

life support

radio 4 listen again (~ for my daily archers fix)

permaculture magazine (~ my favourite magazine)

a to b magazine (~ my other favourite magazine)

techie

nominet | uk domain registry (~ find out who owns that .co.uk or .org.uk domain name)

textpad | a full featured programmer's text editor for windows (~ definitely the best £20 I ever spent on software)

webmonkey | online reference for web stuff (~ useful for browser colour charts and lots more)

dnstools | the reverse lookup usefully converts ip number to host name

dns report | full report on dns record (~ I wonder if anyone really understands all that stuff?)

google add a url | submit your site to google, for nothing (~ it's the only search engine that matters, so why pay more?)

tinymce wysiwyg tool browser compability chart | shows which browsers tinymce works with (tinymce is the wysiwyg editing tool incorporated into ei websites)

browser and OS stats | which web browsers, operating systems, screen resolutions etc. most people are currently using