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The Helpful Magazines page is to help LSPs, and all those VCOs involved in SCS processes and locality working, obtain invaluable topical information on a wide range of S&P concerns
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National Dailies
A to Z of S&P Press
Page Updates
The information on this page will be occasionally updated – please let LINKS know of anything that needs amending, and if you have any further information about magazines, newspapers and other periodicals covering S&P related topics.
National Dailies
There are more comprehensive roundups of the national news media. The brief contact details here are given to enable readers to send the press letters on S&P issues.
Remember that letters page editors always like you to include a telephone number and, when emailing, your full postal address.
Daily Express o Letters, Daily Express, Northern & Shell Building, 10 Lower Thames Street, London EC3R 6EN. 0871 434 1010. www.express.co.uk expressletters@express.co.uk
Daily Mail o Daily Mail Letters, Daily Mail, Northcliff House, 2 Derry Street, London W8 5TT. 020 7937 6000. letters@dailymail.co.uk
Daily Mirror o Mirror Mailbox, Daily Mirror, One Canada Square, London E14 5AP. 020 7293 3000. www.mirror.co.uk mailbox@mirror.co.uk
Daily Telegraph o Letters, Daily Telegraph, 111 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 0DT. 020 7931 2000. dtletters@telegraph.co.uk
The Guardian o Letters, The Guardian, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU. 020 3353 2000. www.guardian.co.uk letters@guardian.co.uk
Morning Star o Letters, Morning Star, People's Press Printing Society, William Rust House, 52 Beachy Road, London E3 2NS. 020 8510 0815. www.morningstaronline.co.uk newsed@people-spress.com
The Independent o Letters to the Editor, The Independant, 191 Marsh Wall, London E14 9RS. 020 7005 2000. www.independent.co.uk letters@independent.co.uk (no attachments please)
The Times o Letters to the Editor, The Times, 1 Pennington Street, London E98 1TA. 020 7782 50000. www.timesonline.co.uk letters@thetimes.co.uk
Sustainability & Participation Press
Contact details
Many of the titles here are produced by VCOs whose contact details are included on the site's Helpful Addresses page.
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"A quick look at the diversity of these publications' subject matter must persuade even the most staid individual and conventional third sector organisation of the need for cultural change."
INK - in an email to SustainabilityLinks
Many of the titles are distributed through INK – the Independent News Collective – which is the trade association for Britain’s independent publications.
You can receive News Digest, a monthly roundup of the latest articles from INK titles simply by sending them your request together with your email address.
o INK, F24 Acton Business Centre, School Road, London NW10 6TO. 020 8453 1144. www.ink.uk.com gateway@ink.uk.com
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Action Available from War on Want
Activate
The Environmental Action Fund newsletter published by Defra. o Defra, Area 6/G9 Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE. 020 7082 8680. www.defra.gov.uk/environment/eaf/pdf/current_eaf_grants.pdf
Adbusters
Magazine using art and design to challenge media-created misperceptions. o Adbusters Media Foundation, 1243 West 7th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6H 1B7. +800 663 1243
A to B
This covers topical developments in all aspects of car-alternative transport – a subscription comes with free maps including one of the Sustrans national cycle network. Available from: INK. o 01305 259998. www.atob.org.uk
Alternative Kidz
Paper for 7-ups. Environmental issues, news, views, jokes, crafts, puzzles, sports, outdoor activities, etc, with no advertising or merchandising. Available from: INK
The Apple
A green tabloid, launched in April 2005. o The Apple, 35 Fore Street, Wellington, Somerset TA21 8AG. 01823 663 419 subscriptions@the-apple.co.uk
Ascent
Ascent focuses on the different perspectives of life gained through yoga, embracing spirituality, the arts, science, anthropology. Available from INK.
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Bike for All
Promotes cycling across the UK.
Building for a Future
Sustainable building – news, product availabilities, information to help people design, renovate and build in an ethically sourced, environmentally friendly way. Available from INK.
Broadleaf
The magazine for members of the Woodlands Trust.
Bulb
Magazine contents focus on the big issues younger generations increasingly have to address – such as trade justice, corporate power, racism, animal rights, working together and the causes of conflict. Also lifestyle decisions such as fairtrade, ethical fashion and careers and youth culture reviews. o Bulb, 42 Clapham Manor Street, London SW4 6DZ. ana@bulbmag.com
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CAAT News
produced by the Campaign Against Arms Trade.
Caduceus
Brings a spiritual / holistic health and well being perspective to sustainability.
o Caduceus, 9 Nine Acres, Midhurst, West Sussex GU29 9EP. 01730 816790. www.caduceus.info caduceus@caduceus.info
Carbusters
Carbusters is the car alternatives and campaigning quarterly published by the World Carfree Network and part funded by the Europea Commission via the European Voluntary Service's Youth in Action programme. A look at the May - July 2009 edition indicates typical content:
Cape Town's Bicycling Empowerment Network, which uses cycles in poverty alleviation projects.
The links betweet obesity and motoring.
Transport in art - a review of the sustainable mobility work of two German artists whose exhibitions include sculptures, montages, performance and installations.
Groningen, the Netherlands city with the highest % of cycle usage in the world, and where planners prioritise cycle infrastructure and facilities.
The range of car free activities in low income cities worldwide.
Bamboo bikes.
The collapse of the car industry and concurrent end of twentieth century materialism and capitalism.
The personal and social benefits of car free travel.
A review of 1997's seminal Lyon Protocol - on how cities in the developed world could become car free - by one of the orignal authors.
"Nowhere more than in urban planning are the interests of rich individuals and corporations at stake than in the adoption of a city's master plan."
Joel Crawford revisiting the Lyon Protocol, Carbusters. May - July 2009.
o Carbusters is published by World Car Free Network, Kratka 26, 100 00 Prague 10, Czech Republic. +420 274 810 849.
CDF News
The Community Development Foundation newsletter.
Change
Available from Oxfam. o campaigning@oxfam.org.uk
Change Your World
CYW looks at local Friends of the Earth groups activities and offers back-up and other support in their different campaigns. It’s available from FOE national hq.
Clean Slate
Information and features on practical sustainability – renewable energy, organic gardening, self-build, transport. A subscription comes with free membership of the Centre for Alternative Technology, who publish the magazine.
Clearway
Available from Urban Forum.
Connect
Regularly brings together news of Greenpeace activities.
Corporate Watch
Articles focus on the way multinational corporations influence public policy and decision takers. o Corporate Watch, 16b Cherwell Street, Oxford OX4 1BG. 01865 791391 mail@corporatewatch.org
Cygnus Review
Free newsletter reviewing recent publications about health, lifestyle, environmental issues, spirituality, etc. Available from INK.
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Do or Die
Carries reports, analyses and comment on key global issues. Available from INK.
Drop It!
Quarterly handbook published by Jubilee Debt Campaign.
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Earth Matters
Articles on environmental and social justice topics produced by Friends of the Earth.
The Ecologist
The online magazine reporting on sustainability and environmental issues from a scientific / social perspective. The magazine's recently launched a green collar employment service.
o The Ecolgist, 116 - 118 Commercial Street, Spitalfields, London E1 6NF. 020 7422 8100. www.theecologist.org
eg emagazine
The sustainability practitioner’s professional journal.
o Global to Local Foundation Ltd, 8 Black Croft, Clayton le Woods, Chorley PR6 7US. 01772 468112. www.egemagazine.com
ELFline
The quarterly newsletter of the Environmental Law Foundation.
EM Hazards and Therapy
Reviews the latest research published on the health concerns attending electromagnetic fields – mobiles and masts, microwaves, power lines, etc. Available from INK.
ergo
A reader-friendly sustainability lifestyle ‘glossy’. o Global Action Plan, Freepost Lon5465, London WC2B 6BR. 020 7405 5633 www.ergo-living.com
Ethical Consumer
Available from the Ethical Consumers Research Association and INK
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Fair Comment
Available from the Fairtrade Foundation.
Fauna & Flora
The magazine distributed to members of Fauna and Flora International, the organisation helping the world’s endangered species.
Festival Eye
Published annually, the Glastonbury inspired magazine contains many articles on sustainability concerns, together with monthly events listings. o Festival Eye, BCM 2002, London WC1N 3XX. 0870 738 9992. www.festivaleye.com
Food Ethics
Published by the Food Ethics Council the quarterly magazine looks at food and farming issues.
Food Magazine
Food Magazine is a quarterly available from the Food Commission. It includes articles reflecting the wide range of current food production and health concerns. 2008's issues looked at such issues as:
Why the poor pay more for good food.
The Competition Commission’s U-turn on supermarket development.
Fast foods and trans fats.
The unsustainability of meat eating.
Obesity.
Challenging Advertising Standards Authority adjudications.
Processed food’s high sugar content and substitution of flavouring
for actual food content.
Consumer action to source eggs.
Food marketing’s use of meaningless terms such as ‘fresh’, ‘natural’,
‘pure’, ‘local’, ‘seasonal’ and ‘farmers market’.
Food advertisements targeting children.
The links between additives and hyperactivity.
Baby food manufacturers’ challenge to new UK, WHO-based, marketing
rules.
The continued use of banned food additives in children’s medicines.
FAO local decision makers…
Does your Partnership’s health theme group
subscribe? See www.foodcomm.org.uk
BIG is offering £165 million to projects encouraging healthier eating; www.lotteryfunding.org.uk
o Food Magazine, The Food Commission (UK) Ltd, 94 White Street, London N1 9PF. 020 7837 2250. www.foodmagazine.org.uk info@foodmagazine.org.uk
Fourth Door Review
Magazine that looks at questions about our future through articles on design, lifestyle and cultural development and humanity’s relationship with nature. o Fourth Door Review, Box 2632, Lewes, Sussex BN7 2XZ. 01273 473501. www.fourthdoor.co.uk fourthdoor@pavilion.co.uk
Funky Raw
Raw food, ecology, health, recipes, spirituality. Available from INK.
No longer in print?
Please let LINKS know if you find that any of these titles are no longer in print, or have different contact details. Thanks.
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The Gandhi Way
Is a quarterly newsletter focusing on the relevance of Gandhi’s life to us all today. o Gandhi Foundation, 21 Fleetwood Court, Madeira Road, West Byfleet, Surrey KT14 6BE. 01932 343614. www.gandhifoundation.org
Global Village News
Monthly e-zine of articles gathered through the Positive News International Network. o www.gvnr.com
Green Christian
For those Christians wanting to see a greener church, each issue focuses on a different theme. Published by Christian Ecology Link.
Green Events
o Green Events, 48 Clifftown Gardens, Herne Bay, Kent CT6 8DE. 01227 749991. www.greenevents.co.uk/london greenevents@btconnect.com
Green Health Watch
How we live affects our health – and the way how we live is influenced by commercial interests. Available from INK.
Green Parent
Health, nutrition, family life, alternative education, birth, early years. Available from INK.
Green World
The Quarterly features discussion on green issues as well as Party information. Available from the Green Party and INK.
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Health Matters
Health politics, such as markets in the NHS, the inequality of provision, sustainability and health. Available from INK.
HSE News
Covering the holistic approach to learning, this reports on current initiatives from across education. Available from Human Scale Education and INK.
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Impact
Available from Campaign for Better Transport.
International Journal for Green Economics
Published by the Green Economics Institute.
The Investigator
Quarterly magazine published by the Environmental Investigation Agency.
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The Journal of Community Work and Development
This is the Community Development Foundation’s newly re-launched twice yearly publication. It draws together third and public sector policy makers and practitioners and topical material on community development, health, learning, regeneration, inclusion and social justice. o www.cdf.org.uk
Jubilee Research Newsletter
The developing world and debt cancellation, financial crises and the structural causes of poverty are amongst the subjects covered in this quarterly bulletin. Send Jubilee Research your name and address to subscribe.
o Susanna Mitchell, Jubilee Research, nef, 3 Jonathan Street, London SE11 5NH. susanna.mitchell@neweconomics.org
Juno
Natural parenting, sustainability, social justice, spiritual awareness covering personal stories, expertise, shared activities. Available from INK.
o PO Box 592, East Grinstead, West Sussex RH19 3AQ. www.junomagazine.com
For LSP members with young families
Contact Juno for details of their family life magazine...
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Kyoto Journal
Essays, fiction, photography from an Asia perspective. o www.kyotojournal.org
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Land and Liberty
The sustainability magazine that's been published for 100 years.
o Henry George Foundation, 212 Piccadilly, London W1J 9HG. 0207 377 8885. www.henrygeorgefoundation.org
Local Works
An occasional newsheet produced by the eponymous sustainable communities’ campaign. Available from Local Works.
LEISA
This is an international magazine on agriculture, ecology and communities. Available from INK.
Living Earth
The magazine published by the Soil Association, it covers all aspects of the organisationss work. o www.soilassociation.org
Living Lightly
Now produced annually, the magazine brings an anthropological perspective to the increasingly urgent search for less unsustainable ways of living. Available from Positive News.
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The Mother
Holistic parenting. Available from INK.
Movement
Christian magazine assessing faith, society, politics, culture. Available from INK.
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Namaste Health
Related articles from a wider perspective, off message news, information kept from the public domain. Available from INK.
Network 2015
The monthly newsletter about global sustainability concerns, published by the Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future.
New Consumer
How we can support sustainability through our purchasing decisions. Available from INK.
New Internationalist
The sustainability focused monthly you can get in many newspaper shops, NI Bbrings global poverty perspectives to related issues. Editorial office: o NI, 55 Rectory Road, Oxford OX4 1BW. 01865 728181. Subscriptions: o NI, Tower House, Lathkill Street, Market Harborough LE16 9EF. 01858 438896. www.newint.org
New Leaves
Sustainability and diet; available from the Movement for Compassionate Living.
New Statesman
The left and green politics weekly, available from larger news shops.
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Off the Hoof
Contemporary diet magazine combining ethics and Viz type street cred. Mention of some article titles will give some idea of the approach: Harry Hill’s Fairtrade Nuts, Large Tone Gets Trolleyed, Stuff Yourself with Cruelty Free and Reduce Your Carbon Hoofprint. Contributors include reluctant vegan DJ Doofer, pub landlord Al Slurry and Rubber Ritchie. o Off the Hoof, PO Box 333, Bristol BS99 1NF. www.offthehoof.co.uk www.yaoh.co.uk
Orbit
International news stories told by the people they affect. Available from INK.
Oryx
The Fauna & Flora International quarterly journal which publishes papers by and for conservationists.
Outreach 2015
Published by Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future during UN events.
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Peace News o Peace News, 5 Caledonian Road, London N1 9DY. 020 7278 3344. 0845 456 5183. www.peacenews.info admin@peacenews.info
Covering nonviolent peace activism around the world, Peace News has been published for 70 years. Available from INK.
Permaculture
Sustainability, strategies for reducing climate change, growing and sourcing local food, home energy efficiency, communities, networking. o Permaculture, The Sustainability Centre, East Meon, Hampshire GU32 1HR. 0845 458 4150. info@permaculture.co.uk Also available from INK.
Piffle
Satirical magazine available from INK.
Plantlife
The quarterly magazine of the Wild Plant Conservation charity.
Positive Health
The leading British magazine on complementary health therapies. Available from INK.
Positive News
The quarterly paper focusing on hopeful developments in as the world facing systemic break down. o Positive News, 5 Bicton Enterprise Centre, Clun, Shropshire SY7 8NF. 01588 640022. office@positivenews.org.uk
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Radical Economics
Available from the New Economics Foundation.
Red Pepper
Political analysis monthly available from INK. 01296 489550. o www.redpepper.org.uk office@redpepper.org.uk
Resurgence
Published by the Resurgence Trust, the two monthly magazine brings a sustainability perspective to a wide range of themes, including social policy, enterprise, nature, people, economics, philosophy, science and the arts. A look at the contents of 2009's first edition indicates the sort of themes the magazine covers:
Credit crunch and environmental collapse - the common causes.
How to shift to a low carbon future.
An international project to enable grandmothers to gather the wisdom of earlier generations.
How the Green New Deal can establish a new economy while working within sustainable limits.
The southern nations making deforestation commitments despite western intransignce.
How Slow Sunday can help individual actions make a difference on a global scale
one person's mission to live without oil derived products for a year.
o Resurgence, Ford House, Hartland, Bideford, Devon EX39 6EE. 01237 441293. www.resurgence.co ed@resurge.demon.co.uk
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SchNews
Global issues and the secrecy that distorts understanding and discussion. Available from INK.
Science and Theology News
Monthly paper on science, religion and health. o www.stnews.org
Science in Society
o The Institute of Science in Society, Omnibus Business Centre, 39 - 41 North Road, London N7 9DP. 020 8452 2729. www.i-sis.org.uk
Self Sufficiency
o 07504 928281. www.spanglefish.com
Socialist Review
o PO Box 42184, London SW8 2WD. 020 7819 1176. www.socialistreview.org.uk office@socialistreview.org.uk
The Spark
Making positive lifestyle changes and support networks in the west country. Available from INK.
The Spokesman
Contemporary political analysis focusing on peace and human rights, published by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation and available from INK.
Sustainable Development Commission
Publishes an annual review. o SDC, Ground Floor, Ergon House, Horseferry Road, London SW1P 2AL. 020 7238 4999. www.sd-commission.org.uk enquiries@sd‑commission.org.uk
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Take Action
Available from Christian Aid.
Third Sector
The VCS journal drawing together news from third sector organisations and the current initiatives and developments that affect them. o Third Sector, Haymarket Business Publications Ltd, 174 Hammersmith Road, London W6 7JP.
Tribune
Globalisation, wealth distribution, politics in reporting, comment, reviews, letters and cartoons. Available from INK.
Toxcat Chemicals and health
Cosmetics and toiletries, food, incineration, landfill emissions, recycling and zero waste, community action. Available from INK.
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Up Front
Newsletter available from War on Want.
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Vegan Views
Health and diet, ssentience and sustainability.
o Vegan Views, A15, 20 Dean Park Road, Bournemouth BH1 1JB. www.veganviews.org.uk editor@veganviews.org.uk
The Vegetarian
Lifestyle mag published by the Vegetarian Society.
o VSUK, Parkdale, Dunham Road, Altrincham, Cheshire WA14 4QG. 0161 925 2000. www.vegsoc.org info@vegsoc.org
Veggie Health
Published three times annually this links diet and health. Available from INK.
VeloVision
Cycling forum. Available from INK.
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Walk
The UK’s best selling magazine for walkers. It includes news of current Ramblers’ Association campaigns. o The Ramblers Association, London SE1 7BR. 020 7339 8500. www.ramblers.org.uk
WenNews
Available from its publishers, the Women’s Environmental Network, as well as from INK.
What Doctors Don’t Tell You
This monthly traces medical conditions back to health service and social causes. o WDDTY, 2 Salisbury Road, London SW19 4YY.
What Is Enlightenment?
The environment, arts, science, business, politics under the spotlight of cultural, philosophical and spiritual re-assessment. How the sustainability movement is addressing the needs of human historical development. Available from INK
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Your Future
For graduates and students, this is to help place people in ethical careers. Available from People and Planet and from INK.
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