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The Ecology is a mutual building society dedicated to improving the environment by promoting sustainable housing and sustainable communities.
The Ethical Investment Research service provides the independent research into corporate behaviour needed by ethical investors to enable them to make informed and responsible investment decisions.
Fair Shares is a Charitable Trust set up in January 1998 to explore the practical applications of using time as a currency to rebuild communities in the UK. Learning from the achievements of ‘Time Dollar’ schemes, which now operate in over 200 communities
Described as “…a deep reflection on the skills people need to survive and thrive in the challenging conditions of the 21st century,” here is a collection of articles by literary critics, permaculturalists, ecologists, artists, journalists, engineers
LETS — Local Exchange Trading Systems or Schemes — are local community-based mutual aid networks in which people exchange all kinds of goods and services with one another, without the need for money.
Serving the needs of Scotland’s credit unions.
Internet subsidiary of the Cooperative Bank
Irreverent, hard hitting information about prosperity, abundance, money and debt by author and workshop leader Steven Erlick. Following a major illness from which he recovered, Steve was “forced” to do the things he had put off for years. He closed his bu
Another ethical bank…
A Freeconomy is a moneyless society in which no money changes hands and there is no duality between giving and receiving; here they are seen as the two sides of the same non-monetary coin. Freeconomy is a manifestation of trust, kindness, community and l
The Citizens Advice Bureau Service offers free, confidential, impartial and independent advice. Citizens Advice Bureaux help solve problems every year which are central to people’s lives, including debt and consumer issues, benefits, housing, legal matter
One of Europe’s leading ethical banks.
A National Trade Association for Credit Unions, Steering Groups and Credit Union Support Organisations
Zopa is a marketplace where people lend and borrow money to and from each other, sidestepping the banks. It’s a smarter, fairer and altogether more human way of managing your money, where both borrowers and lenders get better rates.
This site seeks to explore the heart and soul of downshifting to a more sustainable, ethical and holistic way of living and working, in keeping with the needs of the planet, humanity as a whole and ourselves as individuals. 
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