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Food industry and related associations
Research Institutes
Non Governmental Organisations
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Agrifood Standards – Exploring ways to create opportunities and favourable outcomes for small-scale growers in developing countries to participate in international horticultural supply chains (particularly those in the UK), given potential exclusion through increasing private food standard use and climate change concerns. |
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The Climate Conservancy is a U.S. non-profit organization supporting consumer-driven solutions to anthropogenic climate change; by assessing and certifying Climate Conscious products, we aim to empower consumers and incentivize manufacturers to reduce GHG emissions across the full life cycle of all products. |
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The Climate Group – www.theclimategroup.org |
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Friends of the Earth – www.foe.co.uk |
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Greenpeace – www.greenpeace.org.uk |
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National Consumer Council – www.ncc.org.uk |
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Sustain – www.sustainweb.org |
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Sustainable Food Laboratory – www.sustainablefoodlab.org |
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Transport 2000 is the independent national body concerned with sustainable transport. It aims to reduce the environmental and social impact of transport by encouraging less use of cars and lorries and more use of public transport, walking and cycling. |
Consultancies
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The ADAS research programme focuses increasingly on aspects of integrated land management and sustainable farming. This reflects government priorities, the requirements and demands of new legislation, and development at the regional level of Sustainable Strategies for Food and Farming. |
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Best Foot Forward – www.bestfootforward.com |
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Brook Lyndhurst – www.brooklyndhurst.co.uk – is a research and strategy consultancy that applies creative thinking and analysis to questions of sustainability. |
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The Carbon Trust – www.thecarbontrust.co.uk/energy |
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Enviros is an environmental consultancy with excellent skills to help food industry companies reduce CO2 emissions. Enviros administer Climate Change Agreements for over 2,000 food industry sites.
See www.enviros.com and www.cclevy.com |
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Eugeos provides environmental performance assessment and communication for companies, sites, products/services and industrial systems – www.eugeos.co.uk |
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Faber Maunsell, part of AECOM, is an award-winning, international consultancy where sustainability sits at the heart of our buildings, transportation and environmental services. With an exceptionally wide range of skills and disciplines, we aim to look after the whole-life needs of our clients by providing creative solutions that reflect best practice standards. See www.fabermaunsell.com or email jonathan.james@fabermaunsell.com |
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North Energy Associates Ltd. is a long established and experienced energy and sustainability consultancy, offering sustainable solutions to satisfied clients in the UK and beyond for over 15 years.
See www.northenergy.co.uk |
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Sustainable Food is a site that helps people at work to promote more sustainable food – that which is healthier for people and the planet – within their organisation. |
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Sustainable Technology Solutions Ltd – www.sustainabletechnology.co.uk – provide market analysis, feasibility studies, training solutions and design services of renewable energy and energy management technologies. |
Resources
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The New Green Consumer Guide – a consumer-friendly guide to all things green from someone who knows – a review in The Ecologist says that you may not always agree with Julia Hailes' opinions in The New Green Consumer Guide but as a resource book it's almost unbeatable. |
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Greenhouse Gas Online – www.ghgonline.org provides freely available news and research on climate change and greenhouse gas science from around the world. |
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LCA Food Database – www.lcafood.dk |
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Total Food Conference – www.totalfood2004.com/programme.html |
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Waste Resources Action Programme – www.wrap.org.uk |
Technologies
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Biffa Waste Services Ltd – www.biffa.co.uk |
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Cambridge Refrigeration Technology has expertise in the testing of refrigeration equipment and the storage and transport of perishables – http://www.crtech.co.uk |
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Cold Storage and Distribution Federation – www.csdf.org.uk |
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Food 21 – www-mat21.slu.se/eng/index.htm |
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Food Manufacture – www.foodmanufacture.co.uk |
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The International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR) – www.iifiir.org – is an intergovernmental organization whose mission is to promote knowledge of refrigeration technology and all its applications, including in the food sector. |
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The Institute of Refrigeration is the professional association for individuals involved in refrigeration and air conditioning. It produces technical information, legislative updates and offers a programme of free lectures on topics related to refrigeration. The website is at www.ior.org.uk where you can register for our enewsletter. |
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SIRAC is a networking organisation for promoting new technology in
refrigeration and air conditioning. We help increase the flow of information
between those with problems to solve and those with the ideas to solve them.
The SIRAC website provides a refrigeration related research project database
and networking information for members in the academic and industry field. |
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Stockbridge Technology Centre – www.stc-nyorks.co.uk
Leaders in Technology Transfer to Agriculture and Horticulture. |
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