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Download flyers and factsheets here.

We've also listed some of the best sources of background information on climate change.


  FACTSHEETS
  LIFESTYLE EMISSIONS FACTSHEET
A 2 page fact sheets on how much we contribute to global warming through our cars, flights, house heating and hot water. With links to useful sites
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  Media Pack
A great media pack, loaded with advice, information and contacts for writing press releases, handling the media, and getting them to cover your event. http://www.thelandisours.org/pubs/agm2.html
  50 things you can do to save the climate
50 ideas for actions that came out from the Rising Tide Roadshow
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Bonn summary: Our concise take on what came out of the international climate talks, known as COP 6.5, in Bonn in July 2001.
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  The basics of climate change: What it is and how to explain it to other people
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  The other side: The arguments people out up against climate change and what you can say to counter them.
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  Public speaking: how to speak in public and how to improve your speaking skills.
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  How to move people: Some of the key arguments that help people to connect emotionally with climate change- great for talks.
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  Solutions to climate change: How do we dig our way out of this hole.
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  International negotiations: A summary of the international process up to COP 6.5.
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  Template talk: Giving a talk on climate change? Here's a 45 minute talk already written for you.
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  Managing Groups, Meetings and Talks: How to facilitate a meeting and make everyone feel involved.
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  How to do a speaker training: Do you or your group want to improve your climate speaking skills? Try following this run down taken from a one day Rising Tide speaker training day in June 2001.
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Fuel Facts: Shows how the oil industry is trying to spin the facts so that levels of energy consumption stay just how they like it. Rising Tide info sheet.
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90% for 90%: Explains what the campaign is all about and how you can get started. Includes quotes from people who've done it. Rising Tide info sheet.
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Make a Pledge: Lists a few simple ways you can take action locally and start to get other people involved in climate change campaigning. Rising Tide info sheet.
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Climate Update: Rising Tide info sheet explaining what governments are doing about climate change, what's happening to the Kyoto Protocol and how business lobby groups are are promoting their interests.
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Domestic Action: A seven step plan to cut your home energy consumption. Rising Tide info sheet.
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Community Action: Some ideas and suggestions to encourage people to become involved in a new or existing group. Rising Tide info sheet.
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Useful Contacts: Over 22 campaign groups plus some media. Rising Tide info sheet.
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  LEAFLETS & FLYERS
Fish leaflets- great for putting under car windscreen wiperers
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  Wheel of misfortune leaflets to go with the Wheel of Misfortune.
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90% for 90% card: Get the card. Show the guard. Use this card to join the 90% for 90% campaign.
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90% for 90% flyer. Distribute this to other passengers and rail staff to explain what you are doing and why.
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  PROPS
 

"Wheel of Misfortune": A two metre wide gameshow parody wheel divided into different temperatures and climate outcomes. Great for street theatre and public engagement. With leaflets for each outcome.
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  REPORTS

CARBON TRADE REPORT

Carbon Trade Watch has produced an excellent critique of carbon trading: 'The Sky is Not the Limit - The Emerging Market in Greenhouse Gases'. The briefing paper can be downloaded here: www.tni.org/reports/ctw/sky.htm

More on the campaign against carbon trading....

UNIVERSITIES IMPLICATED IN CLIMATE CHANGE

"Degrees of Capture" from Platform, Corporate Watch and New Economics Foundation, outlines how Britain's universities and colleges are being co-opted into directing their research and training for the benefit of the fossil fuel industry.

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  BACKGROUND READING
  Bonn - a disastrous compromise
Four articles on the content of the Bonn agreement all conclude that it could make things worse than ever.
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  No Nonsense Guide to Climate Change:A short well written primer on climate change- everything you wished you didn't have to know. Available from New Internationalist - http://www.newint.org/
  Science. For a more detailed and technical approach, broken down into bite sized briefing papers on issues such as rising sea levels, go to the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia - http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/info
  Climate Change comic book! A fun and very readable introduction to the science and implications of climate change, by award winning artist Kate Evans. Copies available for only £2 from Rising Tide, 16b Cherwell St, Oxford OX41BG.
 

Ecologist Climate Change Special - from February 2004, featuring in-depth analysis of the growing climate crisis...

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  LEGAL BRIEFINGS
Activists Legal Project Briefings: including briefings on arrest and trial process in the UK.
http://members.gn.apc.org/~activist/
90% for 90%: What are your rights if you don't pay all your fare.
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