Useful Resources

This page lists our key partners along with a range of links to useful websites including networking groups and academic resources.

If you would like to put a link to Acre on your own site, please let us know, and we'll be happy to add you to this list.

Key Partners

Green Monday

Green Monday is a regular networking event for the sustainability community, helping companies to build better businesses as sustainability increasingly impacts the global economy.

Their unique blend of thought-provoking events, roundtables, papers and surveys attract the people who are transforming business landscape.

2Degrees

2degrees is a collaborative problem-solving and innovation service for sustainable business. They help organisations respond to the opportunities and challenges of climate change and the transition to a low carbon, resource-constrained economy.

2degrees facilitate peer-to-peer problem solving and manage collaborative projects that harness the experience of over 7200 (and counting) expert members. Acre work with 2degrees to deliver expert advice on the sustainability job market.

Entry level membership to 2degrees is free. Alternatively you can upgrade to business level member which will give you the following benefits:

  • Enjoy unrestricted access to our full range of interactive web presentations led by climate change and industry experts
  • Stay up-to-date on environmental law and regulation with the latest legal content provided by the Practical Law Company
  • Identify and collaborate with innovative partners, suppliers and customers to solve practical problems
  • Join expert-led forum discussions focusing on specific sustainability challenges
  • Share best practice with peers
  • Access news, videos and case studies directly from your desk
  • Promote your business solutions and services
  • Develop your own working group

For more information visit 2Degrees at www.2degreesnetwork.com.

Networking Groups

  • Acre Sustainability Recruitment Network
    Keep up to date with the latest jobs and news from the Acre team by joining our linkedin group.
  • Acre Graduate Recruitment Network
    A resource for green garduates looking for news, jobs and internships within the Environmental, Climate Change and CSR sectors
  • Follow Acre on Twitter and recieve live job and news updates from the Acre team.
  • Greenwala
    The green social network.
  • TheEnvironmentSite.org
    Promoting sustainability, environmental awareness and discussion for sustainability enthusiasts and professionals from across the globe.

Environmental Resources

  • Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment
    The Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) is a not-for-profit membership organisation established to promote best practice standards in environmental management, auditing and assessment. Find out more about Graduate Membership of this leading professional body by clicking here
  • Stopdodo
    The Global Portal for Environmental Jobs & Resumes. Stopdodo.com....your Environmental Job is calling!
  • Edie
    An environmental resource website providing relevant news and information on the sector
  • Landscape Planning Group
    Landscape Planning Group are project managers and specialists in landscape design, trees, forestry, ecology and landscape planning.
  • tree-care.info
    A resource for all those interested in the care of trees.
  • ACC Environmental Surveying Consultants California
    ACC is a leading name in Environmental Consulting & energy optimization, led by a group of professionally certified Environmental Consultants & Surveying Consultants in California.
  • Envocare
    A recycling and environmental information website
  • ContamLand
    News and information for contaminated land professionals
  • Contamlinks
    An information portal for everyone involved with Contaminated Land and Brownfield redevelopment
  • Naturenet
    A UK nature and conservation website
  • Countryside Jobs Link
    An online guide to a countryside jobs in the UK
  • Creative Environmental Networks
    CEN is an organisation delivering services to engage individuals and communities in environmental and social improvement.
  • JustEngineers.net
    An engineering jobs board and information site
  • Environmentjob.co.uk
    The UK's No 1 website for jobs, courses and events.
  • Green Job Machine
    The search engine for green jobs globally. Register to receive daily job alerts.

CSR & Sustainable Development Resources

  • The CSR Salary Survey
    A joint research project by Acre in partnership with Acona and Ethical Performance – provides a detailed look at salaries, responsibilities and professional backgrounds of CR professionals.
  • The CR Academy
    The CR Academy is a collaborative project led by Business in the Community with the support of Acre Resources and a number of business schools and professional institutes. It intends to become the definitive site to find quality CR training, resources and advice and to support CR practitioner’s development. Resources comprise a variety of providers, formats and levels of expertise. The Academy includes all types of learning experiences! Not just the traditional ‘chalk and talk’, but also: Learning networks, workshops, benchmarking services, publications, on-line tools, case studies, research, events, conferences and training courses.
  • International Society of Sustainability Professionals
    ISSP is the premier global professional association supporting sustainability practitioners.
  • Net Impact
    Net Impact is the premier global network of new leaders committed to using the power of business to improve the world.
  • Business in the Community
    A Unique movement of over 800 of the UK’s top companies committed to improving their positive impact on society.
  • Ethical Performance
    The independent global newsletter on corporate social responsibility and socially responsible investment.
  • The Corporate Citizenship Company
    Offering research, consultancy and publications to help businesses succeed as good citizens of our changing global society.
  • The Corporate Register
    A free directory of environmental and social reports.
  • CSR News Europe
    An international news service dedicated to the publication and distribution of corporate social responsibility news and announcements from companies and non-profit organisations worldwide.
  • CSR Europe
    A business-driven membership network, with a mission is to help companies achieve profitability, sustainable growth and human progress by placing corporate social responsibility in the mainstream of business practice.
  • Forum CSR International
    A biannual magazine reporting on the newest developments, trends and best practise examples of sustainability and corporate responsibility in economy, politics and society. Visit their website to read articles from the magazine, up-to-date news, and information on upcoming events.
  • Green Futures
    Sustainability news and articles from Forum for the Future.
  • Ellen Weinreb
    CSR recruitment services in the USA.
  • CSR Asia
    Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia. The issues, as they emerge in the Asia-Pacific Region.
  • CSR Malaysia
    Corporate Social Responsibility Community Portal for Malaysia
  • CSR Wire
    A leading source of corporate responsibility and sustainability, press releases, reports and news
  • SustainAbility
    Founded in 1987, SustainAbility is the longest established international consultancy specializing in business strategy and sustainable development, environmental improvement, social equity and economic development
  • Sustainable Development
    The official UK Government website for sustainable development.
  • Green Jobs Network
    Green Jobs Network connects people seeking jobs that focus on environmental or social responsibility with jobs and career development resources.
  • CSR Legal Network
    We are a network of CSR professionals working within law firms and provide a friendly forum to learn, chat and share all things CSR.

Energy Efficiency & Carbon Resources

  • Reuters Carbon Community
    An online community with an extensive network of professionals, news and job listings.
  • Renewable Energy Jobs
    A job site focused on the renewable energy sector
  • Carbon Positive
    Carbon positive is a business that develops sustainable agro-forestry and bio-energy projects in non-industrialised countries. Their site provides valuable carbon news and information with the aim of helping people fight climate change.
  • Green Collar Blog
    News and Resources on Green Collar Jobs
  • Green Bang
    Greenbang is a news and blog site which tracks the explosion of the environmental industry reporting on news of green innovation and clever business people.
  • Claverton Energy Experts Group
    The Claverton Group is a specialised association comprised of experts in energy, environmental and transportation agencies, companies and academic institutions.
  • Climate Change Corp
    A climate change news portal containing news, features and analysis on the latest climate change challenges.
  • Renewable Energy Association
    The Renewable Energy Association represents the UK's renewable energy industry, covering all renewable power heat and fuels. Our membership is active across the whole spectrum of renewables: electric power, heat and biofuels.We represent a wide variety of organisations, including generators, project developers, fuel and power suppliers, equipment producers and service providers.
  • British Wind Energy Association
    Our primary purpose is to promote the use of wind power in and around the UK, both onshore and offshore. We act as a central point for information for our membership and as a lobbying group to promote wind energy and marine renewables to government. We research and find solutions to current issues and generally act as the forum for the UK wind industry.
  • LowCarbonEconomy.com
    A central resource for the low carbon economy, connecting people and businesses with low carbon products and services, information, initiatives, and each other.
  • DEFRA – Climate Change
    Defra champions Sustainable Development, helping Government as a whole to deliver economic, social and environmental sustainability. Defra is also the focal point for rural policy, supporting strong rural communities and ensuring that dispersed rural needs are reflected in social and place-based policies across We are acting now to adapt to climate change and to reduce the risk by contributing less to the causes. These pages explains what climate change means for the UK and what we are doing about it.
  • BREEAM
    The BREEAM family of assessment methods and tools are all designed to help construction professionals understand and mitigate the environmental impacts of the developments they design and build.
  • The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers
    CIBSE is the professional body that exists to support the Science, Art and Practice of building services engineering by accrediting courses of study in further and higher education, by approving work based training programmes and providing routes to full professional Registration, including Chartered Engineer, Incorporated Engineer and Engineering Technician.
  • UK Green Building Council
    The UK Green Building Council (UK-GBC) was launched in February 2007 to bring cohesion to the green building movement. We are a campaign for a sustainable built environment and our task is to bring clarity, purpose and co-ordination of strategy to the sector.
  • World of Renewables
    Dedicated Renewable Energy website and forum.
  • Green Trust
    An environmental forum for sustainability, conservation and renewable energy
  • Aboutmyplanet.com
    Aboutmyplanet.com focuses on current events and technologies that affect our planet. We focus on variety of subjects such as the environment, and alternative energy.
  • Energyportal.eu
    EnergyPortal.eu is a news, background and discussion website about renewable energy and climate policy. Besides recent news, the website also provides background information through reviews.

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