café ABsite is aware of its place in the world, and promotes a deeper understanding of people and places. We were founded in Harborne, Birmingham in 1998, and have spread to Leeds, Bracknell and Loughborough. We are currently based in Leeds, the capital of Yorkshire. In 2004, café ABsite launched The Transport Café, bringing together various disparate transport things.

Be nice to the world

• Get ecotricity, made from renewable sources
• Aim for Carbon Neutrality with Future Forests
• Join your local Green Drinks Network
• Use public transport - PTI, traveline and National Rail Enquiries can help (UK only)
• Recycle more, and use recycled products. WRAP shows you how...

Be nice to people

• Support Amnesty International (and oppose British torture of Iraqis)
• Big Issue! Help homeless people help themselves. If you can't buy a copy, at least say hello to a Big Issue seller. Ignore anyone not carrying a badge.
  
• Buy Fairtrade, giving a better deal to producers in poorer countries. Fairtrade itself suffers from a major flaw, in that guaranteed prices above market rates don't necessarily provide an incentive to produce a better quality product, so please be careful what you buy...
  
• Trade fairly with UK and EU suppliers - Oxfam is campaigning for this
  
• Campaign to stop the war
• TranScience Research Institute investigates transgender, a much ignored condition (not to be confused with transcience in the UK)
• Americans are people too... I know sometimes it doesn't feel that way, but there are a lot of good people over there. Iraq Veterans against the War are spreading the word
  

Be nice to places

• Ask MK, for everything you ever wanted to know about Milton Keynes
  
• The Town & Country Planning Association believes in being nice to places, and responsible planning
  

Be nice to yourself

• Eat better chocolate with help from Green & Black's and Birmingham Chocolaterie Chouchoute
• Enjoy happier computing with Bramley Apple Centre
  
• Get a relaxing massage or sports injury treatment from Direct D-stress
  
• If you don't drink here, drink at one of the cafés we've reviewed
  
• Travel RossRail, you know you want to...
• Take it smoothly with The Smoothie Company, Leeds
  
• Find out about Sufi circles
• The best things weigh five kilograms...

Community Stuff

• bcb, Bradford's community radio station - by Bradfordians, for Bradfordians (now there's a scary thought...)
• Friends Reunited had to come in somewhere... find out what your old friends are up to
• Mad Pride - Mad, bad and dangerous to know!
  
• Support Mozilla (used to write this site), a free, open source internet software suite
  
• Wing of Madness offers support to those affected by depression, rethink asks you to rethink your attitudes to mental illness
• Yorkshire & Humber Transport Activists' Roundtable campaigns for better, more environmentally responsible transport in our region
  

People & Government including "Approved Campaigning Organisations :-)"

• Directgov is the main UK government portal, use it to tap into those boring but useful press releases from government departments
• The European Union is our supranational government, so of course we complain about them from time to time...
• Yorkshire & Humber Assembly is the currently unelected regional assembly who are in charge of regional strategy
• Blood for Oil - too high a price to pay?
• Britain in Europe - why we need a constitution to protect our rights, and some €€€
  
• Stop the War Coalition
• The Commons Open Society Sustainability Initiative
  
• Yes 4 Yorkshire campaigns for the Yes vote in our forthcoming referendum for an elected assembly for Yorkshire & the Humber

...and don't forget to pop back for another coffee!