Whilst browsing in a bookshop today I happened across Worldchanging: A user’s guide for the 21st century, which looks like a great source book for a lot of the research I’m going to need to do for my bright green Manchester in Sounds of Soldiers.

Other research material, some of which I have still to collect, includes- a book on compost gardening I picked up at the library sale on Saturday; The Ten Thousand by Harold Coyle; Airborne: a Guided Tour of an Airborne Task Force by Tom Clancy, which I hope I have somewhere in my room; Google Earth and, of course, wikipedia. All of which will, no doubt, suggest other research that I need to do. This should be interesting.