People & Planet RSS Feeds

Our new RSS feeds deliver stories about People & Planet's campaigns, news and groups directly to you.

Reading an RSS feed

What’s an RSS feed?

• An RSS feed is a bit like a webpage written for computers rather than people to read.

• In conjunction with a program called a ‘news reader’ it can deliver stories from peopleandplanet.org straight to you.

• It even allows other websites to show (or syndicate) our headlines.

Feeds available

How to find our feeds

Here are the addresses and descriptions of all our feeds:

• Headlines from our homepage
  http://peopleandplanet.org/rss/headlines.xml

• Latest updates on Shared Planet 2009, taking place in November: http://peopleandplanet.org/rss/sharedplanet.xml

• Our blog: blog.peopleandplanet.org
  http://blog.peopleandplanet.org/feed/

• Our flickr photostream
  http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=15977941@N08&lang=en-us&format=rss_200 (add us as a contact if you use flickr!)

• Don’t miss a thing! Our full news listings:
  http://peopleandplanet.org/rss/news.xml

• Sixth Form network news
  http://peopleandplanet.org/rss/network_-_sixth_form.xml

• University network news
  http://peopleandplanet.org/rss/network_-_university.xml

• Climate change stories
  http://peopleandplanet.org/rss/climate_change.xml

• Fairtrade news
  http://peopleandplanet.org/rss/fairtrade.xml

• Trade Justice stories
  http://peopleandplanet.org/rss/trade_justice.xml

You can access a more simply styled version of any feed by adding _mini before .xml in its name, for example http://peopleandplanet.org/rss/headlines_mini.xml. This could be handy if you’d like to syndicate our headlines.

How to use our RSS feeds

To use our feeds you’ll first need to get hold of a program that can read them. These programs are called news readers. Some modern web browsers like Firefox have a news reader built in, as do some email clients like Thunderbird. There are lots of stand alone news readers as well and some websites are starting to offer online news readers.

There are a number of ways to subscribe to our feeds - this will vary according to which news reader you use:

• You may be able to ‘drag and drop’ the feed address into your news reader;

• Alternatively you may be able to enter the address into a ‘subscribe to this URL’ box;

• Firefox users can subscribe to our feeds by visiting the homepage and clicking the Live Bookmark logo (which is orange and in either your address bar, or at the bottom left of your screen).

How to syndicate our RSS feeds

The Easy Way

If you or your group have your own website, you can usually find a widget, add-on or plug-in that will allow you to display an RSS feed (e.g. for Wordpress you can use Bill Rawlinson’s open source Feedlist plugin). Just supply that with one of the RSS feed links above.

The Trickier Way (techies only!)

If you or one of your techie guru friends knows how to program computers, you may be able to write a program to syndicate our feeds using one of the following resources:

• PHP: You could use SimplePie or Gary White’s rssreader.php script, a flexible, object orientated php script to help you display RSS feeds on a web page.

• Perl: You can use Jonathan Eisenzopf’s simple rss2html.pl script to generate static html pages. It requires the CPAN modules LWP: :Agent and XML: :RSS