Animal Cruelty
Mercy For Animals is a 501(c)(3) non-profit animal rights organization focused on promoting a vegetarian diet.
New Zealand’s most proactive animal advocacy organisation.
Animals Australia is Australia’s largest and most dynamic national animal protection organisation, representing some 40 member societies and thousands of individual supporters throughout Australia.
Animals treatment etc, the environment, alternatives, FAQ’s, what can we do.
Action alerts, campaigns, shopping center for the rights of animals.
The Animals Voice is an award-winning, independent, networking source of timely information, news, campaigns, boycotts, action alerts, and thought-provoking editorial and compelling photography about animal rights and its defenders.
Friends of Animals is a non-profit, international animal advocacy organization. Friends of Animals works to cultivate a respectful view of nonhuman animals, free-living and domestic. Our goal is to free animals from cruelty and institutionalized exploitation around the world.
The ASI is the result of the merger of two well-respected organizations: the Society and Animals Forum, and the Inst. for Animals and Society. Seeks to advance institutional change for animals by helping to establish the moral and legal rights fundamental to a just, compassionate and peaceful society.
Farm animal protection. Information on the horrors of factory farming. HFA also runs the nation’s largest farm animal refuge.
Compassion in World Farming is working strategically toward a whole food system that is truly kind, caring and honest – kind to animals; caring for the environment and consumer health; and honestly labelled.
Campaigning to end animal experiments. Through undercover investigations, political lobbying, the promotion of cruelty free cosmetics and household products, legal and scientific expertise and media activities, we work tirelessly to make the world a better place for animals.
Naturewatch and the Naturewatch Foundation campaign against animal cruelty, focusing particularly on animal experiments, badger baiting and live transport. We are renowned for our guide to compassionate shopping, and, through the Foundation, for developing animal welfare programs in Eastern Europe, especially Lithuania and Ukraine.
Animal Activism – Animal Rights
Animals treatment etc, the environment, alternatives, FAQ’s, what can we do.
Action alerts, campaigns, shopping center for the rights of animals.
The Animals Voice is an award-winning, independent, networking source of timely information, news, campaigns, boycotts, action alerts, and thought-provoking editorial and compelling photography about animal rights and its defenders.
Animal Cruelty
Compassion in World Farming is working strategically toward a whole food system that is truly kind, caring and honest – kind to animals; caring for the environment and consumer health; and honestly labelled.
Campaigning to end animal experiments. Through undercover investigations, political lobbying, the promotion of cruelty free cosmetics and household products, legal and scientific expertise and media activities, we work tirelessly to make the world a better place for animals.
Naturewatch and the Naturewatch Foundation campaign against animal cruelty, focusing particularly on animal experiments, badger baiting and live transport. We are renowned for our guide to compassionate shopping, and, through the Foundation, for developing animal welfare programs in Eastern Europe, especially Lithuania and Ukraine.
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Mercy For Animals is a 501(c)(3) non-profit animal rights organization focused on promoting a vegetarian diet.
New Zealand’s most proactive animal advocacy organisation.
Animals Australia is Australia’s largest and most dynamic national animal protection organisation, representing some 40 member societies and thousands of individual supporters throughout Australia.
Animal Rights Organizations
Friends of Animals is a non-profit, international animal advocacy organization. Friends of Animals works to cultivate a respectful view of nonhuman animals, free-living and domestic. Our goal is to free animals from cruelty and institutionalized exploitation around the world.
The ASI is the result of the merger of two well-respected organizations: the Society and Animals Forum, and the Inst. for Animals and Society. Seeks to advance institutional change for animals by helping to establish the moral and legal rights fundamental to a just, compassionate and peaceful society.
Farm animal protection. Information on the horrors of factory farming. HFA also runs the nation’s largest farm animal refuge.
Enviro Organizations
Pollution.net is dedicated to providing visitors first information on activities of environmental organizations from around the world. The information is organized into environmental news, jobs, blogs, campaigns and a brief on environmental organization. Special topics like Plastic pollution, asbestos pollution, allergy are assigned separate sub-sites to deal with the volume of information.
View ProfileEarthProtect.com uses video and social media to inspire people to move from image to action for sustainability. Join for free, post or link videos, post blog articles, find green businesses and meet 58 nonprofits with sustainability causes.
EarthProtectProductions.com helps tell clean tech, green, sustainability and environmental stories from PSA’s to feature documentaries.
Sustainable living concepts research & education. We are on a 1 year bicycle tour visiting organic farrms, green co’s & architects. Media incl. blogs, webcasts and a documentary.
Fireflies are disappearing, how you can help…
Since 1990, Generation Green (a 501c3) has sought to inform and encourage environmental action in CCC.
We are a group of Petaluma citizens working to save one of the most unique wildlife and wetland preserves in California.
One Biosphere is an alliance of people and organizations who are united to preserve the quality of our American and the global environment through our forum, advocacy, research.
Environmental and ecological contracting specialists including design, consultancy and implementation services for nature conservation and habitat creation, mitigation and management.
View ProfileScotland has lost 98% of its natural native forest. Many associated plants and animals are now locally extinct. The people of Scotland have also lost out – thousands of people have had to move away from the land they once worked, and many crafts and trades that once supported rural communities have disappeared.
Scottish charity dedicated to regenerating and restoring the Caledonian Forest in the Highlands of Scotland.
Carrifran Wildwood-Ecological Restoration in Southern Scottish Uplands to re-create an extensive tract of wild and native woodland, evoking the pristine countryside of six thousand years ago. Once again there will be a home for Scottish trees, flowers, birds, mammals and insects that for centuries have been almost excluded from these denuded hills.
100 Success stories for Endangered Species Day 2007.
Edge species are truly one of a kind. If they disappear there will be nothing similar left on the planet. Two-thirds are receiving little or no conservation attention. Help save these remarkable species.
To empower individuals and organizations to help save the worlds wild species.
Forest conservation portal. Rainforest, forest and biodiversity conservation news and information. Extensive articles archive.
ERS is as an international organization that aims to address the challenge posed by the on-going damage to the world’s eco-systems and species by creating a worldwide network of earth restoration projects and facilitating volunteer and technical assistance to such projects.
A not-for-profit environmental organization founded by Chad Pregracke. Programs: Community Cleanups, Big River Educational Workshops, Riverbottom Forest Restoration and Adopt-A-Mississippi River Mile.
The PATT Foundation, or Plant-A-Tree-Today is a UK registered non profit organisation based in Bangkok, Thailand. We are aimed at promoting tree planting projects, sustainable agriculture, education and school nurseries, CSR, forestry training and combating global climate change.
The Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) International is a non-profit organization infused with the energy of thousands of members ““ individuals and organizations who are actively engaged in ecologically-sensitive repair and management of ecosystems.
Global Green USA works with governments, industry, and individuals to create a global value shift toward a sustainable and secure future. Global Green USA is addressing three great challenges facing humanity: climate change, weapons of mass destruction, and the need for clean water.
Animal Protection
100 Success stories for Endangered Species Day 2007.
Edge species are truly one of a kind. If they disappear there will be nothing similar left on the planet. Two-thirds are receiving little or no conservation attention. Help save these remarkable species.
To empower individuals and organizations to help save the worlds wild species.
Enviro Organizations - Free listings
Pollution.net is dedicated to providing visitors first information on activities of environmental organizations from around the world. The information is organized into environmental news, jobs, blogs, campaigns and a brief on environmental organization. Special topics like Plastic pollution, asbestos pollution, allergy are assigned separate sub-sites to deal with the volume of information.
View ProfileEarthProtect.com uses video and social media to inspire people to move from image to action for sustainability. Join for free, post or link videos, post blog articles, find green businesses and meet 58 nonprofits with sustainability causes.
EarthProtectProductions.com helps tell clean tech, green, sustainability and environmental stories from PSA’s to feature documentaries.
Sustainable living concepts research & education. We are on a 1 year bicycle tour visiting organic farrms, green co’s & architects. Media incl. blogs, webcasts and a documentary.
Fireflies are disappearing, how you can help…
Since 1990, Generation Green (a 501c3) has sought to inform and encourage environmental action in CCC.
We are a group of Petaluma citizens working to save one of the most unique wildlife and wetland preserves in California.
One Biosphere is an alliance of people and organizations who are united to preserve the quality of our American and the global environment through our forum, advocacy, research.
Global Warming & Other Global Environmental Issues
Global Green USA works with governments, industry, and individuals to create a global value shift toward a sustainable and secure future. Global Green USA is addressing three great challenges facing humanity: climate change, weapons of mass destruction, and the need for clean water.
Nature Conservation – Restoration – International
Forest conservation portal. Rainforest, forest and biodiversity conservation news and information. Extensive articles archive.
ERS is as an international organization that aims to address the challenge posed by the on-going damage to the world’s eco-systems and species by creating a worldwide network of earth restoration projects and facilitating volunteer and technical assistance to such projects.
A not-for-profit environmental organization founded by Chad Pregracke. Programs: Community Cleanups, Big River Educational Workshops, Riverbottom Forest Restoration and Adopt-A-Mississippi River Mile.
The PATT Foundation, or Plant-A-Tree-Today is a UK registered non profit organisation based in Bangkok, Thailand. We are aimed at promoting tree planting projects, sustainable agriculture, education and school nurseries, CSR, forestry training and combating global climate change.
The Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) International is a non-profit organization infused with the energy of thousands of members ““ individuals and organizations who are actively engaged in ecologically-sensitive repair and management of ecosystems.
Nature Conservation – Restoration, Reforestation – UK
Environmental and ecological contracting specialists including design, consultancy and implementation services for nature conservation and habitat creation, mitigation and management.
View ProfileScotland has lost 98% of its natural native forest. Many associated plants and animals are now locally extinct. The people of Scotland have also lost out – thousands of people have had to move away from the land they once worked, and many crafts and trades that once supported rural communities have disappeared.
Scottish charity dedicated to regenerating and restoring the Caledonian Forest in the Highlands of Scotland.
Carrifran Wildwood-Ecological Restoration in Southern Scottish Uplands to re-create an extensive tract of wild and native woodland, evoking the pristine countryside of six thousand years ago. Once again there will be a home for Scottish trees, flowers, birds, mammals and insects that for centuries have been almost excluded from these denuded hills.
Food Security
‘What’s On My Food?’ is a searchable database designed to make the public problem of pesticide exposure visible and more understandable. How does this tool work? We link pesticide food residue data with the toxicology for each chemical, making this information easily searchable for the first time.
Agricultural biodiversity resource website: CSO resources, International Seed Treaty sustainable and equitable use for food and livelihood security and food sovereignty. Linking UK public interest organisations concerned with its sustainable use, conservation, intellectual property, biotechnology, genetic engineering.
Seeks to promote sustainable and equitable food security policies; to balance corporate power by providing a public interest perspective to issues affecting global food security; and to strengthen the capacity of civil society to contribute effectively to international consultations on food security.
Food Security
Agricultural biodiversity resource website: CSO resources, International Seed Treaty sustainable and equitable use for food and livelihood security and food sovereignty. Linking UK public interest organisations concerned with its sustainable use, conservation, intellectual property, biotechnology, genetic engineering.
Seeks to promote sustainable and equitable food security policies; to balance corporate power by providing a public interest perspective to issues affecting global food security; and to strengthen the capacity of civil society to contribute effectively to international consultations on food security.
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‘What’s On My Food?’ is a searchable database designed to make the public problem of pesticide exposure visible and more understandable. How does this tool work? We link pesticide food residue data with the toxicology for each chemical, making this information easily searchable for the first time.
Living Museums
Experience life as it was in our nation’s yesterdays. Explore the homes and buildings where men like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Patrick Henry inspired the fight for independence.
Old Salem Museums & Gardens encompasses 100 acres of restored and reclaimed landscapes that include eighty buildings, nationally acclaimed gardens, and five retail stores, including Winkler Bakery. Our unique museums – The Historic Town of Salem and The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts along with award-winning heirloom gardens, invite today’s visitors to experience the complete story of those who lived and worked in the early South.
As one of the oldest rural life museums in the country, The Farmers Museum provides visitors with a unique opportunity to experience 19th-century rural and village life firsthand through demonstrations and interpretive exhibits. The museum, founded in 1943, comprises a working farmstead, a recreated historic village, a Country Fair featuring The Empire State Carousel, and a Colonial Revival stone barn listed on the National Register for Historic Places.
Plimoth Plantation, a bicultural museum, offers powerful personal encounters with history built on thorough research about the Wampanoag People and the Colonial English community in the 1600s. Our exhibits, programs, live interpreters, and historic settings encourage a new level of understanding about present-day issues affecting communities around the world.
At Conner Prairie, youll find four themed historic areas to explore: Lenape Camp, Conner Homestead, 1836 Prairietown and 1859 Balloon Voyage. In each area “look, dont touch” becomes “look, touch, smell, taste and hear” as you live history first-hand.
Old Sturbridge Village is a “must-see” destination to experience early New England life from 1790-1840. One of the countrys largest living history museums, OSV has historians in costume, 59 antique buildings, three water-powered mills, and a working farm.
The farm is an educational facility open to the public that preserves and interprets farming life and processes from the era of 1890-1910.
The Village brings to life the day-to-day activities of villagers living in South Jersey during the “age of homespun.” (1789-1840). Visitors can make a personal connection between the past and present through the interactive, educational, and hands-on family activities.
The Accokeek Foundation stewards 200 acres of Piscataway Park, a national park located in Accokeek, Maryland, on the shore of the Potomac River directly across from Mount Vernon. Our land serves as an outdoor classroom for our educational programs, research, agricultural and conservation projects. The park is open to the public year ’round.
The Delaware Agricultural Museum and Village offers a memorable and educational experience. By preserving the quickly fading agricultural heritage of Delaware and the Delmarva Peninsula, the Museum stands as an important legacy for future generations.
Delaware’s historic mill. See a working water wheel and learn about the history of the mill. See our famous Leicester and Merino Wool sheep, participate in architectural digs, craft and woodworking demonstrations, and tour our museum.
Praised as “one of the top ’10’ places to relive America’s past” by Good Housekeeping magazine, Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer offers a hands-on living history experience that tells the story of early town building in Nebraska.
The Frontier Culture Museum tells the story of the thousands of people who migrated to colonial America, and of the life they created here for themselves and their descendents. These first pioneers came to America during the 1600s and 1700s from communities in the hinterlands of England, Germany, Ireland, and West Africa.
Living Museums
Experience life as it was in our nation’s yesterdays. Explore the homes and buildings where men like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Patrick Henry inspired the fight for independence.
Old Salem Museums & Gardens encompasses 100 acres of restored and reclaimed landscapes that include eighty buildings, nationally acclaimed gardens, and five retail stores, including Winkler Bakery. Our unique museums – The Historic Town of Salem and The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts along with award-winning heirloom gardens, invite today’s visitors to experience the complete story of those who lived and worked in the early South.
As one of the oldest rural life museums in the country, The Farmers Museum provides visitors with a unique opportunity to experience 19th-century rural and village life firsthand through demonstrations and interpretive exhibits. The museum, founded in 1943, comprises a working farmstead, a recreated historic village, a Country Fair featuring The Empire State Carousel, and a Colonial Revival stone barn listed on the National Register for Historic Places.
Plimoth Plantation, a bicultural museum, offers powerful personal encounters with history built on thorough research about the Wampanoag People and the Colonial English community in the 1600s. Our exhibits, programs, live interpreters, and historic settings encourage a new level of understanding about present-day issues affecting communities around the world.
At Conner Prairie, youll find four themed historic areas to explore: Lenape Camp, Conner Homestead, 1836 Prairietown and 1859 Balloon Voyage. In each area “look, dont touch” becomes “look, touch, smell, taste and hear” as you live history first-hand.
Old Sturbridge Village is a “must-see” destination to experience early New England life from 1790-1840. One of the countrys largest living history museums, OSV has historians in costume, 59 antique buildings, three water-powered mills, and a working farm.
The farm is an educational facility open to the public that preserves and interprets farming life and processes from the era of 1890-1910.
The Village brings to life the day-to-day activities of villagers living in South Jersey during the “age of homespun.” (1789-1840). Visitors can make a personal connection between the past and present through the interactive, educational, and hands-on family activities.
The Accokeek Foundation stewards 200 acres of Piscataway Park, a national park located in Accokeek, Maryland, on the shore of the Potomac River directly across from Mount Vernon. Our land serves as an outdoor classroom for our educational programs, research, agricultural and conservation projects. The park is open to the public year ’round.
The Delaware Agricultural Museum and Village offers a memorable and educational experience. By preserving the quickly fading agricultural heritage of Delaware and the Delmarva Peninsula, the Museum stands as an important legacy for future generations.
Delaware’s historic mill. See a working water wheel and learn about the history of the mill. See our famous Leicester and Merino Wool sheep, participate in architectural digs, craft and woodworking demonstrations, and tour our museum.
Praised as “one of the top ’10’ places to relive America’s past” by Good Housekeeping magazine, Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer offers a hands-on living history experience that tells the story of early town building in Nebraska.
The Frontier Culture Museum tells the story of the thousands of people who migrated to colonial America, and of the life they created here for themselves and their descendents. These first pioneers came to America during the 1600s and 1700s from communities in the hinterlands of England, Germany, Ireland, and West Africa.
Micro Plastics And Plastic Pollution
A volunteer-based global monitoring program designed to monitor the pollution status of the oceans.
The Plastic Debris, Rivers to Sea Project seeks to minimize the land-based discharges of marine debris. Just like ocean-based marine debris, land-based discharges of human-made debris are comprised mostly of plastics.
Think we can’t live without plastic? Think again. In 2007 this blogger committed to stop buying any new plastic & almost succeeded! Won’t you join her? Let’s see what plastic-free looks like in your daily life for the health of our bodies, our oceans, our planet.
In an effort to facilitate research for cities and states interested in adopting plastic bag laws, we have compiled the text of laws, related litigation, and relevant studies. Our hope is that having this information available in one place will lead to the adoption of more plastic bag laws.
Bag It follows “everyman” Jeb Berrier as he navigates our plastic world. Jeb is not a radical environmentalist, but an average American who decides to take a closer look at our cultural love affair with plastics. Jeb’s journey in this documentary film starts with simple questions: Are plastic bags really necessary? What are plastic bags made from? What happens to plastic bags after they are discarded? See Movie
Algalita is dedicated to the protection of the marine environment and its watersheds through research, education, and restoration. They study the distribution, abundance and fate of marine plastic pollution, the potential harmful effects of plastics in the marine environment and the transference of toxicants and their impact on human health.
Think Beyond Plastic is an innovation competition for entrepreneurs working on solutions to the plastic pollution crisis. Eligible contestants will compete for a first prize investment of $50,000 for an existing business, and $10,000 investment for the most innovative business idea.
Plastic Pollution Coalition is a global alliance of individuals, organizations and businesses working together to stop plastic pollution and its toxic impacts on humans, animals and the environment. With its work, Plastic Pollution Coalition seeks to put plastic pollution at the forefront of global social, environmental and political discourse.
Plastic Free Seas is a Hong Kong based non profit organisation dedicated to advocating change in the way we all view and use plastics in society today, through education and action campaigns.
[Dutch only] An organization whose mission is to make people aware of the many uses of plastics and microplastics (such as in cosmetics) and the resulting pollution in the oceans and seas and what people can do to avoid these products.
5Gyres conduct research and communicate about the global impact of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans and employ strategies to eliminate the accumulation of plastic pollution in the 5 subtropical gyres. To stop the flow of plastic to the sea we advocate new materials, better designed products, fair legislation, and engage in consumer education. Post-consumer cleanup efforts focus on coastal and island debris removal and mitigation.
Micro Plastics And Plastic Pollution
5Gyres conduct research and communicate about the global impact of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans and employ strategies to eliminate the accumulation of plastic pollution in the 5 subtropical gyres. To stop the flow of plastic to the sea we advocate new materials, better designed products, fair legislation, and engage in consumer education. Post-consumer cleanup efforts focus on coastal and island debris removal and mitigation.
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Plastic Pollution Coalition is a global alliance of individuals, organizations and businesses working together to stop plastic pollution and its toxic impacts on humans, animals and the environment. With its work, Plastic Pollution Coalition seeks to put plastic pollution at the forefront of global social, environmental and political discourse.
Plastic Free Seas is a Hong Kong based non profit organisation dedicated to advocating change in the way we all view and use plastics in society today, through education and action campaigns.
[Dutch only] An organization whose mission is to make people aware of the many uses of plastics and microplastics (such as in cosmetics) and the resulting pollution in the oceans and seas and what people can do to avoid these products.
Sustainable Development
Adapting toilet composting technology for developing communities
View ProfileRVSL Aachen founded in the middle of the 90´s with certified customers and projects in Europe and America. International Offices in, Germany, Spain, Malta, Mexico,UK.
Chemical, Tourism, accommodation, automotive, biotechnology, food, construction, Pharmaceutical, Medical Appliances, Gas and Oil, electricity plants and Energy Wind Farms are activities that we actually cover.
Lebônઠoffers comprehensive solutions to the pressing problems of developing countries. We combine innovative use of cutting-edge technologies from our technology partners with the local understanding necessary for a successful on-site roll out.
Dissemination of information about alternative technologies and clean energy.
Research, development and graduate training in solar energy technologies.
Through its academic programs and outreach units, SERD has been working towards capacity building and human resource development in the areas of environmental and resources management, poverty alleviation and socio-economic/gender development.
We are focused on facilitating learning experiences for people who are interested in finding out how to “work with” those who are struggling to survive–from tribal people, to lowland farmers, to factory workers and others.
Improve the environment by promoting waste recycling activities in the country. Conduct research, experiments on solid waste management, recycling, clinical and hazardous waste management, waste water treatment and organic farming,…
Developing and disseminating appropriate technologies for meeting the energy and water requirements of the villages, promoting craft based (development of hand made naturally dyed textiles) and farm based livelihood opportunities.
A successful story of applied permaculture principles to fight draught and provide sustainable income to the poorest.
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development – help promote the development of an economically and environmentally sound mountain ecosystem and to improve the living standards of mountain populations.
Positive and little known news of positive environmental and developmental achievements in India.
Practical action for sustainable development & reforestation in rural Ecuador. Productive community projects, organic farming, eco-tourism & conservation volunteer opportunities.
The EcoLogic Development Fund conserves endangered wildlife and wild lands by advancing community-based development and resource management.
The mission of the Wallace Global Fund is to catalyze and leverage critically needed global progress towards an equitable and environmentally sustainable society.
Today, less than 2% of U.S. giving supports projects outside U.S. borders. This means that over 96% of humanity, including most of the world’s poorest and neediest people, are denied access to the largest pool of philanthropic capital in the world. This is nuts.
Supports grassroots groups working for environmental justice and sustainability around the world. Our grants fund grassroots action in some of the world’s most despoiled and impoverished places.
ISEC’s Farm Project, a month-long experiential education program, offers participants the opportunity to immerse themselves in this ancient culture, while gaining a deeper understanding of the economic, environmental and psychological costs of the global economy.
We are mfg. installer of Solar PV systems, Solar thermal, small wind turbines, hydro power equipments.
Renewable energy solutions to remote areas. Renewable energy system rentals, solar water pumping, …
Husk Power Systems potentially can provide power to millions of rural Indians using a proprietary technology that cost-effectively converts rice husks into electricity.
HLF’s main objective is to improve the quality of life of the remote population of the Himalayan region via the introduction and use of environmentally friendly renewable energy technologies.
Stichting Pico Sol is een onafhankelijke vrijwilligersorganisatie die zich inzet voor kleinschalige toepassingen van zonne-energie in derde wereld landen.
Founded in 1984, Enersol is a non-profit charitable organization developing and introducing sustainable energy solutions for rural communities. By supporting the use of clean, renewable solar energy for health and education applications in Latin America, we are committed to demonstrating that it’s possible to improve the quality of life in rural areas of developing nations around the world.
The Solar Electric Light Fund, Inc. (SELF) is a non-profit charitable organization founded in 1990 to promote, develop, and facilitate solar rural electrification and energy SELF-sufficiency in developing countries.
Farming Solutions brings examples of successful, environmentally responsible farming systems to life from all over the world, illustrating how farmers can protect the environment while at the same time increasing food supply where it is most needed.
Seed Savers’ has helped to establish Seed Networks in a number of other countries such as Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, India, Japan, Solomon Islands and The Philippines.
Established in 1972, the Barefoot College is an NGO that has been providing basic services and solutions to problems in rural communities, with the objective of making them self-sufficient and sustainable. These “˜Barefoot solutions can be broadly categorized into solar energy, water, education, health care, rural handicrafts, peoples action, communication, womens empowerment and wasteland development.
Green Empowerment partners with rural communities in the developing world to implement renewable energy and water systems that alleviate poverty and preserve the environment.
A non-profit dedicated to developing simple income generating devices to improve life for the worlds poorest.
Great sustainable living resource. Contains the full text and images from over 1050 of the best books dealing with all areas of do-it-yourself technology.
Open, collaborative, solutions in sustainability. Thousands of how to and project pages on appropriate technology, international development and sustainability.
Aims to demonstrate and advocate the sustainable use of technology to reduce poverty in developing countries. Fields: energy, transport, agro-processing, manufacturing, shelter, …
We are building a list of sustainable reforestation projects which need funding here. If you have a reforestation project which needs funding, please submit your project details.
IRN supports local communities working to protect their rivers and watersheds. We work to halt destructive river development projects, and to encourage equitable and sustainable methods of meeting needs for water, energy and flood management.
An alliance of sixty leading activists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization.
Institute for Food and Development Policy – a member-supported, nonprofit ‘peoples’ think tank and education-for-action center. Our work highlights root causes and value-based solutions to hunger and poverty around the world, with a commitment to establishing food as a fundamental human right.
Promoting locally based alternatives to the global consumer culture. A non-profit organization concerned with the protection of both biological and cultural diversity. Our emphasis is on education for action: moving beyond single issues to look at the more fundamental influences that shape our lives.
The Global Village Energy Partnership Financing Facilitation module bridges the gap among financiers, entrepreneurs and consumers with the goal of increasing investment in village energy projects and programs.
The mission of the Village Earth is to achieve sustainable village-based development by connecting communities with global resources through training, consulting, and networking with organizations worldwide.
Africa
Lebônઠoffers comprehensive solutions to the pressing problems of developing countries. We combine innovative use of cutting-edge technologies from our technology partners with the local understanding necessary for a successful on-site roll out.
Bangladesh
Improve the environment by promoting waste recycling activities in the country. Conduct research, experiments on solid waste management, recycling, clinical and hazardous waste management, waste water treatment and organic farming,…
Clean Energy
We are mfg. installer of Solar PV systems, Solar thermal, small wind turbines, hydro power equipments.
Renewable energy solutions to remote areas. Renewable energy system rentals, solar water pumping, …
Husk Power Systems potentially can provide power to millions of rural Indians using a proprietary technology that cost-effectively converts rice husks into electricity.
HLF’s main objective is to improve the quality of life of the remote population of the Himalayan region via the introduction and use of environmentally friendly renewable energy technologies.
Stichting Pico Sol is een onafhankelijke vrijwilligersorganisatie die zich inzet voor kleinschalige toepassingen van zonne-energie in derde wereld landen.
Founded in 1984, Enersol is a non-profit charitable organization developing and introducing sustainable energy solutions for rural communities. By supporting the use of clean, renewable solar energy for health and education applications in Latin America, we are committed to demonstrating that it’s possible to improve the quality of life in rural areas of developing nations around the world.
The Solar Electric Light Fund, Inc. (SELF) is a non-profit charitable organization founded in 1990 to promote, develop, and facilitate solar rural electrification and energy SELF-sufficiency in developing countries.
Ecuador
Practical action for sustainable development & reforestation in rural Ecuador. Productive community projects, organic farming, eco-tourism & conservation volunteer opportunities.
Education
Research, development and graduate training in solar energy technologies.
Through its academic programs and outreach units, SERD has been working towards capacity building and human resource development in the areas of environmental and resources management, poverty alleviation and socio-economic/gender development.
We are focused on facilitating learning experiences for people who are interested in finding out how to “work with” those who are struggling to survive–from tribal people, to lowland farmers, to factory workers and others.
Education and Sustainable Development
ISEC’s Farm Project, a month-long experiential education program, offers participants the opportunity to immerse themselves in this ancient culture, while gaining a deeper understanding of the economic, environmental and psychological costs of the global economy.
Global Sustainable Development
IRN supports local communities working to protect their rivers and watersheds. We work to halt destructive river development projects, and to encourage equitable and sustainable methods of meeting needs for water, energy and flood management.
An alliance of sixty leading activists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization.
Institute for Food and Development Policy – a member-supported, nonprofit ‘peoples’ think tank and education-for-action center. Our work highlights root causes and value-based solutions to hunger and poverty around the world, with a commitment to establishing food as a fundamental human right.
Promoting locally based alternatives to the global consumer culture. A non-profit organization concerned with the protection of both biological and cultural diversity. Our emphasis is on education for action: moving beyond single issues to look at the more fundamental influences that shape our lives.
The Global Village Energy Partnership Financing Facilitation module bridges the gap among financiers, entrepreneurs and consumers with the goal of increasing investment in village energy projects and programs.
The mission of the Village Earth is to achieve sustainable village-based development by connecting communities with global resources through training, consulting, and networking with organizations worldwide.
India
Developing and disseminating appropriate technologies for meeting the energy and water requirements of the villages, promoting craft based (development of hand made naturally dyed textiles) and farm based livelihood opportunities.
A successful story of applied permaculture principles to fight draught and provide sustainable income to the poorest.
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development – help promote the development of an economically and environmentally sound mountain ecosystem and to improve the living standards of mountain populations.
Positive and little known news of positive environmental and developmental achievements in India.
International (Environmental) Funding
The EcoLogic Development Fund conserves endangered wildlife and wild lands by advancing community-based development and resource management.
The mission of the Wallace Global Fund is to catalyze and leverage critically needed global progress towards an equitable and environmentally sustainable society.
Today, less than 2% of U.S. giving supports projects outside U.S. borders. This means that over 96% of humanity, including most of the world’s poorest and neediest people, are denied access to the largest pool of philanthropic capital in the world. This is nuts.
Supports grassroots groups working for environmental justice and sustainability around the world. Our grants fund grassroots action in some of the world’s most despoiled and impoverished places.
Reforestation
We are building a list of sustainable reforestation projects which need funding here. If you have a reforestation project which needs funding, please submit your project details.
Sustainable Agriculture
Farming Solutions brings examples of successful, environmentally responsible farming systems to life from all over the world, illustrating how farmers can protect the environment while at the same time increasing food supply where it is most needed.
Seed Savers’ has helped to establish Seed Networks in a number of other countries such as Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, India, Japan, Solomon Islands and The Philippines.
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RVSL Aachen founded in the middle of the 90´s with certified customers and projects in Europe and America. International Offices in, Germany, Spain, Malta, Mexico,UK.
Chemical, Tourism, accommodation, automotive, biotechnology, food, construction, Pharmaceutical, Medical Appliances, Gas and Oil, electricity plants and Energy Wind Farms are activities that we actually cover.
Sustainable Microenterprise and Appropriate Technology Projects
Established in 1972, the Barefoot College is an NGO that has been providing basic services and solutions to problems in rural communities, with the objective of making them self-sufficient and sustainable. These “˜Barefoot solutions can be broadly categorized into solar energy, water, education, health care, rural handicrafts, peoples action, communication, womens empowerment and wasteland development.
Green Empowerment partners with rural communities in the developing world to implement renewable energy and water systems that alleviate poverty and preserve the environment.
A non-profit dedicated to developing simple income generating devices to improve life for the worlds poorest.
Great sustainable living resource. Contains the full text and images from over 1050 of the best books dealing with all areas of do-it-yourself technology.
Open, collaborative, solutions in sustainability. Thousands of how to and project pages on appropriate technology, international development and sustainability.
Aims to demonstrate and advocate the sustainable use of technology to reduce poverty in developing countries. Fields: energy, transport, agro-processing, manufacturing, shelter, …
Technology Resources
Dissemination of information about alternative technologies and clean energy.
Waste Reduction
Adapting toilet composting technology for developing communities
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The Urban Wildlands Group is dedicated to the conservation of species, habitats, and ecological processes in urban and urbanizing areas.
Livable City works to create a San Francisco of great streets and complete neighborhoods, where walking, bicycling, and transit are the best choices for most trips, where public spaces are beautiful, well-designed, and well-maintained, and where housing is more plentiful and more affordable.
Founded by visionary architects and activists who believed that cities should serve both people and nature. From the beginning, Urban Ecology has used urban planning, ecology, and public participation to help design and build healthier cities.
Urban Ecology
Livable City works to create a San Francisco of great streets and complete neighborhoods, where walking, bicycling, and transit are the best choices for most trips, where public spaces are beautiful, well-designed, and well-maintained, and where housing is more plentiful and more affordable.
Founded by visionary architects and activists who believed that cities should serve both people and nature. From the beginning, Urban Ecology has used urban planning, ecology, and public participation to help design and build healthier cities.
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The Urban Wildlands Group is dedicated to the conservation of species, habitats, and ecological processes in urban and urbanizing areas.