Africa
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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
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Ecuador
Practical action for sustainable development & reforestation in rural Ecuador. Productive community projects, organic farming, eco-tourism & conservation volunteer opportunities.
Education
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.
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.
Research, development and graduate training in solar energy technologies.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
India
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International (Environmental) Funding
The EcoLogic Development Fund conserves endangered wildlife and wild lands by advancing community-based development and resource management.
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.
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.
The mission of the Wallace Global Fund is to catalyze and leverage critically needed global progress towards an equitable and environmentally sustainable society.
Reforestation
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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
Green Empowerment partners with rural communities in the developing world to implement renewable energy and water systems that alleviate poverty and preserve the environment.
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.
Aims to demonstrate and advocate the sustainable use of technology to reduce poverty in developing countries. Fields: energy, transport, agro-processing, manufacturing, shelter, …
Open, collaborative, solutions in sustainability. Thousands of how to and project pages on appropriate technology, international development and sustainability.
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.
A non-profit dedicated to developing simple income generating devices to improve life for the worlds poorest.
Technology Resources
Dissemination of information about alternative technologies and clean energy.
Waste Reduction
Adapting toilet composting technology for developing communities
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