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<h1 id="awesome-earth-awesome">Awesome Earth <a
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href="https://awesome.re"><img src="https://awesome.re/badge.svg"
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alt="Awesome" /></a> <!-- omit in toc --></h1>
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<p>The world is simultaneously underwater and on fire, and people want
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to know what they can do about it. Let’s share resources, services,
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products and ideas you can use to stop kicking the planet in the
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face.</p>
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<h2 id="contents">Contents<!-- omit in toc --></h2>
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<li><a href="#carbon-reduction">Carbon Reduction</a></li>
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<li><a href="#clothing">Clothing</a></li>
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<li><a href="#consumer-products">Consumer Products</a></li>
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<li><a href="#cooking">Cooking</a></li>
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<li><a href="#development">Development</a></li>
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<li><a href="#documentaries">Documentaries</a></li>
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<li><a href="#finance">Finance</a></li>
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<li><a href="#food">Food</a></li>
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<li><a href="#footprint-calculators">Footprint Calculators</a></li>
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<li><a href="#home-improvements">Home Improvements</a></li>
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<li><a href="#hygiene">Hygiene</a></li>
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<li><a href="#jobs">Jobs</a></li>
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<li><a href="#land-management">Land Management</a></li>
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<li><a href="#news">News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#other-services">Other Services</a></li>
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<li><a href="#podcasts">Podcasts</a></li>
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<li><a href="#politics">Politics</a></li>
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<li><a href="#reforestation">Reforestation</a></li>
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<li><a href="#renewable-energy">Renewable Energy</a></li>
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<li><a href="#transportation">Transportation</a></li>
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<li><a href="#travel">Travel</a></li>
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<li><a href="#volunteering">Volunteering</a></li>
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<li><a href="#waste">Waste</a></li>
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<li><a href="#youtube-channels">YouTube Channels</a></li>
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<li><a href="#zero-waste">Zero Waste</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="carbon-reduction">Carbon Reduction</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://www.onepercentfortheplanet.org/">1% for the
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Planet</a> - A membership program for businesses and individuals,
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allowing them to donate 1% of their gross yearly profits or salary back
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to environmental nonprofits to create a healthier planet.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.beamproject.co/">Beam</a> - Make small
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automatic donations while you shop online, to support the cleantech
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startups trying to change the world. Clean Tech investment money has
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dried up over the years, so crowdsourcing is becoming the only option
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for many, and with a Chrome extension you can chuck in a dollar when
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you’re buying other stuff.</li>
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<li><a href="https://carbonpricingdashboard.worldbank.org/">Carbon
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Pricing Dashboard</a> - Maps and statistics on regional, national, and
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subnational carbon pricing initiatives.</li>
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<li><a href="https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/">Climate Action
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Tracker</a> - See which countries are on track for the Paris Agreement
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or similar, and which countries are failing horribly. Hint: it’s
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everyone but Morocco and The Gambia.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.climateworks.org/">ClimateWorks</a> - An NGO
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partnering with philanthropists to tackle the climate crisis. They seek
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to ensure investments have the maximum impact.</li>
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<li><a
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href="http://climeworkspioneers.refr.cc/philsturgeon">Climworks</a> -
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Climeworks Direct Air Capture technology captures CO₂ from air, mixes
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the CO₂ with water used by a geothermal energy plant, then pumps it deep
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underground. Through natural processes, the CO₂ reacts with the basaltic
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rock – and turns into stone within a few years, permanently and safely.
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Iceland is one of several locations around the world that provide ideal
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conditions for our pioneering process. Subscribe monthly to offset a
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little bit of your footprint, and support the growth of this early stage
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technology.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.coolearth.org/">Cool Earth</a> - This charity
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was created to tackle climate change by reducing carbon emissions from
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rainforest loss.</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://ecologi.com/?r=5d01f2ed12ae7a358b75fdd7">Ecologi</a> -
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Help the planet from your sofa, for less than a cheap bottle of wine per
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month. Watch your own forest come to life and offset your entire
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footprint for $6.50/€6 per-month. Then get your friends, family,
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business, and even your dog signed up!</li>
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<li><a href="https://flightfree.co.uk/">Flight Free (UK)</a> - Aviation
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is the fastest growing contributor to greenhouse gas emissions at a time
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when we desperately need to reduce them. Pledge to go flight free in
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2020.</li>
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<li><a href="https://flightfreeusa.org/">Flight Free (USA)</a> - A
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grassroots campaign which asks people to agree not to fly in the year of
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2020 – on condition that 100,000 others will also pledge to do the
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same.</li>
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<li><a href="https://futureearth.org/">Future Earth</a> - Future Earth
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is a global research programme designed to provide the knowledge needed
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to support transformations towards sustainability. They focus on
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systems-based approaches, seeking to deepen the understanding of complex
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Earth systems and human dynamics across different disciplines.</li>
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<li><a href="https://gikibadges.com/">Giki</a> - The Giki app provides
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accessible, independent, transparent information to help people change
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habits to live more sustainably. Our 14 badges cover sustainability,
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health and fairness.</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://www.goldstandard.org/take-action/offset-your-emissions">Gold
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Standard</a> - Offset carbon emissions by purchasing verified carbon
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credits from a variety of certified, environmentally friendly
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projects.</li>
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<li><a href="https://cloud.google.com/sustainability/">Google Cloud
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Computing</a> - Google are a long way from perfect, but Google Cloud
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advertises 100% renewable energy. They don’t <em>just</em> offset, they
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actually reduce the electricity usage too, and “strive to build the
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world’s most energy-efficient computing network by squeezing more out of
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every watt of power we consume.” Their main rival, Amazon AWS, does not
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do that, and actively hosts oil and gas companies, who use the platform
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to find more places to dig. Switching to Google Cloud (or a host who in
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turn is on Google Cloud), is one of many ways to make your platform have
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less impact on the earth.</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://www.green-e.org/certified-resources/carbon-offsets">Green-E
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Carbon Offsets</a> - Green-e Climate is an excellent resource for carbon
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offsets. The organization holds retailers accountable by monitoring how
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offsets are transacted and advertised in the retail market, protecting
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both the buyer and the seller.</li>
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<li><a href="https://nomeat.today/">No Meat Today</a> - Your companion
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to eat less meat. It’s good for you and the planet, but let’s be honest,
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eating less meat is hard. Don’t do it alone!</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.usepatch.com">Patch</a> - Patch is the API for
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negative emissions. Developers can use Patch’s API to make any
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transaction carbon neutral with a wide range of negative emission
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methods (e.g. direct air carbon capture, bio-oil geosequestration,
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enhanced weathering, reforestation and more).</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.wearepossible.org/">Possible</a> - Combining
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individual and local actions with larger systemic change, we face our
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climate dread with a can-do attitude and sense of fun. Possible are
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tackling the climate crisis by inspiring people to act in 5 key areas -
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eat & buy, travel, energy, nature and talking.</li>
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<li><a href="https://projectwren.com/">Project Wren</a> - Project Wren
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are a startup offering a web based, monthly subscription model for
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offsetting emissions. They also allow for offsetting of flights.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/restonslespiedssurterre/">Restons
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Les Pieds Sur Terre</a> - Aviation is the fastest growing contributor to
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greenhouse gas emissions at a time when we desperately need to reduce
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them. Pledge to go flight free in 2020.</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://www.nationalgrideso.com/news/introducing-our-carbon-intensity-app">The
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National Grid ESO</a> - Monitor the generation types that make up your
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electricity supply and see when the cleanest time to use electricity
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will be. See the carbon impact level of electricity generation, how your
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region compares to others in the UK and be notified when a record
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towards decarbonisation breaks.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.trine.com/">Trine - Solar Crowd-investing</a> -
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Invest in solar projects bringing clean energy to emerging markets.
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Local solar partners will distribute and manage the solar products on
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the ground. If the loan is successful you will receive your investment
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and interest in return.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/">We Mean
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Business</a> - A coalition aiming to catalyze business action and
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driving policy ambition to accelerate the zero-carbon transition.</li>
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<li><a href="https://tradewater.us/">Tradewater</a> - Finds and destroys
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the most potent greenhouse gases before they are released into the
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atmosphere. These are old refrigerants that would leak into the
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atmosphere unless collected and destroyed. Work is funded by selling
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Carbon Offsets. You can subscribe to offset your carbon emissions.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="clothing">Clothing</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://www.4ocean.com/">4ocean</a> - Oeko-tex
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certificated, cruelty free customizable linen clothing brand. All of the
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packaging are plastic free.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.allbirds.com/">Allbirds</a> - Our shoes are
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made with merino wool, tencel made from rainfall-fed FSC-certified
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eucalyptus forests, recycled plastic bottles (for laces), ‘Sweetfoam’
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soles made from castor bean oil and <a
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href="https://proforest.net/en">ProForest</a>-protected sugarcane. At
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7.6 kg per pair for our wool runners, our process uses 60% less energy
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than materials used in typical synthetic shoes. We offset the rest,
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making Allbirds a carbon-neutral business.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.alternativeapparel.com/">Alternative
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Apparel</a> - Low impact dyes, and post-consumer recycled polyester are
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used with Fair Labor Association guidelines.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.arvingoods.com/">Arvin Goods</a> - Brand that
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makes fashionable socks through a sustainable supply chain process they
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have developed. They have removed excess water from their manufacturing
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process - leaving more water left for communities to drink!</li>
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<li><a href="https://bambooclothing.co.uk/">Bam - Bamboo Clothing</a> -
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Bamboo clothing company that are entirely dedicated to sustainability
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beyond purely carbon emissions, they’re aiming for zero chemical
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pollution, zero waste to landfill, zero deforestation in their suppliers
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(and their suppliers, and <em>their</em> suppliers…) and zero water
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wasted. They’ve got active wear, casual wear, underwear, gift cards for
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birthdays, the whole thing.</li>
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<li><a href="https://boody.co.uk">Boody Eco Wear Essentials</a> -
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Everyday essentials made from hypoallergenic and breathable
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FSC-certified bamboo viscose yarn, OEKO-TEX 100 certified organic by
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Ecocert.</li>
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<li><a href="https://cariuma.com/">Cariuma</a> - Old-School sneakers,
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new school ethics. Cariuma’s sneakers are handcrafted with premium
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natural materials, an obsessive eye for detail, and a conscious mind.
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They care deeply about our craftsmen, and ensure that they earn fair
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wages and experience safe working conditions. Some of their shoes are
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carbon <em>negative</em>, and they are committed to carbon-neutral
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shipping processes, which they do by purchasing carbon offsets for each
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shipment.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.dabchy.com/">Dabchy</a> - Tunisian second hand
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clothes marketplace.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.fordays.com/">For Days</a> - Subscription
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service that provides clothing with a zero-waste approach. When you sign
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up you purchase a membership and receive an organic cotton shirt - each
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time you want to purchase another article you send them back any old
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item to swap them out.</li>
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<li><a href="https://knowledgecottonapparel.com">Knowledge Cotton
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Apparel</a> - Clothing made from certified organic cotton, recycled PET,
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linen, wool, tencel, and recycled nylon sent via certified carbon
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neutral shipping in recyclable packaging.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.kushel.de">Kushel</a> - Our bathrobes and
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towels are made from reforested beech wood and organic cotton, made in
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Portugal. Sourced from FSC-certified reforested forestry operations in
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Europe without irrigation. This mix needs 90% less water and emits 44%
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less CO2. By planting 2 trees for each towel and by compensating the
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carbon emissions and blue-water usage, we are a climate & resource
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positive textile brand, and the first certified B corporation in
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Germany.</li>
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<li><a href="https://linenfoxclothes.com">Linen Fox</a> - Small runs of
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customizable Oeko-tex certificated linen clothing with plastic free
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packaging.</li>
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<li><a href="https://loopalife.com/">Loop A Life - 100% Circular
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Fashion</a> - This circular textile award winning brand sets the new
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standard by clothing from local raw salvaged materials, recycling them
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without any chemicals, generating no wastewater, recycling their own
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products at end-of-life, researching and developing new ways to develop
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circular products. They organize local sorting campaigns, workshops,
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collection campaigns, and facilitate other fashion companies in their
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circular transition. Each sweater saves 500 liters of water, 60mJ of
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energy, uses zero chemicals, and saves at least 6kg of C02 emissions
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(when compared to traditional manufacturing).</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.lostinsamsara.co.uk">Lost in Samsara - Bags,
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Jewelry, and Accessories</a> - Stylish products produced ethically from
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upcycled materials. Bags made from cement bags, tires, and jewelry made
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from upcycled bullet casings.</li>
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<li><a href="https://mudjeans.eu/">MUD Jeans</a> - Zero impact jeans
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production obeying circular economy principles, paying fair wages and
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offering a repair service.</li>
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<li><a href="https://mezzoroni.com/">Mezzoroni</a> - Oeko-tex
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certificated, cruelty free customizable linen clothing brand. All of the
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packaging are plastic free.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.nn07.com/">NN07</a> - Using its <a
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href="https://www.nn07.com/made-to-last">sustainable material
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matrix</a>, No Nationality designs made-to-last clothing primarily with
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recycled and non-cotton natural materials including hemp, linen, wool,
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alpaca, and silk.</li>
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<li><a href="https://norm.shoes/">Norm Shoes</a> - Our shoes are made
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from 90% recycled materials: recycled polyester (6 plastic bottles per
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pair), recycled rubber, and fairtrade rubber. The impact for one pair of
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Norm shoes is only 6,5 kg of CO2 equivalent (80% lower than the industry
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average). We partner with a Belgian NGO, Graine de Vie, to plant two
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trees in Madagascar for each pair we sell and we offset our emissions as
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well.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.patagonia.com/">Patagonia</a> - Sports clothing
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produced in the most sustainable way (<a
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href="https://www.patagonia.com/our-footprint/">footprint</a>: working
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towards carbon neutral, recycled, fair trade, organic, …)</li>
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<li><a href="https://recoverbrands.com/">Recover Brands</a> - Soft and
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strong T-shirts, each made from 8 plastic bottles. Closed Loop
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manufacturing from the start.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.runamics.com">Runamics Running & Sports
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Gear</a> - Crowd-funded for-purpose eco-friendly alternatives to
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traditional sports gear. We combine merino wool with wood-based
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cellulosic fibres like Lyocell. We make experiments with highly
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innovative fibres like biodegradable elastic fibres or “polyester-like”
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substitutes. WE’re climate neutral always working to reduce our
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footprint, use plastic-free packaging and ship globally with DHL
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GoGreen.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.sustainablehosiery.com/">Sustainable
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Hosiery</a> - OEKO-TEX certified, vegan-dyed hosiery made from 76% - 97%
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recycled post-production and post-consumer nylon waste in Zero Waste
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factories</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.tentree.ca/">TenTree</a> - Ten tree is a brand
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that actively promotes environmental stewardship. They have a wide
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variety of comfortable clothes and accessories and with each purchase,
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they pledge to plant 10 trees.</li>
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<li><a href="https://vesicapiscisfootwear.com/">Vesica Piscis Shoes</a>
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- Hand made stylish shoes made from recycled materials. Recycled cotton,
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recycled polyester fabric picking from plastic bottles, X-ray plates,
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fishing nets, etc. They use virgin natural rubber, bamboo, and a small
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amount of organic cotton.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.vinted.com">Vinted Used Clothes Marketplace</a>
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- Your community for pre-loved fashion. Buy and sell quality used
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apparel.</li>
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<li><a href="https://wornwear.patagonia.com/">Worn Wear</a> - A set of
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tools to help our customers partner with Patagonia to take mutual
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responsibility to extend the life of the products Patagonia makes and
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customers purchase. You can buy second-hand repaired or re-crafted
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clothes, or trade in used Patagonia clothes for credit for new
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items.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.woronstore.com/">Woron Store</a> - Lingerie and
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base wear essentials made from GOTS-certified, antibacterial ‘Lenzing
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Modal’ (Beech wood!) made from CO2-neutral FSC-certified native tree
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plantations.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="consumer-products">Consumer Products</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://agood.com/">A Good Company - The Plastic-Free
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Store</a> - Everyday products including notebooks, toothbrushes, phone
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cases, art supplies, water bottles, etc. designed with by a company with
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complete transparency that has extremely ambitious environmental
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standards including plastic-free low-carbon materials including
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bio-plastics, bamboo, stone paper, and recycled aluminum.</li>
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<li><a href="https://earthhero.com/">Earth Hero</a> - Our brands are
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made with better materials, cleaner production, a lower carbon
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footprint, higher quality, and with less waste. When you shop on
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EarthHero, you contribute to a better future for us all.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.fairphone.com/">Fairphone</a> - A phone for
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everyone who cares about how their products are made. It improves the
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conditions of the people who make it and uses materials that are better
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for the planet.</li>
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<li><a href="https://grayl.com/">Grayl Water Filter</a> - Water bottle
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with built in filter that works like a french press. Great for urban and
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outdoor use.</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://www.katadyn.com/en/de/products/water-filters#/1/filter?categories=32">Katadyn
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Water Filters</a> - Katadyn develops and manufactures durable and
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portable water filters, desalinators and chemical disinfectants for
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daily use, camping, trekking, or global journeys. The vast product line
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ranges from water filters and Micropur tablets to the smallest manual
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desalinator for marine applications. Aid organizations as well as the
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military rely on them.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.lehmans.com/">Lehman’s</a> - One-stop shop for
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non-electric, homesteading, survival, handmade, Amish made, plastic
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free, durable, quality goods. If you envision switching to live a
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simpler life, this place has all the tools you need to do so.</li>
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<li><a href="https://orangutanfoundation.org.au/palm-oil/">Palm-Oil Free
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Products</a> - Make sure your makeup, biofuel, popcorn, candy, and other
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<a
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href="https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/palm-oil/palm-oil-free-list">various
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products</a> are palm-oil free. The World Wildlife Fund estimates that
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48 football fields worth of rainforest are cut down every minute! It’s
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estimated that palm oil plantations now cover around 27 million
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hectares. The forests being clear cut are often habitat for orangutans,
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who will be completely gone within 5-10 years at this rate.</li>
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<li><a href="https://pelacase.com/">Pela Case</a> - 100% Compostable
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phone case for iPhone and Android made with flax. Also zero-waste screen
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protectors and sunglasses.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.tomatoink.com/">TomatoInk</a> - TomatoInk is an
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eco-friendly, low-cost provider of ink and toner. By packaging ink in
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remanufactured cartridges, we pass along substantial savings both
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financial and environmental to you. “Our factory collects high-quality
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used cartridges. There, they are professionally cleaned and inspected
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and any defective parts get replaced. The cartridges then get filled
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with high-quality ink comparable to that used in name-brand cartridges.
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And finally, every single cartridge is inspected and test printed.”</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="cooking">Cooking</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://www.stoveteam.org/">Ecocina Rocket Stoves</a> - Wood
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fired cook stove that uses ~40-50% less fuel than traditional fires and
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emits ~1/3 the CO2. Learn how to build one! Check out their research
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center at <a href="http://aprovecho.org/">Aprovecho</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.gosun.co/">Go Sun</a> - An innovative portable
|
||
ultra-efficient solar cooker that can be used for backpacking, boating,
|
||
car camping, etc.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://www.milkwood.net/2015/07/06/thermal-cooking/">Insulated
|
||
Cooking</a> - Discover a great way not only to use less energy in food
|
||
preparation, but to serve tastier and more nutritious meals at the same
|
||
time. Any recipe that calls for boiling, simmering, steaming, or
|
||
roasting will often taste better— <a
|
||
href="https://www.motherearthnews.com/diy/haybox-cooking-zmaz80jfzraw">hot
|
||
from the haybox</a> — than it would with regular stove preparation … and
|
||
you’ll save heat energy at the same time. You can pick up a pot-sized <a
|
||
href="http://www.cookingworld.biz/thermal-cooker-guide/">thermal
|
||
cooker</a>, or simply put a blanket in a cooler.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://www.motherearthnews.com/diy/tools/solar-food-dehydrator-plans-zm0z14jjzmar">Preserve
|
||
Extra Food With A Solar Dehydrator</a> - A solar food dehydrator is a
|
||
device that removes moisture from food to aid in its preservation. You
|
||
can <a
|
||
href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mixedmediaeng/dryceratop-solar-food-dehydrator-for-mason-jars/description">buy
|
||
a simple one</a> or make your own. Food drying is a method of preserving
|
||
fruit, vegetables, and animal proteins that has been practiced since
|
||
antiquity.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.sunoven.com">Sun Oven</a> - Insulated solar
|
||
oven that can cook food just like a regular oven.</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h2 id="development">Development</h2>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><a href="https://docs.stepci.com/guides/co2-testing.html">Step
|
||
CI</a> - Open-source framework for API Quality Assurance, which tests
|
||
REST, GraphQL and gRPC automated and from Open API spec. It lets you
|
||
calculate carbon emissions of your API calls.</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h2 id="documentaries">Documentaries</h2>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.patagonia.com/artifishal.html">Artifishial</a>
|
||
- Artifishal is a film about people, rivers, and the fight for the
|
||
future of wild fish and the environment that supports them. It explores
|
||
wild salmon’s slide toward extinction, threats posed by fish hatcheries
|
||
and fish farms, and our continued loss of faith in nature.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.biggestlittlefarmmovie.com/">Biggest Little
|
||
Farm</a> - The Biggest Little Farm chronicles the eight-year quest of
|
||
John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren
|
||
farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature. Through dogged
|
||
perseverance and embracing the opportunity provided by nature’s
|
||
conflicts, the Chesters unlock and uncover a biodiverse design for
|
||
living that exists far beyond their farm, its seasons, and our wildest
|
||
imagination. Featuring breathtaking cinematography, captivating animals,
|
||
and an urgent message to heed Mother Nature’s call, The Biggest Little
|
||
Farm provides us all a vital blueprint for better living and a healthier
|
||
planet.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="http://www.garbagewarrior.com/">Garbage Warrior</a> -
|
||
Garbage Warrior is a feature-length documentary film telling the epic
|
||
story of maverick architect Michael Reynolds, his crew of renegade house
|
||
builders from New Mexico, and their fight to introduce radically
|
||
different ways of living. Imagine a home that heats itself, that
|
||
provides its own water, hat grows its own food. Imagine that it needs no
|
||
expensive technology, that it recycles its own waste, that it has its
|
||
own power source. And now imagine that it can be built anywhere, by
|
||
anyone, out of the things society throws away. Thirty years ago,
|
||
architect Michael Reynolds imagined just such a home - then set out to
|
||
build it. Reynolds believes that in an age of ecological instability and
|
||
impending natural disaster, his buildings can - and will - change the
|
||
way we live.</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h2 id="finance">Finance</h2>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.abundanceinvestment.com/">Abundance
|
||
Investment</a> - Abundance offer a crowdfunding marketplace for socially
|
||
and environmentally beneficial projects. Make direct investments in a
|
||
range of businesses that share your values, through an ISA or a
|
||
pension.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://amalgamatedbank.com/">Amalgamated Bank</a> -
|
||
Personal and business banking from a Certified B Corporation. They’re
|
||
fossil fuel free in our lending, powered by 100% renewable energy and
|
||
have a long, proud history of providing affordable access to banking and
|
||
being a champion of immigrants’ and workers’ rights. <em>NOT</em> a FDIC
|
||
member, but part of GABV (the Global Alliance of Banking on
|
||
Values).</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.aspiration.com/">Aspiration</a> - Aspiration
|
||
offers socially-conscious and sustainable cash management services and
|
||
investment products, so you can make money while making the world a
|
||
better place. And, unlike the Big Banks, we don’t use your deposits to
|
||
fund oil pipelines or turn your fees into campaign contributions to the
|
||
politicians that work against you.**</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://beneficialstatebank.com/">Beneficial State Bank</a>
|
||
- From fairly priced checking accounts for individuals and families that
|
||
help you stay on track, to business and nonprofit financial tools that
|
||
assist you in growing your organization. This bank is a B Corp, a FDIC
|
||
member, and part of GABV (the Global Alliance of Banking on Values).
|
||
Recommended by Stop The Money Pipeline.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://www.betterment.com/socially-responsible-investing/?referral_key=philipsturgeon">Betterment
|
||
- Socially Responsible Investing</a> - Super reliable, tax efficient,
|
||
Traditional and Roth IRA / 401(k), and they now offer checking too.
|
||
Betterment is not socially responsible by default, you need to select
|
||
the SRI portfolio for each and every goal (account) you set up with
|
||
them. They have divested from oil, but you should review <a
|
||
href="https://www.betterment.com/resources/socially-responsible-investing-portfolio-methodology/#sociallyresponsible">their
|
||
SRI strategy</a> to see if you think it’s good enough.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.climate-kic.org/marketplace/">Climate-KIC
|
||
Marketplace</a> - Marketplace full of investment opportunities into
|
||
early-stage startups. The dealflow stems from EIT Climate-KIC’s
|
||
Accelerator programme, the largest climate-focused acceleration
|
||
programme in the world.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://www.cornercard.ch/de/privatkunden/kreditkarten/liste/detail/climate-creditcard-de">Corner
|
||
Card</a> - Discover Switzerland’s first climate-friendly credit card:
|
||
with every card you make an active contribution to the compensation of
|
||
CO2 emissions - without any additional costs for you. Complete climate
|
||
compensation Whether a flight ticket, a new shirt or an overnight stay
|
||
in a hotel - goods and services paid for with the Climate Credit Card
|
||
are 100% CO2 compensated.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://www.ran.org/bankingonclimatechange2019/#data-panel">Ditch
|
||
Dirty Banks</a> - Anyone with a Chase, Wells Fargo, Citi Bank account
|
||
could do the world a favour by cutting that card in half. Customers of
|
||
any of the fossil fuel funding banks in this list could. Phone up, tell
|
||
them to cancel your account because they’re funding <em>still funding
|
||
coal and fracking</em>, and put another little ding in their bottom
|
||
line. Find an ethical bank, they’ve usually got better fees and more
|
||
friendly support staff anyway.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://eqinvestors.co.uk/individuals">EQ Investors</a> -
|
||
Impact investing is an exciting and rapidly growing industry powered by
|
||
investors who are determined to generate social and environmental impact
|
||
as well as financial returns.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.ecology.co.uk/">Ecology Building Society</a> -
|
||
Need a savings account or a mortgage, but don’t want the money being
|
||
used for the usual awful stuff banks fund? Ecology are dedicated to
|
||
improving the environment by supporting and promoting ecological
|
||
building practices and sustainable communities. They’ll even give
|
||
mortgage to folks trying to buy woodlands, or to buy fields and create
|
||
woodland!</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.gabv.org/">Global Alliance for Banking on
|
||
Values</a> - The Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV) is a
|
||
network of banking leaders from around the world committed to advancing
|
||
positive change in the banking sector. Their goal is to change the
|
||
banking system so that it is more transparent, supports economic, social
|
||
and environmental sustainability, and is composed of a diverse range of
|
||
banking institutions serving the real economy.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://goodmoneyweek.com/">Good Money Week</a> - Helping
|
||
you find sustainable and ethical options for banking, pensions, savings
|
||
and investments.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.hl.co.uk/">Hargreaves Lansdown Responsible
|
||
Investment</a> - Hargreaves Lansdown are a big name in finance, offering
|
||
savings accounts and pensions. They will let you invest in pretty much
|
||
anything, but they’ve put together a list of “responsible investment”
|
||
funds to help you defer some of the thinking to the finance brains. The
|
||
term ‘responsible investment’ is often used as a catch-all to describe
|
||
funds managed with social, environmental, or other responsible criteria
|
||
in mind, so maybe sift through this list to find ones that sound good to
|
||
you, whether you use HL or not.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://www.marketforces.org.au/info/compare-bank-table/">Market
|
||
Forces AU: Sustainable Banks</a> - Find out which banks do and don’t
|
||
have a record of funding fossil fuels. Each institution is sorted into
|
||
categories clearly defining those that fund fossil fuels and those with
|
||
no current record of funding the industry. Importantly, you can take
|
||
action and contact every single bank, credit union and building society
|
||
listed.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.nextenergysolarfund.com/">NextEnergy Solar
|
||
Fund</a> - NextEnergy Solar Fund is a specialist investment company that
|
||
invests in operating solar power plants in the UK and Italy, with the
|
||
objective of securing attractive shareholder returns through RPI-linked
|
||
dividends. The Company achieves this by acquiring solar power plants on
|
||
agricultural, industrial and commercial sites. Invest through an ISA or
|
||
SIPP on usual UK trading platforms like HL/Fidelity/etc.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.stopthemoneypipeline.com/">Stop the Money
|
||
Pipeline</a> - Banks, insurance companies, and asset managers are
|
||
funding, insuring and investing in the climate crisis. Stopping this
|
||
money pipeline is one of the most important ways we can address the
|
||
climate emergency.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.thriverenewables.co.uk/">Thrive Renewables</a>
|
||
- Thrive Renewables connects people to sustainable energy. We offer
|
||
accessible opportunities for individuals and businesses to invest in
|
||
clean energy projects that deliver financial, environmental and social
|
||
rewards. With over 25 years in the industry, we have a wide network of
|
||
professional contacts and are constantly on the look out for new
|
||
projects which enhance our portfolio, match our investment criteria and
|
||
have the potential to generate financial, environmental and social
|
||
returns.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.tomorrow.one">Tomorrow One Bank</a> - German
|
||
bank which considers the future of our planet to be more important than
|
||
access to VIP lounges at airports. Skip extra insurance products and
|
||
fuel discounts, and get a premium account that focuses on climate
|
||
protection.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.treecard.org/">TreeCard</a> - TreeCard - The
|
||
wooden debit card that plants trees.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.trine.com/">Trine - Solar Crowd-investing</a> -
|
||
Invest in solar projects bringing clean energy to emerging markets.
|
||
Local solar partners will distribute and manage the solar products on
|
||
the ground. If the loan is successful you will receive your investment
|
||
and interest in return.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.triodos.co.uk/">Triodos Bank</a> - Modern
|
||
financial and banking services for savers, investors, and organisations
|
||
who want to change the world for the better. Current accounts, personal
|
||
savings, ISAs, business lending, and all sorts of other options for
|
||
individuals, businesses, and charities.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.triodoscrowdfunding.co.uk/">Triodos
|
||
Crowdfunding</a> - Invest directly in pioneering organisations
|
||
delivering positive change, such as community solar schemes, renewable
|
||
energy projects, ethical food supermarkets.</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h2 id="food">Food</h2>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.abelandcole.co.uk/">Able & Cole</a> - Get
|
||
fruit, veg, pantry staples, and other organic food delivered in
|
||
returnable, reusable, recyclable packaging. Seasonal boxes of veg so its
|
||
not traveling around the world, sustainably sourced fish, they’ve even
|
||
got beer.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.agricool.co/fr">Agricool - Local, healthy,
|
||
sustainable food</a> - Des fruits et légumes, cultivés au coeur des
|
||
villes, à moins de 15km de leur lieu de consommation. Frais, locaux,
|
||
sans pesticides.</li>
|
||
<li>[CrowdFarming.com] - Buying food directly from farmers is the most
|
||
powerful everyday act available to anyone to create a positive social
|
||
and environmental impact.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://notco.com">NotCo</a> - The Not Company is a
|
||
Foodtech, that reinvents animal-based foods using only plants. Unlike
|
||
traditional food businesses, the company uses technology to recreate the
|
||
same products we love to eat in a natural, sustainable and affordable
|
||
way, keeping it functional, easy to use and mouthwateringly delicious.
|
||
They use Artificial Intelligence to build a library of thousands of
|
||
Plants and find how to use them, to recreate the same taste, smell,
|
||
function, look and feel of the products we love. ALL PLANT-BASED.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://allplants.com/">All Plants - Vegan Prepared
|
||
Meals</a> - Get super tasty and 100% plant-based meals cooked by chefs
|
||
and delivered straight to your door. Two people getting six meals works
|
||
out at £5 a meal, which is amazing. Use <a
|
||
href="https://allplants.mention-me.com/me/referee/registerko/48827185/206943008/er/796b4fb5d581862f565aa73f01fe733b8576831c/fe/cw?epr=1">this
|
||
referral link</a> to get £10 off your first box. We’ll get £10 off our
|
||
next box, so we’ll spend that saving on trees on <a
|
||
href="https://offset.earth/philsturgeon">Offset Earth</a>. 🥳</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.beeswrap.com/">Bees Wrap</a> - Stop using cling
|
||
film and start using reusable recyclable wraps made from bees wax and
|
||
organic jojoba oil.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.boulderfoodrescue.org/">Boulder Food Rescue</a>
|
||
- We facilitate the sustainable redistribution of healthy food that
|
||
would otherwise be wasted to low-income communities, by bicycle. We work
|
||
with communities to facilitate their own food redistribution and create
|
||
decentralized systems to bypass barriers to food access. Our work
|
||
envisions a world in which everyone has equitable access to healthy
|
||
food.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.cityharvest.org/">City Harvest</a> - City
|
||
Harvest is New York City’s largest food rescue organization. They rescue
|
||
food and deliver it to hundreds of food pantries, soup kitchens and
|
||
other community partners.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.eitfood.eu/">EIT Food</a> - EIT Food is
|
||
Europe’s leading food innovation initiative, working to make the food
|
||
system more sustainable, healthy and trusted by consumers.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.farmdrop.com/">Farm Drop</a> - Next day
|
||
delivery in London for groceries and household products from local and
|
||
independent producers.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://food.cloud/">Food Cloud</a> - FoodCloud is a social
|
||
enterprise that connects businesses with surplus food to charities in
|
||
their local communities that need it via a software platform.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://foodsharing.de/">Foodsharing.de</a> - If you are
|
||
located in Germany, join your local food rescuing group on
|
||
foodsharing.de.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.forkful.app/">Forkful</a> - Sustainable,
|
||
nutritious eating that is as good for you as it is for the planet. With
|
||
our powerful recipe search, you can view the nutritional benefit and
|
||
environmental impact of thousands of recipes at a glance, empowering you
|
||
to make awesome decisions.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://corporate.geev.com/">Geev</a> - An online
|
||
application to exchange stuffs and food between people. Easily discuss,
|
||
meet and give a second life to objects and food. The more you give the
|
||
more people trust you when you want to get something.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://gikibadges.com/">Giki</a> - The Giki app provides
|
||
accessible, independent, transparent information to help people change
|
||
habits to live more sustainably. Our 14 badges cover sustainability,
|
||
health and fairness.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://grocy.info/">Grocy</a> - Grocy is a web-based
|
||
self-hosted groceries and household management solution for your home.
|
||
Scan barcodes, track your purchases, automate and optimize your shopping
|
||
list, waste less by keeping track of what’s expiring next, plan meals,
|
||
and more.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.grownyc.org/compost/locations">GrowNYC Food
|
||
Scrap Collection Schedule</a> - Interactive map with over 150
|
||
residential Food Scrap Drop-Off sites in NYC.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.happycow.net">Happy Cow</a> - Reduce or avoid
|
||
meat entirely by finding great vegetarian or vegan food all over the
|
||
world.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://karma.life/">Karma</a> - Rescue unsold meals,
|
||
delivered, always 50% off in hundreds of cities across Sweden, United
|
||
Kingdom, and France.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://new.karma.life/">Karma</a> - A Swedish company that
|
||
lets restaurants sell surplus food at a lower price. It lets you pay
|
||
less for food and prevent food waste.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://karrot.world/">Karrot</a> - Join or start a group
|
||
in your home town that rescues food. Karrot is a free and open-source
|
||
tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to
|
||
coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary
|
||
basis.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://kitche.co/">Kitche</a> - Kitche works to reduce
|
||
waste from inside users’ kitchens and makes it easier than ever before
|
||
to manage food at home, saving money and reducing food waste all within
|
||
one app. Scan receipts and stop wasting money!</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.makkelijkemoestuin.nl/">Makkelijke Moestuin
|
||
(Easy Vegetable Garden)</a> - We make the vegetable garden easy. Thanks
|
||
to our stuff and app, you can immediately garden like a pro. Setting up
|
||
your vegetable garden perfectly is 80% of the work. Our stuff is
|
||
specially made for that. With the other 20% - maintenance - our app
|
||
helps you completely. You harvest 5 times as much per m² as from an
|
||
ordinary vegetable garden. Ka-ching!</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://nomeat.today/">No Meat Today</a> - Your companion
|
||
to eat less meat. It’s good for you and the planet, but let’s be honest,
|
||
eating less meat is hard. Don’t do it alone!</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.nowasteapp.com/">No Waste</a> - With lists for
|
||
your freezer, fridge and pantry, you can easily check what food you have
|
||
left, see what food you need to use first, plan your meals, create a
|
||
shopping list, avoid unnecessary purchases, reduce food waste and save a
|
||
bunch of money.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://olioex.com/">Olio</a> - We connect neighbors to
|
||
share food, and other things, rather than chuck them away.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.pieter-pot.nl/">Pieter Pot</a> - Your
|
||
groceries, delivered without packaging. Pieter Pot delivers your
|
||
groceries with a cargo bike in beautiful glass jars in The Netherlands.
|
||
Empty pot? Then we fill it again. This is how we make it fun and easy to
|
||
do shopping without all those unnecessary (plastic) packaging. That’s
|
||
nice, right?</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.seafoodwatch.org/">Seafood Watch</a> - Seafood
|
||
Watch recommends seafood that is fished or farmed in ways that promote
|
||
healthy oceans. They recommend best options, good alternatives, and
|
||
things to avoid.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://therottenfruitbox.com/">The Rotten Fruit Box</a> -
|
||
100% Natural Freeze-Dried Fruit Snacks from Spain and Portugal shipped
|
||
to you. The fruit you’re enjoying would have otherwise gone unused and
|
||
rotted away on the ground. We also think that the name “Rotten” helps
|
||
bring attention to the serious issue of food waste. Delicious, healthy,
|
||
100% natural, with a long shelf life, our freeze dried fruit snack
|
||
pouches are ideal for home, work, office, to take to school, camping or
|
||
just about anywhere. Help reduce food waste. Help small local farmers.
|
||
100% compostable packaging, ships with your local postal service because
|
||
it is the lowest carbon footprint option.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://toogoodtogo.co.uk/">Too Good To Go</a> - Sell your
|
||
surplus food, easily and sustainably! Save delicious food and fight food
|
||
waste. Find your favorite food and go rescue it.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://wearephenix.com/en/">We Are Phenix</a> - Buy unsold
|
||
goods from local businesses at a reduced price. Sell expired products to
|
||
clients, donate to charities, reuse organic waste for animal food, and
|
||
more. With over 100k meals saved per day, we are well on our way to
|
||
reach the objective of zero food waste.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://thefelixproject.org/">The Felix Project</a> -
|
||
London-based charity that collects fresh, nutritious food that cannot be
|
||
sold. Deliver this surplus food to charities and schools so they can
|
||
provide healthy meals and help the most vulnerable in our society.
|
||
Reducing food waste and poverty.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.oddbox.co.uk">OddBox</a> - English Certified B
|
||
Corp that is reducing food waste. Collects food rejected by
|
||
Supermarkets, directly from farms and delivers to your door. £10 off
|
||
your first box with this link
|
||
(https://mention-me.com/m/ol/qd4ho-0d5026f88d). I will plant trees
|
||
through Ecologi with the £10 I get for this.</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h2 id="footprint-calculators">Footprint Calculators</h2>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.co2analytics.com/">Carbon Analytics</a> - Link
|
||
a Xero accounts to assess each purchase a company makes, calculating the
|
||
carbon impact of things like fuel, power purchases, transportation and
|
||
more as well as supply chain impacts.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.carbonfootprint.com/">CarbonFootprint.com</a> -
|
||
Measure you carbon footprint, learn how to reduce your consumption,
|
||
offset your impact, communicate, and comply.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://carbonfund.org/">CarbonFund.org</a> - Calculate
|
||
your footprint based on flights, driving, shipping, and make
|
||
tax-deductible donations to offset your emissions.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.cloudcarbonfootprint.org/">Cloud Carbon
|
||
Footprint</a> - An open source tool that provides visibility and tooling
|
||
to measure, monitor and reduce public cloud carbon emissions. It
|
||
supports multiple cloud providers including AWS, Google Cloud, and
|
||
Microsoft Azure, and displays energy and carbon emission metrics in a
|
||
dashabord, command line interface or exportable to CSV.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="http://eaternity.org">Eaternity</a> - Eaternity helps you
|
||
calculate the environmental impact of their food to create a food system
|
||
that operates within the Earth’s environmental limits. Acting as a
|
||
bridge between science and practical application, Eaternity provides
|
||
accessible information on the CO₂ balance of food. The company, founded
|
||
in 2008 at ETH Zurich, has been using a life cycle assessment (LCA)
|
||
database for over 10 years to achieve this goal. The database has been
|
||
continuously developed since its creation. By integrating this database
|
||
into existing production systems, food product producers can measure,
|
||
improve, and market their specific environmental footprint.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="http://ecopassenger.hafas.de/">Eco Passenger</a> - More
|
||
than a quarter of worldwide greenhouse gases emissions come from the
|
||
transportation sector, and more important, it is the sector where we
|
||
have seen the highest growth in these emissions the last decades and it
|
||
is not stopping. To help, EcoPassenger is a calculator to compare the
|
||
energy consumption, CO2 and exhaust atmospheric emissions for planes,
|
||
cars, and trains, for passenger transport.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.emitwise.com/">Emitwise</a> - The Emitwise
|
||
Reportwise tool calculates company level GHG emissions in line with the
|
||
GHG Protocol for scope 1 and 2 emissions. Primarily targeting the UK but
|
||
would also be useful for other countries.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://howgood.com/">How Good</a> - Future-Proof your
|
||
products. HowGood data offers data to businesses and consumers about
|
||
product sustainability from 350+ independent sources on over 1 million
|
||
products. Extensive data library on product sustainability designed to
|
||
help brands and retailers use that data to source better and consumers
|
||
to buy better, to build a better world.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.impactforecast.org/">Impact Forecast</a> - The
|
||
Climate impact forecast is a quick-and-easy tool to see and improve the
|
||
carbon footprint of business ideas in the startup phase, and a stepping
|
||
stone towards more meticulous life cycle assessment for established
|
||
companies.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.joro.tech/">Joro</a> - Effortlessly track your
|
||
personal carbon footprint by securely connecting your credit and debit
|
||
cards. Joro combines financial data and academic datasets to develop
|
||
real-time carbon footprint estimates. The bank integration uses Plaid,
|
||
and is US only for now, but has plans to roll out to Europe. Sign up to
|
||
the newsletter to find out.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://myclimate.org/">MyClimate</a> - Helping reduce
|
||
emissions through a whole bunch of different projects, from consulting
|
||
companies on their footprint (and helping them to reduce), to education
|
||
at schools, forest restoration, providing people in Rwanda with
|
||
efficient cook stoves, and <a
|
||
href="https://www.myclimate.org/information/climate-protection-projects/">a
|
||
whole bunch more</a>. Fund them via donations, and use their
|
||
flight/car/house/company footprint calculators.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://plana.earth/">Plan A</a> - Software that helps your
|
||
business calculate, monitor and reduce its carbon footprint. Our
|
||
platform allows you to track your carbon footprint monthly and learn how
|
||
to reduce it with the support of a custom sustainability action plan,
|
||
automatically created based on your worst-performing indicators.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://github.com/protea-earth/carbon_footprint">Protea
|
||
OSS Carbon Footprint</a> - Open source carbon footprint calculator, the
|
||
only emissions calculator to use a command line interface.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www3.epa.gov/carbon-footprint-calculator/">The US
|
||
EPA’s Carbon Footprint Calculator</a> - The calculator estimates your
|
||
footprint in three areas- home energy, transportation and waste.
|
||
Everyone’s carbon footprint is different depending on their location,
|
||
habits, and personal choices.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://footprint.wwf.org.uk/">WWF UK Calculator</a> - The
|
||
planet is in crisis - from climate change to the pollution in our oceans
|
||
and devastation of our forests. It’s up to all of us to fix it. Take
|
||
your first step with our environmental footprint calculator.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://zellar.com/">Zellar</a> - Get an energy profile for
|
||
your company to understand your energy consumption, and how much CO2 is
|
||
being generated to power your business. We’ll then let you compare your
|
||
profile to other local businesses or similar businesses across the UK,
|
||
then track performance over time. Get advice and even unlock funds to
|
||
finance any investments you may need to make on your journey to zero
|
||
carbon.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.atmosfair.de/">atmosfair</a> - Calculate the
|
||
footprint for flights and buy compensation or donate to offset any
|
||
number of carbon emissions. Tax-deductible in Germany.</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h2 id="home-improvements">Home Improvements</h2>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.all-green.co.uk/">All Green</a> - A selection
|
||
of environmentally friendly products for the home, garden, pets and
|
||
other stuff.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://barry.energy">Barry</a> - Få et smart strømforbrug.
|
||
Udskift din gamle el-leverandør med en app til din strøm.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://www.gov.uk/domestic-renewable-heat-incentive">Domestic
|
||
Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI)</a> - You could get money towards
|
||
renewable heating costs in your home. You can claim for biomass boilers,
|
||
solar water heating, heat pumps. Payments are made for 7 years and are
|
||
based on the amount of renewable heat made by your heating system.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.epa.gov/rad">EPA’s Responsible Appliance
|
||
Disposal</a> - RAD is a voluntary partnership program that works with
|
||
utilities, retailers, manufacturers, state and local government
|
||
agencies, affiliates, and others to dispose of old refrigerated
|
||
appliances using the best environmental practices available.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.ecobee.com/">Ecobee</a> - Improve how people
|
||
consume energy to create a more sustainable future. Live in harmony with
|
||
a thermostat and sensor that learn and adapt to your schedule. <em>Lower
|
||
the manufacturing footprint by buying one of their refurbished
|
||
products.</em></li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.energystar.gov/">EnergyStar.gov</a> - Energy
|
||
efficiency ratings, suppliers, and tax credits for products, homes,
|
||
utilities, and local governments. ENERGY STAR is the government-backed
|
||
symbol for energy efficiency, providing simple, credible, and unbiased
|
||
information that consumers and businesses rely on to make well-informed
|
||
decisions.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://www.greenlivingtips.com/articles/environmentally-friendly-roof-insulation.html">Environmentally
|
||
Friendly Roof Insulation</a> - However you heat your home, make sure you
|
||
aren’t leaking heat through insufficient insulation, and save
|
||
money.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.hamwells.com/">Hamwells Showers</a> - Shower
|
||
systems that utilize heat exchangers to recapture heat and filtered
|
||
pumps to recycle water up to 7 times before it is drained, thus
|
||
significantly reducing water usage and energy consumption.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.lancey.fr/">Lancey</a> - An efficient radiator
|
||
to control your electricity consumption while improving comfort, with a
|
||
connected thermostat to adapt to your needs and the characteristics of
|
||
your home. A built-in battery stores electricity during off-peak hours,
|
||
allowing you to automatically use cheaper and cleaner energy.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.lehmans.com/category/appliances">Lehman’s
|
||
Appliances</a> - Off the grid and super efficient appliances, including
|
||
gas refrigerators, freezers, composting toilets, wood stoves, water
|
||
heaters and pumps.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/10/mist-showers-sustainable-decadence.html">Mist
|
||
Showers</a> - The emissions of a typical shower equal 3.5 – 7 km of
|
||
driving. The mist shower, a satisfying but forgotten technology which
|
||
uses very little water and energy, could be a solution. You can DIY
|
||
convert almost any shower into a mist shower. The five-nozzle mist
|
||
shower offers significant water and energy savings compared to a
|
||
“normal” shower and does so without sacrificing comfort.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://www.nyserda.ny.gov/All-Programs/Programs/Home-Energy-Efficiency-Upgrades">NY
|
||
State Home Energy Assessment tool</a> - Get a home energy audit and
|
||
receive tools, resources, and aid to upgrade your home to be more energy
|
||
efficient.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://nebia.com/">Nebia Showers</a> - Nebia is proud to
|
||
offer products that transform your mundane shower routine into a ritual,
|
||
and also contribute to preserving the planet.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.planetcare.org">PlanetCare Microfibre Laundry
|
||
Filters</a> - 35% of microplastics are fibers that are released when we
|
||
wash our clothes. With consumer and industrial laundry filters, tackle
|
||
the problem close to the source – with a filter in your washing machine.
|
||
PlanteCare makes efficient, practical and affordable laundry filters
|
||
that allow every household to stop sending microfibres into the
|
||
environment.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.powerx.co/">PowerX</a> - A plug-and-play
|
||
smart-controller for water and gas headers. It learns what water
|
||
temperatures you like and heats only as much water as you need. It will
|
||
also detect the ideal time to heat your water, as prices change every 15
|
||
minutes, so you can save money with no impact on hot water levels. Save
|
||
hundreds of dollars, reduce carbon emissions equivalent to 10 fully
|
||
grown trees – every year!</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.google.com/get/sunroof">Project Sunroof</a> -
|
||
Find out if you could save money switching to solar panels. This Google
|
||
project uses Google Earth imagery to analyze your roof shape and local
|
||
weather patterns to create a personalized solar plan. Adjust your
|
||
electric bill to fine-tune your savings estimate and the recommended
|
||
number of solar panels for your home, then compare loan, lease, and
|
||
purchase options for your solar panels based on your results.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://www.regency-fire.com/en/Products/Wood/Wood-Inserts">Regency
|
||
Wood Stove Fireplace Inserts</a> - If solar heating is not an option,
|
||
wood stove inserts can update your drafty, open wood fireplace. They’ll
|
||
send less heat out the chimney, and more heat around your house,
|
||
drastically improving your wood burning efficiency. They pump the smoke
|
||
back into the fire to burn that off too, which sends less crap into the
|
||
atmosphere. Try to use <a
|
||
href="https://www.bio-bean.com/elements/coffee-logs-and-retailers/">coffee
|
||
logs</a> instead of wood.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.rigoverffabriek.nl/">Rigo Paint - Made From
|
||
Flax</a> - Decorating your house? Check out RigoStep water-based paints,
|
||
and oil paints depend on locally grown flax, which is heated and pressed
|
||
by traditional windmills to extract the oil. Once mixed with other
|
||
solvents, this forms the liquid base for the paint.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://sense.com/">Sense</a> - Sense is a home energy
|
||
monitor that gives real-time insight into your home’s energy usage.
|
||
Sense gives people the knowledge they need to reduce their energy costs
|
||
and usage, with profound effects on the environment- the company
|
||
estimates that its users are saving a total of 53 million pounds of CO2
|
||
annually.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_thermal_energy">Solar
|
||
Thermal Energy</a> - Solar thermal technology can be used for cooking,
|
||
heating your home through radiant floors, radiators, or forced air. It
|
||
can be used to heat water directly for hot showers too.</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h2 id="hygiene">Hygiene</h2>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><a href="https://agood.com/">A Good Company - The Plastic-Free
|
||
Store</a> - Everyday products including notebooks, toothbrushes, phone
|
||
cases, art supplies, water bottles, etc. designed with by a company with
|
||
complete transparency that has extremely ambitious environmental
|
||
standards including plastic-free low-carbon materials including
|
||
bio-plastics, bamboo, stone paper, and recycled aluminum.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://culoclean.com/">CuloClean Water Bottle Bidet</a> -
|
||
CuloClean is the portable bidet that you can plumb in your plastic
|
||
bottle, fully discreet, efficient and portable. It is specially designed
|
||
so that it fits in the two most common diameters of water bottle on the
|
||
market.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://greenlivingideas.com/2014/09/23/3-easy-ways-to-green-your-laundry/">Improve
|
||
how you do laundry</a> - Six tips for a more sustainable laundry
|
||
routine.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.ocean-saver.com/">Ocean Savers Cleaning
|
||
Supplies</a> - “Pre-mixed” cleaning sprays that you will find in the
|
||
supermarket are over 90% water, with the active ingredient (the part
|
||
that actually does the cleaning) making up a fraction of the total
|
||
liquid. Oceansaver provide just the active ingredients, so people can
|
||
reuse plastic bottles, reducing the consumption of single-use
|
||
plastic.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://smolproducts.com/">Smol</a> - Zero plastic
|
||
dishwasher and laundry tablet subscription. Contains child lock, they’re
|
||
FSC certified, half the price of traditional brands, and animal cruelty
|
||
free.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sonny-a-portable-bidet-for-eco-conscious-humans/x/17318484#/">Sonny</a>
|
||
- Never worry about running out of toilet paper again with Sonny, a
|
||
sustainable alternative to wipes and paper for better hygiene and a
|
||
greener planet.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://cheekypanda.com">The Cheeky Panda</a> - 100% bamboo
|
||
tissues shipped with zero plastic, wipes in recyclable plastic, and
|
||
carbon balanced through the World Land Trust.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.thecrappyplanet.com/">The Crappy Planet -
|
||
Bamboo Toilet Paper</a> - According to the EPA, one hardwood tree
|
||
produces approximately 45 kg of toilet paper and about 83 million toilet
|
||
rolls are produced every day. Bamboo toilet paper production requires
|
||
less energy, one-fifth of the water, produces considerably more fiber on
|
||
less land area, generates 30-35% more oxygen than other plants and
|
||
trees, and it reduces the amount of carbon dioxide by about the same
|
||
amount. In addition, the production process requires that water and
|
||
other materials are collected, reused and recycled. Finally, we invest
|
||
25% of our profits to stop deforestation and global warming.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.thegoodroll.nl">The Good Roll</a> - Mail order
|
||
100% tree-friendly toilet paper made from post-consumer recycled paper.
|
||
50% of net profit from sales of The Good Roll is invested in the
|
||
installation of safe toilets in East Africa.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://whogivesacrap.org/">Who Gives a Crap</a> - We make
|
||
all of our products with environmentally friendly materials, and we
|
||
donate 50% of our profits to help build toilets for those in need.</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h2 id="jobs">Jobs</h2>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><a href="https://80000hours.org/job-board/">80,000 Hours</a> - This
|
||
board presents some of the most promising publicly advertised vacancies
|
||
we know about. Most of these roles are demanding and difficult to get,
|
||
but if you’re a good fit for one of them, it could be your best
|
||
opportunity to work on one of the world’s most pressing problems, or to
|
||
get the career capital you need to have a big impact later.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://github.com/pogopaule/awesome-sustainability-jobs">awesome-sustainability-jobs</a>
|
||
- A curated, open source list of developer jobs in the sustainability
|
||
sector.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.circul-r.com/">Circul’R</a> - Bridging startups
|
||
and companies so they can co-create circular economy solutions</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://dssg-berlin.org/">Data Science for Social Good</a>
|
||
- Berlin based group helping NGOs to make use of their data by
|
||
connecting them with volunteer data scientists and analysts.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.goodwork.ca/">GoodWork</a> - GoodWork is a
|
||
Canadian community of environmental changemakers, sustainability
|
||
professionals, job seekers and volunteers.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://greenjobs.greenjobsearch.org/">Green Jobs
|
||
Network</a> - Job board that connects employers with job seekers who are
|
||
interested in jobs that focus on environmental or social responsibility.
|
||
Not just tech jobs like some of these boards, they cover all sorts of
|
||
jobs.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://greenjobs.com">GreenJobs</a> - Site advertising a
|
||
wide variety of green jobs to enhance your environmental career.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://jobs.makesense.org">MakeSense Jobs</a> - Makesense
|
||
inspires and empowers citizens, entrepreneurs and organizations to build
|
||
an inclusive and sustainable society together. MakeSense’s Job and
|
||
assignment announcements platform for associations and social
|
||
entrepreneurs who recruit profiles passionate about the impact. Job
|
||
types include internship, freelance, civic service, partner, program,
|
||
volunteer mission, mentoring.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://medium.com/@leventov/how-to-find-a-job-in-a-tech-company-helping-to-combat-climate-change-practical-guide-e212e262a32">Practical
|
||
guide to finding a climate change job in tech</a> - Nice guide on
|
||
finding a job in tech tackling climate change.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.reconsidered.co/jobs">Reconsidered Jobs</a> -
|
||
Aggregate jobs in social impact, sustainability and corporate social
|
||
responsibility.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.tbd.community/">TBD Community</a> - More than
|
||
3,000 impact-driven companies and organisations use tbd* to look for new
|
||
team members, in English and German but many of the jobs are in
|
||
Germany.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://techjobsforgood.com/">Tech Jobs for Good</a> - Find
|
||
tech jobs at social impact companies, foundations, and innovative
|
||
nonprofits in the United States. They cover all sorts of impact areas,
|
||
with Environment being one you can select. Some jobs are remote, some
|
||
are in-office.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://climatetriage.com/">ClimateTriage</a> - Discover a
|
||
meaningful way to join open source projects by contributing to Good
|
||
First Issues focused on climate and sustainability.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.terra.do">Terra.do</a> - Climate learning and
|
||
career transition platform, runs several fellowships on climate
|
||
education (broad and sector-specific), hosts climate job fairs, connects
|
||
to mentors and experts, etc.</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h2 id="land-management">Land Management</h2>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://conservationtools.org/guides/150-what-is-a-land-trust">Creating
|
||
a Land Trust</a> - A land trust is a charitable organization that
|
||
acquires land or conservation easements, or that stewards land or
|
||
easements, for conservation purposes. Land owners may consider
|
||
designating portions of their land as a land trust, in order to preserve
|
||
natural features in perpetuity, and be eligible for tax benefits as a
|
||
result.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="http://dronecoria.org/">Dronecoria</a> - Open-source drone
|
||
reforestation technology. Drones, coupled with native coated seeds, can
|
||
transform the efficiency with which we restore ecosystems.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.droneseed.com/">Droneseed</a> - They plant
|
||
native trees & vegetation using drone swarms and spray to protect
|
||
them. Provide valuable insights to customers by collecting data in the
|
||
field. Work with governments, nonprofits, and private land owners as a
|
||
service provider.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://farm.bot/">Farm Bot</a> - Farm Bot is a fully
|
||
automated, open-source, crowd-funded project, which helps you grow food
|
||
for yourself, your family, and your community. Install FarmBot on a
|
||
raised bed, urban rooftop, or in a small greenhouse at home. Hyper-local
|
||
food production has never been easier.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/">Natural Resources Conservation
|
||
Service (NRCS)</a> - NRCS will pay you to steward your land, in ways you
|
||
define. It offers voluntary programs to eligible landowners and
|
||
agricultural producers to provide financial and technical assistance to
|
||
help manage natural resources in a sustainable manner. Programs include
|
||
emergency watershed protection and flood prevention, watershed
|
||
rehabilitation, surveys and planning, healthy forest reserve easements,
|
||
agricultural conservation easements, conservation stewardship, and
|
||
environmental quality incentives.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://newsociety.com/books/p/the-permaculture-earthworks-handbook">Permaculture
|
||
Earthworks Handbook</a> - A detailed guide to the proper design and
|
||
construction of water harvesting earthworks. It covers the function,
|
||
design, and construction methods for nine main types of water harvesting
|
||
earthworks across a full range of climates. Free alternatives are an
|
||
online course by <a
|
||
href="https://www.permaculturewomen.com/freepermaculturecourse.html">Permaculture
|
||
Women</a>, and a four-part documentary by <a
|
||
href="https://www.geofflawtononline.com/">Geoff Lawton</a>.</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h2 id="news">News</h2>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/green">Bloomberg Green</a> -
|
||
Climate news and insights on the latest in science, environmental
|
||
impacts, zero-emission tech and green finance.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/">Carbon Brief</a> - UK-based
|
||
website covering the latest developments in climate science, climate
|
||
policy and energy policy. Clear, data-driven articles and graphics to
|
||
help improve the understanding of climate change, both in terms of the
|
||
science and the policy response.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://www.democracynow.org/topics/climate_change">Democracy
|
||
Now!</a> - Independent global news produced daily, hosted by
|
||
award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Our reporting
|
||
includes breaking daily news headlines and in-depth interviews with
|
||
people on the front lines of the world’s most pressing issues by a
|
||
diversity of voices. Free from government funding, corporate
|
||
sponsorship, underwriting or advertising revenue.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://heated.world/">Heated</a> - Original reporting and
|
||
analysis on the climate crisis at the top of your inbox every morning,
|
||
Monday through Thursday. News should arm you with the knowledge you need
|
||
to effectively fight this crisis.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="http://en.ipanda.com/">iPanda</a> iPanda offers news and
|
||
live broadcasts of events concerning the release of pandas into the
|
||
wild, panda mating and breeding, the debut of new-born baby pandas, etc.
|
||
Also strive to spread knowledge about the conservation of the giant
|
||
panda and other rare wildlife species, raising awareness to audience
|
||
around the world about environmental protection.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://metabolic.nl/news">Metabolic</a> - Sustainability
|
||
consultancy in The Netherlands, tracking and reporting on climate
|
||
action, circular economy, reducing consumption, etc. all over the
|
||
world.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/category/climate/">State of
|
||
the Planet</a> - News from the Earth Institute at Columbia University.
|
||
Columbia’s Earth Institute blends research in the physical and social
|
||
sciences, education and practical solutions to help guide the world onto
|
||
a path toward sustainability.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.patagonia.com/blog/">The Cleanest Line</a> -
|
||
Patagonia’s blog on their efforts into political engagement for
|
||
environmental protection of green spaces, global strikes, their efforts
|
||
subsidizing solar energy in various communities, and all sorts of other
|
||
climate action.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/environment">The
|
||
Guardian</a> - The Guardian covers international environmental issues
|
||
and climate change.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.usgbc.org/articles">US Green Build Council</a>
|
||
- Transforming how buildings are designed, constructed and operated
|
||
through the LEED construction standard. Articles about benchmarking
|
||
energy efficiency of materials, city strategy, measuring the health of
|
||
indoor spaces, reducing off-gassing, and improving air quality.</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h2 id="other-services">Other Services</h2>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.ecotalk.co.uk">Ecotalk</a> - UK-based mobile
|
||
network powered by renewable energy. Profits are used to buy land which
|
||
is then given back to nature.</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h2 id="podcasts">Podcasts</h2>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><p><a
|
||
href="https://www.democracynow.org/topics/climate_change">Democracy
|
||
Now!</a> - Independent global news produced daily, hosted by
|
||
award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Our reporting
|
||
includes breaking daily news headlines and in-depth interviews with
|
||
people on the front lines of the world’s most pressing issues by a
|
||
diversity of voices. Free from government funding, corporate
|
||
sponsorship, underwriting or advertising revenue.</p></li>
|
||
<li><p><a href="https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet">How to
|
||
Save a Planet</a> - weekly-ish podcast by Gimlet Media that asks the big
|
||
questions: what do we need to do to solve the climate crisis, and how do
|
||
we get it done? Journalist Alex Blumberg and scientist and policy nerd
|
||
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson talk to people who are making a difference
|
||
and work to figure out how to build the future we want, tackling a
|
||
different subject related to the climate crisis each episode.</p></li>
|
||
<li><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04grdbc">People Fixing
|
||
the World - BBC World Service</a> - Brilliant solutions to the world’s
|
||
problems. We meet people with ideas to make the world a better place and
|
||
investigate whether they work.</p></li>
|
||
<li><p><a href="https://climate.mit.edu/users/tilclimate-podcast">TIL
|
||
Climate Podcast</a> - This MIT podcast breaks down the science,
|
||
technologies, and policies behind climate change, how it’s impacting us,
|
||
and what we can do about it. Each quick episode gives you the what, why,
|
||
and how on climate change – from real scientists – to help us make
|
||
informed decisions for our future.</p></li>
|
||
<li><p><a href="https://streetsblog.libsyn.com/">Talking Headways: A
|
||
Book Club for the Future of Transportation</a> - We explore the
|
||
intersection of sustainable transportation, urban planning, city living,
|
||
economic development, and anything else that piques our interest. A
|
||
staple and almost an obligatory source of information on the latest
|
||
trends in urban mobility and urban planning.</p></li>
|
||
<li><p><a href="https://theclimatefix.com/">The Climate Fix</a> - We
|
||
shine a spotlight on people and organisations working on sustainable
|
||
solutions, help connect them to talent & investment as well as give
|
||
people hope that there are climate solutions as well as climate
|
||
problems.</p></li>
|
||
<li><p><a href="https://xenetwork.org/ets/">The Energy Transition
|
||
Show</a> - Straight talk about the world’s transition from fossil fuels
|
||
to renewables with energy expert Chris Nelder.</p></li>
|
||
<li><p><a href="https://omny.fm/shows/green-pulse-1">Green Pulse</a> -
|
||
The Straits Times (A Singapore news outlet) analyses the beat of the
|
||
changing environment, from biodiversity conservation to climate
|
||
change.</p></li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h2 id="politics">Politics</h2>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><a href="https://repair.eu/">EU: Right to Repair</a> - Cracked
|
||
screens, weak batteries, broken charging ports… We’d like to fix them,
|
||
but instead we end up buying a new smartphone because repairs are too
|
||
expensive, difficult or impossible. Reducing the lifespan of a product
|
||
may drive sales, but this comes at the expense of consumers, workers and
|
||
the planet. Ask the European Union to give people the Right to Repair by
|
||
requiring manufacturers to design repairable smartphones and provide
|
||
spare parts and repair information to all repairers and consumers.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://energyinnovationact.org/">Energy Innovation and
|
||
Carbon Dividend Act</a> - The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act
|
||
(H.R. 763) will drive down America’s carbon pollution and bring climate
|
||
change under control, while unleashing American technology innovation
|
||
and ingenuity. This policy was also introduced in the Senate in 2018 as
|
||
S. 3791.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://act.nrdc.org/letter/welcome-arctic-190603">No
|
||
Fracking in Alaska’s Arctic Wildlife Refuge</a> - Alaska’s Arctic
|
||
National Wildlife Refuge is one of our last truly wild places — and it
|
||
has been off-limits to oil companies for decades. But the Trump
|
||
administration is closer than any administration in history to tearing
|
||
open the Arctic Refuge for destructive oil and gas drilling.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/">Our Children’s
|
||
Trust</a> - Leading the game-changing, youth-driven, global climate
|
||
recovery campaign to secure the legal right to a stable climate and
|
||
healthy atmosphere.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://www.change.org/p/wild-salmon-and-southern-resident-killer-whales-are-on-the-brink-of-extinction?signed=true">Save
|
||
Wild Orcas and Wild Salmon</a> - Wild salmon and southern resident
|
||
killer whales are on the brink of extinction. Now a misguided plan to
|
||
feed the starving whales with hatchery salmon will push both endangered
|
||
species closer to the edge, while costing taxpayers millions of dollars
|
||
per year. Tell NOAA Regional Administrator Barry Thom, WDFW Director
|
||
Kelly Susewind, and our elected decision makers to stop wasting money on
|
||
failed plans and invest in science-based solutions: reduce hatchery
|
||
production, remove dams and change how we harvest salmon.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://act.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/tell-uk-government-double-tree-cover">U.K.
|
||
Double Tree Cover</a> - Over the centuries the United Kingdom has
|
||
cleared its forests, leaving it with some of the lowest levels of
|
||
woodland in Europe. If the government is serious about protecting the
|
||
climate, it needs to bring back the lost trees.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://www.curbed.com/2019/5/21/18632816/zero-emission-vehicles-act-ban-cars">U.S.
|
||
Gas-powered car free by 2040</a> - Federal legislation was proposed in
|
||
both the House of Representatives and the Senate that could radically
|
||
shift the way the U.S. tackles its climate crisis. The Zero-Emission
|
||
Vehicles Act would eliminate the sale of gas-powered passenger cars in
|
||
the U.S. by 2040.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.nrdc.org/save-clean-power-plan">U.S. Save the
|
||
“Clean Power Plan”</a> - Fossil-fueled power plants are responsible for
|
||
nearly 40 percent of America’s carbon footprint. The Clean Power Plan
|
||
calls for setting limits on this climate-warming pollution from these
|
||
power plants, specifically at least 32 percent by 2030, compared to 2005
|
||
levels. By 2030, the Clean Power Plan could save the United States $20
|
||
billion in climate-related costs and deliver up to $34 billion in health
|
||
benefits.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/page/s/declare-climate-emergency">UK
|
||
Government: Act now on the Climate Emergency</a> - Now that Parliament
|
||
has declared a Climate Emergency, we need you to act like it. For
|
||
starters, that means banning all new oil and gas production in the UK,
|
||
including fracking, tripling renewable energy by 2030, planting 700
|
||
million trees, introducing a Frequent Flyer Tax, ending the sale of all
|
||
new petrol and diesel cars by 2030, and more.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.change.org/t/dam-removal-en-us">US Damn
|
||
Removal</a> - <a
|
||
href="https://www.ussdams.org/our-news/americas-aging-dams-in-need-of-repair/">70
|
||
percent of the dams in the United States</a> are now more than 50 years
|
||
old, with almost 2,000 of them rated as “high-hazard”. About <a
|
||
href="https://apnews.com/75b1cd657f3e4fa3be6adaf968eb7df4">1,000 dams
|
||
have failed</a> over the past four decades, killing 34 people, and now
|
||
many are no longer adequate to handle the intense rainfall and floods of
|
||
a changing climate. With dams causing wild salmon populations to go
|
||
extinct, their only benefit is hydropower, yet dams are woefully
|
||
inefficient by modern standards. For example, the Tugalo Dam in Georgia
|
||
destroyed 597 acres of temperate rainforest to produce 45 Megawatts,
|
||
which is the equivalent of 7,500 homes adding 6kw rooftop solar panels.
|
||
We should tear down these dams as soon as possible, be that when their
|
||
contract runs out or sooner, instead of wasting tax-payer money
|
||
operating them or trying to revive them. <a
|
||
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpzvaqypav8">More on Last Week
|
||
Tonight</a>.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://climaterealityproject.org">Climate Reality</a> - an
|
||
initiative of former United States vice president and 2007 Nobel Peace
|
||
Prize laureate Al Gore to make urgent action a necessity to address
|
||
climate change issues through activism and cutting greenhouse gas
|
||
emissions.</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h2 id="reforestation">Reforestation</h2>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.arborday.org/">Arbor Day Foundation</a> - The
|
||
Arbor Day Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit conservation and education
|
||
organization. A million members, donors, and partners support our
|
||
programs to make our world greener and healthier.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.bunq.com/easygreen">Bunq Greencard</a> - Dutch
|
||
online-only bank with a credit card which plants trees for the money you
|
||
spend.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://coforest.co.uk/">Coforest</a> - To create our first
|
||
co-forest in the Bath & Bristol area, we’re inviting organisations
|
||
and individuals to adopt up to an acre of land. You’ll be able to name
|
||
your forest plot and even help to plant it. Together, we’ll create a
|
||
whole new forest.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://digitalhumani.com">DigitalHumani</a> -
|
||
DigitalHumani offers a Reforestation as a Service, to help enterprises
|
||
plant trees! Run by a volunteer collective, they provide simple
|
||
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to help connect websites and
|
||
mobile applications to trusted reforestation organizations to have trees
|
||
planted.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="http://dronecoria.org/">Dronecoria</a> - Open-source drone
|
||
reforestation technology. Drones, coupled with native coated seeds, can
|
||
transform the efficiency with which we restore ecosystems.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://ecotree.green/">EcoTree</a> - Support the European
|
||
forests and reap the benefits. Plant trees as an original and meaningful
|
||
gift. Building complex, resistant, and multifunctional forests to
|
||
promote resilience. For every tree harvested, three new ones are
|
||
planted.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://ecologi.com/?r=5d01f2ed12ae7a358b75fdd7">Ecologi</a> -
|
||
Help the planet from your sofa, for less than a cheap bottle of wine per
|
||
month. Watch your own forest come to life and offset your entire
|
||
footprint for $6.50/€6 per-month. Then get your friends, family,
|
||
business, and even your dog signed up!</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://edenprojects.org/">Eden Reforestation Projects</a>
|
||
- Eden Reforestation Projects reduces extreme poverty and restores
|
||
healthy forests by employing local villagers to plant millions of trees
|
||
every year.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.formghana.com/">Form Ghana</a> - A forest
|
||
plantation management company based in central Ghana that provides
|
||
services in the field of reforestation of degraded Forest Reserves and
|
||
plantation management.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.forminternational.nl/">Form International</a> -
|
||
Form International is a forest management and services company that
|
||
manages forest assets in Africa and delivers a range of technical and
|
||
financial services to clients worldwide.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://landlifecompany.com/">Land Life Company</a> - Using
|
||
drones and automated planting, they plant at scale in urban environments
|
||
using a fraction of the water. Their mission is to reforest the world’s
|
||
2 billion hectares of degraded land.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://myclimate.org/">MyClimate</a> - Helping reduce
|
||
emissions through a whole bunch of different projects, from consulting
|
||
companies on their footprint (and helping them to reduce), to education
|
||
at schools, forest restoration, providing people in Rwanda with
|
||
efficient cook stoves, and <a
|
||
href="https://www.myclimate.org/information/climate-protection-projects/">a
|
||
whole bunch more</a>. Fund them via donations, and use their
|
||
flight/car/house/company footprint calculators.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://reforestum.com/">Reforestum</a> - Reforestum is an
|
||
online marketplace to drive reforestation and forest conservation,
|
||
incentivizing companies and individuals to easily offset their carbon
|
||
footprint by acquiring and tracking forest shares and carbon credits.
|
||
Reforestum offers transparency via remote sensing and AI, together with
|
||
a comprehensible API for seamless integration.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://teamtrees.org/">Team Trees</a> - TeamTrees started
|
||
in May 2019 when the internet challenged <a
|
||
href="https://twitter.com/MrBeastYT">Mr. Beast</a> to plant 20 million
|
||
trees to commemorate hitting the 20M subscriber milestone. Fans then
|
||
suggested he band together with a bunch of other YouTubers and
|
||
influencers to make it happen.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://tree-nation.com/">Tree-Nation</a> - With
|
||
Tree-Nation you can plant trees everywhere, even in the most remote
|
||
locations. You will know who is planting your trees, where they are
|
||
located and how they are being planted.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.treecard.org/">TreeCard</a> - TreeCard - The
|
||
wooden debit card that plants trees.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.treedom.net/">Treedom</a> - Treedom lets you
|
||
buy or gift a real tree, where somebody will plant it for you and follow
|
||
it online.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://trees.org/">Trees for the Future</a> - TREES plants
|
||
all sorts of trees and plants, and nearly all of the trees used are
|
||
either native or naturalized in the environments where they are planted.
|
||
They partner with farmers to understand their needs and match them with
|
||
species that will suit their needs and be environmentally benign.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://treeware.earth">Treeware</a> - Loads of open-source
|
||
developers have a “Buy me a coffee” button on their software. Now you
|
||
can have “Buy me a tree!” on your GitHub repository. Get the same “Yay
|
||
somebody cares about my work” AND lessen the existential dread all in
|
||
one. Powered by <a href="https://offset.earth/">Offset Earth</a>.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.weforest.org/">WeForest</a> - WeForest empowers
|
||
communities to advance and implement innovative, high standard, scalable
|
||
and lasting solutions to restore forest landscapes.</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h2 id="renewable-energy">Renewable Energy</h2>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><a href="https://bigcleanswitch.org/">Big Clean Switch</a> - Do
|
||
energy differently. Switch in minutes to a green electricity tariff from
|
||
one of the UK’s leading suppliers.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://communitypower.ie/">Community Power</a> - Ireland’s
|
||
first community owned electricity supplier which collaborates with Local
|
||
Sustainable Energy Communities! Whether you are a household, community,
|
||
business, public or private building, you can switch and buy your
|
||
electricity from Community Power.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://www.gov.uk/domestic-renewable-heat-incentive">Domestic
|
||
Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI)</a> - You could get money towards
|
||
renewable heating costs in your home. You can claim for biomass boilers,
|
||
solar water heating, heat pumps. Payments are made for 7 years and are
|
||
based on the amount of renewable heat made by your heating system.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.ecotricity.co.uk/">Ecotricity</a> - 100% green
|
||
electricity. They generate 1/5th from their fleet of windmills and
|
||
sunmills, and buy the rest from other green generators. They also turn
|
||
our customers’ bills into new sources of green energy, making more green
|
||
electricity all the time.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.electricitymap.org/">Electricity Map</a> - A
|
||
map showing the energy consumption, renewable penetration and carbon
|
||
emissions from energy for many countries around the world. If you’re
|
||
country isn’t covered you can contribute a data source.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.goodenergy.co.uk/">Good Energy</a> - One of the
|
||
few energy suppliers in the UK to generate renewable power from their
|
||
own wind and solar farms, and buy renewable power from small independent
|
||
renewable generators. From local farmers and community energy schemes to
|
||
sustainable businesses that generate their own power and sell them the
|
||
excess. A true renewable supplier, not just coal power + offset
|
||
credits.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.green-e.org/">Green-E</a> - Find a renewable
|
||
energy provider near you. Green-e certified renewable energy and carbon
|
||
offset products meet the most stringent environmental and consumer
|
||
protection standards in North America. You can search below for
|
||
certified green power and renewable energy certificate programs for your
|
||
home or business, and carbon offset products to offset your emissions
|
||
from activities like driving and flying. As a third-party certifier,
|
||
Green-e® doesn’t sell renewable energy or offsets, but offers these
|
||
links to retailers that do.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://www.gov.uk/non-domestic-renewable-heat-incentive">Non-domestic
|
||
Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI)</a> - The non-domestic Renewable Heat
|
||
Incentive helps businesses, public sector and non-profit organisations
|
||
meet the cost of installing renewable heat technologies.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.google.com/get/sunroof">Project Sunroof</a> -
|
||
Find out if you could save money switching to solar panels. This Google
|
||
project uses Google Earth imagery to analyze your roof shape and local
|
||
weather patterns to create a personalized solar plan. Adjust your
|
||
electric bill to fine-tune your savings estimate and the recommended
|
||
number of solar panels for your home, then compare loan, lease, and
|
||
purchase options for your solar panels based on your results.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="http://www.sparkmeter.io/">SparkMeter</a> - Humanitarian
|
||
smart energy metering solution that purchases wasted unused electricity
|
||
from utilities and resells it to hard-to-reach places and under served
|
||
markets, thus reducing overall energy consumption.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://carbonintensity.org.uk/">UK Carbon Intensity</a> -
|
||
This officially backed open API from Oxford University and the National
|
||
Grid ESO gives a snapshot of how much carbon each unit of electricity
|
||
consumed in the UK emits for every half hour. Also carries forecasts,
|
||
regional breakdowns with some great charts and re-useable widgets. They
|
||
also have <a
|
||
href="https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/alex.rogers/gridcarbon/">an
|
||
app</a>.</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h2 id="transportation">Transportation</h2>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><a href="https://bicycleuniverse.com/car-free-millionaire/">Biking
|
||
vs. Driving Calculator</a> - Riding your bike can make you a
|
||
millionaire! You’re paying more for your car than you think. A typical
|
||
American who goes car-free for 35 years can save nearly a million
|
||
dollars, even adjusted for inflation, and even if they pay for taxi,
|
||
bus, and car-share trips often. Use the calculator to find how much you
|
||
can save in your particular situation.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://climatechoice.co/change-how-you-travel">Change How
|
||
You Travel from Climate Choice</a> - 26% of the greenhouse gases emitted
|
||
into our atmosphere are from the production and use of vehicles and
|
||
airplanes. See what what you can do now, and learn about the benefits of
|
||
changing your travel.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://ebiketips.road.cc/content/advice/buyers-guide/9-of-the-best-e-bikes-under-1000-2020-electric-bikes-on-a-budget-2209">Commute
|
||
on Electric Bicycles</a> - Like the idea of cycling but feel like it’s a
|
||
bit far, bit hilly, or no access to a shower at the other end? E-bikes
|
||
aren’t just for the older riders, they’ve pushed into the mainstream
|
||
culturally and financially, and are a hell of a lot of fun. Combine it
|
||
with local “cycle to work schemes” listed here for extra savings, some
|
||
places do <a
|
||
href="https://urbanebikes.com/pages/cycle-to-work-scheme-electric">specific
|
||
deals on e-bikes</a>.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://urbanebikes.com/collections/electric-motorbikes">Commute
|
||
on Electric Motorbikes</a> - Electric cars are still priced beyond the
|
||
reach of many, but swapping a car for an electric motorbike will leave
|
||
plenty of cash in your pocket. The average used car sells for $20,840 in
|
||
the USA, and you can get a lot of electric motorbike for $3,000. Finding
|
||
a used electric motorbike will get that manufacturing footprint off your
|
||
conscience too.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://www.dpdhl.com/en/responsibility/environment-and-solutions.html">DHL
|
||
GoGreen</a> - GoGreen Solutions include both standardized products and
|
||
customized solutions to help customers develop their own eco-friendly
|
||
business models and green supply chains. With our carbon reports,
|
||
climate neutral products, and green optimization, we give customers
|
||
transparency, offset unavoidable emissions, and identify ways in which
|
||
our customers can reduce emissions and waste. These optimization
|
||
measures achieve savings potential that most companies would not be able
|
||
to achieve on their own.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://pod-point.com">Pod Point</a> - UK leaders in
|
||
electric vehicle charging with innovative solutions for homes,
|
||
workplaces and commercial organizations.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.poparide.com/">Poparide</a> - Get a ride or
|
||
fill a seat for rideshares between cities in Canada. Having 3 people in
|
||
the car can be more efficient than some of their big-ass trains and is
|
||
1/5th the impact of flying.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.share-now.com/">Share Now</a> - With
|
||
car-sharing, you don’t have to buy or lease a car. Share Now cars are
|
||
available around every street corner in loads of cities around the
|
||
world. Find us in 16 major cities in 8 countries in Europe and all over
|
||
the US – for all your plans, big and small. Includes free parking, no
|
||
need to pay for maintenance, insurance, or petrol, and loads of them are
|
||
electric too! Package deals available for businesses to help employees
|
||
ditch their car when active/public transportation is not an option.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://www.tomtom.com/products/ev-charging-availability-routing-services/">TomTom’s
|
||
EV Station Finder</a> - With TomTom’s EV charging infrastructure,
|
||
‘eco-routing’ to calculate energy efficient routes (!), in-range EV
|
||
station finder, real-time availability monitoring, on-demand
|
||
information, TomTom is continuing to invest in the largest electric
|
||
vehicle map coverage with 330,000+ charging points in 50 countries
|
||
throughout Europe, The Americas, the Middle East, and Asia.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.vanmoof.com/">VanMoof</a> - “City-proof” bikes,
|
||
with electric assist, which ship fully assembled. They’re baked full of
|
||
anti-theft tech, and they’ll hunt your bike down if it does get stolen.
|
||
In some countries there is a subscription service where they’ll fix
|
||
things up for you if you have any trouble, but just the base bike alone
|
||
is a stunning beautiful electric bike with dynamo hubs, built in lights,
|
||
and sturdy mudguards, so you can ride it all day and night.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.waze.com/carpool">Waze Carpool</a> - Choose to
|
||
drive or ride, and match with people based on route and time of
|
||
day.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://workhorse.com/">Workhorse - Electric Delivery
|
||
Vehicles</a> - All-electric by design, with composite technology, and a
|
||
100-mile range, it’s expected to be more economical than traditional
|
||
delivery vans. Our current delivery vans, E-100 and E-GEN, have more
|
||
than 4 million miles on them and are used by some of the premier package
|
||
delivery companies in the world.</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h2 id="travel">Travel</h2>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><a href="https://climatechoice.co/change-how-you-travel">Change How
|
||
You Travel from Climate Choice</a> - 26% of the greenhouse gases emitted
|
||
into our atmosphere are from the production and use of vehicles and
|
||
airplanes. See what what you can do now, and learn about the benefits of
|
||
changing your travel.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://ecobnb.com/">EcoBnB</a> - Find accommodation for a
|
||
trip with a focus on sustainability. Most locations get their
|
||
electricity from renewable sources, you wont find loads of single-use
|
||
plastics, they recycle more than 80% of their waste, etc.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://flightfree.co.uk/">Flight Free (UK)</a> - Aviation
|
||
is the fastest growing contributor to greenhouse gas emissions at a time
|
||
when we desperately need to reduce them. Pledge to go flight free in
|
||
2020.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://flightfreeusa.org/">Flight Free (USA)</a> - A
|
||
grassroots campaign which asks people to agree not to fly in the year of
|
||
2020 – on condition that 100,000 others will also pledge to do the
|
||
same.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://greentickets.app/">Green Tickets</a> - Traveling is
|
||
amazing, right? We completely agree! But you probably know that
|
||
traveling can have a large climate impact. With Green Tickets you can
|
||
take responsibility of your travel behaviour and reduce your footprint,
|
||
while still enjoying everything that traveling has to offer.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.homeexchange.com/">Home Exchange</a> - Swap
|
||
homes with another family instead of spending money at a fancy hotel, as
|
||
hotels have a much higher footprint due to the constant cleaning,
|
||
overactive AC, etc.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.poparide.com/">Poparide</a> - Get a ride or
|
||
fill a seat for rideshares between cities in Canada. Having 3 people in
|
||
the car can be more efficient than some of their big-ass trains and is
|
||
1/5th the impact of flying.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/restonslespiedssurterre/">Restons
|
||
Les Pieds Sur Terre</a> - Aviation is the fastest growing contributor to
|
||
greenhouse gas emissions at a time when we desperately need to reduce
|
||
them. Pledge to go flight free in 2020.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.seat61.com/">Seat61</a> - Train travel is a
|
||
more rewarding, low-stress alternative to flying, which brings us closer
|
||
to the countries we visit and reduces our contribution to climate
|
||
change. It’s time to rediscover the pleasure, romance & adventure of
|
||
travel by train or ship. This site explains how to travel comfortably
|
||
& affordably by train or ferry where you might think air was now the
|
||
only option. For help with train travel, ask the Man in Seat 61!</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.langsamreisen.de/">Slow Travel
|
||
(Langsamreisen)</a> - A travel company all about sustainable and
|
||
conscious travel. Piggy back on a cargo ship to get to that new job on
|
||
the other side of the world. Sailing trips to get around without a
|
||
footprint. Maybe take the trans-siberian railway.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="http://snowcarbon.co.uk/">Snow Carbon</a> - Wish you could
|
||
avoid airport queues, tedious transfers and long drives? Want to travel
|
||
sustainably and enjoyably by train instead - to fantastic accommodation
|
||
in the best ski resorts in the Alps? Snowcarbon is an independent guide
|
||
founded by ski journalist Daniel Elkan to help you do exactly that.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://stay-grounded.org/">Stay Grounded</a> - A global
|
||
network of more than 150 member organisations, among them local airport
|
||
opposition and climate justice groups, NGOs, trade unions, initiatives
|
||
fostering alternatives to aviation like night trains, and organisations
|
||
supporting communities which struggle against offset projects or biofuel
|
||
plantations</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.thetravelfoundation.org.uk/">The Travel
|
||
Foundation</a> - Find hotels here which aren’t all plastic all the time,
|
||
amongst other things. This charity brings together travel businesses,
|
||
suppliers, community groups, governments, local authorities and more to
|
||
develop practical solutions which maximise the benefits and minimise the
|
||
negative impacts of tourism in destinations.</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h2 id="volunteering">Volunteering</h2>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><a href="https://citizensclimatelobby.org/">Citizens Climate
|
||
Lobby</a> - If you’re an English, economics or poly sci major, you
|
||
probably should consider volunteering for Citizens’ Climate Lobby, an
|
||
organization focused on confronting climate change through policy.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.cleantrails.org/join">Clean Trails</a> - Step
|
||
by step, and little by little, our aim is to eliminate waste on all the
|
||
trails that grace our public lands. We believe we can do that in a
|
||
positive and proactive manner by educating, encouraging, and
|
||
reconnecting outdoor users to our pristine places.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://climateaction.tech/">ClimateAction.Tech</a> - A
|
||
global community of tech professionals using our skills, expertise and
|
||
platforms to support solutions to the climate crisis. The mission is to
|
||
empower technology professionals to play our part — to meet, discuss,
|
||
learn and take climate action.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://www.climateprediction.net/">ClimatePrediction.net</a> -
|
||
The world’s largest climate modelling experiment. Evidence of how our
|
||
climate is changing is vital to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Help
|
||
discover how the climate could look by running software on your
|
||
computer.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.earthhero.org/get-involved/">Earth Hero Climate
|
||
Action App</a> - Join the volunteer team behind the free climate action
|
||
app that makes it easy for people to act on climate change. Made up of
|
||
developers, designers, researchers, writers, marketers, translators, and
|
||
project managers from around the world.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://econ4future.org/">Economists for Future</a> -
|
||
Economists for Future growing movement of people committed to
|
||
galvanising the economics community behind addressing the greatest
|
||
challenge of our day. If the discipline which dedicates itself to
|
||
studying the economy cannot sufficiently engage in the economic
|
||
transformation that the climate science requires, then who else can be
|
||
expected to do this?</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://rebellion.global/">Extinction Rebellion</a> -
|
||
Extinction Rebellion is a decentralised, international and politically
|
||
non-partisan movement using non-violent direct action and civil
|
||
disobedience to persuade governments to act justly on the Climate and
|
||
Ecological Emergency.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://eorhawaii.org/2013/07/18/become-a-member/">Eyes of
|
||
the Reef Hawai’i</a> - Network to inform, engage and train people to
|
||
identify coral bleaching, disease and invasive species outbreaks. They
|
||
have a broad outreach program that helps to provide critical training
|
||
for rapid response monitoring and stewardship of precious marine
|
||
resources.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://engage.us.greenpeace.org/onlineactions/Hx3BaZLxxkyUUo2Jfzsk7w2">Greenpeace</a>
|
||
- Greenpeace has many ways for people to get involved. Start small by
|
||
launching and participating in campaigns and petitions, or go further
|
||
and discover or create events. Play an active role in achieving a green
|
||
and peaceful future!</li>
|
||
<li><a href="http://www.habitat.org/getinv">Habitat for Humanity</a> -
|
||
Habitat for Humanity is well known for building simple, affordable homes
|
||
for people in need. But recently the organization has implemented new
|
||
programs recognizing climate change as a major threat to the environment
|
||
and which can destroy the homes they build.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://jobs.makesense.org">MakeSense Jobs</a> - Makesense
|
||
inspires and empowers citizens, entrepreneurs and organizations to build
|
||
an inclusive and sustainable society together. MakeSense’s Job and
|
||
assignment announcements platform for associations and social
|
||
entrepreneurs who recruit profiles passionate about the impact. Job
|
||
types include internship, freelance, civic service, partner, program,
|
||
volunteer mission, mentoring.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.oceanicsociety.org/">Oceanic Society</a> -
|
||
Oceanic Society was founded in 1969 by a group of San Francisco Bay Area
|
||
sailors and scientists who were concerned about the state of the oceans
|
||
and decided to take action. Inspired by the events of their day—like the
|
||
Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969, the publication of Rachel Carson’s
|
||
Silent Spring, and growing public concern for the environment—they came
|
||
together to form Oceanic Society, the first non-profit organization in
|
||
America dedicated to marine conservation. Their aim was to bring greater
|
||
public awareness and political action to issues of ocean health and to
|
||
grow the global community of people working toward improved ocean
|
||
stewardship. Oceanic Society helped put ocean conservation on the public
|
||
radar. Some of our many accomplishments include: Creating the Oceanic
|
||
Society Patrol and Farallon Patrol, pioneering ecotourism and volunteer
|
||
vacations, inspiring a generation of ocean lovers through Oceans
|
||
magazine, Leading the way in whale watching, strengthening local sea
|
||
turtle conservation, globally and innovating a focus on behavior
|
||
change.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://preciousplastic.com/">Precious Plastic</a> -
|
||
Open-source community who share instructions for creating plastic
|
||
shredders, injectors, and sheet presses, so you can create anything you
|
||
want from used plastic. Collect plastic from neighbors, clean it, shred
|
||
it, <a
|
||
href="https://pinshape.com/blog/low-cost-injection-molding-using-3d-printing/">3D
|
||
print a mold</a>, and create anything you can imagine! You can <a
|
||
href="https://preciousplastic.com/solutions/machines/overview.html">buy
|
||
the machines</a> too if making them is out of your wheelhouse.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://takeclimateaction.uk/">Take Climate Action</a> -
|
||
Climate Action groups are made up of people like you and together
|
||
they’ll bring about big systemic change. Join the network and kick-start
|
||
climate action in your community.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://engage.us.greenpeace.org/onlineactions/Hx3BaZLxxkyUUo2Jfzsk7w2">Tell
|
||
Microsoft to End Big Oil Contracts</a> - Right now, while our planet
|
||
speeds toward the brink of the climate crisis, Microsoft is putting its
|
||
foot on the accelerator. As oil and gas profits continue to fall, giant
|
||
oil corporations have turned to cloud computing and artificial
|
||
intelligence (AI) to answer their problems. Microsoft promises companies
|
||
like ExxonMobil that its analytical tools and other AI technologies will
|
||
help them discover and pump even more oil at a lower cost. This
|
||
Greenpeace petition will let Microsoft know this is not acceptable.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://transitionnetwork.org">Transition Network</a> - A
|
||
global movement of communities coming together to reimagine and actively
|
||
rebuild our world. The terms transition town, transition initiative and
|
||
transition model refer to grassroot community projects that aim to
|
||
increase self-sufficiency to reduce the potential effects of peak oil,
|
||
climate destruction, and economic instability.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.treefolks.org/volunteer/">Tree Folks</a> - Tree
|
||
planting and tree care events around Austin, Texas, from October to
|
||
April.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.worldcleanupday.org/">World Cleanup Day</a> -
|
||
World Cleanup Day is a civic movement, uniting 180 countries and
|
||
millions of people across the world to clean up the planet. In one day.
|
||
Volunteers and partners worldwide come together to rid our planet of
|
||
trash – cleaning up litter and mismanaged waste from our beaches,
|
||
rivers, forests, and streets.</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h2 id="waste">Waste</h2>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.algramoalmacenes.com/">Algramo</a> - Vending
|
||
machines and mobile refill units for refilling reusable plastic bottles
|
||
with staple goods from shampoo to salad dressing in packaging that is
|
||
designed to be returned, cleaned, and reused. With over 2,000 bodegas in
|
||
Santiago and plans to expand in the US soon, Algramo, translates to “by
|
||
the gram”, also solves the issue of “poverty tax” where small packages
|
||
can cost as much as 50% more than the same product in a larger
|
||
size.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.bio-bean.com/">Bio Bean</a> - The world’s
|
||
largest recycler of coffee grounds, Bio Bean recycle spent coffee
|
||
grounds into sustainable products, like coffee logs for fires, and other
|
||
biomass fuel.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://www.amazon.com/Plant-Based-Kitchen-Handles-Gallon/dp/B071JMFKM5/">Bio-plastic
|
||
Trash Bags</a> - Made from Plant Based (sugar cane) materials instead of
|
||
fossil fuel.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://bluejeansgogreen.org/">Blue Jeans Go Green</a> -
|
||
Send in your used jeans to get transformed into natural cotton fiber
|
||
insulation, some of which is used to help with building efforts around
|
||
the country.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.boulderfoodrescue.org/">Boulder Food Rescue</a>
|
||
- We facilitate the sustainable redistribution of healthy food that
|
||
would otherwise be wasted to low-income communities, by bicycle. We work
|
||
with communities to facilitate their own food redistribution and create
|
||
decentralized systems to bypass barriers to food access. Our work
|
||
envisions a world in which everyone has equitable access to healthy
|
||
food.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQFB9M2UdK0">Burying Food
|
||
Scraps</a> - Composting can be time consuming, expensive, and if done
|
||
incorrectly it can actually produce a lot of methane. If you’ve got a
|
||
bit of space in your garden, this video shows how simply burying food
|
||
scraps can be a quick and simple solution to get rid of waste and
|
||
improve soil quality too.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="http://circular.berlin/">Circular Berlin</a> - A Berlin
|
||
based non-profit developing the local circular economy agenda through
|
||
research, community-building and practical programmes. Good overview of
|
||
events and initiatives happening in Berlin.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.cityharvest.org/">City Harvest</a> - City
|
||
Harvest is New York City’s largest food rescue organization. They rescue
|
||
food and deliver it to hundreds of food pantries, soup kitchens and
|
||
other community partners.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://www.moneycrashers.com/where-donate-used-toys/">Donate
|
||
Toys</a> - Donate toys that your children have grown out of instead of
|
||
throwing them away.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://repair.eu/">EU: Right to Repair</a> - Cracked
|
||
screens, weak batteries, broken charging ports… We’d like to fix them,
|
||
but instead we end up buying a new smartphone because repairs are too
|
||
expensive, difficult or impossible. Reducing the lifespan of a product
|
||
may drive sales, but this comes at the expense of consumers, workers and
|
||
the planet. Ask the European Union to give people the Right to Repair by
|
||
requiring manufacturers to design repairable smartphones and provide
|
||
spare parts and repair information to all repairers and consumers.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://food.cloud/">Food Cloud</a> - FoodCloud is a social
|
||
enterprise that connects businesses with surplus food to charities in
|
||
their local communities that need it via a software platform.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://corporate.geev.com/">Geev</a> - An online
|
||
application to exchange stuffs and food between people. Easily discuss,
|
||
meet and give a second life to objects and food. The more you give the
|
||
more people trust you when you want to get something.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.grownyc.org/compost/locations">GrowNYC Food
|
||
Scrap Collection Schedule</a> - Interactive map with over 150
|
||
residential Food Scrap Drop-Off sites in NYC.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://new.karma.life/">Karma</a> - A Swedish company that
|
||
lets restaurants sell surplus food at a lower price. It lets you pay
|
||
less for food and prevent food waste.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.litterati.org/">Litterati</a> - Empowering
|
||
people to clean the planet. Photograph a piece of litter, tag it, and
|
||
discard properly. Participate in a challenge and hold wasteful brands
|
||
accountable.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://toogoodtogo.com/">Too Good To Go</a> - toogoodtogo
|
||
maps products that reach the best before date and shows where and how
|
||
much you can save. Download the app, select a provider near you and
|
||
start saving today.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://olioex.com/">Olio</a> - We connect neighbors to
|
||
share food, and other things, rather than chuck them away.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://opencircularity.info/">Open Circularity</a> - Lars
|
||
Zimmermann runs Mifactori Design & Activism Studio in Berlin. This
|
||
website is where he shares content & thoughts on Open Source
|
||
Circularity. General idea is - open source all products, allowing them
|
||
to be repaired or repurposed if they break rather than ending up in
|
||
landfill.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="http://overpass-turbo.eu/?template=key&key=zero_waste">OpenStreetMap:
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Zero Waste (Overpass)</a> - OpenStreetMap has the tag zero_waste=* for
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shops who sell items without packaging.</li>
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<li><a href="https://original-unverpackt.de/">Original Unverpackt</a> -
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Zero packaging supermarket in Berlin. Original Unverpackt hat sich als
|
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erster Supermarkt weltweit dem Zero-Waste-Lifestyle gewidmet.</li>
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||
<li><a href="https://www.pieter-pot.nl/">Pieter Pot</a> - Your
|
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groceries, delivered without packaging. Pieter Pot delivers your
|
||
groceries with a cargo bike in beautiful glass jars in The Netherlands.
|
||
Empty pot? Then we fill it again. This is how we make it fun and easy to
|
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do shopping without all those unnecessary (plastic) packaging. That’s
|
||
nice, right?</li>
|
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<li><a href="https://preciousplastic.com/">Precious Plastic</a> -
|
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Open-source community who share instructions for creating plastic
|
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shredders, injectors, and sheet presses, so you can create anything you
|
||
want from used plastic. Collect plastic from neighbors, clean it, shred
|
||
it, <a
|
||
href="https://pinshape.com/blog/low-cost-injection-molding-using-3d-printing/">3D
|
||
print a mold</a>, and create anything you can imagine! You can <a
|
||
href="https://preciousplastic.com/solutions/machines/overview.html">buy
|
||
the machines</a> too if making them is out of your wheelhouse.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.recyclenow.com/">Recycle Now</a> - Find out
|
||
where to recycle pretty much anything, including aerosols, old mobile
|
||
phones, soft plastics, and get advice on how to reduce waste too.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://renufurniture.co.uk/">ReNu Furniture</a> - Prevent
|
||
landfill waste and buy second-hand, upcycled and handmade furniture
|
||
easily with ReNu Furniture. Based in Brighton and covering the UK
|
||
southeast, this start up will manage the collection, delivery and
|
||
payments for every furniture sale - they even plant a tree for every
|
||
delivery to offset carbon emissions.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://repaircafe.org/">Repair Café</a> - Repair Cafés are
|
||
free meeting places and they’re all about repairing things (together).
|
||
You’ll find tools and materials to help you make any repairs to clothes,
|
||
furniture, electrical appliances, bicycles, crockery, appliances, toys,
|
||
et cetera. You’ll also find expert volunteers, with repair skills in all
|
||
kinds of fields. Repair your stuff, or just enjoy a coffee. They’re
|
||
world-wide, and the site is multi-lingual.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sonny-a-portable-bidet-for-eco-conscious-humans/x/17318484#/">Sonny</a>
|
||
- Never worry about running out of toilet paper again with Sonny, a
|
||
sustainable alternative to wipes and paper for better hygiene and a
|
||
greener planet.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://therottenfruitbox.com/">The Rotten Fruit Box</a> -
|
||
100% Natural Freeze-Dried Fruit Snacks from Spain and Portugal shipped
|
||
to you. The fruit you’re enjoying would have otherwise gone unused and
|
||
rotted away on the ground. We also think that the name “Rotten” helps
|
||
bring attention to the serious issue of food waste. Delicious, healthy,
|
||
100% natural, with a long shelf life, our freeze dried fruit snack
|
||
pouches are ideal for home, work, office, to take to school, camping or
|
||
just about anywhere. Help reduce food waste. Help small local farmers.
|
||
100% compostable packaging, ships with your local postal service because
|
||
it is the lowest carbon footprint option.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://toogoodtogo.co.uk/">Too Good To Go</a> - Sell your
|
||
surplus food, easily and sustainably! Save delicious food and fight food
|
||
waste. Find your favorite food and go rescue it.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://vegware.co.uk/">Vegware</a> - Napkins, carrier
|
||
bags, salad boxes, sushi trays, cutlery, disposable coffee cups, all
|
||
made from plants using renewable, lower carbon, recycled or reclaimed
|
||
materials, and designed to be commercially compostable with food waste,
|
||
where accepted.</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h2 id="youtube-channels">YouTube Channels</h2>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuVLG9pThvBABcYCm7pkNkA">Climate
|
||
Town</a> - Rollie Williams and a ragtag team of climate communicators,
|
||
creatives and comedians are here to examine climate change in a way that
|
||
doesn’t make you want to eat a cyanide pill.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/ClimateAdam">ClimateAdam</a> -
|
||
Doctor in climate science from Oxford. Trying to make sense of climate
|
||
change with fun YouTube vids.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsaEBhRsI6tmmz12fkSEYdw">Hot
|
||
Mess</a> - A show about how climate change impacts all of us, and about
|
||
how we can create a better future for our planet and ourselves. Hosted
|
||
by Miriam Nielsen, Talia Buford, and Joe Hanson.</li>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNXvxXpDJXp-mZu3pFMzYHQ">Our
|
||
Changing Climate</a> - A bi-weekly video essay series that investigates
|
||
humanity’s relationship to the natural world.</li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/SimonOxfPhys">Simon Clark</a>
|
||
- PhD in climate physics by day, YouTuber by night. He makes videos
|
||
about both!</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h2 id="zero-waste">Zero Waste</h2>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><a
|
||
href="https://www.kent.co.in/water-purifiers/zero-water-wastage-technology">Kent
|
||
Zero Water Wastage Technology</a> - KENT RO Purifiers equipped with the
|
||
‘Zero Water Wastage’ Technology push back the rejected water to the
|
||
overhead tank, thereby rendering wastage to zero. As a result, instead
|
||
of wasting the rejected water, it gets diluted and reused as normal tap
|
||
water for household purposes.</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
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||
<h2 id="contributing">Contributing</h2>
|
||
<p>Please send us a PR because all this data is powered by
|
||
contributions. We’re trying to learn about projects from all over the
|
||
world, so wherever you’re from and whatever language you want to write
|
||
the descriptions in, please send a PR to this file!</p>
|
||
<h2 id="license">License</h2>
|
||
<p>The list in this README under <a
|
||
href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CCO</a> but
|
||
the remaining source code is <a
|
||
href="https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/">MIT</a>.</p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://github.com/philsturgeon/awesome-earth">earth.md
|
||
Github</a></p>
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