A Ricoh New Zealand project in Auckland, New Zealand 
Updated this month
Ricoh Eco Action Day, June 5 2008 Ricoh’s Eco Action Day is an annual practice across all our operations around the world, coinciding with World Environment Day. This year it was the perfect opportunity to launch an idea Ricoh New Zealand is aiming to spread across its branches – a ...
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A Ricoh New Zealand project in National, New Zealand
Updated this month
Launched in May, Trees for Schools is a Ricoh New Zealand programme where we work with schools around the country to establish schemes for community fundraising selling native plants, in place of other options often high in sugar and fat. We are sourcing New Zealand native seedlings, and subsidising the ...
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A WWF New Zealand project in Nationwide, Tuvalu 
Updated this month
At a recent awareness raising workshop on climate change, Tuvalu developed a draft Blueprint for Action on Climate Change. This was developed through an open and consultative process, and through the participation of the Prime Minister, Hon. Maatia Toafa, members of parliament, heads of government departments, other government officials including ...
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A Ricoh New Zealand project in Auckland, New Zealand
Updated this month
On the morning of Sunday March 9, 2008, a team of over 100 Ricoh volunteers set out from downtown Auckland by ferry to Motuihe Island. Ricoh employees were joined by their families and friends for the day out, and even a couple of families from our Hamilton branch made the ...
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A New Zealand Post project in Petone, New Zealand
Updated this month
Datamail is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the New Zealand Post Group. THE SITUATION Recognising the importance of sustainability – for its business and its clients – the Datamail Group knew it needed to lift its game. Its Petone site already had a number of recycling facilities for cardboard, plastic wrap and toner ...
A WWF New Zealand project in Wellington, New Zealand
Updated in May
Some of the most compelling stories come from those who are already affected by climate change. WWF New Zealand is supporting a nationwide WWF witness programme that captures the publics imagination by engaging community interest in climate change across New Zealand and the pacific island nations. The following movies show ...
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A Sun Microsystems project in Santa Clara, United States 
Updated in May
Founded by Sun Microsystems, www.openeco.org is a global open source online community which provides free and easy to use tools to help participants calculate, track, compare, and reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, encourage sustainable innovation, and share proven best practices. This eco-focused community project is connected around carbon ...
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A WWF New Zealand project in Wellington, New Zealand
Updated in April
Smart meters, residential heat pumps, residential hot water cylinder wraps, solar hot water and passive solar design provide the best combination of energy/dollar savings and emission reduction. WWF New Zealand - http://www.wwf.org.nz/ - has published a report that determines the top five demand side actions that give ...
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An EcoStore project in Auckland, New Zealand
Updated in April
On the 3rd of April 2008, ecostore, a New Zealand icon of sustainable living, hosted Green Drinks in the form of a lively street party outside ecostore in Auckland’s Freemans Bay. Over 220 people from all walks of life and career paths turned up to network and discuss matters ...
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A Wowio project in Houston, United States
Updated in April
WOWIO - www.wowio.com is reducing the environmental impacts associated with printed books by providing all-digital ebook alternatives. Despite the not-insignificant environmental cost of running the Internet and the life-cycle costs of the devices needed to read the content, digital books are still an enormous step forward compared to the ...
Project about Consumerism, Education
West Central Wisconsin, United States
Updated this week
This project is a labor of love for my husband and me who are hard-core DIYs! We purchased an old homestead built in the 1930's in December of 2006. Our goal is to up-date the old house and make it as energy efficient as possible using environmentally sound construction ...
Project about Agriculture & Food, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Consumerism, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife, Health, Recycling, Water
Global, United Kingdom 
Updated this week
Shoot Nations 2008 is a free global photographic competition addressing the theme of ‘Young People in a Changing Climate’. We want to build a global picture of how climate change is affecting young people worldwide, how they can act now to slow the change and how they can adapt to ...
Project about Climate Change, Education, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Events, Logging, Water, Weather
New Zealand
Updated this month
Transition Towns are starting in over 50 towns in NZ. Groups are addressing the twin challenges of peak oil and climate change and are finding they have collective genius beyond their imagination. Food and energy resilience are often the focus but actually when oil peaks and is no longer cheap ...
Project about Agriculture & Food, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Energy Saving, Recycling, Water, Weather
Wellington Region, New Zealand
Updated this month
Pecha Kucha is a presentation format for creative work originally devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein-Dytham Architecture (KDa) (http://www.klein-dytham.com/) in Tokyo, Japan in 2003 as a place for creative types to meet, network, and show their work in public. The name derives from a ...
Project about Events
New Zealand
Updated this month
www.noplasticbags.org.nz is a new grass roots website dedicated to a New Zealand free from plastic carry bags. Around the world more and more countries are banning or taxing plastic bags and it is time for New Zealand to wake up and do the same. This is about ...
Project about Consumerism, Recycling
Wellington, New Zealand
Updated this month
We are a group of young professionals with a passion for sustainability and we want to intersect with other passionate people. Intersect is focussed on nurturing our leadership capabilities. We believe that leaders are the doers not just the talkers, so we are looking for practical solutions to the problems ...
Project about Consumerism, Industry, Philosophy & Religion, Recycling
New Zealand, New Zealand
Updated this month
A National Climate Change Innovation Award. This is essentially a Eco 'Dragon's Den' - where promising innovations are awarded with development funding and investment. A Wellington based TV production company have plans to make a TV series around the challenge which will ensure it gets maximum coverage. There are two ...
Project about Biofuels, Clean Technologies, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife, Events, Recycling, Water
Beijing, China 
Updated this month
("中外对话"...从巴厘通往哥本哈根之路) Even as we speak, a new global agreement on climate change is being formulated. At a critical UN climate conference in December 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark, we will see the results. The road to Copenhagen, however, will be a difficult one to tread. Humanity faces an array of ...
Project about Agriculture & Food, Biofuels, Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Trading, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Education, Politics
NYC, United States
Updated this month
Urban agriculture on the Columbia University campus!
Project about Agriculture & Food
Wellington, New Zealand
Updated this month
We are producing a theatre piece, what becomes a triangle between a physicist studying climate change, his wife (a biologist), and an Emperor penguin during one Antarctic autumn, winter and spring. We are aiming to do this in a production run as far as possible completely off-grid. Echoing the real ...
Project about Biofuels, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Energy Saving, Events
Melbourne, Australia 
Updated this month
See my blog about organic issues such as bees industry, pesticides, naturally enhanced agriculture, such as in bio-dynamics and Demeter. This is a welcome for all contributions emerging. More websites under the name , , asf have started. Look also under
Project about Agriculture & Food, Carbon Trading, Consumerism, Education, Environment & Wildlife, Events, Genetic Modification, Health, Media, Philosophy & Religion, Politics, Protest, War
Braga, Portugal 
Updated last month
Because of the large amount of trash that everyone produces every day it is very important to start thinking in our Planet's health! The basic idea is to "wear" in your page one of these RecyclingPins to remember all visitors the responsibility to Waste Recycling, Separation and Reutilization! You ...
Project about Climate Change, Computing, Education, Recycling
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Updated last month
My car lease is up in June. Going vehicle free isn't an option, so I need your help in finding a new car. My criteria: Seats more than 2 people, Less than $380 a month, lease or loan, new or used, Can go at least 50 miles in a ...
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Colorado 81623, United States
Updated last month
Film environmental media that shares the stories of individuals, groups, business and government that inspires change.
Project about Media
prindavan,tal.rajapur,district-ratnagiri., India 
Updated last month
To make the small dams in the canal from the mountain.To store rain water & pump it in the tank mounted on the mountain top & use it for the irrigation.recover the money for the use of volume of water& repay it back. the estimated cost is is us$ 25000 ...
Project about Water
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 
Updated last month
Give back to the planet! Buy a tree (which we will plant for you) or organise your own tree planting event. Join us to create new wild lands for wildlife and benefit local people. Purchase a tree (USD 15 each), and the seedlings will be planted during our tree-planting events ...
Project about Environment & Wildlife
Chiang Mai, Thailand 
Updated last month
The proposed project is to encourage young people in Zimbabwe to plant and take care of trees. In recent years, Zimbabwe has witnessed tremendous deterioration of the environment spurred mainly by the country's political crisis. The proposed project will be implemented as soon as the political temperature in the ...
Project about Climate Change, Deforestation, Environment & Wildlife, Media, Politics
Nation wide, New Zealand
Updated last month
A charitable trust with the purpose of educating and advocating for socially responsible and environmentally sustainable investment. We have been going since 2003.
Project about Education, Environment & Wildlife
Coventry, United Kingdom
Updated last month
We're a small non-profit co-op in the UK. We've been developing a range of recycled clothing which we are going to work to try to produce in small factories in the UK. The vision is to have a network of co-ops producing local clothing around the world. www ...
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cerrillos, United States
Updated last month
Having lived off the grid since 1971, I'd love to share some cool things i have learned over the years.
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Pasadena, United States
Updated last month
Freedom Gardens of the World is the latest initiative of the now seven year journey taken by the pioneers at Path to Freedom. Based on their years of experience of growing and eating their own food from their ordinary urban residential lot, the Dervaes family is challenging others around the ...
Project about Agriculture & Food
Falkland, United Kingdom
Updated last month
The Big Tent festival (26-27 July) Scotland’s Festival of Stewardship is a weekend of celebrations, music, art and creativity which champions the work of the environmental movement and those concerned with the conservation of the living world. A rich and diverse cast of artisans, musicians and performers will journey ...
sanford, United States
Updated last month
What planting a tree will do for our earth, mankind, and wildlife. We often here in the news how our earth will end up looking just like the desert. Every day that goes by we are depriving every living creature on earth of a sustainable life. We are all getting ...
Project about Climate Change, Energy Saving
Gland, Switzerland 
Updated last month
www.connect2earth.org is a global green on-line community, launched by WWF and IUCN, supported by Nokia. On the site, you can upload videos, images, and text to tell the world why you love this planet, or share with others your smart ideas, concerns or solutions about environmental issues and ...
Project about Celebrities, Climate Change, Education, Environment & Wildlife, Events
New York, United States
Updated last month
Calling all environmental enthusiasts, film makers and creative minds! ABC news is producing a 2-hour special that will air on ABC this fall called Earth 2100. It's a show about what the world's top scientists, economists, and historians say our world could look like by the year 2100 ...
Project about Climate Change, Consumerism, Education, Population
Marlborough, New Zealand
Updated last month
The Wairau, one of the world's few remaining braided rivers,is threatened by an out-dated hydro generation scheme. STWR Inc. is appealing this decision. Of all possible alternative generation projects this is the most environmentally damaging.
Project about Agriculture & Food, Climate Change, Environment & Wildlife, Water
East Kalimantan, Indonesia 
Updated last month
Kutai National Park-Indonesia, as one of lowland rainforest in the world, has over 900 plant species. About 200 species identified as Medicine plant. High deforestation pressure made micro climate changes in this area and ecosystem destruct. This project aims to identified other medicine plant. So it can be used for ...
Project about Agriculture & Food, Climate Change, Education
World Wide, United Kingdom
Updated last month
TalkClimateChange is a new initiative aimed at promoting global understanding of Climate Change and Global Warming. TalkClimateChange believes that change only happens following understanding, and that understanding is only reached through discussion. Our goal is to present news, views and opinions from both sides of the Climate Change debate, and ...
Project about Climate Change, Education
Bellevue Washington, United States
Updated last month
Replacing your lights with compact fluorescent bulbs is on the very top of every environmental to do list these days. And no wonder. By chance, I am the proud owner of a single CFL, and in my energy audit discovered that it runs using 11%-20% the power of my ...
Project about Energy Saving
Chicago, United States
Updated last month
As global warming continues to change the earth and its environment, Climate Cycle organizes bicycle rides that raise money and awareness in response. Our first event is a 100-mile ride that will begin and end in Chicago with a goal of raising $650,000. The money raised goes to installing ...
Project about Transport
New Zealand nationwide, New Zealand
Updated last month
To promote the uptake of utility cycling wherever practicable in New Zealand's cities by raising awareness of (and providing links to) technologies and practices prevalent in European Cycletopias such as Copenhagen,Denmark and to convince Local Government councilors of the benefit of getting involved by directing part of their ...
Project about Climate Change, Energy Saving, Recycling
Bethany Beach, United States
Updated last month
There is enough kinetic energy in the Inlet to generate up to 300+ Mws; and the tides would produce power 56% of the time. We wish to place one turbine in the Inlet to prove we can generate electricity without harming the fish or the fishing. After a one year ...
Project about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil
New Zealand
Updated last month
Appalachian Offsets is a voluntary Carbon Offset program to combat global climate change through local renewable energy and efficiency projects in Western North Carolina. We encourage people to first reduce the amount of greenhouse gas they produce but this is an opportunity to reduce their impact by supporting projects that ...
Project about Agriculture & Food, Climate Change, Education
New Zealand
Updated last month
TripShare is an online service which connects drivers and passengers. Registering on TripShare is free and allows you to search trips and contact the lister to organise your travel plans. Use TripShare's search functions to sort trips by travel date, start and end locations and, when you've traveled ...
Project about Biofuels, Climate Change, Consumerism, Energy Saving
Opotiki, New Zealand
Updated last month
The eco benefits of forming fish growing reefs close to boat launching areas are many: Fishermen use significantly less petrol getting to where fish are. Simpler near shore fishing boats can be used. The fishing is action packed, fun and produces a great diversity of species. Smaller catches can be ...
Project about Agriculture & Food, Environment & Wildlife
Te Horo, New Zealand
Updated in May
To build a "Lo Grid" or "Off Grid" home in the form of the classic Kiwi Villa. A home that appears as might any other but will eventually use no mains power, possess no electrically heated rooms or water and won't be connected to any large-scale, waste-water processing plant ...
Project about Climate Change, Environment & Wildlife, Population
Minneapolis, United States
Updated in May
A 50 state 52-week exploration of environmental sustainability in America. Mark Dixon, Ben Evans, Julie Evans and Erika Bowman document America's progress through High-Def video, blogs and photos. www.YERT.com now contains over 45 short videos with more each week. Feature documentary pending, and possible syndication.
Project about Celebrities, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Education, Environment & Wildlife
New York City, United States
Updated in May
Islands First was established at the behest of the UN missions of Small Island Developing States to facilitate their advocacy for international environmental justice. Although issues such as climate change and oceans destruction disproportionately threaten small island nations, international environmental policy is dominated by the political and economic interests of ...
Project about Climate Change, Computing, Water
Black Creek, Canada 
Updated in May
By improving the convenience of finding locally grown foods we will reduce the amount of carbon emissions required by the monster food machine. This dynamic, farmer-driven website, allows shoppers to find locally grown foods as easily as looking through a grocery store flier. In many regions the small farms have ...
Project about Agriculture & Food, Climate Change, Consumerism, Education
Beijing, China
Updated in May
Chinadialogue is a platform that creates communication across barriers of language and culture on environment and climate change, to inform, educate, and build a global consensus for equitable, constructive and implementable solutions. 中外对话"是一个聚焦环境与气候变化的网站，致力于创立一个跨语言和文化障碍的交流平台。通过向全球读者提供有关知识和信息，该网站旨在为寻求公平和可行解决方案而达成全球共识 Chinadialogue's primary vehicle is www.chinadialogue.net, (www.chinadialogue.cn) a unique ...
Project about Climate Change
Cleveland Ohio, United States
Updated in April
Windustrious Cleveland promotes the building of the world's first freshwater wind farm, on Lake Erie, offshore from Cleveland.
Project about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Energy Saving, Population
Sebikotane, Senegal 
Updated in April
The project is a promoter and supplier of Vetiver grass (see www.vetiver.com for more details of this plant)in Senegal, West Africa. Vetiver is a very effective way of sequestering carbon emissions and countering the effects and impact of global climate change which is currently having a devastating ...
Project about Carbon Sequestration
Marlborough, New Zealand
Updated in April
Queen Charlotte Wilderness Park is an isolated peninsula in the Marlborough Sounds. Originally a large sheep station the property is now dedicated to “the business of saving our environment”. Ron Marriott of Queen Charlotte Wilderness Park says, “We have two goals – the first is to work with landowners to encourage ...
Project about Agriculture & Food, Carbon Sequestration, Consumerism, Environment & Wildlife
global, New Zealand
Updated in March
Why what we eat makes a difference Local action inspires global change: you can't get any more local than your mouth :-) The food industry is made up of companies whose reason to be is to make profit. They will follow what we, the consumers, want. By changing our personal ...
Project about Agriculture & Food, Consumerism
Europe and UK, Moldova, Republic of 
Updated in March
EcoBase it is a modern interpretation of traditional log homes. Inside this 132 square meters two-storey home you can find everything for sustainable living: > kitchen, living room, bathroom and two bedrooms. It comes up with 3 basic types of the home - all stylish, modern, green and energy-efficient. The roof is ...
Project about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Education, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife
Toronto, Canada
Updated in March
A derelict building in downtown Toronto is being converted into a hotel. This will be no ordinary hotel, however - the goal is to build a cutting-edge 'green' hotel, one that uses roughly 80% less carbon than business-as-usual. I am a software entrepreneur turned green venture capitalist. This project is my ...
Project about Architecture
New Orleans, United States
Updated in March
Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent levee failures caused unprecedented devastation in New Orleans. The level of destruction in America's eighth-poorest large city revealed to the world that socioeconomic and environmental injustice make communities vulnerable to climate related disasters. Months after the worst disaster in U.S. history, tens of ...
Project about Architecture, Carbon Trading, Climate Change, Population
McMurdo Station, Antarctica 
Updated in March
This project is a voice for people who chose to live in the harshest climate on earth in order to understand, study and get an understanding of climate changes currently affecting the Arctic and Antarctic Circle. Guests are interviewed on the camp and allowed to give a synopsis of their ...
Project about Climate Change
Wellington, New Zealand
Updated in February
Comprising around 50 staff members, scientists, technicians, IT people and support staff at GNS Science, we're motivated to reduce inefficient and wasteful individual and business practices in the company, across the 3 sites and to increase awareness among staff of the importance of reducing, reusing and recycling.
Project about Energy Saving, Industry
Boston Massachusetts, United States
Updated in February
Beginning June 2007, three young men climbed on their bikes in San Francisco, CA. Their goal, to understand not only the grave issue of global warming, but what difference they could make a difference beyond buying fluorescent light-bulbs and hybrid cars. From that point Ride to Sustain crossed the US ...
Project about Celebrities, Climate Change, Consumerism, Health
Central Otago, New Zealand
Updated in February
Tours of homes with sustainable features. This allows people wanting to build or retrofit their homes to learn from others who have used a variety of ways to reduce energy consumption and make the most of the sun and natural aspects of a section.
Project about Architecture
Southern California, United States
Updated in February
A Compressed-Air Motored Car Equipped with Solar Panels designed into the hood,roof,trunk lid and maybe even front and back windshields to solar charge a battery pack to power the on-board electric air-compresser to fill compressed air tanks as needed, for as a Solar powered-car can generate up to ...
Project about Biofuels, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Global Dimming, Water
Bath, United Kingdom
Updated in January
Planet Car Club is helping communities across the UK set up their own car clubs. Sell your car (or your second car), hire the one outside your house by the hour and only when you need it, save money, cut your emissions, and be part of your community again. Planet ...
Project about Climate Change, Transport
Bath, United Kingdom
Updated in January
This is a project run by Our Future Planet, bringing together nations, states, provinces and areas with sustainable populations so that they might recognise and communicate their ideals, experiences and goals. Once united these PPP members will be able to present a sustainable model to the rest of the world ...
Project about Agriculture & Food, Climate Change, War, Weather
Manchester NH, United States
Updated in January
Climate Counts wants you to use your CHOICES and your VOICES to send a strong message to the companies you know best that climate change really does matter. All of the products you buy are made by companies with a climate footprint, companies that use energy and water, generate waste ...
Project about Consumerism
New Orleans, United States
Updated in January
Citywide expansion of successful 2007 Pilot. Goals: meet NOLA's critical need for affordable, energy-efficient housing; improve conditions that make communities vulnerable to disasters; and foster a paradigm shift from “conventional” to “sustainable" disaster relief.
Project about Architecture, Climate Change, Education, Events, Population
Frederick, United States
Updated in January
Carbon Reduction Action Groups (CRAGs) are viral groups whose members commit to voluntary caps of carbon emissions from personal energy use. The average household can save over $1000 per year just by reducing energy use 10%. CRAGs help their members to learn about ways to save energy, save money, and ...
Project about Clean Technologies, Consumerism
Tropical and subtropical counties, India
Updated in January
This is a 20 year old project that is ongoing. It relates to the use of Vetiver grass, Chrysopogon zizanioides, for a wide range of applications that can impact on the very positively on the environment and climate. The Vetiver Network International helps generate Vetiver Systems technology, disseminates information, and ...
Project about Biofuels, Carbon Sequestration
Punta del Este, Uruguay 
Updated in December 2007
In India in October, I was at an International Round Square Conference, (Youth at schools worldwide who want to make a difference) where I made friends with some of the Peruvians from Markham College in Lima. They are involved with service projects to help those left destitute and education-less by ...
Project about Recycling
North Carolina, United States
Updated in December 2007
Because it is becoming harder and harder to see honeybees and wild bees flying around our gardens where they once thrived and after reading a headline in the San Francisco Chronicle that stated BEES ON THEIR KNEES, GARDENERS TO THE RESCUE, we decided to take action. We are beekeepers, gardeners ...
Project about Climate Change, Environment & Wildlife
Nationwide, New Zealand
Updated in November 2007
Be The Change is a NZ based coalition of Greenpeace, Forest & Bird and Oxfam aimed at providing a platform for individuals to become more active in their own lives in reducing their carbon footprint. A big part of the project is creating a climate aware online social networking community at ...
Project about Climate Change, Deforestation, Education, Environment & Wildlife
Christchurch, New Zealand
Updated in August 2007
Orana Wildlife Trust is a registered charitable trust operating both Orana Wildlife Park and Southern Encounter Aquarium & Kiwi House in Christchurch, NZ. The trust achieves over 90% of its income through gate takings - the rest is from grants, donations and sponsorships.
Project about Agriculture & Food, Climate Change, Deforestation, Environment & Wildlife
A Celsias Project is a group of people planning and working towards a goal that actively reduces climate change.
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Southern California, United States
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia