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OpenEco, 202°

A Sun Microsystems project in Santa Clara, United States

Updated last month

Founded by Sun Microsystems, OpenEco.org is home for the OpenEco Community which 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 ...

Premium project about Clean Technologies, Energy Saving

What's Your Crazy Green Idea? Video Contest, 21°

A X PRIZE Foundation project in Santa Monica, United States

Updated last month

The X PRIZE Foundation is hosting a competition on YouTube to find out what the next X PRIZE in the Energy and Environment sector is going to be. We're looking for crazy green idea that can become a breakthrough, and we're willing to pay $25,000 to the ...

Premium project about Agriculture & Food, Air Quality, Biofuels, Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Trading, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Deforestation, Education, Electric vehicles, Emissions, Energy Saving, Global Dimming, Green energy, Pollution, Recycling, Solar

Datamail - GoGreen Case Study, 93°

A New Zealand Post project in Petone, New Zealand

Updated in July

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 ...

Premium project about Finance, Industry, Media, Recycling

Food for Change, 32°

global, New Zealand

Updated 15 minutes ago

Can local action inspire global change? Can what we eat locally make a difference globally? Our mouth is about as local as it gets, so that seems like a good place to start climate changing. Leadership begins with what goes in your mouth, not necessarely with what comes out of ...

Project about Agriculture & Food, Biofuels, Children and Families, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Consumerism, Deforestation, Economics, Education, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife, Food, Genetic Modification, Green energy, Health, Industry, Philosophy & Religion, Politics, Pollution, Population, Recycling, Transport, Water

The First International Clean Energy Platform, 20°

Geneva, Switzerland

Updated last month

We are currently putting together what I believe to be a strong proposition with implications for climate change. We have just launched an International Clean Energy Development platform to foster worldwide clean energy opportunities. It ise a private community to gather qualified industry stakeholders so if you are interested in ...

Project about Carbon Trading, Clean Technologies

ThetaNoon - Carbon Emission Reduction Through Solar Energy Awareness, 30°

Global , Israel

Updated last month

ThetaNoon is an online,global solar energy systems monitoring website. System owners send us their systems' details (location,max output, system description and pictures etc.). ThetaNoon automatically starts calculating the systems' output, using real-time weather data, combined with mathematical algorithms. There is no need to buy or install anything. ThetaNoon ...

Project about Clean Technologies, Emissions, Solar

Canadian clean energy training portal, 25°

country-wide, Canada

Updated last month

Together with the BC Sustainable Energy Association and our sponsors, we have launched a web portal that profiles and links to most of the available renewable training options in Canada. It includes 5 categories: Schools & Workshops, Green Energy NGOs, Government Intiatives, Industry Leaders, and First Nations. Go check it out ...

Project about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Education, Green energy

The Homestead, 220°

West Central Wisconsin, United States

Updated in August

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

Curbing Global Warming Without Killing Cement Industry, 47°

Northern Califnornia, United States

Updated in August

This is an opportunity for the Celsias community to collectively commission an investigative journalism effort about the cement industry. Spot.Us is a nonprofit that lets individuals or groups share the cost of funding an investigative journalists. We are still under development, but set to launch in the Fall thanks ...

Project about Air Quality, Architecture, Carbon Trading, Clean Technologies, Economics, Emissions, Global Dimming, Media

Change the World for Fifteen Bucks, 10°

NZ, Australia and the UK, United Kingdom

Updated in August

We Are What We Do creates a new way for people to connect to their community by inspiring them to contribute and to feel part of something bigger than themselves. We believe in acting local but thinking global. More than 70 people in New Zealand, Australia and the UK including ...

Project about Agriculture & Food, Biofuels, Children and Families, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Consumerism, Design, Education, Food, Health, Media, Recycling, Travel, Water

ONE MILLION GOOD STOVES MISSION, 25°

India, Developing World, India

Updated in August

GEO has developed 14 good stoves - biomass as fuel http//www.goodstove.com ranging from 15% to 40% efficiency. India requires 120 million good stoves. The whole world requires at least a total of 500 million Good Stoves. GEO has declared all its stove designs as Creative Commons. Seeking support ...

Project about Biofuels, Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Trading, Children and Families, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Deforestation, Emissions, Energy Saving, Health

Hotel Diaries A Story of a Green Hotel, 129°

Toronto, Canada

Updated in August

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, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Economics, Emissions, Energy Saving, Finance

solarnetwork.net, 10°

United States, New Zealand, New Zealand

Updated in July

solarnetwork.net is an open-source project to study a possible method of distributed generation. Using a scheme of "keep what you generate, share what you save" we are interested in building a software infrastructure together that would allow for a cost-sharing structure to eventually reduce the upfront cost of adopting ...

Project about Clean Technologies, Computing, Education, Energy Saving, Weather

RecyclingPins, 137°

Braga, Portugal

Updated in July

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

Green Jobs Now: A National Day of Action to Build the New Economy, 12°

Across the Country, United States

Updated in July

On Saturday, September 27th, 2008, tens of thousands of Americans all across the country will come together for: Green Jobs Now: A Day to Build the New Economy. Join us! The day after the first debate in the most important presidential election of our lifetime, Americans will respond with one ...

Project about Climate Change, Economics, Events, Industry

Green Bonds - A Victory Bond for the Environment, 89°

Canada, Canada

Updated in July

Canada could be a renewable energy superpower. What's holding us back? Renewable energy is more expensive to produce than fossil-based. Over time, with high cost to carbon, this will change. We cannot wait, however: and we have an answer. "Green Bonds" is a policy proposal designed to accelerate Canada ...

Project about Biofuels, Carbon Trading, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Economics, Emissions, Finance, Politics

Intersect - Young professionals networking for sustainability, 82°

Wellington, New Zealand

Updated in July

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

The Bright Green Idea, 47°

New Zealand, New Zealand

Updated in July

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

chinadialogue is...on the road from Bali to Copenhagen, 42°

Beijing, China

Updated in July

("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

"Heat", 17°

Wellington, New Zealand

Updated in July

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

Media information on line, 20°

Melbourne, Australia

Updated in July

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

Recycled Clothing, 25°

Coventry, United Kingdom

Updated in June

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 ...

Project about Industry

Indian River Inlet, 15°

Bethany Beach, United States

Updated in June

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

YERT Your Environmental Road Trip, 26°

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

Islands First, 36°

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

Windustrious Cleveland, 25°

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

EcoBase, 75°

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

Sustainable Rehabilitation of New Orleans Low Income Housing Pilot Program, 52°

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

GNS Sustainability Working Group, 25°

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

A Solar Powered- Compressed Air Car, 15°

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

Carbon Reduction Action Groups, 30°

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

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