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The Homestead, 335°

West Central Wisconsin, United States

Updated in November 2008

In December of 2006 my husband and I purchased an old homestead built in the 1930's. As DIYers our goal is to up-date the old house and make it as energy efficient as possible using environmentally-friendly construction and renovation techniques. We are working on natural farming (permaculture) techniques to ...

Project about Agriculture & Food, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Consumerism, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife, Health, Recycling, Water

OpenEco, 232°

A Sun Microsystems project in Santa Clara, United States

Updated in September 2008

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

Green Energy Project, 139°

A Green Energy Now project in Freeport, Maine, United States

Updated in February

The Green Energy Project will select group of committed, talented group of young people to be Green Energy Fellows. The Fellows will be trained in leadership, cooperation and creative problem solving. In two separate groups of ten, the Fellows will use these skills to assemble working solar panels from raw ...

Premium project about Children and Families, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Design, Education, Green energy

RecyclingPins, 138°

Braga, Portugal

Updated in July 2008

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

Hotel Diaries A Story of a Green Hotel, 135°

Toronto, Canada

Updated in August 2008

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 & Money

Datamail - GoGreen Case Study, 104°

A New Zealand Post project in Petone, New Zealand

Updated in July 2008

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 & Money, Industry & Business, Media, Recycling

Intersect - Young professionals networking for sustainability, 97°

Wellington, New Zealand

Updated in July 2008

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 & Business, Philosophy & Religion, Recycling

Green Bonds - A Victory Bond for the Environment, 90°

Canada, Canada

Updated in July 2008

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 & Alternative Energy, Carbon Trading, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Economics, Emissions, Finance & Money, Politics & Government

EcoBase, 75°

Europe and UK, Moldova, Republic of

Updated in March 2008

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

Kapiti Off Grid, 75°

Wellington, New Zealand

Updated in August

We're building a Lo-Grid home in the form of that classic Kiwi Villa. We plan to insulate by exceeding NZ standards and using a 150mm stud depth. Heat will come from that hot round thing in the sky, backed up by a woodburner supplied by those tall things that ...

Project about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife, Green energy, Pollution, Recycling, Solar, Water

Rainforest Bullion, 65°

Western Galilee, Israel

Updated in December 2008

Full details here: http://www.eee.coop/projects/rainforest-bullion Value of gold, over the last 5 years: http://www.galmarley.com/ChartApp/Images/USD_Line_5years_300x150.gif Dow Jones, over the last five years: http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/z?s=%5EDJI&t=5y&q=l&l=off&z=l&p=s ...

Project about Carbon Trading, Climate Change, Deforestation, Environment & Wildlife, Finance & Money, Global Dimming, Logging, Water, Weather

The Bright Green Idea, 63°

New Zealand, New Zealand

Updated in July 2008

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 & Alternative Energy, Clean Technologies, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife, Events, Recycling, Water

EnergySaint, 60°

Cronton - a small village in Cheshire., United Kingdom

Updated in March

Energysaint headlines Renewable Energy and Clean Technology breakthroughs in an attempt to help cure us off our current Carbon hungry dependance. Currently formatted as a frequently updated blog but will soon appear across .com .net and .org domains.

Project about Air Quality, Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Carbon Trading, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Emissions, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife, Green energy, Nuclear, Pollution, Recycling, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Solar, Water, Weather

Sustainable Rehabilitation of New Orleans Low Income Housing Pilot Program, 58°

New Orleans, United States

Updated in March 2008

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

What's Your Crazy Green Idea? Video Contest, 58°

A X PRIZE Foundation project in Santa Monica, United States

Updated in September 2008

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 & Alternative Energy, Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Trading, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Deforestation, Education, Electric vehicles, Emissions, Energy Saving, Global Dimming, Green energy, Pollution, Recycling, Solar

Food for Change, 52°

Global, New Zealand

Updated in February

Causing global change one meal at a time. What we eat locally makes a difference globally. Our mouth is about as local as it gets, so that seems like a good place to start climate changing. Maybe leadership begins with what goes into our mouths, not with what comes out ...

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

Curbing Global Warming Without Killing Cement Industry, 47°

Northern Califnornia, United States

Updated in August 2008

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

Green Humans, 43°

Irvine, California, United States

Updated in January

Combat Global Warming by helping the less fortunate! We help preserve the environment by improving energy efficiency for low income homes. Why? Global Warming is happening now and we, humans, have the power to take actions in order to stop the devastating effects. The only way we can achieve this ...

Project about Carbon Trading, Children and Families, Climate Change, Emissions, Energy Saving, Green energy

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

Beijing, China

Updated in July 2008

("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 & Alternative Energy, Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Trading, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Education, Politics & Government

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