Local Computer 
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REVIVE THE BAOBAB TREE: grow ~ educate ~ communicate PROJECT OBJECTIVES: While entertainment and fun can help at better integrating some educational messages; the aim of this project is not to entertain. In other words, the "Revive The Baobab" project is not an edu-tainment project but rather for people who are seriously ...
Project about Agriculture & Food, Air Quality, Children and Families, Climate Change, Consumerism, Education, Environment & Wildlife, Events, Health, Lifestyle & Behavior, Media, Politics & Government, Population, Water
Chicago, IL, United States 
Updated in August
Translucent Advertising distributes 100% compostable t-shirt bags to all “brick and mortar” locations (i.e., retail, grocery stores, gas stations, etc) within select networks at no cost for daily usage by store customers, removing the need for store owners to purchase environmentally hazardous plastic bags instead. All of our 100 ...
Project about Action, Protest, & Activism, Agriculture & Food, Air Quality, Alternative, Cohousing, & Off-Grid Living, Architecture, Art & Culture, Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Trading, Celebrities, Children and Families, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Computing, Consumerism, Deforestation, Design, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Education, Electric vehicles, Emissions, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Events, Finance & Money, Food, Genetic Modification, Global Dimming, Green energy, Health, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Logging, Media, Nuclear, Organic, Permaculture, Philosophy & Religion, Politics & Government, Pollution, Population, Poverty & Development, Recycling, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Smart Growth, Solar, Transition Towns, Transport, Travel, War, Water, Weather
(a good idea here, is a good idea anywhere), New Zealand 
Updated in July
We have been trying to drum up support for the concept of carbon neutral supermarket sections. This would then give organisations a market imperative to measure, offset and reduce their carbon emissions. It is part of a bigger picture of in regards to a concept of carbon accounting that we ...
Project about Agriculture & Food, Carbon Trading, Climate Change, Consumerism, Emissions, Food, Lifestyle & Behavior
London, United Kingdom 
Updated in March
If your living room resembles a warehouse of unused items, a site like this one will let you get yourself more self-organized. In essence, this British startup lets you offer these items that are redounding to clutter for free to others who are interested in them, and that will put ...
Project about Consumerism, Lifestyle & Behavior, Recycling
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
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
OREGON, United States
Updated in November 2008
TRANSITION OREGON is a networking site for those interested in exploring and/or implementing the Transition model in their community. This site is being created through grassroots participation, and is continually evolving. It is a spontaneously arising effort to connect 'transitioners' with each other and to encourage and support the ...
Project about Agriculture & Food, Air Quality, Climate Change, Consumerism, Deforestation, Education, Electric vehicles, Emissions, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife, Events, Food, Global Dimming, Green energy, Industry & Business, Media, Organic, Pollution, Recycling, Solar, Transport, Water, Weather
New Zealand
Updated in October 2008
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
NZ, Australia and the UK, United Kingdom
Updated in August 2008
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 & Alternative Energy, Children and Families, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Consumerism, Design, Education, Food, Health, Media, Recycling, Travel, Water
Christchurch, New Zealand
Updated in August 2008
Eco-my-flat is a four-week competition and workshop programme aimed at helping university students save money and become more eco-friendly. The competition aims to promote sustainable student lifestyles, with a workshop each week covering the themes of energy, waste, transport and consumption. The workshops, run by a professional facilitator, addressed specific ...
Project about Agriculture & Food, Consumerism, Education, Energy Saving, Food, Recycling, Transport
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
Melbourne, Australia 
Updated in July 2008
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 Action, Protest, & Activism, Agriculture & Food, Carbon Trading, Consumerism, Education, Environment & Wildlife, Events, Genetic Modification, Health, Media, Philosophy & Religion, Politics & Government, War
New York, United States
Updated in June 2008
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
New Zealand
Updated in June 2008
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 & Alternative Energy, Climate Change, Consumerism, Energy Saving
Black Creek, Canada 
Updated in May 2008
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
Houston, United States
Updated in April 2008
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
Marlborough, New Zealand
Updated in April 2008
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
Boston Massachusetts, United States
Updated in February 2008
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
Manchester NH, United States
Updated in January 2008
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
Frederick, United States
Updated in January 2008
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
A Celsias Project is a group of people planning and working towards a goal that actively reduces climate change.
Join Celsias to commit to actions, invite friends, join projects & apply for green jobs!
United States
Brong Ahafo Region Wenchi , Ghana 
