
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 ...
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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

A Ricoh New Zealand project in Auckland, New Zealand 
Updated in July
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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United States 
Updated 19 hours ago
During the Vice Presidential debate, both Senator Biden and Governor Palin touting their support for "clean coal". But both presidential campaigns and Congress are missing the point: Conventional coal-burning power plants are the leading cause of global warming pollution in the United States. "Clean Coal" is a myth--a contradiction in ...
Project about Air Quality, Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Trading, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Economics, Emissions, Energy Saving, Green energy, Industry, Pollution

global, New Zealand 
Updated this month
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

London, United Kingdom 
Updated last month
We believe the best way to help the environment is to become more energy efficient. Our blog and newsletter is full of comprehensive tips, tactics and reports that can help efficiency and lower YOUR utility bills.
Project about Energy Saving

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

United States 
Updated last month
Imagine if you had one minute in an elevator to tell our next President why climate change matters. What would you say? 1Sky and Brighter Planet are teaming up and we want you to film your message and upload it now to our new national video message competition -- Climate Matters ...
Project about Celebrities, Climate Change, Education, Energy Saving, Events, Media

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

Everywhere, Canada 
Updated last month
Build a small wind turbine to use at the cottage, cabin, farm or your home. Or install a small Photovoltaic system. You'll not only reduce your power bill (just a little) but you'll also learn lots about saving electricity in the process.
Project about Education, Energy Saving

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

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

Christchurch, New Zealand 
Updated in August
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

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

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

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

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

Opotiki, New Zealand 
Updated in July
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, Carbon Sequestration, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife, Transport

New Zealand 
Updated in July
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

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

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

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

sanford, United States 
Updated in June
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

cerrillos, United States 
Updated in June
Having lived off the grid since 1971, I'd love to share some cool things i have learned over the years.
Project about Architecture, Energy Saving

New Zealand 
Updated in June
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

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

New Zealand nationwide, New Zealand 
Updated in June
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

Bellevue Washington, United States 
Updated in June
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

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

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

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

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

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

A Celsias Project is a group of people planning and working towards a goal that actively reduces climate change.
- Manage sustainability projects confidentially
- Invite your employees to participate
- Control access to your private site

New York, United States 

Wellington, New Zealand 