TOPIC: ENVIRONMENT (87)
Conservation International
http://www.conservation.orgPeople depend on nature for many things. A stable climate. Clean air. Fresh water. Abundant food. Cultural resources. And the incalculable additional benefits the world’s biodiversity provides. Conservation International (CI) works to ensure a healthy and productive planet for us all.
Marine Conservation Society
http://www.mcsuk.orgThe Marine Conservation Society, MCS, is the voice for everyone who loves the sea. Our work ensures that the sea’s rich wildlife can be restored, fish stocks grow more plentiful, and our beaches and seawater become cleaner.
The Marine Conservation Society's Fishonline is the buyer's guide to sustainable seafood. An in-depth guide to the fish types available to UK fishmongers, chefs and retailers, it is designed to complement the Good Fish Guide web pages which help consumers make a truly informed choice in seafoods.
GBO Hawai’i
http://gbohawaii.comGBO Hawai’i is the first sustainability themed board game for a mass market audience. Through private sector investment in sustainable businesses, (a field known as impact investing), players are able to help the state of Hawai’i meet its sustainability goals, reducing fossil fuel consumption, advancing the local and organic food movement, and reducing waste generation.
Reforest Patagonia
http://www.reforestemospatagonia.cl/?lang=enPatagonia is one of the world’s greatest natural treasures—admired for both its ecological significance and its extraordinary beauty. However, in the last 100 years, forest fires and human intervention have destroyed more than 7.5 million acres of pristine wilderness.
Reforest Patagonia is a nonprofit, public-private alliance that unites people of different backgrounds, cultures, and nationalities with a single objective: to recover one of the world’s most important ecosystems.
Patagonia matters to us all. Join this historic campaign by planting your own tree for only $4.
Rainforest Alliance
http://www.rainforest-alliance.orgThe Rainforest Alliance works to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods for by transforming land-use practices, business practices, and consumer behavior.
Atlas
http://atlasbycollins.com/Atlas contains a series of interactive themed globes, broken down by subject areas: the app helps users put their world in context. Globe topics, such as environment, energy, population, communications and politics, are visualized by overlaying colour-coded layers of rich information on top of continents and countries. This is not a navigation app like Apple Maps or Google maps. This is an atlas, giving an overview of the world.
GREEN.TV
http://green.tvThe GREEN.TV story is all about producing, gathering and distributing the best environmental films around.
Why do we do that? Well, we believe that combining the emotive power of video with the interactive potential of digital media means we can do our bit to bring about real change. That’s the thinking behind our strap-line; Watch, Engage, Act.
Our Future Planet
http://www.ourfutureplanet.orgOur Future Planet (OFP) is an online community and think tank which aims to be the platform to create global change in the real world today. Our long term goal is to harness the innovative ideas created through the website to write and publish a ‘Planetary Constitution.’ This is a huge undertaking, but one that can be achieved through the mass global co-operation seen with OFP. Our platform gives each and every one of you a serious voice and by contributing to OFP you really can help shape the future of the planet.
Grist
http://www.grist.orgGrist has been dishing out environmental news and commentary with a wry twist since 1999 -- which, to be frank, was way before most people cared about such things. Now that green is in every headline and on every store shelf (bamboo hair gel, anyone?), Grist is the one site you can count on to help you make sense of it all.
Eco-Unesco
http://www.ecounesco.ieECO-UNESCO is Ireland's Environmental Education and Youth Organisation, affiliated to the World Federation of UNESCO Clubs, Centres and Associations (WFUCA). Our mission is to promote the personal development of young people and raise environmental awareness through practical environmental projects.
Google Green
http://www.google.com/greenAt Google, we've worked hard to minimize the environmental impact of our services. For instance, to provide users with nonstop YouTube for three weeks, Google uses less energy than it takes to do a single load of laundry. If you add in our renewable energy and offsets, our footprint is zero. And we continue to find new ways to reduce our impact even further.
bobble
http://www.waterbobble.com/Since bobble’s introduction in 2010, our retail network has grown furiously; the product is now available in all 50 states in the USA, from department and specialty stores and mass-market retailers to corner boutiques. We are in more than 35,000 stores, nearly three dozen countries and on five continents. Millions of bobbles have been sold worldwide. If each filter equates to 300 single-serve bottles, bobble’s collective success has helped to remove many millions of discarded plastic bottles from the environment.
The Nature Conservancy
http://www.nature.orgThe Nature Conservancy is the leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people.
Center for Ecoliteracy
http://www.ecoliteracy.orgThe Center for Ecoliteracy is a leader in the green schooling movement. Smart by Nature™, the Center’s framework and services for schooling for sustainability, is based on two decades of work with schools and organizations in more than 400 communities across the United States and numerous other countries.
GreenBiz.Com
http://www.greenbizgroup.comGreenBiz.com™, Business Voice of the Green Economy, is the leading source for news, opinion, best practices, and other resources on the greening of mainstream business. Launched in 2000, its mission is to provide clear, concise, accurate, and balanced information, resources, and learning opportunities to help companies of all sizes and sectors integrate environmental responsibility into their operations in a manner that supports profitable business practices.
