List of interesting environment, climate change & sustainability content.
- ClimateWorks Foundation collaborates with funders, regional and research partners, and other climate leaders to strengthen philanthropy’s response to climate change
- Possible are a UK based charity aimed at tackling climate change through inspiring people to act
- Doteveryone are a UK based think tank focused on responsible technology for everyone
- CDP is a not-for-profit charity that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their environmental impacts
- Future Earth is a global initiative to strengthen the interface between policy and science
- The Natural Resources Defense Council works to safeguard the earth - its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends
- We Mean Business are a coalition aiming to catalyze business action and driving policy ambition to accelerate the zero-carbon transition
- From We Mean Business, Better Faster Future breaks the climate problem into pillars and attempts to lay out a path forward for each
- 1% for the planet enables businesses and individuals to donate 1% of their total sales back to the environment
- ClimateNeutral is an independent non-profit organization working to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon world by putting a price on carbon emissions
- Citizen's Climate Lobby empowers everyday people to work together on climate change solutions
- Open Circularity collects circular economy content
- Precious Plastic create tools that make it easier to start recycling plastic
- Circular Berlin are a non-profit reshaping Berlin’s metabolism – by developing the local circular economy agenda and its implementation, through research, community-building and practical programmes
- PureWaste manufacture clothing out of waste material
- Resyn connect sustainable producers online, directly to each other — and to local retailers and consumers — to help regions transition to local, renewable, circular economies
- Storr Cupboard shares recipes and tips around food waste and leftovers
- Shop Ethical Guide lists the environmental and social record of companies behind common brand names
- Zero Waste Labs are a collective of designers, engineers and techies investigating zero waste, closed loop systems that are practical for urban, high density life
- Open Source Circular Economy Days is a global open project and community about the development and use of open source solutions and methodologies to create a shift to a global sustainable circular economy
- UN Climate Change Adaptation build lasting resilience for at-risk communities and promote a global zero-carbon future
- Grist climate news, heavily US focused but lots of good content
- Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change is a NY Times long read from 2018 on when climate change was first discovered at the beginning of the 1980s and some of the people involved
- Common sense for the 21st century is a paper written by Roger Hallam, one of the Extinction Rebellion founders
- Facing Extinction is a long but interesting read from Catherine Ingram on climate and the human race
- Two papers published by the 2019 Exponential Roadmap covering how to accelerate the 36 solutions required to slash greenhouse gas emissions 50% by 2030
- OnApp “greener cloud” initiative to help minimize cloud infrastructure CO2 emissions, and reduce the impact of OnApp clouds on climate change
- Based in Amsterdam, Greenhost provide infrastructure hosting powered by 100% renewables
- The Green Web Foundation has a directory of green hosts globally
- Green Geeks have a global presence and offer website hosting which puts 3x the energy they consume back into the grid via renewables
- Fridays for Future
- Global Climate Strike
- climateaction.tech is a global community of tech professionals using our skills, expertise and platforms to support solutions to the climate crisis
- Protect.Earth is a list of strategies, products, services, and companies focused on sustainability and environmental protection. We are faced with a global existential crisis - every little bit you can do helps
- Climatescape map the global landscape of climate-saving organizations and resources
- Near.Tools aims to help anyone understand climate breakdown and empower them to take action
- climateaction.tech Flipboard compiles climate related news and updates
- Green European Journal offers a broad conversation about political ecology and what it means for our society, today and for the years to come
- Degrowth believe constant growth leads to over consumption and production which leads to many negative effects for humans and the planet
- Waag is a middle-ground organisation composed of research groups that work with both grassroots initiatives and institutional partners across Europe
- The On Being Ecology & Nature section has some great podcasts on environmental topics
- Based in Amsterdam, Planet B is a mission to recolonise planet Earth based on a narrative of DIY expeditions to a fictional planet. Planet B offers scientists, artists and citizens a ‘greenfields’ to develop symbolic and material responses to the social and ecological challenges facing us
- One Army are building a platform for communities to grow online/offline and tackle global problems
- Video blog of Dave Hakkens of Precious Plastics, One Army etc
- Mifactori is a studio for open design, environmental activism and creative urbanism
- Green Me Berlin is a blog based around sustainable activities and services in Berlin
- Research paper looking at Blockchain in the energy sector
- You've Been Warmed interview the top scientists, entrepreneurs, activists & politicians, to find answers to all of the above while uncovering the leaders behind our fight for the preservation of our planet
- Extinction Rebellion is a global environmental movement with the stated aim of using nonviolent civil disobedience to compel government action to avoid tipping points in the climate system, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse.
- Climate Analytics publish a wide range of data and tools covering most aspects of climate change
- Climate Action Tracker is an independent scientific analysis that tracks government climate action and measures it against the globally agreed Paris Agreement
- Our world in data publishes large amounts of data and reports covering all aspects of humanity
- CO2 Levels displays current and historic CO2 measurements
- MIT Interactive Climate Change Simulator allows users to tweak the different factors to see the anticipated positive or negative effect
- UN Sustainable Development Goals tracker publishes data reporting on progress toward the UN goals
- The Climate Data Factory publishes ready to use climate change data
- Brighter Planet offers a climate impact API which allows you to calculate the carbon generated by almost any activity - transport, energy, shopping and more
- Interactive map showing nature's contributions to people
- Datasets used by nature's contributions to people above
- Research paper investigating if Green Growth is possible
- windy.com has an interactive world view of not only wind but also air pollution, CO2 and other measures
- UN Food & Agriculture database
- Heinrich Böll Stiftung is predominantly German/European but publishes numerous reports around sustainability
- Hopin is the first all-in-one live online events platform where attendees can learn, interact, and connect with people from anywhere in the world
- Not so much a website but the Spring One Platform tech conference swag policy is an amazing example of a sustainable approach to this historically unsustainable topic
- Tomorrow offer digital bank accounts where your money and fees are invested only in sustainable projects
- Australian ethical investment company U Ethical invest in projects with positive impacts and exclude those that have negative effects on society or the environment
- Responsible Returns aggregates ethical / responsible / sustainable finance products for the Australian market
- A small list of socially responsible investment funds.
- The EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health brought together 37 world-leading scientists from across the globe to answer this question: Can we feed a future population of 10 billion people a healthy diet within planetary boundaries?
- The Meatrix is a film from 2003 offering information on the issues surrounding factory farming, as well as alternatives to conventionally-raised meat, poultry, dairy, and eggs
- Meat Atlas sheds light on the impacts of meat and dairy production, and aims to catalyse the debate over the need for better, safer and more sustainable food and farming
- The Agriculture Atlas shows how closely Europe's agriculture is intertwined with our lives and our living spaces. It also reveals how little of the funding of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is fir for purpose
- Impressive interactive map showing a country's oil budget as surplus (blue) or deficit (red), points of political conflict that engage with the oil market on a local scale, and information about each country's greenhouse gas reduction goals outlined in the 2016 Paris Agreements
- Greenpeace report outlining Carbon Capture technology and the associated problems
- The Sustainable Web Manifesto declares your commitment to create a greener web
- Website carbon calculator lets you calculate the carbon footprint of a website
- surfgreen.dev provides a website sustainability test. Seems a bit sales-y but interesting none-the-less
- Sustainable Web Design makes a number of suggestions when it comes to building a more sustainable website or app
- Ecograder is another website sustainability calculator. Also pretty light on, may be developed more in future
- climate.careers lists high-impact, high-paying jobs to solve the climate crisis
- Blog post on finding a job in tech which can help combat climate change
- Data Science for Social Good are Berlin based and help NGOs to make use of their data by connecting them with volunteer data scientists and analysts
- Reconsidered Jobs aggregate jobs in social impact, sustainability and corporate social responsibility
- tbd is a digital hub where people determined to change the world can find a job, discover workshops and courses, locate funding, hire the right team, connect with mission-driven companies, share best practices, or learn from others who are using their careers to make an impact
- FabAcademy is a fast paced, hands-on learning experience where students plan and execute a new project each week
- Environmental Humanities Initiative is composed of faculty and students from across the arts and humanities who focus on a range of environmental issues
- Excellent tongue in cheek website illustrating the flaws in offsetting from Climate Neutral
- Difficult to tell if ClimateFutures are in it to help or just make a buck. 1Planet Blockchain sounds very suspicious...
- Target2030 is a charitable foundation focusing on tree planting and sustainability advocacy
- Choose offer offsetting subscriptions for individuals and businesses
- Trump Forest unfortunately now inactive but was a tree planting project aimed to combat (and probably annoy) the environmental policies of Trump. Here are two articles describing the project.
- Eden Reforestation Projects reduces extreme poverty and restores healthy forests by employing local villagers to plant millions of trees every year
- GoClimateNeutral offer offsetting in projects in developing countries
- Nori is the world’s only carbon dioxide removal marketplace. Essentially a 2-sided marketplace enabling carbon removal suppliers to connect directly with buyers, improving efficiency and reducing costs
- Steven Zhang's guide to dealing with air pollution is aimed at the US but provides general tips about living with inceair pollution
- Great newsletter Green Digital covering sustainability in digital products
- Blog post on leveraging the tech industry to tackle climate change
- Angel.co has a list of clean energy and clean technology startups
- COACT Lab is an open-source environmental tech incubator in the hills outside of Barcelona
- Tech Transformed are a consultancy offering organisations support in operating sustainably
- Greenpeace's Guide to greener electronics although from 2017, still offers solid information and sound advice
- Super cool! The homebrewserver.club is a monthly gathering for those who (wish to) host their own online services from home, rather than using commercial and privacy unfriendly alternatives
- Digital Climate Strike offered digital support for the global climate strikes
- Mattermore offer data science for the climate - collaborate with peers, find high-impact projects and jobs, grow your community and hire
- WildLabs is a community of conservationists, technologists, engineers, data scientists, entrepreneurs and change makers
- OnePlanet provide a radical online platform to enable everyone to plan for the future and create the places, products and services to live happy, healthy lives on our one planet.
- Climate Adaption Knowledge Exchange compiles the world’s largest and most used source of climate adaptation case studies and resources
- Stay Grounded is a global network of more than 150 member organisations, among them local airport opposition and climate justice groups, NGOs, trade unions, initiatives fostering alternatives to aviation like night trains, and organisations supporting communities which struggle against offset projects or biofuel plantations
- Am Boden Bleiben the German version of Stay Grounded
- vojo is a travel planning platform for climate conscious travellers