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Allan Savory: How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change Video
In the TED Talk above, ecologist Allan Savory explains how we’re currently encouraging desertification, and how to not only stop it, but reverse it, by dramatically increasing the number of grazing livestock.
CorpWatch
CorpWatch counters corporate-led globalization û through education, network-building and activism. We work to foster democratic control over corporations by building grassroots globalization û a diverse movement for human rights and dignity, labor rights and environmental justice.
Sustainable Solutions
Sustainable Settings is an entrepreneurial non-profit organization that inspires people and communities to embrace integrated solutions for sustainable development.
To accomplish this mission we research, design and demonstrate whole-systems strategies in sustainable agriculture, green development, micro-enterprise, land stewardship and art for daily life. We are a model of applied sustainability featuring: Green Development, Renewable Energy, Self Reliance, Development of Local Foods and Energy Sheds, Participation in the Surrounding Community.
To accomplish this mission we research, design and demonstrate whole-systems strategies in sustainable agriculture, green development, micro-enterprise, land stewardship and art for daily life. We are a model of applied sustainability featuring: Green Development, Renewable Energy, Self Reliance, Development of Local Foods and Energy Sheds, Participation in the Surrounding Community.
The Earth Charter Initiative
The Earth Charter is a universal expression of ethical principles to foster sustainable development.The Earth Charter Initiative is the global network that embraces, uses and integrates the Earth Charter principles.
Needful Provisions
NPI, is making a number of these technologies available to Third World nations and their populations. Most popular items include: 1) A solar water still; 2) A solar-powered refrigerator; 3) A solar-powered oven; 4) A simple means to produce nutrient supplements; and 5) A simplified earth-block machine to make blocks for home construction. I am using my U.S. Patent No. 5,121,708 and related Trade Secrets to develop a new carbon sequestration crop that produces biodiesel. In addition, I have three patents used to create my "zero net-energy" home that provides total self-sufficiency. Recently, I have added an earthquake-proof foundation for homes my charity, NPI, has designed for Indonesia and Iraq.
Action Hero Network
We put a spotlight on individuals and organizations acting locally and around the world to recognize heroic efforts and share projects for others to get involved. What is your mission? Do you have a passion that offers direction, or purpose that creates a sense of place? Get organized and take action!
Planet Drum
Planet Drum Foundation works to research, promote and disseminate information about bioregionalism, a grassroots approach to ecology that emphasizes sustainability, community self-determination and regional self-reliance. We believe that people who know and care about the places where they live will work to maintain and restore them.
Bioneers
Bioneers is a non-profit educational organization that highlights breakthrough solutions for restoring people and planet. Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with nature-inspired approaches for the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges. We connect people with solutions and each other. Our acclaimed national and local conferences are complemented by extensive media outreach including an award-winning radio series, book series and role in media projects such as Leonardo DiCaprio’s film The 11th Hour.
The Buckminster Fuller Institute
The Buckminster Fuller Institute is dedicated to accelerating the development and deployment of solutions which radically advance human well being and the health of our planet's ecosystems. We aim to deeply influence the ascendance of a new generation of design-science pioneers who are leading the creation of an abundant and restorative world economy that benefits all humanity.
Rocky Mountain Institute
RMI's style is non-adversarial and trans-ideological, emphasizing integrative design, advanced technologies, and mindful markets. Our strategic focus, executed through specific initiatives designed to take our work rapidly to scale, is to map and drive the transition from coal and oil to efficiency and renewables.
We work extensively with the private sector, as well as with civil society and government, to create abundance by design and to apply the framework of natural capitalism.
We work extensively with the private sector, as well as with civil society and government, to create abundance by design and to apply the framework of natural capitalism.
Building Insights. Breaking Boundaries.
Elsevier is an integral partner with the scientific, technical and health communities, delivering superior information products and services that6 foster communication, build insights, and enable individual and collective advancement in scientific research and health care.
Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth is the U.S. voice of an influential, international network of grassroots groups in 70 countries. Founded in San Francisco in 1969 by David Brower, Friends of the Earth has for decades been at the forefront of high-profile efforts to create a more healthy, just world.
World Watch Institute
Founded by Lester Brown in 1974, the Worldwatch Institute offers a unique blend of interdisciplinary research, global focus, and accessible writing that has made it a leading source of information on the interactions among key environmental, social, and economic trends. Our work revolves around the transition to an environmentally sustainable and socially just societyùand how to achieve it.
GreenStar
Greenstar builds a solar-powered community center that delivers electricity, pure water, health and education information, and a wireless Internet connection, to villages in the developing world.
We record art, music, photography, legends and storytelling in traditional communities, and bring these unique, priceless products to global markets. Revenues from this "digital culture" are returned to the village to support their ongoing, independent development.
We record art, music, photography, legends and storytelling in traditional communities, and bring these unique, priceless products to global markets. Revenues from this "digital culture" are returned to the village to support their ongoing, independent development.
World Resources Institute
WRI focuses on the intersection of the environment and socio-economic development. We go beyond research to put ideas into action, working globally with governments, business, and civil society to build transformative solutions that protect the earth and improve people’s lives.
EarthShare
EarthShare is a national non-profit federation with 25 years of experience in connecting people and workplaces with effective ways to support critical environmental causes. Together we've raised more than $300 million for programs that care for our air, land, water, wildlife and public health -- in your community, across the U.S. and around the world.
Malnutrition Matters
Malnutrition Matters is a Canadian-registered, non-profit organization, dedicated to providing sustainable low cost food technology solutions for malnutrition, primarily by using soya, but also cereals, grains, fruits and vegetables. These plant-based foods offer the greatest nutritional, environmental and economic benefits. Furthermore, soymilk and its derivative soyfoods are already well-known for their nutritional value, functionality and the sustainability of their agriculture and production
Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps is a not-for-profit organization that exists to alleviate suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping people build secure, productive, and just communities.
Project Earth
Founder of Project Earth Adam Trombly is an internationally acknowledged expert in the fields of Physics, Atmospheric Dynamics, Geophysics, Rotating and Resonating Electromagnetic Systems, and Environmental Global Modeling.
Taking the advice of his friend and mentor, R. Buckminster Fuller, Adam has maintained a "synergistic, global view" within a multi-disciplinary scientific background. From this perspective, Adam offers unique insights into the changes humankind has effected on our environment, and the adjustments our future requires of us now.
Taking the advice of his friend and mentor, R. Buckminster Fuller, Adam has maintained a "synergistic, global view" within a multi-disciplinary scientific background. From this perspective, Adam offers unique insights into the changes humankind has effected on our environment, and the adjustments our future requires of us now.
Redefining Progress
Redefining Progress works with partners to change technology, influence the choices individuals make, and resolve pressing social and environmental issues. RP also adds to our partnersÆ efforts by pursuing systemic change in underlying economic, political, and social mechanisms