| Environmental page 1 page 2 Green Communities page 1 page 2 | Environmental | Academics Artists Atheism Business Consumers Entertainment Environmental Health Humanities Idealists Miscellaneous Open Source Religion Spiritual Scientists Society Sports Women | | OpenEco is a new global on-line community that provides free, easy-to-use tools to help participants assess, track, and compare business energy performance, share proven best practices to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and encourage sustainable innovation. |
| OpenEco.org - Sun Microsystems Launches First-Of-Its-Kind, OpenWeb Community To Help Organizations Reduce Environmental Footprint
Global Sustainability Leader Ceres Joins OpenEco.org Community, Which Features First-Ever Tool For Calculating and Comparing GHG Emissions Data
New York, NY September 24, 2007 Drawing on its history of building online communities, Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) today launched OpenEco.org, a new community to help organizations calculate, compare, and reduce green house gas (GHG) emissions. OpenEco.org is free and open to all organizations. The only cost of admission is sharing data, transparently or anonymously, with other community participants. Sun will publicly introduce OpenEco.org today at an event the company is sponsoring with the Carbon Disclosure Project featuring President Bill Clinton in New York. | 
| Yahoo!7 is on a mission to find Australia's most worthwhile environmental initiative and reward it with the sum of $50,000.
To make this happen, we're asking the Yahoo!7 Answers community to answer the question, "How would you spend $50,000 to create a more sustainable environment in Australia?"
Our panel of judges will review all of the responses on Answers and select the best idea. If your answer is chosen, we will contribute $50,000 to an environmental organisation that will put the funds towards implementing your idea. | Nobel Peace Prize 2007 - Al Gore, U.N. climate panel win Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change"
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
Indications of changes in the earth's future climate must be treated with the utmost seriousness, and with the precautionary principle uppermost in our minds. Extensive climate changes may alter and threaten the living conditions of much of mankind. They may induce large-scale migration and lead to greater competition for the earth's resources. Such changes will place particularly heavy burdens on the world's most vulnerable countries. There may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states. | Sustainable UK
Sustainable UK helps the individual to lead a sustainable, ... organisations often want to become sustainable, reducing environmental impact and save costs, ... | Earth Day Network is a driving force steering environmental awareness around the world. Through Earth Day Network, activists connect, interact, and impact their communities, and create positive change in local, national, and global policies. EDN's international network reaches over 15,000 organizations in 174 countries, while the domestic program keeps over 5,000 groups and over 100,000 educators coordinating millions of community development and environmental protection activities throughout the year. As a result, Earth Day is the only event celebrated simultaneously around the globe by people of all backgrounds, faiths and nationalities. More than a half billion people participate in our campaigns every year. | WATERTOALL - In 2002, during his professorship for new media art at the State School of Art and Design in Karlsruhe, artist Uwe Laysiepen (Ulay) initiated the multidimensional art project . At the heart of this project lies Laysiepen's desire to visualise a range of aspects connected with drinking water, e.g. the management and use of water, the availability of pure drinking water for people worldwide, alternative methods of collecting and distributing water, and last but not least cultural values and rituals concerning water. | The cornerstone of environmental activism is knowledge. The internet offers endless resources to help concerned citizens become educated, active and invovled in helping to set environmental policy. With the Know Your Government page, Friends of the Earth provides activists access to the tools necessary to make a difference in the political arena. | Environmental Justice Foundation
EJF: Presenting solutions, combating problems
The knowledge that the world faces an increasing array of environmental crises is now so commonplace that they need little introduction.
That there are solutions to these crises is, however, all too often overlooked.
The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) is dedicated to creating, implementing and building solutions where they are needed most - training local people and communities who are directly affected to investigate, expose and combat environmental degradation and abuse. | MIT Community Solar Power Initiative - MIT Community Solar Power Initiative Grant Overview: ... the state of the art in manufacturing, installing and operating solar power equipment and systems. ... | Global Cool's mission is this: get a billion people to reduce their personal CO2 emissions by at least one tonne.
Become one in a billion right here by ticking which tiny lifestyle changes you could realistically make on your very own MY CO2 Workout Card.
We'll tell you how much CO2 you'll save from clogging up the atmosphere and will also add your CO2 saving to our ace Global Coolometer. | EarthTrends, an online collection of information regarding the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world. Committed to the principle that accurate information drives responsible decisions by governments and individuals, EarthTrends offers the public a large breadth of statistical, graphic, and analytical data in easily accessible formats.
Much of the environmental information on the internet is fragmented, buried, or only available at a price. EarthTrends gathers data from the world’s leading statistical agencies, along with WRI-generated maps and analyses, into a single database for rapid searching and retrieving. To facilitate the comparison of data from different sources, EarthTrends supplements its content with detailed metadata that reports on research methodologies and evaluates the information’s reliability. All of these resources are made available to the public at no charge. | The Cities for Climate Protection™(CCP) Campaign assists cities to adopt policies and implement quantifiable measures to reduce local greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality, and enhance urban livability and sustainability. More than 800 local governments participate in the CCP, integrating climate change mitigation into their decision-making processes.
ICLEI runs this highly successful and widely recognized campaign either regionally or nationally in Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan, Latin America, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the United States. | ENN - Environmental News Network- For over twenty years, the Environmental News Network (ENN.com) has published news, commentary, and information about how we live on earth. Our mission is simple: to provide a global perspective on environmental issues, and to promote thought, discussion, and awareness among our readers. We accomplish this by featuring content that is balanced, non-partisan, comprehensive and educational in nature. | The Fox in the Greenhouse
A grassroots coalition of environmental, religious, and activist groups has launched a campaign to expose the Fox network's skewed and inaccurate coverage of global warming. The campaign, led by the Sierra Club, Brave New Films, and MoveOn.org Civic Action, includes a YouTube video called Fox Attacks: The Environment that exposes Fox's pattern of misinformation, and an online petition. | Share The World's Resources (STWR) is an NGO campaigning for global economic and social justice. STWR Global Focus presents information about why the world economy needs reforming and how a system based on the principle of sharing can prevent 50,000 people dying from poverty every day. The latest news, analysis and videos on these issues can be found below and you can find out more about STWR here. | | Freegans are people who employ alternative strategies for living based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources. Freegans embrace community, generosity, social concern, freedom, cooperation, and sharing in opposition to a society based on materialism, moral apathy, competition, conformity, and greed. Planet Ark works to show people the many ways they can reduce their day to day impact on the environment - at home, at work and in the community. | | | | | | | | | | |
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