Planet 🌏

List of interesting environment, climate change & sustainability content.

Charities, NGOs and Not For Profits

Circular Economy & Zero waste

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

Climate

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

Cloud computing & hosting

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

Communities, podcasts, blogs & lists

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.

Data, visualisations & research

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

Events

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

Finance & investing

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.

Food, farming & agriculture

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

Fossil fuels

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

Internet & websites

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

Jobs

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

Learning

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

Offsetting

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...
Click A Tree Top rated B Corp serving all 17 SDGs. Click A Tree grows forests, collects ocean plastic, finances gender equality and much more
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
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

Pollution

Steven Zhang's guide to dealing with air pollution is aimed at the US but provides general tips about living with inceair pollution

Tech industry & startups

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

Tools

Travel

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

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