A collection of resources, services, products, and ideas that you can use to improve your impact on the environment.
Billionaires and scientists are scaling up carbon trapping programs with big old turbines, even looking at turning that byproduct into fuel, but those same scientists are begging us to live less carbon intensive lives and fund offsetting programs. They need our help, so figure out your footprint, reduce it over time, and offset the rest.
- CarbonFund.org - 🇺🇸 Calculate your footprint based on flights, driving, shipping, and make tax-deductible donations to offset your emissions.
- atmosfair - 🇩🇪 Calculate the footprint for flights and buy compensation or donate to offset any number of carbon emissions. Tax-deductible in Germany.
- Offset Earth - 🇬🇧 Monthly subscriptions for you, your family, and your business, where money goes to Eden Reforestation Projects who plant trees and offset and reduce carbon emissions around the world in a myriad of ways.
- Leave Me Alone - 🌎 Emails contribute to 986,000 tonnes of CO2 being dumped into the atmosphere every day. Unsubscribe from unwanted subscription emails and reduce your carbon footprint.
- the Switch - 🇬🇧 Switch to green energy is easy and can save you money too.
- Money Supermarket: Green Energy - 🇬🇧 "Green energy might’ve been a premium before, but prices are becoming competitive thanks to concerns over fossil fuels."
We need to reforest an area the size of the USA as quickly as possible. Why the urgency? Ice shelves in Greenland are melting so fast that 197 billion tons melted in July 2019 alone, and abnormally vicious heatwaves all over Europe are becoming more intense and more frequent. We're rapidly reaching a point where large areas of the planet will be too hot to plant forests, so we need to get it done now.
- Eden Reforestation Projects - 🌎 Eden Reforestation projects reduces extreme poverty and restores healthy forests by employing local villagers to plant millions of trees every year.
- Treedom - Treedom lets you buy or gift a real tree, where somebody will plant it for you and follow it online.
- Tree-Nation - 🌎 Discover the projects where you can start planting now.
- Happy Cow - 🌎 Reduce or avoid meat entirely by finding great vegetarian or vegan food all over the world.
- The Fixmas - Making Christmas sustainable.
- Sonny - A sustainable alternative to wipes and paper for better hygiene and a greener planet.
- Bio-plastic Trash Bags - 🇺🇸 Made from Plant Based (sugar cane) materials instead of fossil fuel.
- Cycle to Work Scheme - 🇬🇧 This scheme allows employees to spend on bikes and equipment, tax-free, making a claimed saving of up to 42 per cent on the overall value.
- Waze Carpool - 🌎 Choose to drive or ride, and match with people based on route and time of day.
- All Green - 🇬🇧 A selection of environmentally products for the home, garden, pets and other stuff.
- Bees Wrap - 🇺🇸 Stop using cling film and start using reusable recyclable wraps made from bees wax and organic jojoba oil.
- Clean Cult - 🇺🇸 Cleaning supplies with zero-waste packaging, and a powerful clean that's better for you and the planet.
- City Harvest - 🇺🇸 City Harvest is New York City’s largest food rescue organization. They rescue food and deliver it to hundreds of food pantries, soup kitchens and other community partners.
- Grayl Water Filter - 🇺🇸 If you're backpacking or adventuring, don't buy plastic bottles, you can just purify you're own water quickly and easily.
- Donate Toys - 🇺🇸 Donate toys that your children have grown out of instead of throwing them away.
- Olio - 🇬🇧 We connect neighbours to share food, and other things, rather than chuck them away.
- Openstreetmap: Zero Waste (Overpass) - Openstreetmap has the tag zero_waste=* for shops who sell items without packaging.
- Original Unverpackt - 🇩🇪 Zero packaging supermarket in Berlin. Original Unverpackt hat sich als erster Supermarkt weltweit dem Zero-Waste-Lifestyle gewidmet.
- Rethink Food NYC - 🇺🇸 We pick up unused, excess food from restaurants, farms, and other food purveyors to repurpose it into delicious and nutritious meals for under-served New Yorkers.
- iPhone 11 Bio Case from Moment - A fully compostable protective case for your iPhone. Only compatible with iPhone 11 (for now).