Aligned
Change
Agents
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There is incredible work going on in the world today that is aligned with the vision and values of the Planet Project. In this section of the website we list and give information about some of the organizations and people we have discovered and are inspired by. These are Aligned Change Agents. There are many more, so please nominate candidate organizations and people. Just seeing how much good work is being done is inspiring and hopeful. Please support these organizations in any way you can.
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| URL | RESOURCE | TYPE | CATEGORY | SECTOR | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://www.onepercentfortheplanet.org/ | 1% For the Planet | Type: Organization | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Functional Sector(s): | 1% for the Planet is a global movement inspiring businesses and individuals to support environmental solutions through annual memberships and everyday actions. |
| https://join1440.com/about-us/ | 1440 | Type: Media Outlet | Category: Unbiased Media | Functional Sector(s): | Culture, science, sports, politics, business, and more - all in a 5-minute read. Instead of cleverly crafted messaging and media narratives, 1440 provides an impartial view of what’s happening in the world so our readers can form their own conclusions. |
| https://80000hours.org/ | 80,000 Hours | Type: Organization | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Hub, Education | 80,000 Hours is a non-profit that provides research and support to help students and graduates switch into careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems. They offer a podcast, job board, 1-1 advice and online guides that include suggestions on which global problems are most pressing, on how to compare careers based on social impact, high-impact career paths, and how to make a career plan. |
| https://acrecampaigns.org/ | Action Center for Race and the Economy | Type: Organization | Category: Social Justice | Functional Sector(s): Justice | The Action Center on Race & the Economy (ACRE) is a campaign hub for organizations working at the intersection of racial justice and Wall Street accountability. We provide research and communications infrastructure and strategic support for organizations working on campaigns to win structural change by directly taking on the financial elite that are responsible for pillaging communities of color, devastating working class communities, and harming our environment. We partner with local organizations from across the United States that are working on racial, economic, environmental, and educational justice campaigns and help them connect the dots between their issues and Wall Street so that each of the local efforts feeds into a broad national movement to hold the financial sector accountable. |
| https://www.allwecansave.earth/ | All We Can Save Project | Type: Organization | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Functional Sector(s): Environment | Nurturing a welcoming, connected, and leaderful climate community, rooted in the work and wisdom of women, to grow a life-giving future. |
| https://allianceforyouthaction.org/ | Alliance for Youth Action | Type: Organization | Category: Democracy and Voting | Functional Sector(s): Governance | Empowering young people’s organizations to strengthen our democracy, fix our economy, and correcting injustices through on-the-ground organizing. |
| https://endplasticwaste.org/en | Alliance to End Plastic Waste | Type: Organization | Category: Plastics | Functional Sector(s): Environment | Since 2019, we have rallied over 90 member companies, project partners, allies and supporters who are committed to ending plastic waste in the environment with us. We are bringing together a diverse network of resources and expertise. From technical leaders, engineers, scientists and practitioners, we are working together to create and scale innovative solutions around the world. Together with policy makers, non-governmental organisations, and local communities, we are driving and delivering transformational change: to end plastic waste in the environment and protect the planet. |
| https://arminarm4climate.org/ | Arm in Arm | Type: Organization | Category: Climate Change | Functional Sector(s): Environment | Arm in Arm’s goal is to ignite a transformational era that ends the climate crisis by centering racial and economic justice. |
| https://ascend.aspeninstitute.org/ | Ascend At The Aspen Institute | Type: Organization | Category: Social Justice | Functional Sector(s): Education, Health, Economics | Ascend at the Aspen Institute is the national hub for breakthrough ideas and collaborations that move children and the adults in their lives to educational success, economic security, and health and well-being. |
| https://ballotpedia.org | Ballotpedia | Type: Organization | Category: Democracy and Voting | Functional Sector(s): Governance | The nation’s premier resource for unbiased information on elections, politics and policy, to help you make decisions about how you'll vote in an election. |
| Beau Rezendes | Type: Person | Category: Humanity | Functional Sector(s): Hub | Co-founder of the PLANET Project. Beau grew up in Peoria, Illinois and has lived in Colorado since 1964. Beau’s background is a blend of corporate, academic, and public sector work. | |
| https://www.beyondplastics.org | Beyond Plastics | Type: Organization | Category: Plastics | Functional Sector(s): Environment | Launched in January 2019, Beyond Plastics is a nationwide project based at Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont, that pairs the wisdom and experience of environmental policy experts with the energy and creativity of college students to build a vibrant and effective anti-plastics movement. Our mission is to end plastic pollution by being a catalyst for change at every level of our society. We use our deep policy and advocacy expertise to build a well-informed, effective movement seeking to achieve the institutional, economic, and societal changes needed to save our planet, and ourselves, from the plastic pollution crisis. |
| https://braverangels.org | Braver Angels | Type: Organization | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Governance | Their Mission: We bring Americans together to bridge the partisan divide and strengthen our democratic republic. |
| https://www.brennancenter.org/ | Brennan Center for Justice | Type: Organization | Category: Social Justice | Functional Sector(s): Governance | An independent, nonpartisan law and policy organization, that conducts rigorous research to identify problems and provide in-depth empirical findings and compelling analyses of pressing legal and policy issues. We also pioneer and champion policy solutions, such as automatic voter registration and small donor public financing. |
| https://www.bridgealliance.us/ | Bridge Alliance | Type: Organization | Category: Democracy and Voting | Functional Sector(s): Governance | Promoting civility, transparency, effective governance, civic engagement, and a country before party mindset -- i.e. all the elements necessary for healthy self-governance in the democratic republic that is the United States. |
| https://buynothingproject.org/ | Buy Nothing Project | Type: Organization | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Economics | Buy Nothing offers people a way to give and receive, share, lend, and express gratitude through a worldwide gift economy network in which the true wealth is the web of connections formed between people. |
| https://www.campusvoteproject.org/ | Campus Vote Project | Type: Organization | Category: Democracy and Voting | Functional Sector(s): Governance | Working with universities, community colleges, faculty, students and election officials to reduce barriers to student voting. Check voter status, register to vote, request an absentee ballot. |
| https://culturalevolutioncenter.org | Center for Applied Cultural Evolution | Type: Organization | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Relationships | Our vision is to see entire communities gain the ability to guide their own evolutionary processes to become more healthy and resilient in our rapidly changing world. In simple terms, you can think of the Center for Applied Cultural Evolution as a gathering place for scholars and practitioners to set up field sites for applied cultural evolution research that support change makers as they go about their work of making the world a better place. |
| https://www.humanetech.com/ | Center for Humane Technology | Type: Organization | Category: Unbiased Media | Functional Sector(s): Media, Infrastructure | Best known for the The Social Dilemma, the documentary-drama hybrid that reveals how social media is reprogramming civilization with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations. CHT's focus goes beyond the negative effects of social media, working to expose the drivers behind all extractive technologies steering our thoughts, behaviors, and actions. Their mission is to shift technology towards a more humane future that supports our well-being, democratic functioning, and shared information environment. |
| https://humansandnature.org/about-us/ | Center for Humans and Nature | Type: Organization | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Functional Sector(s): Environment | The Center for Humans and Nature is a 501c3 nonprofit organization, publisher, forum, and place to explore, connect, and nurture our understandings of and responsibilities to the natural world. Our work work provides in-depth and diverse perspectives about what it means to be human in an interconnected world. We share ideas that foster curiosity, build community, and inspire action. |
| https://change-finance.com | Change Finance | Type: Organization | Category: Social Justice | Functional Sector(s): Economics | Change Finance builds performance-oriented investment products for the sustainability-minded investor. We believe investing for good can profit people, planet, and investors. |
| https://citizensclimatelobby.org/ | Citizens Climate Lobby | Type: Organization | Category: Climate Change | Functional Sector(s): Environment | At Citizens’ Climate Lobby, we’re committed to building the political will for the climate solutions we all need. |
| https://www.thecivilconversationsproject.org/ | Civil Conversations Project | Type: Organization | Category: Democracy and Voting | Functional Sector(s): Governance | Creating a more informed public dialog on issues of race and race relations. |
| https://climatedemocracyinitiative.org | Climate Democracy Initiative | Type: Organization | Category: Democracy and Voting | Functional Sector(s): Governance, Environment | The Climate Democracy Initiative (CDI) is sounding a national and global alarm, tying the necessity of preserving democracy as the favored form of governance to the proportionate level of action needed to contend with the climate crisis. CDI's vision is a democracy that empowers community leaders to fully recognize and effectively address the catastrophic impacts of global warming. We envision a populace that understands the interconnectedness of government, business, academia, nonprofit initiatives, and the planet’s life support systems. CDI 's former incarnation is The State of American Democracy -- an organization that ievolved from conferences hosted in 2016 and 2017 that were devoted to discussing the preservation of ecological systems that make life possible, and governmental action at all levels from local to state to national, needed to respond proportionately to the enormity of the climate crisis. |
| https://www.climatedesigners.org | ClimateDesigners.org | Type: Organization | Category: Climate Change | Functional Sector(s): Environment | Climate Designers is the global hub for designers and creative professionals from all industries, committed to using our creative skills for climate action.1) We provide the resources, knowledge, and community to support designers to be climate leaders everywhere they work.2) We inspire, motivate, and graduate climate designers by providing climate-focused resources for design educators in higher education and professional development. |
| Climate Foundation | Type: Organization | Category: Climate Change | Functional Sector(s): Environment | Winner of the XPRISE for Carbon Removal, the Climate Foundation is working to reverse global warming in our lifetime.We have found that with the right help, we can stop the mass extinctions, We can lower the carbon, We can reverse climate change, We can save the Earth. | |
| https://www.commoncause.org/ | Common Cause | Type: Organization | Category: Democracy and Voting | Functional Sector(s): Governance | Training thousands of nonpartisan volunteers to serve as voters’ first line of defense against confusing restrictions, outdated infrastructure, and disinformation. |
| https://www.commondreams.org/ | Common Dreams | Type: Media Outlet | Category: Social Justice | Functional Sector(s): Media, Relationships | Common Dreams is a reader-supported independent news outlet created in 1997 as a new media model. Our nonprofit newsroom covers the most important news stories of the moment. |
| https://www.conservation.org/ | Conservation International | Type: Organization | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Functional Sector(s): Environment | Since 1987, Conservation International has worked to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity. |
| https://consilienceproject.org/ | Consilience Project | Type: Organization | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Hub | The Consilience Project’s purpose is to lay the foundations for a new kind of society that is capable of addressing the catastrophic risks humanity now faces. Its mission is to facilitate the emergence of new forms of collective intelligence and governance to strengthen open societies, which are essential for a civilization capable of employing and safely directing the power of exponential technologies. They are developing content to inform and empower people to help design viable future systems to progressively increase meaningful quality of life for all. |
| https://www.credodonations.com/ | Credo Donations | Type: Organization | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Infrastructure, Hub | Here at CREDO, we empower our customers to become philanthropists. That's because every CREDO member who uses our Credo Mobile, Credo Energy, Credo Credit Card (Comentiy) services contributes to our mission and helps us make progressive change at no extra cost to them. |
| https://craighamiltonglobal.com/ | Craig Hamilton | Type: Person | Category: Turning Inward | Functional Sector(s): Spirituality | Craig Hamilton's innovative approach to transformation seeks to unlock the codes to our highest human potential. More than 16,000 people in 85 countries have taken his in-depth online courses that offer practical spiritual tools and training that are informed by an up-to-date understanding of the human condition. They bring together core insights and approaches based on decades of on-the-ground research at the leading edge of spiritual practice and inquiry. Craig Hamilton is a staff recommendation from Steve Melville who describes his approach to meditation as innovative and pragmatic, infused with love, informed by his deep experience. |
| https://www.culturalsurvival.org/ | Cultural Survival | Type: Organization | Category: Indigenous Advocacy | Functional Sector(s): Relationships, Justice, Governance | Cultural Survival supports a movement of empowered Indigenous Peoples organizing their communities to engage the international processes, national policies and human rights bodies to respect, protect, and fulfill their rights. |
| https://civilizationemerging.com | Daniel Schmachtenberger | Type: Person | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Science, Environment, Governance, Economics | Daniel Schmachtenberger is one of the deepest, broadest and most articulate explorers of the root causes of our civilization's existential risks. He is a founding member of The Consilience Project, aimed at improving public sensemaking and dialogue. The throughline of his interests has to do with ways of improving the health and development of individuals and society, with a virtuous relationship between the two as a goal. Towards these ends, he’s had particular interest in the topics of catastrophic and existential risk, civilization and institutional decay and collapse as well as progress, collective action problems, social organization theories, and the relevant domains in philosophy and science. Motivated by the belief that advancing collective intelligence and capacity is foundational to the integrity of any civilization, and necessary to address the unique risks we currently face given the intersection of globalization and exponential technology, he has spoken publicly on many of these topics, hoping to popularize and deepen important conversations and engage more people in working towards their solutions. |
| https://www.bollier.org/ | David Bollier | Type: Person | Category: Commons | Functional Sector(s): Hub, Science, Environment | |
| https://www.darwinianrevolution.com | David Sloan Wilson | Type: Person | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Hub, Science, Environment | David Sloan Wilson is an American evolutionary biologist and a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at Binghamton University. He is co-founder of the Evolution Institute and Prosocial World. Wilson is a prominent proponent of the concept multilevel selection theory, which challenges the more orthodox approach of gene-level selection and individual selection. This framework argues that natural selection operates on a nested hierarchy of units, such as between genes within individuals, between individuals within groups, between groups within a multi-group population, and even between ecosystems (such as microbiomes) in multi-ecosystem populations. Each level of selection results in adaptations at that level and tends to be undermined by selection at lower levels. Hence the notion of multilevel selection. |
| https://davidsuzuki.org/ | David Suzuki Foundation | Type: Organization | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Science, Environment, Relationships | The fundamental guiding truth of the David Suzuki Foundation is also the central meme of Planetay culture: we are interconnected with nature, and with each other. What we do to the planet and its living creatures, we do to ourselves. The foundation empowers people to take action in their communities on the environmental challenges we collectively face. Supported by evidence-based research, policy analysis, education and citizen empowerment, they are working to conserve and protect the natural environment to create a sustainable Canada. |
| https://www.deeptimewalk.org/ | Deep Time Walk | Type: Organization | Category: Turning Inward | Functional Sector(s): Hub | An experienced team of playwrights, scientists, professional actors, radio producers and designers that collaborated to create the Deep Time Walk app. |
| https://www.democracynow.org/about | Democracy Now! | Type: Media Outlet | Category: Democracy and Voting | Functional Sector(s): Governance | Democracy Now! produces a daily, global, independent news hour covering breaking daily news headlines and in-depth interviews by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. They aim to present a diversity of voices speaking for themselves, providing a unique and sometimes provocative perspective on global events. Democracy Now! is broadcast daily on Pacifica, NPR, community, college and satellite radio stations; on PBS, public, community and satellite TV; and viewed by millions of people online each day. |
| https://doughnuteconomics.org | Doughnut Economics Action Lab | Type: Organization | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Economics | Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL) is part of the emerging global movement of new economic whose aim is to help create 21st century economies that are regenerative and distributive by design, so that they can meet the needs of all people within the means of the living planet. |
| https://drewdellinger.org | Drew Dellinger | Type: Person | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Hub, Justice, Environment, Arts | Drew Dellinger, Ph.D., is an internationally sought-after speaker, poet, writer, and teacher who has inspired minds and hearts around the world, performing poetry and keynoting on justice, ecology, cosmology, and compassion. He is also a consultant, publisher, and founder of Planetize the Movement. |
| https://duaneelgin.com | Duane Elgin | Type: Person | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Hub, Spirituality, Environment | Duane Elgin is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and social visionary who looks beneath the surface turbulence of our times to explore the deeper trends that are transforming our world. He received the International Goi Peace Award in Japan in recognition of his contribution to a global “vision, consciousness, and lifestyle” that fosters a “more sustainable and spiritual culture.” Duane is currently the Co-director of the Choosing Earth Project. His prodigious work is clustered around four categories: THE LIVING UNIVERSE: Seeing the universe as a living system transforms our identity and evolutionary journeyTHE HUMAN JOURNEY: Exploring the big picture of humanity’s journey from the deep past and into the futureVOLUNTARY SIMPLICITY: Living meaningful, satisfying and sustainable livesCITIZEN VOICE INITIATIVES: Mobilizing media for trans-partisan, collective expression, local to global |
| https://www.earthguardians.org/ | Earth Guardians | Type: Organization | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Functional Sector(s): Environment | Earth Guardians inspires and trains diverse youth to be effective leaders in the environmental, climate, and social justice movements. Earth Guardians was started in Hawaii in 1992 and relocated to Boulder in 1997. |
| https://earth-regenerators.mn.co | Earth Regenerators | Type: Organization | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Functional Sector(s): Hub, Environment, Economics, Governance | This rich, mutli-faceted community is a living lab of embodied practice inspired by Joe Brewer's book The Design Pathway for Regenerating Earth (listed in Positive Culture). Earth Regenerators is helping manifest the vision of planet-wide network of learning ecosystems by establishing a hands-in-the-soil community in the Barichara, Columbia while partnering with other bioregional regenerative projects elsewhere in the world. A living, evolving example of the Planet Movement in action! |
| https://earth911.com/ | Earth911 | Type: Media Outlet | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Functional Sector(s): Environment | The largest recycling database in the nation — probably the world. |
| https://earthshotprize.org/ | Earthshot Prize | Type: Organization | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Functional Sector(s): Environment | The Earthshot Prize is the most prestigious global environment prize in history, designed to incentivise change and help repair our planet over the next ten years. |
| https://earthx.org/ | EarthX | Type: Organization | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Functional Sector(s): Environment | EarthX is an international nonprofit environmental organization dedicated to educating and inspiring people and organizations to take action towards a more sustainable future worldwide. |
| https://eckharttolle.com | Eckhart Tolle | Type: Person | Category: Turning Inward | Functional Sector(s): Spirituality | This author of The Power of Now and A New Earth (among other books), embodies awakening to presence in all of his books, videos, articles. “The awakening of human consciousness is no longer a luxury—it is a necessity for the survival of our species. It is up to each of us as individuals to embody the state of aware presence and thus rise above the egoic mind and its dysfunction. When a sufficient number of humans undergo this transformation, this will bring healing and sanity to our planet.” This is a staff recommendation from Steve Melville. |
| https://eequal.org/ | EEqual | Type: Organization | Category: Social Justice | Functional Sector(s): Education | EEqual is a for-youth by-youth nonprofit working to overcome student homelessness by raising awareness and increasing access to higher education. |
| https://www.effectivealtruism.org/ | Effective Altruism | Type: Organization | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Hub | Effective Altruism (EA) is a project that aims to find the best ways to help others, and put them into practice. This project matters because, while many attempts to do good fail, some are enormously effective. For instance, some charities help 100 or even 1,000 times as many people as others, when given the same amount of resources. EA is both a research field, which aims to identify the world’s most pressing problems and the best solutions to them, and a practical community that aims to use those findings to do good. EA was formalized by scholars at Oxford University, but has now spread around the world, and is being applied by tens of thousands of people in more than 70 countries. |
| https://protectthevote.net/ | Election Protection | Type: Organization | Category: Democracy and Voting | Functional Sector(s): Governance | We recruit, train, and deploy thousands of nonpartisan Election Protection volunteers across the nation, as voters’ first line of defense against confusing voting rules, outdated infrastructure, rampant misinformation, and needless obstacles to the ballot box. |
| http://entrepreneurialearth.com/ | Entrepreneurial Earth | Type: Organization | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Economics | Entrepreneurial Earth, founded by Martin Ogle, helps companies, organizations and individuals/families achieve their sustainability goals and engage their innate human creativity to envision and implement sustainable ways of working and living. |
| https://environmental-action.org/ | Environmental Action | Type: Organization | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Functional Sector(s): Environment | Environmental Action was founded in 1970, on the first Earth Day, as a community of grassroots environmental activists for a cleaner, greener world. |
| https://www.everysinglevote.com/ | Every Single Vote | Type: Organization | Category: Democracy and Voting | Functional Sector(s): Governance | Funding ballot initiatives to expand vote-by-mail and automatic voter registration. |
| https://evolutionaryleaders.net/ | Evolutionary Leaders | Type: Organization | Category: Humanity | Functional Sector(s): Hub | Evolutionary Leaders is a project of The Source of Synergy Foundation whose purpose is to collectively inspire, support and serve conscious evolution. |
| https://fairfight.com/ | Fair Fight | Type: Organization | Category: Democracy and Voting | Functional Sector(s): Governance | Promoting fair elections around the country, encouraging voter participation in elections, and educating voters about elections and their voting rights. |
| https://www.filmsforaction.org | Films for Action | Type: Media Outlet | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Media, Hub | Films For Action is a library for people who want to change the world. Our mission is to empower citizens with the knowledge and perspectives essential to creating a more compassionate, just, regenerative, and democratic society. |
| https://footprintusfoundation.org/ | Footprint Foundation | Type: Organization | Category: Plastics | Functional Sector(s): Environment | Footprint Foundation is the non-profit branch of Footprint©, a sustainable technology firm that is focused on reducing or eliminating plastics in our everyday life through the development and manufacturing of revolutionary technologies. |
| https://forthewild.world/ | For the Wild | Type: Organization | Category: Social Justice | Functional Sector(s): Hub, Environment, Justice, Media | For The Wild is a female-led collective composed of a small group of dedicated creators, alchemists, and forever-learners who are committed to land-based restoration, social reconciliation, storytelling, responsibility, and education.Our work is built on relationships as we attempt to combat the rampant loneliness, divisiveness and emptiness pervasive in a consumer culture. We believe that people coming together and nurturing the interconnectedness with the Earth that humans need to thrive can not only build community but also may be one of the only ways forward to address some of the critical issues we are currently facing. For The Wild has engaged in land-based restoration directed at renewing and preserving ecosystems from the Redwoods to the Copper River Delta in Alaska. We are open to collaborations in the name of Earth defense and Indigenous sovereignty. |
| https://www.globalcitizen.org/ | Global Citizen | Type: Organization | Category: Social Justice | Functional Sector(s): Economics | Global Citizen is a movement of engaged citizens who are using their collective voice to end extreme poverty by 2030. |
| www.forthegood.org | For the Good | Type: Media Outlet | Category: Social Justice | Functional Sector(s): Education | Changing the world one girl at a time. For the Good is a 501 (c)(3) organization. We work in a region of Kenya that has been labeled as “not wanting education”. |
| https://www.footprintnetwork.org/ | Global Footprint Network | Type: Organization | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Functional Sector(s): Environment | Global Footprint Network, an international nonprofit organization founded in 2003, envisions a future where all can thrive within the means of our one planet. |
| https://www.globalpurposemovement.org | Global Purpose Movement | Type: Organization | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Hub | Global Purpose Movement is a nonprofit working to nurture a worldwide culture aligned with humanity’s highest purpose. It’s through this sense of purpose that we hope to create sustainable, global transformation, inspired by activists like you. |
| https://globalvolunteers.org | Global Volunteers | Type: Organization | Category: Social Justice | Functional Sector(s): Hub | One-to-three-week opportunities to create, nurture and sustain the well-being of the world’s children and their families. |
| https://www.goodofthewhole.org/ | Good of the Whole | Type: Organization | Category: Humanity | Functional Sector(s): Hub | Good of the Whole, LLC is a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit organization - a growing community with a global mission and shared purpose. |
| https://www.greenlivingdetective.com/ | Green Living Detective: Danielle Vick | Type: Organization | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Functional Sector(s): Environment | In a perfect world, how green something is or isn’t would be an equal part of our decision making. But, for most of us, there are a thousand and one other things that also weigh in on the demands of modern life. Here is an effort to uncover the gray area between ideals and reality. With the answers you’ll find here, you can choose the path to Your Greenest Life and ditch the guilt about the rest. Thanks for joining me on this journey! |
| https://www.greenbiz.com/ | GreenBiz Group | Type: Media Outlet | Category: Social Justice | Functional Sector(s): Media, Economics | GreenBiz Group is a media and events company that accelerates the just transition to a clean economy. |
| https://www.facebook.com/gretathunbergsweden | Greta Thunberg | Type: Person | Category: Climate Change | Functional Sector(s): Environment | A Swedish environmental activist who is known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action for climate change mitigation. |
| https://www.headcount.org/ | HeadCount | Type: Organization | Category: Democracy and Voting | Functional Sector(s): Governance | Getting people registered to vote and interested in democracy at concerts, festivals, community events - anywhere we can translate the power of music and culture into real action. |
| https://www.heartmath.org/ | HeartMath Institute | Type: Organization | Category: Humanity | Functional Sector(s): Health | The mission of the HeartMath Institute is to help people bring their physical, mental and emotional systems into balanced alignment with their heart’s intuitive guidance. |
| https://www.humanitysteam.org/ | Humanity's Team | Type: Organization | Category: Turning Inward | Functional Sector(s): Spirituality | The first of the Planet Project’s Guiding Principles is “All people, all life, and all our planetary systems are interconnected and interdependent.” Humanity’s Team has been devoted to spreading the lived experience of Oneness throughout the world since 2003. They offer classes, live events, streaming videos and podcasts. In their own words, “Humanity’s Team is a global non-profit organization focused on helping people throughout the world awaken to the interconnectedness—or Oneness—of everything in the Universe, so they can embody that awareness in every aspect of their lives.” This is a staff recommendation from Steve Melville |
| https://illuminatives.org/about-us/ | Illuminatives | Type: Organization | Category: Indigenous Wisdom and Culture | Functional Sector(s): Hub | Created and led by Native peoples, IllumiNative is a new nonprofit initiative designed to increase the visibility of – and challenge the negative narrative about – Native Nations and peoples in American society. |
| https://www.ienearth.org/ | Indigenous Environmental Network | Type: Organization | Category: Social Justice | Functional Sector(s): Environment, Economics, Justice | EN was formed in 1990 by grassroots Indigenous peoples and individuals to address environmental and economic justice issues (EJ). |
| https://inhabitat.com/ | InHabitat | Type: Organization | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Functional Sector(s): Environment | Inhabitat® is a green design and lifestyle site that provides coverage of environmental news and the latest in sustainable design. |
| https://inlandoceancoalition.org/ | Inland Ocean Coalition | Type: Organization | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Functional Sector(s): Environment | Creating an inland movement that builds land-to-sea stewardship. Developing a two-way relationship with the ocean and the inland. |
| https://www.innerdevelopmentgoals.org/ | Inner Development Goals | Type: Organization | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Environment | A central tenet of the Planet Project is that true progress toward wellbeing for all demands a shift in culture. At its root, culture is a manifestation of our collective consciousness. Lack of adequate progress on the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), led the organization to very similar conclusions. In response, they gathered a group of researchers, experts and practitioners in leadership development and sustainability to co-create a corresponding set of Inner Development Goals (IDG). The IDG encompass 23 skills categorized in 5 dimensions. They have gone on to create an IDG toolkit consisting of a set of freely accessible practices and methods. |
| https://www.policosmology.org/home | Institute for a New Political Cosmology | Type: Organization | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Hub | Its mission is to contribute to a dramatically more inclusive worldview by promoting the practices of wisdom-seeking—the search for the best way to live. This truth quest is now generating an evolutionary big picture which helps make sense of the current social turmoil. It reveals that many life-affirming practical projects already underway are part of underlying seismic changes in culture and consciousness. This enlarged vision reveals deep connections among change initiatives at many levels—that of individuals, NGO’s and governments—and helps guide collaboration into movement for a thriving Earth community. We see this thriving for understanding as a singularly defining aspect of what it means to be human. Accordingly, we present the truth quest as both a method of cosmology building and the core practice of a fully human politics in synergy with a flourishing Earth community. |
| https://ecociv.org/ | Institute for Ecological Civilization | Type: Organization | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Economics, Environment, Justice | EcoCiv works internationally to design and scale solutions toward long-term sustainability, focusing on water, economies, and human communities. We conduct research, convene experts, and facilitate the quest for solutions. |
| https://www.energyandourfuture.org/ | Institute for the Study of Energy & Our Future | Type: Organization | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Infrastructure | The Institute for the Study of Energy and our Future (ISEOF), with our network of scientists and systems thinkers, focuses on researching, understanding, and communicating how the full human ecosystem functions, the resulting risks, and what likely future outcomes and leverage points exist. |
| https://www.iwgia.org/en/ | International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs | Type: Organization | Category: Social Justice | Functional Sector(s): Hub, Relationships, Governance | IWGIA was founded in 1968 by anthropologists alarmed about the ongoing genocide of Indigenous Peoples taking place in the Amazon. The aim was to establish a network of researchers and human right activists to document the situation of Indigenous Peoples and advocate for an improvement of their rights. |
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kabat-Zinn | Jon Kabat-Zinn | Type: Person | Category: Turning Inward | Functional Sector(s): Hub | Jon Kabat-Zinn is an American professor emeritus of medicine and the creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. His mindfulness teachings arise from his integration of scientific findings with Zen Buddhist and yoga practices. |
| https://www.greendreamerkamea.com/ | Kamea Chayne | Type: Person | Category: Indigenous Advocacy | Functional Sector(s): Economics | This Taiwanese native is a writer, creative, and the podcast host of the Green Dreamer podcast and the Uprooted newsletter. Kamea (@GreenDreamerKamea) brings together a wide range of voices, all focused on collective healing, biocultural regeneration, and true abundance and wellness for all. |
| https://www.kateraworth.com | Kate Raworth | Type: Person | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Economics | Kate Raworth is an economist best known as the author of Doughnut Economics and co-founder of the Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL). Doughnut economics offers a radical re-framing of economics that assesses the health of an economy by the extent to which the needs of people are met without overshooting Earth's ecological ceiling. Earlier in her career, Raworth worked promoting micro-enterprise development in Zanzibar, co-authored the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report, and was a Senior Researcher at Oxfam. She is currently a Senior Research Associate, Tutor and Advisory Board member of the Environmental Change Institute of the University of Oxford. She is also a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.[ |
| https://kathleenallen.net | Kathleen Allen | Type: Person | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Governance | Kathleen Allen specializes in leadership coaching and organizational change in non-profit organizations, foundations, small to mid-sized businesses, community development, higher educational institutions, and collaborative networks. She uses nature as a model, mentor, and muse to rethink how leadership is practiced today and as a source of inspiration to help organizations see a new way of leading and designing workplace structure, applying the generous framework found in mature ecologies to human organizations. |
| https://kindling.xyz/ | KindLing | Type: Media Outlet | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Media | Kindling is a 501c3 nonprofit that ignites change by sharing good news and connecting people with opportunities to build a more sustainable, equitable, and prosperous future for all. |
| https://viacampesina.org/en/ | La Via Campesina | Type: Organization | Category: Food Sovereignty | Functional Sector(s): Infrastructure | La Via Campesina was born as a global articulation of peasant movements. It defined among its objectives the formation of solidarity relations between peoples and especially between peasants’ organizations and, acknowledging the diversity of peasantry worldwide, the construction of a model of agricultural development that guaranties food sovereignty as the right of the people to define their own agricultural policies, as well as the preservation of the environment and protection of biodiversity. |
| https://www.lwv.org/ | League of Women Voters | Type: Organization | Category: Democracy and Voting | Functional Sector(s): Governance | A nonpartisan, grassroots organization working to protect and expand voting rights and ensure everyone is represented in our democracy. We empower voters and defend democracy through advocacy, education, and litigation, at the local, state, and national levels. |
| http://michaeldowd.org | Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow | Type: Person | Category: Climate Change | Functional Sector(s): Hub, Spirituality, Environment | THE REVEREND MICHAEL DOWD is a bestselling eco-theologian, TEDx speaker, and pro-science, pro-future advocate whose work has been featured in The New York Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Newsweek, Discover, and on television throughout the United States and Canada. His book, Thank God for Evolution, was endorsed by 6 Nobel Prize-winning scientists, noted skeptics, and religious leaders across the spectrum. Michael and his science writer, evolutionary educator, and fellow climate activist wife, Connie Barlow, have spoken to some 3,000 groups throughout North America since April 2002. Connie Barlow is a leading advocate for the "assisted migration" of native trees poleward in this time of rapid climate change, founder of the Torreya Guardians, science writer and video editor of the Post Doom series |
| http://michaeldowd.org | Mind Our Democracy | Type: Organization | Category: Democracy and Voting | Functional Sector(s): Hub, Spirituality, Environment | Mind Our Democracy is a response to the critical threat to our democracy. With our immense challenges, we need spiritually-based movements of activists with a clear vision to protect democracy and our exquisite planet. |
| https://www.postcarbon.org/our-people/nate-hagens/ | Nate Hagens | Type: Person | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Hub | Nate is a well-known speaker on the big picture issues facing human society. Nate’s presentations address the opportunities and constraints we face after the coming peak of global economic growth. |
| https://www.nativewellness.com/ | Native Wellness Institute | Type: Organization | Category: Indigenous Wisdom and Culture | Functional Sector(s): Health | The Native Wellness Institute exists to promote the well-being of Native people through programs and trainings that embrace the teachings and traditions of our ancestors. |
| https://naturaljustice.org/about-us/ | Natural Justice | Type: Organization | Category: Social Justice | Functional Sector(s): Justice | Natural Justice is an organisation rooted in the struggles of communities in Africa. As a team of pioneering lawyers and legal experts, we specialise in human rights and environmental law in pursuit of social and environmental justice. |
| https://www.n2k.world/ | Need to Know | Type: Media Outlet | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Media, Environment, Justice, Governance | N2K is a platform that follows pressing issues of our time, and then provides solutions and action steps so that people can engage in creating a world that works. The site is organized by topic so that you can do four things: you can view, you can do/take action, you can discuss the issues in our groups, and you can purchase goods that relate to the topics on the site. N2K currently has two ways to navigate our material, via subject and by map view. |
| https://neweracolorado.org/ | New Era Colorado | Type: Organization | Category: Democracy and Voting | Functional Sector(s): Governance | One of the leading voices for young people in Colorado politics and one of the most effective youth civic engagement organizations in the country, bringing about a new era of political engagement for our generation. |
| https://newgeorgiaproject.org/ | New Georgia Project | Type: Organization | Category: Democracy and Voting | Functional Sector(s): Governance | A nonpartisan effort to register, civically engage, and build power with the New Georgia Majority–the large and growing population of Black, brown, young, and other historically marginalized voters. |
| https://newpublic.org/ | New Public For BetterDigital PublicSpaces | Type: Organization | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Infrastructure | A place for thinkers, builders, designers and technologists to meet and share inspiration. Purpose, Community, Magazine, Signals, ResearchFestival |
| https://www.newvoicestrategies.com/ | New Voice Strategies | Type: Organization | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Governance | Mission: We create, incubate and launch projects to heal divides, restore compassion and strengthen self-government. |
| https://www.minderoo.org/no-plastic-waste/ | No Plastic Waste | Type: Organization | Category: Plastics | Functional Sector(s): Environment | We are working with industry to create a market-led model for a circular plastics economy. We are leading world first research to create greater transparency across the plastics supply chain. We incubate innovations to reduce recycling costs, create alternatives to plastic and recover plastic that is already polluting our environment – particularly the ocean. |
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| https://onbeing.org/ | On Being Project | Type: Organization | Category: Humanity | Functional Sector(s): Hub | The On Being Project is a nonprofit media and public life initiative. We make a public radio show, podcasts, new ways to experience poetry, and tools for the art of living. Six grounding virtues guide everything we do. We explore the intersection of spiritual inquiry, science, social healing, and the arts. |
| https://oneearthfuture.org/ | One Earth Future | Type: Organization | Category: Social Justice | Functional Sector(s): Hub, Governance | One Earth Future Foundation (OEF) is an incubator of innovative peacebuilding programs that designs, tests, and partners to scale programs that work hand-in-hand with those most affected by conflict to eliminate the root causes of war. |
| https://oneshared.world/ | One Shared World | Type: Organization | Category: Humanity | Functional Sector(s): Hub, Governance | We are a broad and inclusive movement of stakeholders working collaboratively across diverse cultures, communities, ethnicities, organizations, entities, interests, generations, and nations to ensure a better future for humankind and the sustainability of our collective home. |
| https://www.openworldalliance.org/ | Open World Alliance | Type: Organization | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Infrastructure, Economics | Dedicated to advancing strategic regenerative solutions for a more sustainable and equitable world. We are fusing technology with sustainability and entrepreneurship with innovation to source, solve, support and scale successful solutions to today’s biggest social and environmental pressures. |
| https://www.pachamama.org/ | Pachamama Alliance | Type: Organization | Category: Indigenous Wisdom and Culture | Functional Sector(s): Spirituality | Pachamama Alliance is a global community that offers people the chance to learn, connect, engage, travel and cherish life for the purpose of creating a sustainable future that works for all. |
| https://participedia.net/ | Participedia | Type: Organization | Category: Democracy and Voting | Functional Sector(s): Governance | A global network and crowdsourcing platform for researchers, educators, practitioners, policymakers, activists, and anyone interested in public participation and democratic innovations. |
| https://pemachodronfoundation.org/ | Pema Chodron | Type: Person | Category: Turning Inward | Functional Sector(s): Spirituality | This beloved Buddhist teacher, author, nun and mother has inspired millions of people from around the world who have been touched by her example and message of practicing peace in these turbulent times. |
| https://peter-barnes.org/ | Peter Barnes | Type: Person | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Economics | Peter Barnes is an innovative thinker and entrepreneur whose work has focused on fixing the deep flaws of capitalism. He has written numerous books and articles, co-founded several socially responsible businesses (including Working Assets/Credo), and started a retreat for progressive thinkers and writers (The Mesa Refuge). He lives in Point Reyes Station, California, with his wife, dog and vegetable garden. |
| https://plasticoceans.org/ | Plastic Oceans | Type: Organization | Category: Plastics | Functional Sector(s): Environment | Dedicated to ending plastic pollution and fostering sustainable communities worldwide. |
| https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/ | Plastic Pollution Coalition | Type: Organization | Category: Plastics | Functional Sector(s): Environment | Collaborates with an expansive global alliance of organizations, businesses, and individuals to create a more just, equitable, regenerative world free of plastic pollution and its toxic impacts. |
| https://www.positive.news/ | Positive News (UK) | Type: Media Outlet | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Media | Positive News is the magazine for good journalism about good things. When much of the media is full of doom and gloom, instead Positive News is the first media organisation in the world that is dedicated to quality, independent reporting about what’s going right. |
| https://www.powerthepolls.org/ | Power the Polls | Type: Organization | Category: Democracy and Voting | Functional Sector(s): Governance | Help staff your local polling places. |
| https://www.prosocial.world | Pro-Social World | Type: Organization | Category: Humanity | Functional Sector(s): Hub, Governance | Prosocial World (PW) is a non-profit organization that seeks to evolve a more prosocial world. Inspired by scientists, we take the word “evolve” seriously, basing our methods on the most recent developments in evolutionary, complex systems, and contextual behavioral science to enhance cooperation and inspire positive change for the well-being of others. |
| https://drawdown.org/ | Project Drawdown | Type: Organization | Category: Climate Change | Functional Sector(s): Environment | Project Drawdown® is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world reach “drawdown”—the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline. |
| https://protectourwinters.org | Protect Our Winters | Type: Organization | Category: Climate Change | Functional Sector(s): Environment | We help passionate outdoor people protect the places and lifestyles they love from climate change. Founded in 2007 by professional snowboarder Jeremy Jones, we are a community of athletes, scientists, creatives and business leaders advancing non-partisan policies that protect our world today and for future generations. |
| https://www.purposeearth.org | Purpose Earth | Type: Organization | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Hub | A global initiative supporting a grant and mentorship program with real-world impact. We believe purpose is the most powerful tool for transformation. By inspiring, empowering and supporting each other to live and take action from our unique sense of purpose, we can co-create a world that unifies us all. |
| https://respectmyvote.com/ | Respect My Vote | Type: Organization | Category: Social Justice | Functional Sector(s): Arts, Governance | Respect My Vote! works with Hip Hop artists and influencers to register and educate tens of thousands of voters and help them get to the polls. We have reached tens of millions of voters with information and affirmative messages about voting. |
| https://www.resilience.org/ | Resilience.org | Type: Organization | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Functional Sector(s): Environment, Infrastructure, Governance, Relationships | Resilience.org is a program of Post Carbon Institute (PCI). From 2004 to 2012 the site was known as “Energy Bulletin.” Over the years Energy Bulletin broadened its coverage from peak oil and energy to include other resource depletion, related issues, and articles which describe, encourage or educate on meaningful responses — in essence, the task of building resilience. From this came the inspiration to create resilience.org, which combines the best of the Energy Bulletin with the addition of sections for Groups engaged in building resilience, and Resources — a combination of user-generated and Post Carbon Institute media and reports. |
| https://www.rockthevote.org/ | Rock the Vote | Type: Organization | Category: Democracy and Voting | Functional Sector(s): Governance | Find all the important deadlines, dates, requirements, registration options, and information on how to vote in your state. |
| https://rogerpbriggs.org/ | Roger Briggs | Type: Person | Category: Humanity | Functional Sector(s): Hub | Co-founder of the PLANET Project. Roger grew up in the mountains of Colorado and fell in love with nature and science at an early age. He is a team builder, program developer, curriculum writer, and an award-winning teacher who touched many lives. |
| https://rootsaction.org/ | RootsAction | Type: Organization | Category: Democracy and Voting | Functional Sector(s): Governance | RootsAction was founded in 2011 by longtime progressive advocates and journalists, Norman Solomon and Jeff Cohen. It aims to provide fresh approach to defend the public interest and expand social justice. Our country faces an increasingly extremist Republican Party that is largely a subsidiary of corporate America, and a Democratic Party whose leadership is enmeshed with and compromised by corporate power. RootsAction is dedicated to galvanizing people who are committed to economic fairness, equal rights for all, civil liberties, environmental protection -- and defunding endless wars. We mobilize on these issues no matter whether Democrats or Republicans control Washington D.C. |
| https://www.rootsandshoots.org/ | Roots and Shoots | Type: Organization | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Functional Sector(s): Environment | Jane Goodall's org whose mission is to empower young people to affect positive change in their communities. |
| https://4activepeace.com/ | Scott Brown | Type: Person | Category: Social Justice | Functional Sector(s): Justice | G. Scott Brown is a visionary transformation guide who brings together psychology, spirituality, and nature-based healing to address the root causes of stress, fear, and violence in all its forms. He is a leading advocate for transformational activism and bringing restorative justice to bear on the full range of social and environmental issues.Scott’s approach boils down to staying heart-centered and deepening relationships. His book, Active Peace: A Mindful Path to a Nonviolent World, is a practical guide to holistic, transformational change at the personal, interpersonal, and collective levels. |
| https://seachangeproject.com/ | Sea Change Project | Type: Organization | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Functional Sector(s): Environment | The Sea Change Project is a team of media and science professionals dedicated to telling stories that connect people to the wild, motivating them to become part of the regeneration of our planet. Their work includes films, books, exhibitions, marine biology research through living science, and impact campaigns. Their team’s discoveries have led to a groundbreaking sequence in the BBC’s Blue Planet II TV series; an outdoor photography exhibition seen by an estimated 1 million people; the book Sea Change (released globally as Underwater Wild in November 2021); and a documentary feature film, My Octopus Teacher, which has won many international awards. |
| http://www.darkoptimism.org | Shaun Chamberlin | Type: Person | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Functional Sector(s): Environment | An associate of David Fleming, he shepherded Flemings masterwork to publication as 'Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It' and a companion volume, 'Surviving the Future.' |
| https://www.soundstrue.com/ | Sounds True | Type: Organization | Category: Turning Inward | Functional Sector(s): Spirituality | Sounds True’s mission is to wake up the world. They have created what they characterize as “the world’s largest living library of transformational teachings that support and accelerate spiritual awakening and personal transformation. We make this living library available on multiple media platforms and in multiple languages for people of today and for future generations.” They are a staff recommendation from Steve Melville. |
| https://sourceofsynergyfoundation.org/ | Source of Synergy Foundation | Type: Organization | Category: Humanity | Functional Sector(s): Education | The Source of Synergy Foundation is a 501c3 not-for-profit educational organization whose purpose is to synergize individuals, organizations and efforts by tapping into the infinite source of collective consciousness, creativity and potential for the common good. |
| Steve Melville | Type: Person | Category: Humanity | Functional Sector(s): Hub | Co-founder of the PLANET Project. A Colorado native, Steve earned a BA in Philosophy from Hamilton College and an MS in Computer Science from University of Colorado. Yet throughout his career, Steve grew increasingly aware of the mounting interconnected global crises and felt a deep calling to find ways to leverage his technical skills to help address them. | |
| https://www.sukrupa.org/ | Sukrupa | Type: Organization | Category: Humanity | Functional Sector(s): Education | No Dream Left Behind. Empowering people from all social segments to rise up and fly. We believe that every child deserves the best, SUKRUPA is here to create opportunities for a better future. |
| https://www.sumofus.org/ | SumOfUs | Type: Organization | Category: Social Justice | Functional Sector(s): Economics | SumOfUs is a community of people from around the world committed to curbing the growing power of corporations. We want to buy from, work for and invest in companies that respect the environment, treat their workers well and respect democracy. And we’re not afraid to hold them to account when they don’t. |
| https://www.sunrisemovement.org/ | Sunrise Movement | Type: Organization | Category: Climate Change | Functional Sector(s): Environment | The Sunrise Movement is a youth (under 35) movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. We’re building an army of young people to make climate change an urgent priority across America, end the corrupting influence of fossil fuel executives on our politics, and elect leaders who stand up for the health and wellbeing of all people. |
| https://www.tazo.com/us/en/treecorps.html | Tazo Tree Corp | Type: Organization | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Functional Sector(s): Environment | We’re launching the TAZO Tree Corps with @SZA and American Forests. It's a paid workforce dedicated to building and maintaining the urban tree canopy in 5 major US cities. |
| https://www.thealliancecenter.org | The Alliance Center | Type: Organization | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Infrastructure, Environment | |
| https://www.allwecansave.earth/project | The All We Can Save Project | Type: Organization | Category: Climate Change | Functional Sector(s): Environment | Nurturing a welcoming, connected, and leaderful climate community, rooted in the work and wisdom of women, to grow a life-giving future. Welcome to the feminist climate renaissance. |
| https://www.thecivilconversationsproject.org/ | The Civil Conversations Project | Type: Organization | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Relationships | Our mission is to bring an end to American racism by telling significant historical and contemporary stories and by engaging in dialogue in order to bring an accurate perspective to the structures and systems that perpetuate racism, thereby informing the public dialogue on the local and national level. |
| https://climateoptimist.org/ | The Climate Optimist | Type: Organization | Category: Climate Change | Functional Sector(s): Environment | We behave, buy, vote and work for change because we are optimists. And our vocal optimism will take our actions even further. It will make others bold. Political action, business innovation, new investment and global transformation all become possible. |
| https://theoceancleanup.com/ | The Ocean Cleanup | Type: Organization | Category: Plastics | Functional Sector(s): Environment | The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization, is developing and scaling technologies to rid the world’s oceans of plastic. Our aim is to put ourselves out of business once the oceans are clean. Every year, millions of tons of plastic enter the oceans, primarily from rivers. And the plastic that’s afloat within the oceans isn’t going away by itself. To effectively solve the problem, we need to both turn off the tap and mop the floor at the same time.Dutch inventor Boyan Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup at the age of 18 in his hometown of Delft, the Netherlands. |
| https://www.optimistdaily.com/ | The Optimist Daily | Type: Media Outlet | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Media | The Optimist Daily is a reader-funded daily publication that brings you solutions-focused, good news from around the world to sip on with your coffee each morning. Our vision is to shift human consciousness by catalyzing 100,000,000 people to start each day with a positive, solutions-oriented mindset. |
| https://systems-souls-society.com/ | Perspectiva | Type: Organization | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Hub, Education, Governance, Relationships | Perspectiva is a community scholars, artists, activists, futurists and seekers who believe credible hope for the first truly planetary civilisation lies in forms of economic restraint and political cooperation that are beyond prevailing epistemic capacities and spiritual sensibilities. They sponsor multiple projects including: Perspectiva YouTube Channel, Emerge Project, Digital Ego Project, Perspectiva Press and the Realisation Festival. |
| https://planetproject.io/ | The Planet Project | Type: Organization | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Hub, Environment, Justice, Economics | The Planet Project brings together people and organizations from everywhere who share a planetary perspective, and who want to work together to co-create a positive future in which all people can thrive and contribute, while existing in harmony with the living planetary systems. |
| https://www.theplanetarypress.com | The Planetary Press | Type: Media Outlet | Category: Unbiased Media | Functional Sector(s): Environment, Justice, Media, Economics | The Planetary Press is an online news source focused on reporting in sustainability, environmental advocacy, corporate social responsibility and climate change. It is a platform for people to share their work. It is a place for organizations, cities, governments, companies, journalists and individuals to share the good that they’re doing and the impact that they’re having. TPP highlights sustainable solutions around the globe that inspire others to make a measurable difference. |
| https://theshiftnetwork.com/ | The Shift Network | Type: Organization | Category: | Functional Sector(s): Hub, Spirituality | The Planet Project seeks to foster and accelerate the “macro-shift” from Material to Planetary Culture. This shift in culture is a manifestation of an underlying shift in consciousness. The Shift Network is a staff recommendation from Steve Melville because they focus specifically on this shift in consciousness. “We call ourselves The Shift Network because we believe it will take millions of awake, connected, and inspired individuals to activate their full potential and collaborate on the changes that are needed for our world to truly shift. People from every race, creed, color, and national origin have their essential role to play. Our ultimate aim? Upgrade our human operating system in order to co-create a healthy, peaceful, sustainable, just, and prosperous world.” |
| https://thesolutionsproject.org/ | The Solutions Project | Type: Organization | Category: Climate Change | Functional Sector(s): Environment | We support climate changemakers, innovators, and solutionaires at the grassroots. We back them with grants, amp up their media capacity, and hook them up with influential people. They do the heavy lifting — we're there for support. |
| https://wellbeing-project.org/ | The Wellbeing Project | Type: Organization | Category: Humanity | Functional Sector(s): Hub, Relationships, Spirituality | The Wellbeing Project is focused on catalysing a culture of inner wellbeing for all changemakers. We are inspired by love, care and compassion for all the people who work to build a better world, as well as to support the many causes and movements for which we all work. |
| WEBSITE NO LONGER ACTIVE | Theatre of Solutions | Type: Organization | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Media | OUR VISION: To be a global platform that develops the idea of passion-for-humanity into a mass weapon for problem-solving. OUR MISSION: To promote a sense of humanitythereby harnessing human and social capital forrapid human development. |
| https://thichnhathanhfoundation.org | Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation | Type: Organization | Category: Turning Inward | Functional Sector(s): Spirituality | The Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation works to continue the mindful teachings and practice of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh -- a global spiritual leader, poet, and peace activist, revered throughout the world for his powerful teachings and bestselling writings on mindfulness and peace. Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation is a staff recommendation from Beau Rezendes and Roger Briggs. |
| https://www.tide.earth | Tide Ocean SA | Type: Organization | Category: Plastics | Functional Sector(s): Environment | Tide Earth SA upcycles ocean-bound plastic, gathered with the help of local communities, to create #tide ocean material® -- an award-winning material resource that comes in the form of granules for plastic injection, yarn for textile applications, and filament for 3D printing. This upcycled plastic waste has been used to create high-quality products by reputable brands such as Maurice Lacroix, Tom Ford, Hugo Boss, Winter & Company or Yamamay. As of August 2022, Tide Earth SA reports that they have upcycled the equivalent of more than 30 million plastic bottles using a process that produces up to 80% less CO2 emissions than producing virgin plastics. They pay fair wages and work to ensure their products strictly comply to ethical and ecological standards such as the GRS (Global Recycle Standard). |
| https://togetherwomenrise.org/ | Together Women Rise | Type: Organization | Category: Social Justice | Functional Sector(s): Hub, Relationships, Education, Economics | Together Women Rise is a powerful community of women and allies dedicated to achieving global gender equality. |
| https://uplift.love/ | Uplift (Australia) | Type: Organization | Category: Humanity | Functional Sector(s): Spirituality, Relationships | Uplift inspires people to embrace a life of love in action. “Love in Action” is about proactively expressing kindness, cooperation, affection, connection and empathy in our relationships with ourselves, each other and the planet. |
| https://uplift.love/tv/ | Uplift TV | Type: Media Outlet | Category: Humanity | Functional Sector(s): Media | The best in conscious films. Subscribe to UPLIFT to watch out premium films, absolutely for free (no fees or credit card required!). |
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Nakate | Vanessa Nakate | Type: Person | Category: Climate Change | Functional Sector(s): Environment | Inspired by Greta Thunberg to start her own climate movement in Uganda, Nakate began a solitary strike against inaction on the climate crisis in January 2019. |
| https://www.voteamerica.com/ | Vote America | Type: Organization | Category: Democracy and Voting | Functional Sector(s): Governance | Get help registering, getting your ballot, or finding your local polling place. |
| https://votefwd.org/ | Vote Forward | Type: Organization | Category: Democracy and Voting | Functional Sector(s): Governance | Efficient and well-organized letter-writing campaigns to increase the participation of historically underrepresented communities in the electorate. |
| https://www.vote411.org/ | Vote411 | Type: Organization | Category: Democracy and Voting | Functional Sector(s): Governance | See what's on your ballot, check your voter registration, find your polling place, discover upcoming debates in your area. |
| https://we.we.net/ | WE, The World | Type: Organization | Category: Humanity | Functional Sector(s): Hub | Mission: The Mission of We, The World is to maximize social change globally – until we have a world that works for all! WE, the World is a global coalition-building non-profit organization based in New York City. |
| https://whenweallvote.org/ | When We All Vote | Type: Organization | Category: Democracy and Voting | Functional Sector(s): Governance | A leading national, nonpartisan initiative to change the culture around voting and to increase participation in every election by helping to close the race and age gap. Launched in 2018 by Michelle Obama, with Co-Chairs Stephen Curry, Becky G, Selena Gomez, Tom Hanks, H.E.R., Liza Koshy, Jennifer Lopez, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Janelle Monae, Chris Paul, Megan Rapinoe, Shonda Rhimes, Bretman Rock, Kerry Washington and Rita Wilson. |
| https://www.wholeworld-view.org/ | WholeWorld View | Type: Organization | Category: Humanity | Functional Sector(s): Hub | A growing interdependent co-operative of global change agents in service to nurturing our personal and collective need for meaning and belonging, celebrating our innate diversity within a unified whole. |
| https://xiuhtezcatl.com/ | Xiuhtezcatl Martinez | Type: Person | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Functional Sector(s): Environment | Xiuhtezcatl Martinez (shoe-tez-caht) is a principle in Earth Guardians and now a hip hop artist. |
| www.yonearth.org | Y on Earth | Type: Organization | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Functional Sector(s): Environment | The Y on Earth Community is a movement led by Ambassadors that empowers people with practical, hands-on information and inspiration to enhance health and well-being (Thriving) while deeply aligning our lives and communities with global strategies for regeneration and stewardship (Sustainability). |
| https://www.yesmagazine.org/ | Yes! Media | Type: Media Outlet | Category: Positive Solutions | Functional Sector(s): Media | YES! Media is a nonprofit, independent publisher of solutions journalism. |
| Zachary Stein | Type: Person | Category: Education | Functional Sector(s): Environment | ||
| https://zerowasteinstitute.org/ | Zero Waste Institute | Type: Media Outlet | Category: Plastics | Functional Sector(s): Environment | Articles that inform about how to be Zero Waste. |