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The need for a systemic, organic view of the planet to ensure its survival
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- 100 Mile Diet
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Ala Plástica
Non-governmental organisation lead by artists that since 1991 has been developing long-range projects in critical zones to promote environmental development alternatives against the limitations being faced by some communities.
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Amigos de la Tierra
Environmentalist association that promotes a local and global change towards a society more respectful with the environment, more fair and more solidary. It stands out for building up a citizenship socially and environmentally engaged, with more than a million members from 70 countries of the five continents.
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Anima Naturalis
With over 20 thousand members it is the largest animal rights organisation in the Spanish-American world.
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Architecture 2030
An organisation for the development of sustainable architecture. Its aim is to research and provide information and innovative solutions in the fields of architecture and planning.
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Ben & Jerry´s
Ben & Jerry is a company implicated in the protection of the environment. The site includes information on its Climate Change College, that from 2005 aims to inspire young people to deliver solutions to climate change.
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Buckminster Fuller Institute
Founded in 1983, The Buckminster Fuller Institute serves a global network of design science innovators working at the leading edge to "make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offence or the disadvantage of anyone".
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Captain Planet Foundation
An interactive space that promotes innovative activities for children so as to encourage them to become environmental witnesses.
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Center for Ecoliteracy
Under the management of Fritjof Capra, this organisation is dedicated to research into sustainable living.
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Climate Prediction
Website for predicting climate.
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Climatium
A campaign by the Fundación Ecología y Desarrollo (Development and Ecology Foundation) and the Fundación Natura (Nature Foundation) in order to help mitigate climatic change caused by CO2 emissions.
- Crop Trust
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Earth Day
Earth Day was created in 1970 to spark a revolution against environmental abuse and the organizers, including EDN Board Chairman Denis Hayes, would not take no for an answer. Neither should we. Global warming is real and we are part of the problem. Now, we need to become part of the solution.
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Earth First
Created in 1979, this environmentalist group is characterised by being an activist movement, not an organisation. It promotes biocentrism and respect for the Earth as priorities.
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Ecolo
A green periodical publication on line.
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Ecological Footprint Quiz
This Ecological Footprint calculator estimates how much land and marine space is needed to generate everything that is being consumed and discarded as waste. After answering these 15 simple questions, you can compare your Ecological Footprint with that of other people and with the planet’s available ecological capacity.
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Ecologists in Action
Confederation of over 300 ecologist groups in Spanish towns and cities and is part of what is known as the social ecology movement. Social ecology sees environmental problems as arising from an increasingly globalised model of production and consumption that also gives rise to other social problems and that must be transformed if ecological catastrophe is to be avoided.
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Ecoscope
Ecoscope is a communication tool that provides a context for discussing environmental affairs. Developed by Transnational Temps, it is a forum for voicing various environmental concerns.
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Endangered Earth
It is estimated that over 15,000 species (plant and animal) are currently threatened with extinction. In the last 500 years, human activity has forced over 800 species into extinction. In the last 10 years, the number of threatened animal species has increased from 5,205 to 7,266. This web site is about the importance of remembering that when these species vanish from Earth they will never be seen or heard from again.
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Exxonsecrets
A project by artist Josh On (They Rule). It shows how Exxon is financing a series of “impartial” scientific researchers who are trying to refute the greenhouse effect theories.
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FIAN
International human rights organization that advocates for the realization of the right to food in the world and to expose its violations. FIAN has consultative status to the United Nations.
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Food First
The purpose of the Institute for Food and Development Policy ?Food First? is to eliminate the injustices that cause hunger.
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Food Not Bombs
Organization dedicated to non-violent social change in order to confront the massive food production.
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Global Voices
Global Voices is a community of more than 200 bloggers around the world who work together to bring you translations and reports from blogs and citizen media everywhere, with emphasis on voices that are not ordinarily heard in international mainstream media.
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Grain
International non-governmental organization which promotes the sustainable management and use of agricultural biodiversity based on people's control over genetic resources and local knowledge.
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Great Ape Project
An association whose objective is the protection of the great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos and orang-utans) and their habitats. It fights for recognition of their rights to life, to freedom and to not be tortured in experiments; the hope is to put an end to this new form of slavery.
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Green Roofs
Compared with traditional roofs, green roofs are 6% more efficient with regard to heat retention, duration and keeping city air clean. You can become a member of the Green Roofs Association at this website.
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Greenpeace
Well-known ecologist and pacifist global campaigning organization, committed to the economic and political independence, that acts to protect and conserve the environment, and to promote peace. One of its many projects is the campaign for a transgenics-free Europe.
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Holcim Foundation
Promotes progress through sustainable construction.
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Horturbà
Web site that shows how to have a vegetable garden at home. It is only necessary to have either a terrace, a balcony or a sunny patio, and a water faucet. With your Horturbà you can grow vegetables of all kinds: lettuce, tomato, pepper, eggplant, onion, garlic, cabbage, spinach…
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I am the solution to climatic change
Make your contribution against climatic change. Send a photo and share your activities with many other people who also think that each one of us constitutes the solution to climatic change.
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Intermon Oxfam
Founded in 1956, Intermon Oxfam is a foundation dedicated to achieve a just world without poverty and enable people to live with dignity and exercise their social and economic rights. Intermon Oxfam acts globally, cooperating with more than 500 development programs in more than 50 countries of Africa, America and Asia, undertaking emergency work and campaigning for a fairer world and raising public awareness.
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International Food Policy Research Institute
IFPRI's vision is a world free of hunger and malnutrition. The vision is based on the human right to adequate food and nutrition and recognition of the inherent dignity of all members of the human family.
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IPC Food Sovereignty
Global network of civil society organizations and social movements concerned with food sovereignty issues and programs.
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Leonardo di Caprio Eco-Site
There are several interesting themes on this website, including information and the trailer for the documentary "The 11th Hour", which was made by Di Caprio himself and deals with the crisis of climatic change.
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Make Me Sustainable
Social network that aims to provide individuals and businesses with the tools necessary to accomplish their sustainable goals.
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No et mengis el món
In 2005, Veterinarios sin fronteras started up this campaign in order to defense the recognition of the ecological debt and to demand the food sovereignty for everyone.
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Novus Extinctus
The relationship between online creativity and offline ecology is the objective of this work carried out by Transnational Temps. Novus Extinctus recreates the processes of electronic culture in a gamelike way, trying to discover how “productive” cultural enterprises contribute to the process of extinction.
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Nyéléni
Forum for Food Sovereignty held in Sélingué (Mali) on February 2007.
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Plataforma ´07
Campaign to report “the confusing language used by politics in the public arena and their real intentions, reflected on our OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE. We believe it is a fraud, because it is used in our own profit, defrauding not only the South but those citizens who believe that their money is being invested correctly”.
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r3project
Sustainable renovation of a flat in the centre of Barcelona based on the five Rs of eco-design: Reuse | Reduce | Recycle | Re-establish | Respect.
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Raj Patel
Web page of this writer, activist and scholar, author of the book Stuffed and Starved.
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Schumacher College
International centre for ecological studies founded in 1991 to promote a new vision for society, its values and its relations with the earth.
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Slow Food
Non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organization that was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world. They organize the Terra Madre Congress on agriculture, food sovereignty and ecological production.
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SosteniPra
The SosteniPra Project aims to provide leadership in an emerging field: tools for sustainability and environmental foresight. It works in the areas of life cycle, eco-design, eco-efficiency, industrial ecology, and analysis of material and energy flows, applied to industrial, urban and agricultural systems, whether they are local, regional or national in scale.
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Stop Disasters Game
A game that simulates natural disasters.
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Stop Global Warming
There is no more important cause than the call to action to save our planet. This is a movement about change, as individuals, as a country, and as a global community. We are all contributors to global warming and we all need to be part of the solution.
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The E.F. Schumacher Society
It is an educational non-profit organization founded in 1980. Their programs demonstrate that both social and environmental sustainability can be achieved by applying the values of human-scale communities and respect for the natural environment to economic issues.
Building on a rich tradition often known as decentralism, the Society initiates practical measures that lead to community revitalization and further the transition toward an economically and ecologically sustainable society. -
The Ecologist
Spanish version of one of the most reputed ecology magazines. Each month it explores the connection between several issues, whether food, war, politics, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, toxic chemical substances, corporate fraud, the media or supermarkets, and it challenges conventional thought.
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The Eyes of Nye
This internet show is for primary and secondary schoolchildren and deals with scientific themes such as genetically modified foods, cloning, astrobiology, nuclear energy ... in a way that is both fun and educational.
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The Goldman Environmental Prize
Richard Goldman and his wife Rhoda Goldman, civil leaders and philanthropists from San Francisco, established the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1990. The Goldman Prize continues today its original mission of honouring grassroots environmental heroes in each of the world’s six inhabited continental regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America.
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The Green Goose Game
Are you as ecologically minded as you think? Try this game and get to the end as fast as you can.
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The Greens
A website for children on how to take care of the planet.
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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Opened officially at the Arctic Cicle very recently, it stores one hundred million seed samples from a hundred different countries all over the world. The Seed Vault is managed under terms spelled out in a tripartite agreement between the Norwegian government, the Global Crop Diversity Trust and the Nordic Genetic Resource Center. Its mission is to provide a safety net for seed sample banks, ensuring its survival in front of phenomena such as the climate change and natural disasters.
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The World´s Water
A site dedicated to providing water information, data, and resources to individuals, organizations, and institutions working on solutions to a wide range of global freshwater problems.
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Thehighwayinthesky
This suspended transport system looks towards a clean and secure future system of mass transport.
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Tree Nation
Ecological project born in Barcelona which objective is to plant 8 million trees in the Sahara in order to fight climate change, desertification and poverty.
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Una sola tierra TV
Online television focused on the latest news on climate change, so we can fight it.
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Under the Sky
This Foundation headed by Herbert Girardet aims to create futures for land and buildings that are socially responsible, environmentally sustainable and thoughtfully designed.
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Vandana Shiva
The web page of Vandana Shiva, ecologist, activist, editor and author of numerous books.
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Vavilov Institut
The N. I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry is the only research institution in Russia whose activities include plant genetics resources (PGR) collection, conservation and study. It is also the oldest seed bank in the world.
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Veterinarios sin fronteras
Non-governmental organization, declared of public interest, that from 1987 works to improve the quality of life of the more disadvantaged. It collaborates with rural communities in developing countries in order to increase animal production.
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Via Campesina
International movement of peasants, small- and medium-sized producers, rural women, indigenous people, landless, rural youth and agricultural workers that promotes a model of peasant or family-farm agriculture based on sustainable production with local resources and in harmony with local culture and traditions. Its members are from 56 countries from Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
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Wikiseedia
As Wikipedia, this initiative is based on free and disinterested collaborations, and tries to compile all the useful information from peasant communities and make it available to anyone.
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Worldcoolers
This is an online grassroots initiative whose goal is to raise public awareness of global warming. By downloading the Collactive desktop software, you can connect with those who are concerned with the climate crisis too, spark fruitful discussions and bring this critical issue to the attention of policymakers and the media. This is an initiative specially addressed to those who usually get into discussions with others who are skeptical towards climate change.