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TckTckTck is the public campaign of the Global Campaign for Climate Action (GCCA). The GCCA is an unprecedented alliance of more than 300 non-profit organizations all over the world. Our shared mission is to mobilize civil society and galvanize public support to ensure a safe climate future for people and nature, to promote the low-carbon transition of our economies, and to accelerate the adaptation efforts in communities already affected by climate change.
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The One Day on Earth project showcases the amazing diversity, conflict, tragedy, and triumph that occurs in one day on Earth. In honor of Earth Day 2012, One Day on Earth is showing a film that covers one full day on the planet to people in every country around the world.
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TOGETHER is a nongovernmental organization based in Iraq whose mission is to protect human rights and the environment through education initiatives and advocacy efforts.
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Friends of Environment & Development Association (FEDA) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) established in Cairo, Egypt 1992. FEDA works to achieve Sustainable Development for Egypt through implementation of projects leading to the upgrading of selected fragile eco-systems with the goal of improving the quality of life of its residents.
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Founded in 2005, the Sustainable Endowments Institute is a Cambridge-based nonprofit organization that has pioneered research and education to advance sustainability in higher education. In 2011, SEI developed The Billion Dollar Green Challenge (The Challenge) to encourage colleges, universities, and other nonprofit institutions to invest in self-managed green revolving funds.
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The Tunzana Network serves as a way to augment and highlight the environmental work that North American youth are doing in the region while also connecting them to UNEP and its global Tunza Network. The Network also allows North American youth to showcase their environmental work on a regional and international platform.
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Since 1993, Second Nature has worked to create a healthy, just, and sustainable society by transforming higher education. Second Nature is the lead supporting organization of the ACUPCC, a growing network of over 670 signatory higher education institutions in all fifty states that have made a public commitment to neutralize their greenhouse gas emissions and provide the education, research, and community engagement to enable the rest of society to do the same.
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The Clean Garbage Project seeks to encourage recycling throughout Colombia, eventually persuading the Colombian government to make recycling mandatory. The Project hopes to create a model that can be divulged throughout South America and the world. To do so, The Clean Garbage Project hosts various events, including art installations and exhibitions, performances, video-showings, photography exhibitions, discussion forums, etc.
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Our mission is to promote longboarding as an effective form of environmentally-friendly transportation and recreation. Greenskate was founded in Calgary, Canada amongst a handful of friends. Since then we’ve watched it grow to over 50 cities in 5 continents. Now entering its fifth year, we are excited to watch the movements continued growth.
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Vidas Verdes es la primera institucion ecologica en el Peru, pues actuamos desde 1991, y como decimos, estamos antes que muchas y estaremos cuando ellas ya no esten, nosotros definimos nuestro trabajo como ecologia urbana o ecologia humana y para eso desarrollamos campañas sobre los tres pilares basicos de la ecologia urbana: arborizacion, reciclamiento, y educacion ambiental.
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Surfrider Foundation Europeis a non profit organization, dedicated to defending, saving, improving and managing in a sustainable manner the ocean, coastline, waves and the people who enjoy them. From its creation, efforts have been concentrated on coastal issues, but today our scope of interest and involvement is spreading to related areas of lakes and rivers.
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ICLEI is an international association of local governments as well as national and regional local government organizations who have made a commitment to sustainable development.
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The US Environmental Protection Agency's mission is to protect human health and the environment. The State and Local Climate and Energy Program provides technical assistance, analytical tools, and outreach support to state, local, and tribal governments.
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The National Association of Counties (NACo) is the only national organization that represents county governments before the Administration and Congress. NACo provides essential services to the nation's 3,068 counties.
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Sister Cities International is a nonprofit citizen diplomacy network that creates and strengthens partnerships between U.S. and international communities.
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Keep America Beautiful combines education with hands-on stewardship to make America's communities cleaner, greener, safer, and more livable. KAB programs activate millions of volunteers each year in hands-on community improvement activities, where they learn how to take personal responsibility for improving their local community environments.
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The mission of the Captain Planet Foundation is to promote and support high quality, educational programs that enable children and youth to understand and appreciate our world through learning experiences that engage them in active hands-on projects to improve the environment in their schools and communities.
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The US State Department's mission is to shape and sustain a peaceful, prosperous, just, and democratic world and foster conditions for stability and progress for the benefit of the American people and people everywhere.
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The African Rainforest Conservancy (ARC) conserves and restores African rainforests – among the oldest and most biodiverse in the world – through grassroots conservation and community development. We believe that by providing new economic and educational opportunities, local people are empowered to preserve their natural heritage for future generations.
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The Environment Online (ENO) Programme is a global virtual school and network for sustainable development and environmental awareness. Environmental themes are studied within a school year on a weekly basis. Thousands of schools from 124 countries have taken part.
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WiserEarth is a global village for sharing and kinship-building among changemakers around the world. More specifically, WiserEarth helps the global movement of people and organizations working toward social justice, indigenous rights, and environmental stewardship to connect, collaborate, share knowledge, and build alliances.
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The World Peace Forum aims to link people and organizations, interested in building a peaceful world through international communication, such as newsletters, journals and periodic conferences.
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Our project is aimed at mobilizing the youth world over, educating them on the urgency of sustainable development issues and encouraging them to involve themselves in the negotiation process of Rio+20. We want to prove that the youth is ready to play an active part in international negotiations and to shape its own future of a sustainable world!
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Rio + You is an awareness campaign about sustainable development, a youth movement for all those who feel young, for those who want to change, participate, scream and work together for a better world!
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Road to Rio+20 aims to motivate, inspire, engage and support young people to take action on issues of sustainable development and influence the outcomes of Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development.
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Youth Service America (YSA) improves communities by increasing the number and the diversity of young people, ages 5-25, serving in substantive roles.Founded in 1986, YSA supports a global culture of engaged youth committed to a lifetime of service, learning, leadership, and achievement.
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Calcutta Foundation helps empower lesser advantaged sections of society, be it young boys or girls or older men or women. Calcutta Foundation's projects are extremely diverse, and have included: imparting training to young orphan boys; building a home for 100 girl children of leprosy patients; providing training in traditional embroidery work to lesser privileged women, and building awareness about environmental issues.
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Himalayan Club (HC) offers seminars and lectures on various aspects of the Himalayas and their environment, and arranges regular rock climbing and mountaineering expeditions to high and difficult Himalayan peaks.
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The Corbett Foundation works to restore the natural harmony between human beings and the environment and to restore the ancient simple culture of the hill folks of Kumaon and Garhwal regions. In addition, the foundation works to preserve, conserve, protect and restore the unique ecosystems in the Corbett country.
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Eradicating Ecocide is committed to creating international laws that make ecocide a crime and help prevent the destruction of our Earth's eco-systems.
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The Ministry of Education in Sultanate of Oman (MOE) organized schools throughout the Sultanate to go green in honor of Earth Day 2011 as part of its support to the environmental movement worldwide. In 2012, MOE plans to bring Earth Day to every school in the Sultanate.
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Earth Day Network Philippines (EDNP) is a network of over 2,000 government and non-government organizations, business corporations and academic institutions that believe and uphold the importance of conserving, protecting and restoring the integrity of the God's creation for the sustainable development of the country.
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The Points of Light Institute is the leading volunteer organization with more than 20 years of history and a bipartisan presidential legacy. Our mission is to inspire, equip and mobilize people to take action that changes the world. We connect people to their power to make a meaningful difference by providing access to tools, resources and opportunities to help volunteers use their time, talent, voice and money to meet the critical needs of our communities.
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Rainbow Warriors International (RWI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting sustainable development and human rights worldwide, and of Small Island Developing States, indigenous and non-represented peoples in particular, with headquarters in the Caribbean island of Aruba.
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