Awesome Earth

The world is simultaneously underwater and on fire, and people want to know what they can do about it. Let's share resources, services, products and ideas you can use to stop kicking the planet in the face.

Contents

• Carbon Reduction
• Clothing
• Consumer Products
• Cooking
• Documentaries
• Finance
• Food
• Footprint Calculators
• Home Improvements
• Hygiene
• Jobs
• Land Management
• News
• Other Services
• Podcasts
• Politics
• Reforestation
• Renewable Energy
• Transportation
• Travel
• Volunteering
• Waste
• YouTube Channels
• Zero Waste

Carbon Reduction

• 1% for the Planet - A membership program for businesses and individuals, allowing them to donate 1% of their gross yearly profits or salary back to environmental nonprofits to create a healthier planet.

• Beam - Make small automatic donations while you shop online, to support the cleantech startups trying to change the world. Clean Tech investment money has dried up over the years, so crowdsourcing is becoming the only option for many, and with a Chrome extension you can chuck in a dollar when you're buying other stuff.

• Better Future Faster - Breaks the climate problem into 4 pillars, lays out explicit actions required for each and allows businesses and policy makers to commit to these actions.

• Brighter Planet CM1 - Brighter Planet offers a free, simple API allowing you to calculate the carbon generated by almost any activity - transport, energy, shopping and more.

• Carbon Pricing Dashboard - Maps and statistics on regional, national, and subnational carbon pricing initiatives.

• Climate Action Tracker - See which countries are on track for the Paris Agreement or similar, and which countries are failing horribly. Hint: it's everyone but Morocco and The Gambia.

• ClimateWorks - An NGO partnering with philanthropists to tackle the climate crisis. They seek to ensure investments have the maximum impact.

• Climworks - Climeworks Direct Air Capture technology captures CO₂ from air, mixes the CO₂ with water used by a geothermal energy plant, then pumps it deep underground. Through natural processes, the CO₂ reacts with the basaltic rock – and turns into stone within a few years, permanently and safely. Iceland is one of several locations around the world that provide ideal conditions for our pioneering process. Subscribe monthly to offset a little bit of your footprint, and support the growth of this early stage technology.

• Cool Earth - This charity was created to tackle climate change by reducing carbon emissions from rainforest loss.

• Ecologi - Help the planet from your sofa, for less than a cheap bottle of wine per month. Watch your own forest come to life and offset your entire footprint for $6.50/€6 per-month. Then get your friends, family, business, and even your dog signed up!

• Ecosia - The search engine that plants trees. >50% of the ad revenue goes directly to planting trees.

• Flight Free (UK) - Aviation is the fastest growing contributor to greenhouse gas emissions at a time when we desperately need to reduce them. Pledge to go flight free in 2020.

• Flight Free (USA) - A grassroots campaign which asks people to agree not to fly in the year of 2020 – on condition that 100,000 others will also pledge to do the same.

• Future Earth - Future Earth is a global research programme designed to provide the knowledge needed to support transformations towards sustainability. They focus on systems-based approaches, seeking to deepen the understanding of complex Earth systems and human dynamics across different disciplines.

• Giki - The Giki app provides accessible, independent, transparent information to help people change habits to live more sustainably. Our 14 badges cover sustainability, health and fairness.

• Gold Standard - Offset carbon emissions by purchasing verified carbon credits from a variety of certified, environmentally friendly projects.

• Google Cloud Computing - Google are a long way from perfect, but Google Cloud advertises 100% renewable energy. They don't just offset, they actually reduce the electricity usage too, and "strive to build the world’s most energy-efficient computing network by squeezing more out of every watt of power we consume." Their main rival, Amazon AWS, does not do that, and actively hosts oil and gas companies, who use the platform to find more places to dig. Switching to Google Cloud (or a host who in turn is on Google Cloud), is one of many ways to make your platform have less impact on the earth.

• Green-E Carbon Offsets - Green-e Climate is an excellent resource for carbon offsets. The organization holds retailers accountable by monitoring how offsets are transacted and advertised in the retail market, protecting both the buyer and the seller.

• GreenMovi - Earn discount coupons anytime, just download the app available for Android and iOS platforms, register, and use it every time you use a non-polluting means of transport and be rewarded with Carb Points.

• Mijn Impact - Discover the effect of your choices. The app that provides easy insight into the CO2 impact of your purchases - and challenges you to reduce your impact with personal goals.

• No Meat Today - Your companion to eat less meat. It's good for you and the planet, but let's be honest, eating less meat is hard. Don't do it alone!

• Patch - Patch is the API for negative emissions. Developers can use Patch's API to make any transaction carbon neutral with a wide range of negative emission methods (e.g. direct air carbon capture, bio-oil geosequestration, enhanced weathering, reforestation and more).

• Possible - Combining individual and local actions with larger systemic change, we face our climate dread with a can-do attitude and sense of fun. Possible are tackling the climate crisis by inspiring people to act in 5 key areas - eat & buy, travel, energy, nature and talking.

• Project Wren - Project Wren are a startup offering a web based, monthly subscription model for offsetting emissions. They also allow for offsetting of flights.

• Restons Les Pieds Sur Terre - Aviation is the fastest growing contributor to greenhouse gas emissions at a time when we desperately need to reduce them. Pledge to go flight free in 2020.

• The National Grid ESO - Monitor the generation types that make up your electricity supply and see when the cleanest time to use electricity will be. See the carbon impact level of electricity generation, how your region compares to others in the UK and be notified when a record towards decarbonisation breaks.

• Trine - Solar Crowd-investing - Invest in solar projects bringing clean energy to emerging markets. Local solar partners will distribute and manage the solar products on the ground. If the loan is successful you will receive your investment and interest in return.

• We Mean Business - A coalition aiming to catalyze business action and driving policy ambition to accelerate the zero-carbon transition.

• Tradewater - Finds and destroys the most potent greenhouse gases before they are released into the atmosphere. These are old refrigerants that would leak into the atmosphere unless collected and destroyed. Work is funded by selling Carbon Offsets. You can subscribe to offset your carbon emissions.

Clothing

• 4ocean - Oeko-tex certificated, cruelty free customizable linen clothing brand. All of the packaging are plastic free.

• Adidas Parley - Shoes, apparel and accessories made from upcycled marine plastic waste. Every piece in the collection is made of at least 75% intercepted plastic trash.

• Allbirds - Our shoes are made with merino wool, tencel made from rainfall-fed FSC-certified eucalyptus forests, recycled plastic bottles (for laces), 'Sweetfoam' soles made from castor bean oil and ProForest-protected sugarcane. At 7.6 kg per pair for our wool runners, our process uses 60% less energy than materials used in typical synthetic shoes. We offset the rest, making Allbirds a carbon-neutral business.

• Alternative Apparel - Low impact dyes, and post-consumer recycled polyester are used with Fair Labor Association guidelines.

• Arvin Goods - Brand that makes fashionable socks through a sustainable supply chain process they have developed. They have removed excess water from their manufacturing process - leaving more water left for communities to drink!

• Bam - Bamboo Clothing - Bamboo clothing company that are entirely dedicated to sustainability beyond purely carbon emissions, they're aiming for zero chemical pollution, zero waste to landfill, zero deforestation in their suppliers (and their suppliers, and their suppliers...) and zero water wasted. They've got active wear, casual wear, underwear, gift cards for birthdays, the whole thing.

• Boody Eco Wear Essentials - Everyday essentials made from hypoallergenic and breathable FSC-certified bamboo viscose yarn, OEKO-TEX 100 certified organic by Ecocert.

• Cariuma - Old-School sneakers, new school ethics. Cariuma's sneakers are handcrafted with premium natural materials, an obsessive eye for detail, and a conscious mind. They care deeply about our craftsmen, and ensure that they earn fair wages and experience safe working conditions. Some of their shoes are carbon negative, and they are committed to carbon-neutral shipping processes, which they do by purchasing carbon offsets for each shipment.

• Dabchy - Tunisian second hand clothes marketplace.

• For Days - Subscription service that provides clothing with a zero-waste approach. When you sign up you purchase a membership and receive an organic cotton shirt - each time you want to purchase another article you send them back any old item to swap them out.

• Knowledge Cotton Apparel - Clothing made from certified organic cotton, recycled PET, linen, wool, tencel, and recycled nylon sent via certified carbon neutral shipping in recyclable packaging.

• Kushel - Our bathrobes and towels are made from reforested beech wood and organic cotton, made in Portugal. Sourced from FSC-certified reforested forestry operations in Europe without irrigation. This mix needs 90% less water and emits 44% less CO2. By planting 2 trees for each towel and by compensating the carbon emissions and blue-water usage, we are a climate & resource positive textile brand, and the first certified B corporation in Germany.

• Linen Fox - Small runs of customizable Oeko-tex certificated linen clothing with plastic free packaging.

• Loop A Life - 100% Circular Fashion - This circular textile award winning brand sets the new standard by clothing from local raw salvaged materials, recycling them without any chemicals, generating no wastewater, recycling their own products at end-of-life, researching and developing new ways to develop circular products. They organize local sorting campaigns, workshops, collection campaigns, and facilitate other fashion companies in their circular transition. Each sweater saves 500 liters of water, 60mJ of energy, uses zero chemicals, and saves at least 6kg of C02 emissions (when compared to traditional manufacturing).

• Lost in Samsara - Bags, Jewelry, and Accessories - Stylish products produced ethically from upcycled materials. Bags made from cement bags, tires, and jewelry made from upcycled bullet casings.

• Love Linen - Linen clothing made with love in Australia

• MUD Jeans - Zero impact jeans production obeying circular economy principles, paying fair wages and offering a repair service.

• Mezzoroni - Oeko-tex certificated, cruelty free customizable linen clothing brand. All of the packaging are plastic free.

• NN07 - Using its sustainable material matrix, No Nationality designs made-to-last clothing primarily with recycled and non-cotton natural materials including hemp, linen, wool, alpaca, and silk.

• Norm Shoes - Our shoes are made from 90% recycled materials: recycled polyester (6 plastic bottles per pair), recycled rubber, and fairtrade rubber. The impact for one pair of Norm shoes is only 6,5 kg of CO2 equivalent (80% lower than the industry average). We partner with a Belgian NGO, Graine de Vie, to plant two trees in Madagascar for each pair we sell and we offset our emissions as well.

• Patagonia - Sports clothing produced in the most sustainable way (footprint: working towards carbon neutral, recycled, fair trade, organic, ...)

• Pure Waste - Helsinki based, making 100% recycled clothing out of waste materials.

• REI Used - CO-OP owned company that sells reused hiking and outdoor gear and clothing with the goal of preventing waste and getting more people into outdoor activities. They offer gift cards in exchange for your used gear too.

• Recover Brands - Soft and strong T-shirts, each made from 8 plastic bottles. Closed Loop manufacturing from the start.

• Runamics Running & Sports Gear - Crowd-funded for-purpose eco-friendly alternatives to traditional sports gear. We combine merino wool with wood-based cellulosic fibres like Lyocell. We make experiments with highly innovative fibres like biodegradable elastic fibres or “polyester-like” substitutes. WE're climate neutral always working to reduce our footprint, use plastic-free packaging and ship globally with DHL GoGreen.

• Siizu - A mininalistic-styled brand that creates clothing with organic and natural fabrics - one such using oyster shell waste. They use an ethical manufacturing process by having their factories close to each other and their shipping only uses recyclable packaging.

• Sustainable Hosiery - OEKO-TEX certified, vegan-dyed hosiery made from 76% - 97% recycled post-production and post-consumer nylon waste in Zero Waste factories

• TenTree - Ten tree is a brand that actively promotes environmental stewardship. They have a wide variety of comfortable clothes and accessories and with each purchase, they pledge to plant 10 trees.

• Vesica Piscis Shoes - Hand made stylish shoes made from recycled materials. Recycled cotton, recycled polyester fabric picking from plastic bottles, X-ray plates, fishing nets, etc. They use virgin natural rubber, bamboo, and a small amount of organic cotton.

• Vinted Used Clothes Marketplace - Your community for pre-loved fashion. Buy and sell quality used apparel.

• Worn Wear - A set of tools to help our customers partner with Patagonia to take mutual responsibility to extend the life of the products Patagonia makes and customers purchase. You can buy second-hand repaired or re-crafted clothes, or trade in used Patagonia clothes for credit for new items.

• Woron Store - Lingerie and base wear essentials made from GOTS-certified, antibacterial 'Lenzing Modal' (Beech wood!) made from CO2-neutral FSC-certified native tree plantations.

• thredUP - Second hand clothes, up-cycled to avoid the electricity, carbon, etc waste of making new clothes, and keeping them from a landfill. Women and kids but nothing for