Nokia

Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging Internet and communications industries.

Green Zebra

It’s an exciting time to live on the West Coast, with more progressive “green” options cropping up every day…fair trade items, organic fare, products made locally from recycled materials, and green businesses setting a new standard for sustainable business practices. For anyone who finds the sea of green overwhelming…for anyone just interested in practical ideas for doing what they can, when they can…there’s Green Zebra guide.

We liked Green Zebra guide right off the bat, because it’s a practical tool for making sense of the chaos. It’s not about deciding what is and isn’t absolutely green. It’s about partnering with like-minded individuals and businesses in the community.

What do those partnerships look like? It’s a customer who feels better shopping for clothes from an independent designer who uses organic cotton. It’s a family choosing one of the GreenTable restaurants for their next evening out. It’s a not-for-profit organization opting to fundraise by selling Green Zebra guide because they know it’s also not-for-profit.

Green Zebra is also about discovery. Leafing through the guide, new names and interesting ideas jump off the page. All sorts of restaurants, stores, markets, and services close to home are finding ways to put sustainability first, and we want you to have as much fun discovering them as we’ve had.

At TB Vets Charitable Foundation, we were proud to take on this grassroots initiative…an idea that began in San Francisco, was adopted for the Vancouver community by two eco-conscious business partners, and will now support the work of our Foundation year after year with the book’s net proceeds.

Please enjoy Green Zebra guide, and discover how easy it is to change your stripes!

Greenpeace

Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action.

Greenpeace is present in 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Pacific.

To maintain its independence, Greenpeace does not accept donations from governments or corporations but relies on contributions from individual supporters and foundation grants.

Greenpeace has been campaigning against environmental degradation since 1971 when a small boat of volunteers and journalists sailed into Amchitka, an area north of Alaska where the US Government was conducting underground nuclear tests. This tradition of 'bearing witness' in a non-violent manner continues today, and our ships are an important part of all our campaign work.

We exist to expose environmental criminals, and to challenge government and corporations when they fail to live up to their mandate to safeguard our environment and our future.

In pursuing our mission, we have no permanent allies or enemies. We promote open, informed debate about society's environmental choices. We use research, lobbying, and quiet diplomacy to pursue our goals, as well as high-profile, non-violent conflict to raise the level and quality of public debate.

And we believe that the struggle to preserve the future of our planet is not about us. It's about you. Greenpeace speaks for 2.8 million supporters worldwide, and encourages many millions more than that to take action every day.

We take the name of our flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, from a North American Cree Indian legend. It described a time when humanity's greed has made the Earth sick. At that time, a tribe of people known as the Warriors of the Rainbow would rise up to defend her.

As one of the longest banners we've ever made summed things up, "When the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned, and the last fish dead, we will discover that we can't eat money..."

You can help: sign up for your free ezine!

Creative Citizen

Creative Citizen™ (the wiki for green living) is a mental shift: humans don't always have to be users and abusers, they can also be creators. Instead of continuing down the same path of global unawareness and consumption, a Creative Citizen™ reduces worldwide problems to daily, personal solutions. Our goal here is to help each person see how little acts have truly big effects.

Creative Citizen equips individuals and communities to move forward in the quest to become responsible global citizens. Instead of focusing on the fear induced by water shortages, expanding landfills, smoggy cities and the specter of global warming, we focus on one action at a time, knowing that a series of small actions can lead to massive results.

Creative Citizen is an ideal made kinetic: becoming a citizen of the global community, ready and willing to share Creative Solutions™ for all of our eco-problems, minor and major. We know that no one citizen can know everything about living responsibly on this planet – our goal is to create an ever-evolving wealth of environmental knowledge and each Creative Citizen is essential to our success.

So, go ahead and submit a Creative Solution and watch your Greenage™ grow or just look around and soak up what you see. We're always open to suggestions, so email us with your thoughts about how to make your experience as a Creative Citizen more fulfilling, rewarding and effective.

Make sure to follow the Creative Citizen account on Twitter to get updates on Creative Solutions and other news about sustainability. @creativecitizen

For more up-to-date information about Creative Citizen visit our Blog at http://blog.creativecitizen.com

1% for the Planet

1% for the Planet exists to build and support an alliance of businesses financially committed to creating a healthy planet. It’s about businesses recognizing that industry and ecology are inherently connected. It’s about realizing the positive effects of connecting businesses, consumers and nonprofits through philanthropy. And it’s about understanding that the true cost of doing business can be mitigated by a simple pledge to the planet.

Since 2002, 1% For The Planet has inspired members of the business community to contribute 1% of sales to environmental groups around the world. In return, this growing alliance of companies is given the opportunity not only to see their self-worth rise, but their net worth climb as well.

WiserEarth

WiserEarth helps the global movement of people and organizations working toward social justice, indigenous rights, and environmental stewardship connect, collaborate, share knowledge, and build alliances.

All tools and content are free to use. The site is commercial-free too.

Here you will find:

The WiserEarth Directory
 The world's largest free and editable international directory of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and socially responsible organizations (110,000 in 243 countries, territories, and sovereign islands).

WiserEarth Groups 
Online community forums where members can engage in discussion, post and share resources, and collaborate on projects.

WiserEarth Community 
A vibrant community of over 27,000 members making connections, sharing resources, solutions, jobs, and events.

WiserEarth Taxonomy 
The world's most detailed classification of issue areas related to social justice and environmental restoration.

EarthShare

EarthShare is committed to making support of our environment as easy as possible by giving you simple, effective ways to donate to the environmental and conservation charities you care about. The EarthShare Difference: you don't have to choose between supporting public health or our air, water, land or wildlife because one gift can support them all!

Founded by its member charities in 1988, EarthShare is an opportunity for environmentally-conscious employees and workplaces to support hundreds of environmental groups through workplace payroll contribution campaigns. EarthShare participates in campaigns at hundreds of public and privates sector workplaces.

Today EarthShare represents and supports more than 400 of America's most respected environmental and conservation charities, including 39 national organizations and hundreds of local groups in 18 affiliate states. EarthShare's member organizations work hard every day to safeguard your health and the environment by combating global warming, protecting ancient forests, protecting our water from toxic contaminants, saving endangered species and so much more. All of these efforts are supported by EarthShare's mission.

Orangutan Outreach

Orangutan Outreach is an affiliate of Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation.

The purpose of Orangutan Outreach is:

To conserve orangutans in their native habitat.
To raise and promote public awareness of, and participation in, conservation strategies for orangutans through grassroots campaigns, community involvement and global communication.
To collaborate with Indonesian conservationists in the running of orangutan rehabilitation centers.
To fund rescue efforts of orangutans confiscated on palm oil plantations.
To fund rescue efforts of orangutans held illegally by private owners, whether commercial or individual, who are in direct violation of CITES.
To collaborate with zoos and animal parks in North America to promote awareness of orangutan conservation efforts.
To use the Internet to provide orangutan-related curriculum materials free of charge.
To fundraise locally and globally to support these goals.

The Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation is the largest primate rescue project in the world, with nearly 1000 orangutans in its care. BOS is the only organization actively rescuing wild orangutans from oil-palm plantations, as well as rehabilitating orphaned orangutans, displaced as a result of the relentless devastation of their habitat to clear land for palm oil production. BOS is committed to protecting the orangutan and its rainforest habitat, and relies entirely on donations to achieve this.

Natural Capitalism Solutions

The organization, Natural Capitalism Solutions, is based on the principles presented in the acclaimed book Natural Capitalism-Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, co-authored by the organization's leader Hunter Lovins. NCS builds on the original Natural Capitalism Principles, a leading whole-system sustainability framework. Since the books' publication in 1999, Hunter and her colleagues have gained a wealth of experience in helping companies and communities use these principles to capture the economic advantages of sustainability. The principles have evolved to identify opportunities to reduce capital investment and operating costs and generate market leadership advantages. The Natural Capitalism Principles used by NCS are:

Buying time by using resources dramatically more productively.
This slows resource depletion, lessens pollution, and provides increased employment with meaningful jobs. It can lower costs for business and society, halt the degradation of the biosphere, make it more profitable to employ people, and preserve vital living systems and social cohesion.

2. Redesigning industrial processes and the delivery of products and services to do business as nature does, an approach known as biomimicry.[i] 
This approach enables a wide array of materials to be produced with low energy flows, in processes that run on sunlight, with the constant reuse of materials and the elimination of toxicity.

3. Managing all institutions to be restorative of natural and human capital. 
Such approaches enhance human well-being and enable the biosphere to produce more wealth from its intact communities and abundant ecosystem services and natural resources.

[i] Biologist Janine Benyus asserts that certain principles from nature hold insight for humans in the design of sustainable solutions, among them: nature runs on sunlight; nature uses only the energy it needs; nature fits form to function; nature recycles everything; nature rewards cooperation; nature banks on diversity; nature demands local expertise; nature curbs excesses from within; and nature taps the power of limits. Janine M. Benyus, Biomimicry (William Morrow and Company, 1997), p. 7.

Heart of the World

The snowcapped peak of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is the world's largest coastal massif, reaching an altitude of 5,775 meters just 46 kilometers from the Caribbean coast. Isolated from the rest of the Andes, there are 22 unique species of birds that can only be found in our territory, such as the Santa Marta Parakeet and the White-tipped Quetzal. This is the traditional territory of the Indigenous people - a microcosm of South America with all the continent's ecosystems here and all its problems as well.

The "Heart of the World (Corazon del Mundo)" project seeks to recover ancestral territory in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta - lands that are ecologically and culturally important. Proper stewardship of these lands will guarantee the protection of biodiversity, the natural regeneration of forest and vegetation, the protection of threatened sacred sites, the cultural survival and wellbeing of our people, and the protection of the fresh water resources that serve the 1.5 million inhabitants of the surrounding coastal areas.

They urgently need to recover 14,000 hectares around a "Traditional Environmental Buffer Zone of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta". Funds will go directly to help the Younger Brothers to relocate and then these lands will be resettled by indigenous families who will eradicate illicit crops. Our commitment to the world is that 60% of these lands will be allowed to regenerate back into natural forest. The remaining 40% of the lands will be used for the food security of the Indigenous people and the generation of environmentally sustainable income.

Make a donation for the recovery of traditional territories in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, so that the Indigenous people can deal efficiently and effectively with the problems that are affecting the "Heart of the World".

If you would like to help support the goals of the Heart of the World, please donate here.

CSRwire

CSRwire is the world’s number one resource for corporate social responsibility news as well as the hub for an influential community that has realized the value and necessity of Corporate Social Responsibility and sustainability.

Working with our CSR Member community, we promote the growth of Corporate Social Responsibility and sustainability through solutions-based information and positive examples of corporate practices including:

• News Distribution
• CSR Events Participation and Promotion
• CSR Video, Audio/podcasting and recent commentary
• Company-issued CSR Reports
• Our Member Profiles
• Our CSR Archive

For a full description of our services please visit our Corporate Social Responsibility services page.

Members

CSRwire’s affiliate network and weekly News Alerts provide the vehicle and context where more evolved enterprises share news, reports and information about their Corporate Social Responsibility and sustainability initiatives. Our members are companies and NGOs, agencies and organizations eager to showcase and leverage their corporate citizenship, sustainability, and socially responsible efforts to a global audience.

Values

CSRwire employees are actively engaged in volunteering, philanthropy, community development and environmental stewardship. CSRwire is a carbon neutral company committed to sustainable environmental and business practices.

Mother Nature Network

This year Mother Nature will celebrate another birthday, turning more than 4.5 billion years old. Now, we at MNN are giving her the website she always needed. Welcome to Mother Nature Network - environmental news and information that makes sense.

MNN wasn’t designed for scientists or experts. It was created for the rest of us, the regular person who wants information written and created in a way that everyone can understand – both in personal pursuits and business decisions.

We're your one-stop resource and an everyman's eco-guide offering original programs, articles, blogs, videos, and how-to guides along with breaking news stories.

There has never been a better time to find out how you can make the Earth a better place. So come to mnn.com and get all the help you need.

Brave New Films

Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films are at the forefront of the fight to create a just America. Using new media and internet video campaigns, Brave New Films has created a quick-strike capability that informs the public, challenges corporate media with the truth, and motivates people to take action on social issues nationwide.

Green America

Green America is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1982. (We went by the name "Co-op America" until January 1, 2009.)

Our mission is to harness economic power—the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace—to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society.

Our Vision
We work for a world where all people have enough, where all communities are healthy and safe, and where the bounty of the Earth is preserved for all the generations to come.

What Makes Green America Unique

• We focus on economic strategies—economic action to solve social and environmental problems.
• We mobilize people in their economic roles—as consumers, investors, workers, business leaders.
• We empower people to take personal and collective action
• We work on issues of social justice and environmental responsibility. We see these issues as completely linked in the quest for a sustainable world. It’s what we mean when we say “green.”
• We work to stop abusive practices and to create healthy, just and sustainable practices.

350.org

350.org is an international campaign dedicated to building a movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis--the solutions that science and justice demand.

Our mission is to inspire the world to rise to the challenge of the climate crisis—to create a new sense of urgency and of possibility for our planet.

Our focus is on the number 350--as in parts per million, the level scientists have identified as the safe upper limit for CO2 in our atmosphere. But 350 is more than a number--it's a symbol of where we need to head as a planet.

To tackle climate change we need to move quickly, and we need to act in unison—and 2009 will be an absolutely crucial year. This December, world leaders will meet in Copenhagen, Denmark to craft a new global treaty on cutting emissions. The problem is, the treaty currently on the table doesn't meet the severity of the climate crisis—it doesn't pass the 350 test.

In order to unite the public, media, and our political leaders behind the 350 goal, we're harnessing the power of the internet to coordinate a planetary day of action on October 24, 2009. We hope to have actions at hundreds of iconic places around the world - from the Taj Mahal to the Great Barrier Reef to your community - and clear message to world leaders: the solutions to climate change must be equitable, they must be grounded in science, and they must meet the scale of the crisis.

If an international grassroots movement holds our leaders accountable to the latest climate science, we can start the global transformation we so desperately need.