Exploring Life: Web Clips

David Suzuki Foundation: About us

Since 1990, the David Suzuki Foundation has worked to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world that sustains us. Focusing on four program areas – oceans and sustainable fishing, climate change and clean energy, sustainability, and the Nature Challenge – the Foundation uses science and education to promote solutions that conserve nature and help achieve sustainability within a generation.

The Ecologist – GM: Halt the Growing Threat

GM: Halt the Growing Threat
Pat Thomas 31/10/2008

Growing anxiety, growing concern, growing doubts, growing uncertainty. If you are one of a growing number of people who want to be heard on the subject of GM, and to find out how you can become involved in keeping the future GM-free, here are some places to start.

Ecological Footprint Calculators – Calculate Your Ecological Footprint!

Ecological footprint calculators can help you determine the environmental impact of your activities. If you cannot eliminate or reduce the cause of the pollution, carbon offset services will provide affordable options to neutralize your carbon emissions.

Besides ecological footprint calculators, also: calculators for commuting costs, building energy efficiency, solar water heating savings, food chemicals, …

Basel Action Network (BAN) : About BAN

BAN is the world’s only organization focused on confronting the global environmental injustice and economic inefficiency of toxic trade (toxic wastes, products and technologies) and its devastating impacts. Working at the nexus of human rights and environment, we confront the issues of environmental justice at a macro level, preventing disproportionate and unsustainable dumping of the world’s toxic waste and pollution on our global village’s poorest residents. At the same time we actively promote the sustainable and just solutions to our consumption and waste crises — banning waste trade, while promoting green, toxic free and democratic design of consumer products.

WorldChanging: Award-Winning Solutions Journalism

orldchanging is a 501(c)3 media organization that comprises a global network of independent journalists, designers and thinkers covering the world’s most intelligent solutions to today’s problems. We inspire readers around the world with stories of the most important and innovative new tools, models and ideas for building a bright green future. Our readers are ready to change the world, and Worldchanging links them to the first steps.