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Scientists say that 350 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere is the safe limit for humanity. Learn more about 350 – what it means, where it came from, and how to get there.
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10:10. Commit to cutting your emissions by 10 percent in 2010
Please join 10:10 today. By committing to cut your emissions by 10% in 2010, you will join thousands of individuals, schools, hospitals, businesses and organisations all actively helping to combat climate change by making simple changes to their lifestyles, homes and workplaces.
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11th Hour Action
This community was created to help individuals and communities take sustainable action on the local, regional and national levels. By providing a means for people to share their ideas and solutions within our framework of sustainability goals, we hope to encourage others to take similar steps.
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100 People: A World Portrait
Picture this complex world simply - the world as 100 people. 6.7 billion of us share this planet. Who are we? What do we look like? What can we learn from others? By framing the global population as 100 people, our media makes education more engaging and effective, and improves students' abilities to remember and relate to what they learn.
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Allianz Knowledge
Allianz Knowledge focuses on Climate Change, Energy, Microfinance, Demographic Change, and Safety & Health. These topics are vital to our business – and to our world. We gather information about the most pressing global issues of our age from within the Allianz Group and our partner organizations and make it accessible to a broad international audience.
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Avoided Deforestation Partners
An international network of thinkers, strategists and practitioners, founded by leaders in forest carbon policy and project implementation, science, finance, and conservation in 2007, to support international efforts to halt tropical deforestation.
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Biomimicry Europa
A non-profit international association, established in Brussels in December, 2006, at the instigation of men and of women from a variety of horizons, conscious of the limits of our current mode of development and its impact on the environment, particularly with respect to climate. The members of Biomimicry Europa share the conviction that the current mode of development must be thoroughly modified if one wants to protect the ability of future generations to satisfy their needs.
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Center for American Progress
The Top 100 Effects of Global Warming: A lighthearted but nonetheless sobering look at what lies ahead of the predictions about global warming are anywhere near accurate.
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Climate Central
Climate Central is an accessible one-stop source for timely, relevant, high-quality climate information through a variety of channels, targeting the media and leaders in business, government, and religion. A nonprofit organization, it operates without partisanship, bias, or lobbying.
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Chesapeake Climate Action Network
Our blog is an online resource of news, ideas, and stories of our day- to- day lives in the fight against global warming. This site is a public resource and will be featured on the front page of the CCAN website, under the “what’s new” section so that anyone who visits the CCAN website will automatically view our most recent the blog posts. Our blog is a way for people who visit our site to engage in a conversation. People can apply to be a CCAN blogger or they can leave comments.
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Climate Interactive
Climate Interactive is building a community that creates, shares, and uses credible models, accessible simulations, and related media in order to improve the way we think about the climate. Our purpose is to get these sims and insights into the world as accessible products so they can be tweaked, enhanced, translated, and distributed around the world.
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The Climate Project
The Climate Project consists of 2,600 dedicated volunteers from throughout the United States, Australia, Canada, India, Spain, and the UK, all personally trained by Al Gore to educate the public about climate change.
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CO2 Now
Global warming is mainly the result of CO2 levels rising in the Earth’s atmosphere. Both atmospheric CO2 and climate change are accelerating. Climate scientists say we have years, not decades, to stabilize CO2 and other greenhouse gases. To help the world succeed, CO2Now.org makes it easy to see the most current CO2 level and what it means.
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Climate Science Watch
Climate Science Watch is a nonprofit public interest education and advocacy project dedicated to holding public officials accountable for the integrity and effectiveness with which they use climate science and related research in government policymaking, toward the goal of enabling society to respond effectively to the challenges posed by global warming and climate change.
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David Suzuki Foundation: Solving Climate Change
Climate change is considered by many scientists to be the most serious threat facing the world today. The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. Solutions include phasing out coal plants, expanding renewable energy sources and public transit, and creating new efficiency standards for vehicles and buildings. Find out what you can do to help make a difference!
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The Global Trees Campaign
We aim to save the world's most threatened tree species and their habitats through provision of information, conservation action and support for sustainable use. The campaign focuses on trees as flagship species for conservation of ecosystems and landscapes, and enables local people to carry out rescue and sustainable use operations.
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Environmental Justice Foundation
By providing film and advocacy training to partners in the global south EJF protects the natural environment and the people and wildlife that depend upon it by empowering local communities to investigate, expose and peacefully resolve abuses.
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Environmental Defense Fund
We start with rigorous science. Then we work directly with businesses, government and communities. Together, we create lasting solutions to the most serious environmental problems.
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Marylanders Plant Trees
Today the State of Maryland is partnering with businesses, communities and citizens like you to help fund and plant new tree cover. Our State agencies are working to plant 1 million new trees by 2011, and we’re asking private citizens to join us by planting 50,000 trees by 2010.
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Eco-Libris
Founded in 2007, Eco-Libris is a green company working to green up the book industry by promoting the adoption of green practices, balancing out books by planting trees, and supporting green books. To achieve these goals Eco-Libris is working with book readers, publishers, authors, bookstores and others in the book industry worldwide.
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European Project on Ocean Acidification
This blog was started in July 2006 as a “one man” effort. As from 2008, it is a product of EPOCA, the European Project on Ocean Acidification. Its only ambition is to centralize information available on ocean acidification and its consequences on marine organisms and ecosystem.
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EarthTrends
EarthTrends is a comprehensive online database, maintained by the World Resources Institute, that focuses on the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world.
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Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development
The environmental problems we face today, such as climate change and the global demand for natural resources, are threatening the ability of vulnerable communities to safeguard their environment and improve the quality of their lives. We at FIELD believe that these communities deserve a better deal, and see international cooperation as a way of achieving this.
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The Green Provider's Directory
The Green Providers Directory is the UK's leading resource for finding green, organic and fair trade products and services. We are a not-for-profit, on-line search directory whose aim is to encourage more people to buy from ethical and sustainable sources. All the companies listed in our directory have been vetted so that you can be sure of their eco-friendly credentials. Our directory is free and easy to use - providing everything you need for sustainable living under one roof!
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Institute for Sustainable Communities
At the Institute for Sustainable Communities, we give passionate, committed people the tools and skills they need to inspire active citizenship, protect the environment, and take on climate change.
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