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Mission We're developing new tools in the spirit of Grassroots Mapping, meaning: low cost data legibility (including a preference for maps and other rich visual means of representation) ease of use/low barrier to entry public participation high quality, environmentally and socially relevant data creative reuse of consumer technology open source and user modifiable design

HOW ARE CITIZEN SCIENTISTS USING OPEN HARDWARE TO MAKE GROUNDBREAKING DISCOVERIES?

Climate Interactive is a not-for-profit organization based in Washington DC. Our team helps people see what works to address climate change and related issues like energy, health, food security, and disaster risk reduction. Our easy-to-use, tangible, scientifically-grounded tools as well as our programs for engagement help people see for themselves what options exist today to shape the future they want to see.

The military spends more than a billion dollars a year to clean up sites its operations have contaminated with toxic waste and explosives. These sites exist in every state in the country. Some are located near schools, residential neighborhoods, rivers and lakes. A full map of these sites has never been made public - until now. Enter your address to see the hazardous sites near you, or select a state. Related story »

100% for 100%. Our goal is to make new clean energy more affordable and accessible for all. We help you imagine and do what's possible. A campaign of the Solutions Project.

Company Overview The Carbon Tracker Initiative is working to align the capital markets with climate change objectives through a number of workstreams: 1. Assessing Systemic Climate Change Risk 2. Challenging Valuation Assumptions 3. Accounting for Impaired / Stranded / Sub-prime assets 4. Investigating the Capital Raising process 5. Exploring the contradiction between climate policy and markets

Our first mission is to help create an Internet where users will have access to scientifically sound and trustworthy information. We also provide feedback to editors and journalists about the credibility of information published by their outlets. Our mission is pedagogical: we strive to explain whether and why information is or is not consistent with the science. We are nonpartisan and apply the same methodology to claims made in a variety of media outlets, as well as exposing claims that either contradict or over-hype science. We believe it is scientists' civic duty to better inform our fellow citizens in our area of expertise.

The CPUC regulates privately owned electric, natural gas, telecommunications, water, railroad, rail transit, and passenger transportation companies, in addition to authorizing video franchises. Our five Governor-appointed Commissioners, as well as our staff, are dedicated to ensuring that consumers have safe, reliable utility service at reasonable rates, protecting against fraud, and promoting the health of California's economy.  

Earth Overshoot uses a multi-tiered approach to raise awareness and normalize the discussion in business, social, religious, education and political communities about our unsustainable population, the catastrophic impact it has on our planet, and the steps we must take collectively and individually to solve the problem.

Solar United Neighbors is the only organization in the country dedicated to representing the needs and interests of solar owners and supporters. See how we've been helping people go solar, join together, and fight for their energy rights since 2007.

Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC) is a national nonprofit network of organizations working together to advance a sustainable environment while creating high-road -- sustainable, just and inclusive -- economies with opportunities for all. ECC develops energy, green infrastructure and other sustainable development projects that not only contribute to the resilience of our metropolitan regions but also ensure an equity stake for low-income communities of color in the green economy. 

California Forward (CA FWD) leads a statewide movement, bringing people together across communities, regions and interests to improve government and create inclusive, sustainable growth for everyone. A 501(c)(3) organization, CA FWD drives collective action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. The organization is driven by the belief that the collective impact of regional solutions across the state will help ensure the economic, environmental and social prosperity of all people.

We believe knowledge sharing is most valuable when it's powered by people closest to the challenges. We seek to elevate the voices of changemakers who have the greatest insights and the most at stake. Advancing economic, environmental and social justice today requires iteration, openness, adaptability and risk-taking. We embrace these values within our own work and aim to celebrate others who do the same.

This Green, Resilient, and Equitable Actions for Transformation (GREAT) database aims to collect as many examples as possible where city, state, and national leaders are making COVID-19 recovery plans in ways that could also produce benefits in racial, gender, and economic equity and in climate change mitigation and resilience. It is being maintained by the multisolving team at Climate Interactive, including Dr. Elizabeth Sawin and Cassandra Ceballos.

"Around the world, people are innovating in ways that improve health and protect the climate, often while saving money. What can we learn from these projects, and how can we create more of them? "

"As the more immediate effects of global climate change are being felt around the world, people are developing ways to increase resilience and adaptation that also bring other benefits, including climate change mitigation. "