In the Green Mountain State, we’re uniting a mass movement for bold solutions that both lift up Vermonters and cut down carbon — to be a national and global example for solving the climate crisis. We believe that everyone has a right to a secure, healthy and ecologically sound environment. Read more [...]
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Abundant Beginnings
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Human Rights, Immigration, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Permaculture, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, Women Empowerment, YouthCategory: Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Human Rights, Immigration, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and PermacultureAbundant Beginnings is a community education project focused on growing children rooted in trust and blossoming in independence. We work to build respect and instill trust on multiple levels: the individual level, the community level, and the environmental level. We educate our children through a queer and feminist theory lens. Read more [...]
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Achieva Climbing
Bioregion: CA: South BayCategory: Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, With Internship Opportunity, With Volunteer Opportunity, YouthCategory: With Internship Opportunity, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, Youth, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and With Volunteer OpportunityOur vision, mission and goal is to build climbing walls in inner city schools, providing at- risk youth, the opportunity to learn about healthy alternatives to obesity and gang violence. ACHIEVA CLIMBING is the brain child of Chris Bellizzi, whose exploits in the climbing world are well known and documented. Chris Read more [...]
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Acterra
Category: Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Online Resources, Transportation, Water, Zero WasteCategory: Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Transportation, Water, Zero Waste, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and Online ResourcesActerra is a environmental non-profit that brings people together to create local solutions for a healthy planet. We have information and opportunities for everyone, from longtime environmentalists to people just starting to “green” their lives. Acterra now focuses its efforts on the most urgent issue of our time: climate change. Read more [...]
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Agile Rascal Bicycle Touring Theatre
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Event Spaces, Finance & Grant, Schools & Youth, Transportation, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Environment and Nature, Transportation, Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Event Spaces, Finance & Grant, and With Volunteer OpportunityAgile Rascal Bicycle Touring Theatre brings visceral, intellectual and socially engaged theatre to communities across the country, traveling by bicycle. Please support our effort to expand the possibilities of the way theater is made and shared by donating to our crowdfunding campaign!
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AgriLiving (EA) Ltd
Bioregion: WorldwideCategory: Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Farms, Finance & Grant, Food, Health and Wellness, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, WaterCategory: Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Water, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Farms, Finance & Grant, and Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers MarketsAgriLiving is a guild of commercial farmers who work on innovative methods to improve the life of the smallholder farmer. The main themes are commercial hi-tech agriculture, with excellent on-farm production coupled with quality, constant innovation in cultivation practices. These are derived from hard practical experience in Africa working with Read more [...]
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AgriLiving (EA) Ltd
Bioregion: WorldwideCategory: Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Farms, Finance & Grant, Food, Health and Wellness, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, WaterCategory: Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Water, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Farms, Finance & Grant, and Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers MarketsAgriLiving is a guild of commercial farmers who work on innovative methods to improve the life of the smallholder farmer. The main themes are commercial hi-tech agriculture, with excellent on-farm production coupled with quality, constant innovation in cultivation practices. These are derived from hard practical experience in Africa working with Read more [...]
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Alameda Backyard Growers
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Home/Neighborhood, Permaculture, Schools & Youth, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Home/Neighborhood, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Permaculture, and With Volunteer OpportunityAlameda Backyard Growers (ABG) is a network of gardeners in Alameda, California who grow their own food and donate extra fruit and vegetables to the Alameda Food Bank. Our goal is to reach out to the community to provide information about urban food growing. In the process, we get to Read more [...]
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Alemany Farm
Bioregion: CA: San FranciscoCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Farms, Food, Gardening, Inner Resilience, Permaculture, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, With Volunteer Opportunity, YouthCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Farms, Permaculture, and With Volunteer OpportunityAlemany Farms improves food security and reduces crime in San Francisco. Take Action! Everyone, young or old, experienced or still learning, is welcome to join our community workdays held from Noon to 5pm every 1st & 3rd Sunday of the month and the Saturdays in-between, plus every Monday afternoon from 1:00-5:00. New volunteers are Read more [...]
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All of Us or None
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Inner Resilience, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and With Volunteer OpportunityAll of Us or None (project of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children) is a grassroots civil and human rights organization fighting for the rights of formerly- and currently- incarcerated people and our families. We are fighting against the discrimination that people face every day because of arrest or conviction history. Read more [...]
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American Herbalist’s Guild
Bioregion: All United StatesThe shared vision of an herbalist guild was first verbalized in the mountains of Breitenbush, Oregon, where each year a large group of professional herbalists from all parts of the nation gathered to teach, walk together in ancient forests, soak in mineral-rich hot springs and discuss issues important to herbalism. Read more [...]
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Anam Earth Center for Sustainability & Culture
Bioregion: NY: Hudson-MohawkCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Leadership, Schools & Youth, Water, YouthCategory: Environment and Nature, Leadership, Water, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and Schools & YouthAnam Earth Center for Sustainability & Culture “preparing new generations for a 21st century planet” The Anam Earth Center for Sustainability and Culture is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit youth and environment organization to promote the transition toward sustainable communities. Sustainability includes ecological, socio-cultural, governance and economic aspects, and especially includes work with the Read more [...]
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Ashby Community Garden
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Event Spaces, Food, Gardening, Permaculture, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, The NorCal Community Resilience Network,Category: Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, Event Spaces, and PermacultureAshby Community Garden is a collectively run garden located on the 1300 block of Ashby Ave, in South Berkeley, is where we raise food and share our knowledge of urban farming. The Ashby Community Garden was founded in 2004 on a privately-owned empty lot in South Berkeley. Today there is Read more [...]
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Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Energy, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Human Rights, Racial Justice, Resistance, Transportation, Women EmpowermentCategory: Economic Injustice, Energy, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Human Rights, Resistance, Racial Justice, Transportation, Women Empowerment, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsAPEN seeks to empower low-income Asian Pacific Islander (API) communities to achieve environmental and social justice. APEN believes that the environment includes everything around us: where we live, work and play. And we strive to build grassroots organizations that will improve the health, well-being and political strength of our communities. Read more [...]
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Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Housing and Land, Racial Justice, Water, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Housing and Land, Racial Justice, Water, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and With Volunteer OpportunityAPEN currently works on three levels: Direct Organizing in local communities Building a Network of Asian-Pacific Islander organizations Working in multiracial Alliances to affect regional and national social change. Our Mission and Vision All people have a right to a clean and healthy environment in which their communities can live, Read more [...]
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Awaken Tours and Training of Onaway Michigan
Bioregion: Great Lakes: MichiganWhat can a Certified Permaculture Designer do? Design Regenerative Homesteads and Farms that reduce the cost of living, enhances the environment, improves economic security, add additional income sources, increase yield, improve operation efficiency while benefiting communities. A few seats left for the 2017 Permaculture Design Course in Onaway, Michigan.
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Awareness School
Bioregion: WA: Puget SoundA school that helps people live beyond their habitual, conditioned existence. We are are beginning to explore permaculture principles, aiming to incorporate them into our practice as we develop our retreat property.
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Barefoot Holisitc Healing
Bioregion: CA: San FranciscoI practice bodywork inspired by the styles of barefoot shiatsu, jin shin jitsu, medical qi gong and craniosacral. I combine the work with theraputic use of plant based medicines including chinese herbology, aromatherapy and fermented foods.
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Bay Area Green Tours
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Businesses, Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Home/Neighborhood, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, With Internship Opportunity, With Volunteer Opportunity, Zero WasteCategory: With Internship Opportunity, Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Home/Neighborhood, Zero Waste, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and With Volunteer OpportunityBay Area Green Tours (BAGT) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to connecting Bay Area adults and youth with the change makers and thought leaders of the emerging local green economy. We serve as a conduit to solutions for a more sustainable future and a bridge from the past to all Read more [...]
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Bay Area Nonviolent Communication (BayNVC)
Bioregion: CA: East BayImagine a world where everyone’s needs matter and people have the skills to make peace. Personal Growth: We support individuals and families in experiencing inner peace, greater choice, integrity, and satisfying relationships by offering classes, individual coaching, and intensive programs. We work in-person as well as through phone and Skype. Leadership Read more [...]
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Bay Area Rising
Category: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, With Volunteer Opportunity, Women EmpowermentCategory: Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and With Volunteer OpportunityAbout Bay Area Rising is at the intersection of art, spirituality, and activism! Who We Are Bay Area Rising is a powerful feminist network of artists, spiritual leaders, and activists dedicated to ending violence against women and girls. BAR was formed in 2012 as a call to action from VDay’s One Read more [...]
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Bay Area SunShares
Category: EnergyCategory: EnergyWe are happy to announce that the SunShares Solar Contract Signing Deadline has been extended to Friday, December 16th!! Thirty-seven cities and major employers have joined forces this summer to spread clean energy and fight climate change by securing group discounts on solar and zero emission vehicles for residents of Read more [...]
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Bay Area Wilderness Training – Oakland
Category: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Leadership, Schools & Youth, With Internship Opportunity, With Volunteer Opportunity, YouthCategory: With Internship Opportunity, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Leadership, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and With Volunteer OpportunityBay Area Wilderness Training (BAWT) is a nonprofit that strives to help youth of color and low income youth get outdoors by supporting the people who work with them. We provide inexpensive Leadership Training courses to give educators and youth workers the confidence to take groups of youth on backpacking, camping, Read more [...]
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Bay Area Wilderness Training – Oakland
Category: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Leadership, Schools & Youth, With Internship Opportunity, With Volunteer Opportunity, YouthCategory: With Internship Opportunity, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Leadership, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and With Volunteer OpportunityBay Area Wilderness Training (BAWT) is a nonprofit that strives to help youth of color and low income youth get outdoors by supporting the people who work with them. We provide inexpensive Leadership Training courses to give educators and youth workers the confidence to take groups of youth on backpacking, camping, Read more [...]
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Bay Bucks
Category: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Home/Neighborhood, Jobs & Employment, Schools & Youth, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Home/Neighborhood, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Jobs & Employment, and With Volunteer OpportunityTake Action! The era of waiting for someone else to solve our problems is over. This is the age when we come together and help ourselves. The true path towards racial and gender equality is not pleading for tolerance, but economic empowerment. When the people own and support our own Read more [...]
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Bay Maples – Wild California Gardens
Bioregion: CA: Bay Area Peninsula, CA: East Bay, CA: San Francisco, CA: Santa Cruz/Monterey, CA: South BayCategory: Businesses, Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Event Spaces, Home/Neighborhood, Jobs & Employment, Permaculture, WaterCategory: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Home/Neighborhood, Water, Businesses, Event Spaces, Jobs & Employment, and PermacultureBay Maples specializes in drought tolerant, edible and native gardens using alternative water systems. We work with clients for the design, installation and maintenance. We are certified greywater and rain-water catchment system installers. Recent winner of the Silicon Valley Water Conservation Awards. Whenever possible, we find ways to reuse material Read more [...]
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Bend the Arc Bay Area
Bend the Arc Bay Area provides opportunities for Jews in the San Francisco region to work together to create more economic and social justice, locally and nationally. We envision a Bay Area that leads the nation in access to quality education, living wage jobs, sustainable development, and a vibrant democratic Read more [...]
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Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative (BERC)
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Energy, Environment and Nature, Youth, Schools & Youth, and Finance & GrantThe Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative (BERC) is a multidisciplinary network of UC Berkeley students, alumni, faculty, industry professionals, and advisers who seek to turn world-leading research into world-changing solutions by tackling tough and timely energy and environmental challenges. More specifically, BERC’s mission is to connect, educate, and engage its Read more [...]
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Berrett-Koehler Foundation
Category: The NorCal Community Resilience NetworkThe Berrett-Koehler Foundation supports young leaders in creating collaborative environments, authentic dialogue, and whole systems change that shifts the underlying beliefs, practices, and structures that keep generating the same cycles of problems. The BK Foundation is designed to help thought leaders, including the authors of groundbreaking books that advance these Read more [...]
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BioFuel Oasis
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Businesses, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Schools & Youth, Transportation, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Transportation, Businesses, Schools & Youth, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, and With Volunteer OpportunityBerkeley Station Hours Monday-Saturday: 11am-7pm Sunday: Noon-4pm We sell: 20% local recycled biodiesel/80% renewable diesel, $3.79/gallon, All made from recycled vegetable oil and petroleum-free. BioFuel Oasis was founded in 2003 to provide greater access to biodiesel, a renewable fuel that reduces harmful tailpipe emissions. We are a worker-owned & Read more [...]
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Bioneers
Bioregion: CA: North BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Inner Resilience, Jobs & Employment, Permaculture, Water, Women Empowerment, YouthCategory: Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Inner Resilience, Water, Women Empowerment, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Jobs & Employment, and PermacultureBioneers, under its parent foundation, Collective Heritage Institute, is a nonprofit organization based in New Mexico and California that promotes practical and innovative solutions to global environmental and bio-cultural challenges. The organization operates within a philosophy that recognizes and cultivates the value and wisdom of the natural world. Official Programs Read more [...]
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Black Permaculture Network
Bioregion: All United StatesBlack Permaculture Network is a network of Afro-indigenous people who have come together through the practices of permaculture, agroecology, natural living and care of the earth. We recognize and honor the ancestral and historical knowledge that each of these land care practices embrace and strive to broaden inter-cultural dialogue around natural Read more [...]
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Black Women’s Media and Wellness Project
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Media, Women EmpowermentCategory: Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Women Empowerment, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and MediaThe Black Women’s Media Project now renamed the Black Women’s Media and Wellness Project provides leadership opportunities for women who participate in the Community Advisory Board. The quarterly community driven Be Still retreat promotes stress-reduction/relaxation and a healthy lifestyle even while living under oppressive situations. The Dynamic-Woman portion of the Read more [...]
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Bloom Network
Bioregion: WorldwideCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Media, Schools & Youth, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Women EmpowermentCategory: Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Women Empowerment, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and MediaBloom Network is a global collective of local chapter networks which produce events and media about regenerative culture. We connect the dots between regenerative agriculture, appropriate technology, social justice, community health and the arts. Events in person and online gather people to share tools and resources, as well as form Read more [...]
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Bone Valley Natural Botanical Society
Bioregion: FL: Central FloridaCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Human Rights, Zero WasteCategory: Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Human Rights, Zero Waste, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsThis group is devoted to a different, more conscious style of living. Chief topics of study are permaculture gardening, and medicinal herbalism. Other concerns are local foods & products, clean & ethical business practices, and of course eating and living as organically as possible. Lakeland Public Library 100 Lake Read more [...]
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Border Angels
Bioregion: Can't Find My BioregionBorder Angels consists of extraordinary volunteers who want to stop unnecessary deaths of individuals traveling through the Imperial Valley desert areas and the mountain areas surrounding San Diego County, as well as the areas located around the United States and Mexican border. The high percentage of unnecessary deaths have been Read more [...]
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Bread and Roses Collaborative
Bioregion: CascadiaCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Arts & Culture, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Event Spaces, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Permaculture, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Arts & Culture, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Event Spaces, Permaculture, and With Volunteer OpportunityBread and Roses Collaborative is a membership association of skilled creatives, care workers, and hospitality professionals. We offer hosting, facilitation, arts and other staffing services for your special event, business retreat or gathering at the location of your choosing. We also welcome you to join us on the land we Read more [...]
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Breakthrough Communities
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Racial Justice, The NorCal Community Resilience Network,Category: Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Environment and Nature, Racial Justice, and Community & Grassroots Organizations -
Brown Girl Surf
Bioregion: CA: Bay Area Peninsula, CA: East Bay, CA: San Francisco, CA: Santa Cruz/Monterey, CA: South BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, Water, Women Empowerment, YouthCategory: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, Water, Women Empowerment, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and Schools & YouthBrown Girl Surf works to build a more diverse, environmentally reverent, and joyful women’s surf culture by increasing access to surfing, cultivating community, amplifying the voices of women of color surfers, and taking care of the earth. OUR VALUES ARE EXPRESSED THROUGH OUR BROWN GIRL SURF WOMANIFESTO: PLAY – We play Read more [...]
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Canopy
Bioregion: CA: South BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Home/Neighborhood, Schools & Youth, Water, YouthCategory: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Home/Neighborhood, Water, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and Schools & YouthUrban trees and nature have a profound impact on people’s health, wellbeing, and quality of life. CANOPY envisions a day when every resident of the Mid-Peninsula can walk, play, and thrive under the shade of healthy trees. To bring this vision to life, we plant and care for trees where Read more [...]
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Cascadia Edible Landscapes Division of Edible Landscapes Inc
Bioregion: CascadiaCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Arts & Culture, Businesses, Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Energy, Environment and Nature, Event Spaces, Farms, Finance & Grant, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Immigration, Inner Resilience, Jobs & Employment, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Mass incarceration, Media, Online Resources, Permaculture, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, Transition US, Water, With Internship Opportunity, With Volunteer Opportunity, Women Empowerment, Youth, Zero WasteCategory: With Internship Opportunity, Affiliated with, Transition US, **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Economic Injustice, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Immigration, Inner Resilience, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, Water, Women Empowerment, Youth, Zero Waste, Arts & Culture, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Event Spaces, Farms, Finance & Grant, Jobs & Employment, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Media, Online Resources, Permaculture, and With Volunteer OpportunityOur Mission We are a design-build edible landscape and neighborhood company that creates customized solutions for diverse clientele. We assist individuals, communities, governments and developers transform spaces into places of food production and community growth. Vision: We see a bio-region full of empowered Edible Neighborhoods free from agribusiness and other Read more [...]
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Center for Ecoliteracy
Bioregion: CA: East BayThe Center for Ecoliteracy promotes ecological education. We recognize that students need to experience and understand how nature sustains life and how to live accordingly. We encourage schools to teach and model sustainable practices. The Center for Ecoliteracy offers books; teaching guides; professional development seminars; a sustainability leadership academy; keynote Read more [...]
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Center for Environmental Health
Bioregion: CA: East BayThe Center for Environmental Health (CEH) is an American non-profit organization (501(c)(3)) organization working to protect children and families from harmful chemicals in air, food, water and in everyday products. Its vision and mission are “(A) world where everyone lives, works, learns and plays in a healthy environment; we protect Read more [...]
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Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA)
Category: Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Schools & Youth,Category: Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Schools & Youth, and Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers MarketsCUESA (Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture) is dedicated to cultivating a sustainable food system through the operation of farmers markets and educational programs. CUESA is a tax-exempt 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 1994 to educate urban consumers about sustainable agriculture and to create links between urban dwellers and local farmers. Read more [...]
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Centro Legal de la Raza
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Immigration, Jobs & Employment, Leadership, Policy & Legal Assistance, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, With Volunteer Opportunity, YouthCategory: Immigration, Leadership, Racial Justice, Youth, Schools & Youth, Jobs & Employment, Policy & Legal Assistance, and With Volunteer OpportunityFounded in 1969, Centro Legal de la Raza is a comprehensive legal services agency protecting and advancing the rights of immigrant, low-income, and Latino communities through bilingual legal representation, education, and advocacy. By combining quality legal services with know-your-rights education and youth development, Centro Legal promotes access to justice for Read more [...]
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Changing Gears Bike Shop
Bioregion: CA: East BayChanging Gears is a full-service nonprofit bike shop which offers professional repairs, new & used bikes/parts sales, job training, volunteer/community service opportunities, and DIY repair stands open to the public. The shop’s mission is to operate a bicycle-based social enterprise that benefits the under-served people of our local area. Changing Read more [...]
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Chickadee Gardens
Bioregion: All United StatesCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Arts & Culture, Businesses, Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Farms, Finance & Grant, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Leadership, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Permaculture, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, Water, With Internship Opportunity, With Volunteer Opportunity, Zero WasteCategory: With Internship Opportunity, **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Leadership, Racial Justice, Water, Zero Waste, Arts & Culture, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Farms, Finance & Grant, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Permaculture, and With Volunteer OpportunityChickadee Gardens Outreach Incorporated: A note from our Farm Manager: We are a brand new NFP on the Far Eastside of Indianapolis. We are designing and implementing permaculture designs currently. We have completed our demonstration garden and are preparing to host 150 teen interns in the fall with no budget Read more [...]
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Citizen’s Climate Lobby
Bioregion: All United StatesCategory: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Leadership, Policy & Legal Assistance, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Leadership, Policy & Legal Assistance, and With Volunteer OpportunityMelting icecaps. Powerful storms. A gridlocked congress. Sometimes it can seem like ordinary people can’t make any difference. Citizens’ Climate Education believes that we can. At Citizens’ Climate Education (CCE), we give ordinary citizens the power to educate political leaders, the media, and the general public about climate change solutions. Read more [...]
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City of Dreams
Bioregion: CA: San FranciscoCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, YouthCategory: Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, Youth, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsCity of Dreams is dedicated to helping youth living in low-income housing build brighter futures through mentorship and youth development. What sets our program apart is its ability to expand kids’ perspectives and empower them to be the architects of their own future. We work to expand their perspectives and Read more [...]
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City Slickers Farm
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Farms, Food, Gardening, Home/Neighborhood, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Home/Neighborhood, Racial Justice, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Farms, and With Volunteer OpportunityCity Slicker Farms empowers West Oakland community members to meet the basic need for healthy food for themselves and their families by creating organic, sustainable, and high-yield urban farms and backyard gardens. These spaces provide healthy, affordable food and improve the environment. We seek to serve all West Oakland residents, prioritizing Read more [...]
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Climate Action Now!
Bioregion: CA: San FranciscoCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Food, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, With Volunteer Opportunity, YouthCategory: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Food, Racial Justice, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and With Volunteer OpportunityClimate Action Now! (CAN!) teaches young people and adults about climate change by removing cement to build organic gardens in San Francisco, California. Strategic Educational Goals: Climate Action Now!’s primary goal is to empower young people to regularly and routinely make choices that support a healthy climate. Through CAN!’s educational Read more [...]
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Climate Compassion
Category: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, The NorCal Community Resilience Network,Category: Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsWhat is Climate Compassion? Climate Compassion is a way of responding to the socioecological challenges of our time with compassionate action. Through community events, workshops and trainings, Climate Compassion inspires widening circles of compassionate action, through self-compassion to taking action for the benefit of our human family and the web Read more [...]
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Climate Workers
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Human Rights,Category: Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Human Rights, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsClimate Workers is building a worker-led, grassroots labor movement for climate justice. Through multilingual popular education, we connect the lived experiences of thousands of union members with the roots, scale, and urgency of the climate crisis. Workers engage in hands-on projects to foster climate resilience; mobilize their local and national Read more [...]
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CLOSED – Common Ground Garden
Bioregion: CA: South BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Event Spaces, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, With Volunteer Opportunity, YouthCategory: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Racial Justice, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Event Spaces, and With Volunteer OpportunityWe are sad to say that Common Ground Garden is CLOSED. 🙁 Common Ground Garden is a project of Ecology Action: We teach people worldwide to better feed themselves and the soil using GROW BIOINTENSIVE farming method both locally and internationally. Classes in organic gardening and sustainable living Youth Education programs for Read more [...]
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Common Vision
Bioregion: CA: Bay Area Peninsula, CA: East Bay, CA: Lake County, CA: Lake Tahoe, CA: Napa/Sonoma, CA: North BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Farms, Food, Permaculture, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, YouthCategory: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Food, Racial Justice, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Farms, and PermacultureTake Action! JOIN COMMON VISION’S 2017 SPRING TOUR to plant school orchards by making art and inspiring kids! About We plant school orchards and teach permaculture courses. Dig it? check us out! Mission Common Vision is creating a Healthy and Just Society by growing fruit tree orchards in low-income schools. Read more [...]
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Cool Effect
Bioregion: CA: North BayCategory: Businesses, Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Media, Online Resources,Category: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Media, and Online ResourcesCool Effect is a San Francisco Bay Area 501(c)(3) nonprofit that allows individuals and organizations to create a tangible impact on climate change through a digital platform, providing consistent funding to the highest-quality carbon reducing projects around the world. It provides highly-vetted offsets and follows up on the impact of each Read more [...]
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Covid Response Network
Bioregion: CA: Mendocino CoastCategory:The mission of the Covid Response Network is to do what we can as concerned people to make a broad, deep, and effective response to the threats of COVID-19. Our first pilot region is the Mendocino Coast of California. We are considering other pilot regions. After we address the Covid Read more [...]
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Creative Liberation Network
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Interfaith, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Media, Racial Justice, Resistance, Schools & Youth, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, With Internship Opportunity, With Volunteer Opportunity, YouthCategory: With Internship Opportunity, Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Interfaith, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Resistance, Racial Justice, Youth, Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Media, and With Volunteer OpportunityThe Creative Liberation Network (CLN) is a community of facilitators, artists, and activists creating alternative educational experiences through collaborative projects. CLN’s projects (i.e. workshops, online galleries, interactive liberation art, books, music, podcast, community action, organizational and personal consulting, etc.) provide a synthesis of cross cultural information to help people get clear Read more [...]
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Cypress Mandela Training Center
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Economic Injustice, Energy, Home/Neighborhood, Jobs & Employment, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice,Category: Economic Injustice, Energy, Home/Neighborhood, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, and Jobs & EmploymentLocated in Oakland, a city of approximately 400,000 with one of the most ethnically diverse populations in the United States, the Cypress Mandela Training Center, Inc. offers a 16-week pre-apprenticeship program for Bay Area men and women over 18 years old. Training is both hands-on and in the classroom and Read more [...]
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Daily Acts
Bioregion: CA: Napa/SonomaCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Online Resources, Permaculture, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Transition US, With Volunteer Opportunity, Women EmpowermentCategory: Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Transition US, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Women Empowerment, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Online Resources, Permaculture, and With Volunteer OpportunityDaily Acts is a sustainability non-profit that inspires action to create more nourishing, connected, and resilient communities. Grounded in the core belief that every choice you make matters, we take a heart-centered approach to personal and community transformation. Our education programs, action campaigns, and strategic alliances connect people to each Read more [...]
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David Brower Center
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Arts & Culture, Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Event Spaces, Schools & Youth,Category: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and Event SpacesWe are a home for the environmental movement. The David Brower Center provides a home for the environmental movement by advocating for the beauty, diversity and ecological integrity of Earth. The Brower Center accomplishes this mission through a distinctive combination of permanent infrastructure and ongoing programs in a unique institution Read more [...]
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Destiny Arts Center
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, YouthCategory: Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, Youth, Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and Schools & YouthMission and Vision our mission Destiny Arts Center exists to end isolation, prejudice and violence in the lives of young people. We accomplish our mission by: Offering skills training to youth, ages 3-18, through after-school, weekend and summer programs in the performing and martial arts, and violence prevention at our Read more [...]
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Doshe Healing Arts
Bioregion: CA: East BayDoshe Healing Arts has been providing sound practices and a 21st century approach to Self-defense in the community for over 10 years. At Doshe we are committed to creating safe spaces, raising awareness, supporting authentic expression and building community for the wellness and safety of women, girls, queer, and transgender Read more [...]
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Earth Activist Training
Bioregion: CA: North BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Earth Activist Training, Environment and Nature, Permaculture, The NorCal Community Resilience Network,Category: Affiliated with, Earth Activist Training, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, and PermacultureAbout Earth Activist Training (EAT) teaches permaculture design with a grounding in spirit and a focus on organizing and activism. We link those who are creating positive alternatives for the future with those who are actively working for political change. EAT has a special interest in what is now being called Read more [...]
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Earth Team
Bioregion: CA: East BayEarthTeam empowers teens to become lifelong environmental stewards through experiential education, skills development, and the building of community connections. EarthTeam programs empower youth to become lifelong environmental stewards. Students implement action projects that provide active learning about environmental science. They engage in peer-to-peer education activities, sharing their school-based service-learning projects Read more [...]
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East Bay Cohousing
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Event Spaces, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, The NorCal Community Resilience Network,Category: Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and Event SpacesEast Bay Cohousing is for people interested in creating intentional communities. We are a big tent for all manner of self-governing resident managed housing communities, such as housing cooperatives & collective houses, co-housing neighborhoods & eco-villages, co-living leaseholds and income sharing collectives, as well as community land trusts, cooperative loan Read more [...]
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East Bay Community Space
Bioregion: CA: East BayEBCS is available for rent for public and private events, both during the day and evening. Rentals include both the main Space (oak floor, roughly 40 x 40), the mezzanine (carpeted, roughly 30 x 12), and a classroom / meeting room (roughly 15 x 18). The space has 6 gender Read more [...]
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East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative, Inc (EB PREC)
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, With Internship Opportunity, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: With Internship Opportunity, **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Economic Injustice, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and With Volunteer OpportunityWe are a start-up cooperative organization working throughout the East Bay area of Northern, CA with a focus on Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. This initiative seeks to make land and housing more accessible to community members, especially those that have been historically disenfranchised, in the face of rampant speculation and Read more [...]
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East Oakland Collective
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Economic Injustice, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and With Volunteer OpportunityThe East Oakland Collective (EOC) is a member-based community organizing group invested in serving the communities of deep East Oakland by working towards racial and economic equity. With programming in economic development, civic engagement and leadership, homeless services and solutions, we help amplify underserved communities from the ground up. We Read more [...]
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East Side Arts Alliance
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Event Spaces, Home/Neighborhood, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, Women Empowerment, YouthCategory: Home/Neighborhood, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, Youth, Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and Event SpacesThe East Side Arts Alliance & Cultural Center presents free youth art classes, cultural programming, public art projects, ongoing gallery exhibitions, community town halls, and the annual Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival. We work with numerous organizations and community groups to present hundreds of events every year.
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Ecological Farming Association
Category: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Farms, Food,Category: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Food, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and FarmsAbout the Ecological Farming Association We strive to support farmers and those who support them. The EcoFarm Conference and education programs have reached more than 75,000 participants during 33 years. Our programs bring together a diversity of stakeholders in food production to promote grassroots leadership and regional solutions to decrease Read more [...]
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Ecology Center
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Home/Neighborhood, Jobs & Employment, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Schools & Youth, Transportation, Water, With Volunteer Opportunity, Youth, Zero WasteCategory: Carbon Removal, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Home/Neighborhood, Transportation, Water, Youth, Zero Waste, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Jobs & Employment, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, and With Volunteer OpportunityFounded in 1969, the Ecology Center is a nonprofit organization located in Berkeley, California that focuses on improving the health and the environmental impacts of urban residents. We address critical issues through a model of education, demonstration, replication, and legislation. We envision a world where human activity nurtures the ecosystems Read more [...]
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Emeryville Center Of Community Life
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Event Spaces, Health and Wellness, Schools & Youth, YouthCategory: Health and Wellness, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and Event SpacesEmeryville’s school district has had its troubles in the past and is dealing with plenty of challenges today. In September 2016, it celebrated the completion of a project it hopes will make for a better future. Officials joined parents and students at the opening of the Emeryville Center for Community Read more [...]
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Engineers for a Sustainable World: UC Berkeley Chapter
Bioregion: CA: East BayEngineers for a Sustainable World is a national non-profit network of 50 collegiate chapters, all dedicated to building a better and more sustainable world. Engineers for a Sustainable World at UC Berkeley works on projects to help make UC Berkeley and our local community more sustainable and resilient, from building Read more [...]
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Environmental Volunteers’ EcoCenter
About Us Environmental Volunteers promotes the understanding of and responsibility for the environment through hands-on science education. We train volunteers to teach natural science in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties through: SCHOOL PROGRAMS Each year, our volunteers teach 10,000 children through over 500 classroom programs and 125 field trips. Read more [...]
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Faith Alliance for a Moral Economy (FAME)
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Immigration, Interfaith, Oakland Peace Center, Racial Justice, Resistance,Category: Affiliated with, Oakland Peace Center, Environment and Nature, Immigration, Interfaith, Resistance, Racial Justice, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsFAME is a network of people of people of faith who support low wage and immigrant workers who are organizing for respect, dignity and living-wage jobs. To listen to the Hope from the Hood podcast about Faith Alliance for a Moral Economy, click HERE. Excerpt from Hope from the Hood Read more [...]
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Farmers Guild
An agricultural community founded by farmers for farmers who collaborate toward the economic viability of local agriculture as well as the social networks necessary to attract, cultivate and sustain a new generation ready to work the land while building a healthier food system. MISSION To establish an integrated network of Read more [...]
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Farms to Grow
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Finance & Grant, Food, Inner Resilience, Jobs & Employment, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, With Volunteer Opportunity, Women Empowerment, YouthCategory: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Food, Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Finance & Grant, Jobs & Employment, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, and With Volunteer OpportunityFARMS TO GROW, INC is a 501(c)(3) non profit organization dedicated to working with Black farmers and underserved sustainable farmers around the country. Farms To Grow, Inc. is committed to sustainable farming and innovative agriculture practices which preserve the cultural and biological diversity, the agroecological balance of the local environment. Read more [...]
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Fellowship for Intentional Community
Bioregion: All United StatesCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, YouthCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, Youth, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsVision: We believe that community is an essential building block for creating a cooperative and sustainable world. The structures and wisdom of community are both a means and an end to meeting the needs of all people and the planet, and must be available, understood, appreciated, and developed. We envision Read more [...]
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Fibershed
Bioregion: CA: Bay Area Peninsula, CA: East Bay, CA: Lake County, CA: Lake Tahoe, CA: Napa/Sonoma, CA: North Bay, CA: North Coast, CA: San Francisco, CA: Santa Cruz/Monterey, CA: South BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Schools & Youth,Category: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and Schools & YouthThe Fibershed Producer Program is a membership based network of farmers, ranchers, designers, sewers, weavers, knitters, felters, spinners, mill owners and natural dyers living and working within nineteen counties in the North and Central regions of California. Our Mission & Vision Fibershed develops regional and regenerative fiber systems on behalf of Read more [...]
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Food & Water Watch
Bioregion: All United StatesCategory: Energy, Environment and Nature, Leadership, Oakland Peace Center, Racial Justice, Resistance, Water, With Internship Opportunity, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: With Internship Opportunity, Affiliated with, Oakland Peace Center, Energy, Environment and Nature, Leadership, Resistance, Racial Justice, Water, and With Volunteer OpportunityOur Mission Food & Water Watch champions healthy food and clean water for all. We stand up to corporations that put profits before people, and advocate for a democracy that improves people’s lives and protects our environment. Our Vision We are working to create a healthy future for our families Read more [...]
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Food Craft Institute
Bioregion: CA: East BayFood Craft Institute (FCI), is a non-profit that teaches traditional skills and techniques required to make hand-crafted, artisanal foods, combined with business skill training, so graduates can start their own artisanal food business. Food Craft Institute seeks to reinvigorate the creation and success of artisan food craft business in the Read more [...]
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Food First
Category: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Immigration, Racial Justice, Resistance, Women EmpowermentCategory: Carbon Removal, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Immigration, Resistance, Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsThe mission of the Institute for Food and Development Policy, better known as Food First, is to end the injustices that cause hunger. Food First envisions a world in which all people have access to healthy, ecologically produced, and culturally appropriate food. After 40 years of analysis of the global Read more [...]
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Forest Center – Personal Growth for a Flourishing Planet
Bioregion: FL: Central FloridaCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Permaculture,Category: Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and PermacultureForest Center offers workshops to support forms of inner work that uphold the well-being of self, culture and nature as interconnected aspects of one whole – unique work that is sensitive to the needs of these unsettling times.
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Freedom Farmers Market
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Food, Health and Wellness, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Racial Justice,Category: Food, Health and Wellness, Racial Justice, Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers MarketsOur mission is to bring traditional legacy foods from Black farmers and other underserved farmers to the Bay Area with the goal of making regionally fresh organic or pesticide free produce and nutritional information accessible in areas devoid of supermarkets. In 2013, at the invitation of the restaurant owner of Read more [...]
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Friends of Five Creeks
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Schools & Youth, Water, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Environment and Nature, Water, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and With Volunteer OpportunityFriends of Five Creeks is an all-volunteer watershed-restoration group working on the east side of San Francisco Bay, California, USA. We believe that the health of creeks and watersheds supports the health of urban environments. Friends of Five Creeks mobilizes volunteers of all ages to restore, maintain, and enjoy the Read more [...]
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Front Porch Radio with Julie Wilder
Bioregion: FL: Central FloridaCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Arts & Culture, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Home/Neighborhood, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Media, Racial Justice, Resistance, Water, Women Empowerment, YouthCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Home/Neighborhood, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Resistance, Racial Justice, Water, Women Empowerment, Youth, Arts & Culture, and MediaFront Porch Radio is an award-winning talk variety show which spotlights people and issues related to localism, sustainability and equality while helping to celebrate and foster a vibrant & people empowered Central Florida community. The conversational style show airs every Wednesday from 4pm to 5pm EST on 91.5 FM in the Read more [...]
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Full Belly Farm
Bioregion: CA: North BayFull Belly Farm is a 350-acre certified organic farm located in the beautiful Capay Valley of Northern California, north of Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay area. Full Belly has been farmed using organic practices since 1985 and is certified by California Certified Organic Farmers. The farm owners are Andrew Read more [...]
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Full Circle Fund
Category: Carbon Removal, Energy, Environment and Nature, Finance & Grant, Food, Health and Wellness, Leadership, Racial Justice, Reproductive Freedom, Transportation, Water, Women Empowerment, Youth, Zero WasteCategory: Carbon Removal, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Leadership, Reproductive Freedom, Racial Justice, Transportation, Water, Women Empowerment, Youth, Zero Waste, and Finance & GrantFull Circle Fund is an active network of professionals who leverage their time, talent and connections to help nonprofit organizations launch new initiatives, make a greater impact and accelerate positive change in our community. We’re made up of incredibly passionate, motivated and talented people who want to play a more Read more [...]
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Further with Food
Bioregion: WorldwideFurther With Food provides comprehensive information about food loss and waste in the United States and about solutions dedicated to reducing it. This virtual resource center offers a broad spectrum of users – such as businesses, government entities, investors, NGOs, academics, and individuals —a platform to find and share information Read more [...]
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Future Justice Fund
Bioregion: All United StatesWe’re a new grantmaking organization founded by Kaitlyn & Mike Krieger in December 2015. We believe all people deserve a free, vibrant, and productive life, and we support exceptional organizations working towards this vision. We’re striving to give as effectively as we can – there’s a steep learning curve ahead. We Read more [...]
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Gilroy Demonstration Garden
Bioregion: CA: South BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Home/Neighborhood,Category: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Home/Neighborhood, and Community & Grassroots Organizations“We connect residents to healthy food, gardening, and one another, by providing educational and family-friendly programs in our ¾ acre community garden.” We are a non-profit community garden that is open to the public. We are different than other community garden models because we do not offer individual plots. Many Read more [...]
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Golden Rocks Permaculture Farm
Bioregion: CA: Lake CountyCategory: Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Event Spaces, Farms, Food, Gardening, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Permaculture, With Internship Opportunity, With Volunteer Opportunity, Women Empowerment, Zero WasteCategory: With Internship Opportunity, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Women Empowerment, Zero Waste, Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Event Spaces, Farms, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Permaculture, and With Volunteer OpportunityMission: Connecting Earthlings with Earth Things! HERstory: Brenda founded Golden Rocks Permaculture Farm in November 2010 after falling in love with permaculture, gardening, and the beautiful skies of South Lake County. The farm specializes in fresh herbs, herbal tea blends and seasonal organic produce using poly-cropping, companion planting and bio-intensive Read more [...]
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Great Rivers and Lakes Permaculture Institute
Bioregion: Great Lakes: Illinois, Great Lakes: Indiana, Great Lakes: Michigan, Great Lakes: WisconsinGreat Rivers and Lakes Permaculture Institute is dedicated to promoting permaculture education, research, and mutual support throughout six states that span many of North America’s great rivers and lakes: Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Vision: We envision engaged and connected citizens creating a resilient bioregion by drawing the Read more [...]
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Green The Church
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Energy, Environment and Nature, Home/Neighborhood, Human Rights, Interfaith, Leadership,Category: Economic Injustice, Energy, Environment and Nature, Home/Neighborhood, Human Rights, Interfaith, Leadership, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsGreen The Church is a national organization that empowers people of all faiths to be leaders in caring for the Earth. We provide resources to educate, connect, and advocate for healthier communities. Green The Church engages congregations in the fight against climate change, and helps churches serve as centers of Read more [...]
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GreenTown Los Altos
Bioregion: CA: South BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Home/Neighborhood, Transportation, Water, With Internship Opportunity, With Volunteer Opportunity, Zero WasteCategory: With Internship Opportunity, Carbon Removal, Energy, Home/Neighborhood, Transportation, Water, Zero Waste, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and With Volunteer OpportunityMission To educate and inspire the people of Los Altos and Los Altos Hills to take action that will make our communities more environmentally healthy and vibrant today and for future generations. How we accomplish our mission We have four program areas: Water, Watts (energy), Waste and Walk or Wheel (WoW!). Read more [...]
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Greywater Action
Bioregion: CA: East BayWe are a collaborative group of educators, designers, builders, and artists who educate and empower people to build sustainable water culture and infrastructure. Our teaching tools include: Hands-on installation workshop (greywater, rainwater, composting toilet) Installer’s training for professionals Presentations on design and installation of greywater, rainwater, and composting toilets Interactive Read more [...]
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GRID Alternatives
Bioregion: WorldwideGRID Alternatives’ vision is a successful transition to clean, renewable energy that includes everyone. Our mission is to make renewable energy technology and job training accessible to underserved communities.