Social and ecological solutions
The best way to counter to climate anxiety – or even climate panic! – is to check out and use some of the practical solutions that can make a difference in our everyday lives. Below are just a few of the many amazing websites dedicated to such solutions.
But we have also included solutions that focus on new legal and economic models, as well as organisations that are fighting for and enabling true democracy around the world. Enjoy!
#International
- Anthropocene Magazine: nonprofit journalism dedicated to state-of-the-art climate solutions for creating a Human Age we actually want to live in
- Balanced Economy Project: a global organisation aiming to hold powerful corporations to account (anti-monopoly, pro-democracy)
- ClimateVoice: leveraging climate-positive business to win key policy battles by running briefings and campaigns
- Club of Rome: global equity for a peaceful, healthy planet – a platform of thought leaders addressing global challenges through systems thinking
- The Conscious Food Systems Alliance (CoFSA): convened by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), as a movement of food, agriculture, and consciousness practitioners united around a common goal – to support people from across food and agriculture systems to cultivate the inner capacities that activate systemic change and regeneration
- Degrowth.info: an international political collective seeking to nurture worlds based on collectivity, care and liberation within ecological boundaries, and dismantle capitalist, colonial and patriarchal structures of domination that destroy life
- Earth4All: an international initiative seeking to drive the shift to a new economic paradigm that puts people and planet first
- Forum for the Future: a leading international sustainability organisation running out of offices in the UK, US, India and Singapore, seeking to transform food, energy and business for a just and regenerative future
- Friends of the Earth International: the world’s largest grassroots environmental federation with more than 70 national member groups and a vision of a peaceful and sustainable world based on societies living in harmony with nature
- Gaia Foundation: a small, international organisation with 35 years’ experience accompanying partners, communities and movements around the world to revive and protect bio-cultural diversity
- Greenpeace International: a global network of independent campaigning organisations using peaceful protest and creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems and promote solutions for a green, just, and joyful future
- International Advisory Council on Global Bioeconomy (IACGB), aiming to optimise the production, utilisation, conservation and regeneration of biological resources
- International Degrowth Network: a global community of individuals, organisations, and degrowth allies committed to creating an equitable and sustainable world for all generations, building connections across borders while providing a collaborative space to develop alternative pathways toward a better future
- More in Common: aiming to understand the forces driving us apart and find common ground to tackle our most pressing challenges
- Nature Metrics: turning nature risk into sustainable business opportunity
- Open Briefing: building resilience and protecting people, movements and communities
- Organization of Nature Evolutionaries (ONE): creating educational opportunities in listening to and building relationships with the Living Earth
- Oxfam International: fighting inequality in pursuit of a just, sustainable world with people and the planet at the centre and inclusive, accountable governance systems
- The Progress Playbook: an independent publication focusing on proven ideas for a better world
- Project Drawdown: the world’s leading guide to science-based climate solutions and publishers of Drawdown Explorer: the world’s ultimate climate solutions platform
- Protect Our Winters (POW International): dedicated to nurturing a sustainable, resilient planet
- Purpose Disruptors: transforming the advertising industry to work in harmony with our natural world
- The Regenerative Democracy Project: a collaboration between Feasta, the Environmental Forum, Cultivate (Sustainable Ireland Cooperative), Sustainable Projects Ireland (Cloughjordan Ecovillage), CELT and An Taisce, which aims to clarify and publicise environmental democracy’s governance role in a wellbeing economy that supports sustainable and inclusive wellbeing and intergenerational fairness
- Sentient Hubs: decision support platform for linking expert economic, environmental and social models
- Tax Justice Network proposes solutions to fiscal and financial shortcomings by taking back control from corporate giants and the superrich
- Tree Hugger: the only modern sustainability site that offers advice, clarity, and inspiration for both the eco-savvy and the green-living novice; one of the world’s largest information sites dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream
- Unthinkable: climate psychology, wisdom traditions, community-based support – connecting people to education, tools, and resources for strengthening psychological resilience amidst climate and ecological disruption, and hosting the Unthinkable Resource Hub: support for climate trauma and ecological distress
- We Feed the World: a storytelling project grown by The Gaia Foundation, pairing photographers and poets with inspiring custodians of soil and sea
- Wellbeing Economy Alliance: leading collaboration of organisations, movements and individuals working towards a new kind of economy focused on human and ecological wellbeing, with a list of things you can do to help build a more sustainable economy
- World Inequality Lab: empowering civil society, strengthening democracy, and hosting the Global Justice Project: setting out a new vision for global progress in the 21st century combining equality and planetary habitability
#Regional
#Europe
- Circular City Funding Guide: support for funding of circular projects in Europe
- Gaia-X Hub (Germany): a European initiative for an open, secure and transparent data infrastructure
- POPBACK Project: a project aiming to inform strategies to increase democratic resilience by studying the mechanisms “exclusionary populists” use to increase their power by undermining the Rule of Law in the areas of law, the economy, and the media
- Rights for Nature: European citizens’ initiative calling on the EU to recognise ecosystems as rights-holders rather than property
- We Move Europe: towards a better future in Europe
#Germany
- Crossiety: building online townhalls for communities (German-language website)
#Ireland
- Creative Climate Action: Creative Ireland’s call for creative projects, part of...
- Creative Ireland: an all-of-government culture and wellbeing programme
- feasta: the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability, envisioning a safe, just space for humanity within a resilient, healthy global ecosystem; based in Ireland
- National Economic and Social Council (NESC): Irish national advisory body to Irish government providing research, dialogue and advice on sustainable economic, social and environmental development, with lots of useful publications
- National Women‘s Council of Ireland (NCWi): pursuing the vision of a just, caring feminist Ireland
#United Kingdom
- The Conduit: a global community of changemakers working as members of a private members’ club in London, UK
- Lawyers for Nature: aiming to reimagine and, ultimately, reshape our legal system to one that protects the inherent rights of the natural world; also run The School of Nature Law
- Mill Media: independent journalism and publishing in the UK
- Tax Justice UK: fighting for fairer taxes and to reverse inequality in the UK
#North America
#Canada
- Watercolour Westport: sustainable building by Land Ark in Canada
#United States
- CalEarth: research, development and support for superadobe dwellings
- Environmental Integrity Project: US-based initiative aiming to protect public health and natural resources by holding polluters and government agencies to account under the law
- Run for Something: encouraging local candidates to run for state or local office (”we provide a safety net for new and exciting progressive leaders”)
#Australia
- Groundswell: by pooling donations, this nonprofit funds strategic advocacy that stops coal and gas, fast-tracks clean energy, and fights for climate justice