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A curated list of all things sustainable
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# About



A curated list of all things sustainable.



The list is divided into categories such as Books, Companies, Apps, Movies. There is no pre-established order of items in each category, the order is for contribution. If you want to contribute, please read the [guide](https://github.com/bizz84/Sustainable-Earth/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md).



#### Sustainable Earth is on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/SustainForEarth). Help spread the word. 😎🚀



# How to Use

Sustainable-Earth is an amazing list for people who want to live more sustainably or help make the world a better place.



- Ask for help on our [Twitter](https://twitter.com/SustainForEarth) or [Gitter Channel](https://gitter.im/SustainableEarth).

- Simply press command + F to search for a keyword

- Go through our *Content Menu*



# Content



- [About](#about)

- [How to Use](#how-to-use)

- [Disclaimer](#disclaimer)

- [Books](#books)

- [Climate Protection Projects](#climate-protection-projects)

- [Companies](#companies)

- [Apps](#apps)

- [Blogs / Publications](#blogs--publications)

- [Reference](#reference)

- [Tools](#tools)

- [Articles](#articles)

- [Movies](#movies)

- [YouTube](#youtube)

- [Contests](#contests)

- [Contributing](#contributing)



# Disclaimer



The purpose of this project is as follows:



#### Inform and empower people to make choices leading to a better future for humankind.



**NOTE**: Some of the content on this list is of political nature (see [this thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15148860) on Hacker News). 



The author believes that **protecting the environment is an urgent matter** and more important than trying to keep politics out of the equation.



# Books

* [Leftover Pie](https://leftoverpie.co.uk/) - 101 ways to reduce your food waste.

* [Drawdown](http://www.drawdown.org/) - The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming.

* [Six Degrees](https://www.amazon.com/Six-Degrees-Future-Hotter-Planet/dp/0007209053): Our future on a hotter planet.

* [Cradle to Cradle](https://www.amazon.com/Cradle-Remaking-Way-Make-Things/dp/0865475873) - Remaking the way we make things.

* [The Rough Guide to Green Living](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rough-Guide-Green-Living/dp/1848361076) - fact-filled, user-friendly guide to living a low-carbon, eco-friendly life.



# Climate Protection Projects

* [Trump Forest](https://trumpforest.com/) - Where ignorance grows trees.

* [OneTreePlanted](https://onetreeplanted.org/) - Non profit focused on global reforestation.

* [Rainforest Alliance](https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/) - Working with you to rebalance the planet.

* [myclimate.org](http://www.myclimate.org/) - Calculate and compensate for your CO2 footprint.

* [helsinkifoundation.org](https://www.helsinkifoundation.org/) - Create your own personal wilderness reserve, or give one to someone else.

* [Rainforest Partnership](https://rainforestpartnership.org/) - Data driven international nonprofit dedicated to protecting tropical rainforests.

* [Plant a Billion](https://www.plantabillion.org/) - Plant trees and restore forests around the globe.

* [Green Providers UK](http://www.green-providers.co.uk) - UK’s leading directory of eco-friendly, fair trade and ethical companies.



# Companies

* [Give Directly](https://www.givedirectly.org/) - Send money directly to people living in extreme poverty.

* [350.org](https://350.org/) - building the global grassroots climate movement that can hold our leaders accountable to science and justice.



# Apps

* [Eco Buddy](http://ecobuddyapp.com/) - A diary of your carbon footprint. Currently only available in the UK.

* [ShareTheMeal](https://sharethemeal.org/) - Together we can end hunger.

* [Plume Labs](https://plumelabs.com/en/) - The first smart air quality tracker.

* [farmdrop](https://www.farmdrop.com/) - The ethical grocer. Currently available in London, Bristol & Bath (UK).



# Blogs / Publications

* [Faster Than Expected](http://www.fasterthanexpected.com/blog/) - Diary about a world that is changing faster than expected, as reported by various sources.

* [Reddit Environment](https://www.reddit.com/r/environment/) - Recent news, information and issues related to the environment.

* [Carbon Friendly](https://medium.com/carbon-friendly) - Articles about climate change and living sustainably.



# Reference

* [Wikipedia - List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions per capita](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita)

* [NASA - Global Climate Change](https://climate.nasa.gov/) - Vital signs of the planet.

* [Tipping Elements - the Achilles Heels of the Earth System](https://www.pik-potsdam.de/services/infodesk/tipping-elements)



# Tools



* [Global Carbon Atlas](http://www.globalcarbonatlas.org/en/CO2-emissions) - platform to see the most up-to-date data on carbon fluxes resulting from human activities and natural processes.

* [You fix it - can you get us within the climate budget?](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/29/opinion/climate-change-carbon-budget.html) - Climate simulator letting you explore more than 8,100 climate scenarios.

* [WWF Footprint Calculator UK](http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/) - Calculate your environmental footprint.

* [Earth Null School](https://earth.nullschool.net) - A visualization of global weather conditions.

* [Climate Reanalyzer](http://www.cci-reanalyzer.org/) - A platform for visualizing climate and weather datasets.

* [Climate Life Events](https://climate-life-events.herokuapp.com/) - Climate change and life events estimation tool.

* [Danish Metereological Institute - Artic Temperatures](http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php) - Daily mean temperatures north of 80 degree north.



# Articles



* 2018-02-28 - [Nobody is Coming to Save Us From Climate Change](https://thenib.com/nobody-is-coming-to-save-us-from-climate-change) (infographic)

* 2018-02-02 - [Can We Stop Global Warming?](http://blog.cityprojections.com/2018/02/can-we-stop-global-warming.html)

* 2017-11-13 - [World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice](https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/67/12/1026/4605229)

* 2017-11-02 - [Climate change 'will create world's biggest refugee crisis'](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/02/climate-change-will-create-worlds-biggest-refugee-crisis)

* 2017-10-18 - [Warning of 'ecological Armageddon' after dramatic plunge in insect numbers](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/18/warning-of-ecological-armageddon-after-dramatic-plunge-in-insect-numbers)

* 2017-09-14 - [100 Percent Wishful Thinking: the Green-Energy Cornucopia](https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/14/100-percent-wishful-thinking-the-green-energy-cornucopia/)

* 2017-09-07 - [In a summer of wildfires and hurricanes, my son asks "why is everything going wrong?"](https://theintercept.com/2017/09/09/in-a-summer-of-wildfires-and-hurricanes-my-son-asks-why-is-everything-going-wrong/)

* 2017-08-29 - [More Than 1,000 Died in South Asia Floods This Summer.](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/world/asia/floods-south-asia-india-bangladesh-nepal-houston.html)

* 2017-08-29 - [Why are the crucial questions about Hurricane Harvey not being asked?](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/29/hurricane-harvey-manmade-climate-disaster-world-catastrophe)

* 2017-08-07 - [Fossil fuel subsidies are a staggering $5 tn per year](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/aug/07/fossil-fuel-subsidies-are-a-staggering-5-tn-per-year).

* 2017-07-22 - [As the climate clock strikes midnight it’s time to look to the morning](http://bright-green.org/2017/07/22/as-the-climate-clock-is-strikes-midnight-its-time-to-look-to-the-morning/)

* 2017-07-10 - [Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says](https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change).

* 2017-07-09 - [The Uninhabitable Earth](http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html) - Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think.

* 2017-03-23 - [Scientists made a detailed “roadmap” for meeting the Paris climate goals. It’s eye-opening.](https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/3/23/15028480/roadmap-paris-climate-goals)

* 2016-08-15 - [We Need to Literally Declare War on Climate Change](https://newrepublic.com/article/135684/declare-war-climate-change-mobilize-wwii).

* 2015-07-27 - [It's not climate change - it's everything change](https://medium.com/matter/it-s-not-climate-change-it-s-everything-change-8fd9aa671804).



# Movies

* [Before The Flood](https://www.beforetheflood.com/) - documentary about Climate Change, featuring Leonardo DiCaprio.

* [An Inconvenient Truth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth) - 2006 documentary about Climate Change made by Al Gore



# YouTube

* [Paul Beckwith](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr546o7ImhGM57qoY0hHvkA) - videos about abrupt climate change ([Paul Beckwith bio](https://paulbeckwith.net/about/))



# Contests



* [MIT Climate CoLab](https://www.climatecolab.org/) - A collaborative online community centered around a series of annual contests that seek out promising ideas for fighting climate change.

* [Climate Action Challenge](https://challenge.whatdesigncando.com) - global design competition calling on the creative community to submit bold, innovative solutions to combat the impacts of climate change.



# Credits



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# Contributing and License

 * [See the guide](https://github.com/bizz84/Sustainable-Earth/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md)

 * Distributed under the MIT license. See [LICENSE](LICENSE) for more information.