Volunteer with Our Non-Profit Partners

When it comes to volunteering, taking action and making a difference, some of the best, most meaningful and outright coolest opportunities are made possible through our NGO Partners.

From EarthWatch's Crocodile Conservation Expedition in Zambia to Ocean Conservancy's Annual Beach Cleanup, not knowing how to get involved isn't an option because there's something for everyone, everywhere, throughout the year with Planet Green's NGO Partners' opportunities.

Get involved. Bring a friend. Make a difference. Save the planet!

How To Create Massive Change When It Comes to Climate Change, by Bill McKibben

For the last 20 years or so, there's been a reasonable excuse for not building a movement big and tough enough to tackle climate change: It had no chance. Washington was filled with such obstructionists that everybody knew meaningful change on a scale large enough to dent the carbon concentration in the atmosphere was pretty much doomed.

How to Go Green: Volunteerism

More than half of American adults—and an even bigger percentage of teenagers—volunteer for various causes. In general, there is currently a trend toward "downshifting, and taking time out of their busy lives to provide unpaid service to others. Many of these people are taking their cue from the National Downshifting Manifesto, which proclaims that individuals are setting time aside for the things that are important to them "for the benefit of my health, my well being, my environment, and for those around me whom I dearly love."

How to Go Green: In the Community

Sustainable living has certainly become a buzz phrase. More and more people are looking at ways to reduce their ecological footprint: driving less, eating less meat, wearing sustainable fashions. As individuals, we are increasingly aware of the impact we have on the planet and our fellow humans. But is greening our own lifestyle enough?

Act Local

An important part of the green movement has always been grassroots awareness and activism. Acting locally is the best way to get started when it comes to making a difference and staying motivated. Plus, we're all trying to eat local and reduce our carbon emissions related to transportation—volunteering or otherwise acting on a local level makes you part of your community, gives you the ability to see tangible results that directly affect you and/or people close to you and means less travel for more sustainable volunteering efforts, a longer dedication to a cause.

Learn more about Earth Day volunteering opportunities in your community.

Take Action

Living in dread (and its equally unhelpful counterpart, living in denial) is so 2006. When it comes to global warming and the very real threats that face the planet, that face us, a growing number and undeniably vocal majority agree the solution is serious action and lots of it.

Every single person must become involved to turn things around and whether that is on the local level, online in the social media green space, or throughout the world, all action to reduce our carbon emissions, and increase our positive efforts like composting, waste reduction and the like, is essential. Our hope at Planet Green is that Earth Day, and Earth Month, 2009 will awaken a sense of urgency and purpose to save the planet that will be sustained and nourished for days, months, and years to come.

In all sincerity, this, saving the planet, is the issue of our lifetime and taking action is the only solution.