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Planet Green's Partners
Planet Green is proud to partner with several of the world's leading nonprofit environmental organizations and advocacy groups. These organizations, dedicated to sustaining and preserving our planet, bring their vision for a better future to Planet Green through a wide range of initiatives and support.
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Ashoka
Founded in 1980, Ashoka is the world?s working community of more than 2,000 leading social entrepreneurs. It champions the most important new social change ideas and supports the entrepreneurs behind them by helping them get started, grow, succeed, and collaborate. As Ashoka expands it's capability to integrate and connect entrepreneurs around the world, it builds an entrepreneurial infrastructure that is supporting the fast-growing needs of the citizen sector. Ashoka's vision is to create change today, for an "everyone a changemaker"? society to become the reality of tomorrow. For more information, visit www.ashoka.org.
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Earth Pledge
Earth Pledge, founded in 1991 as a committee for the United Nations Rio Earth Summit, is an eco-tech "do-tank" that partners with business, communities and governments to accelerate the adoption of sustainable practices. They have a range of innovative initiatives that share one common objective: to demonstrate economic viability today and to make a real difference tomorrow. Earth Pledge works closely with organizations to help them understand and implement new techniques that reduce their environmental impact. Together, they are striking a balance between natural systems and human activity in nearly every aspect of our lives. By showing verifiable results, Earth Pledge intends to set new precedents for change on an even larger scale. Earth Pledge believes that by working together, we can achieve more, sooner. For more information, visit www.earthpledge.org.
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Earthwatch Institute
Earthwatch Institute is the world?s largest environmental volunteer nonprofit organization. Its mission is to engage people worldwide in scientific field research and education to promote the understanding and action necessary for a sustainable environment. Earthwatch was founded in Boston in 1971 and affiliate offices are based in the UK, Australia, and Japan. With approximately 120 projects fielding in more than 55 countries worldwide, Earthwatch focuses its research efforts on climate change, endangered species and resources, marine biology and ocean conservation, and threatened traditional cultures. For more information, visit www.earthwatch.org.
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Environmental Media Association
The Environmental Media Association (EMA) mobilizes the entertainment industry in a global effort to educate people about environmental issues and inspire them into action. EMA was created in 1989, as a non-profit 501(c)3, with the simple but powerful concept that through music, television and film, the entire entertainment community could influence the environmental awareness of millions of people. Through the use of weaving environmental messages within entertainment programming and utilizing "celebrity" for positive role modeling, EMA continues to have a profound effect on how the public receives environmental information. EMA serves as a valuable link between the entertainment industry and the environmental community. For more information, visit www.ema-online.org.
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Global Green
Global Green USA, the American arm of President Gorbachev?s Green Cross International, was founded in 1993 to foster a global value shift toward a sustainable and secure future. For more than a decade, Global Green has been a national leader in advocating for smart solutions to global warming including green building for affordable housing, schools and communities. Global Green USA has influenced more than $20 billion dollars for green building projects and educates hundreds of millions of people about climate solutions through its annual Red Carpet/Green Cars Oscars campaign. Global Green is also leading efforts to help rebuild a green New Orleans as a model for rebuilding sustainable cities around the world. For more information, visit www.globalgreen.org.
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Global Inheritance
Born in 2002, Global Inheritance is a 501c3 organization working to reinvent activism and empower individuals to seek a global balance. Their initiatives focus on the power of creativity to communicate and push for progressive social change. Global Inheritance targets various subcultures, developing campaigns that cater specifically to each individual demographic. Through interactivity, inspiration and education, Global Inheritance provides a bridge between ideas and action. For more information, visit www.globalinheritance.org.
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Green Belt Movement
Funded by the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Professor Wangari Maathai, the Green Belt Movement provides income and sustenance to millions of people in Kenya through the planting of trees. It also conducts educational campaigns to raise awareness about women's rights, civic empowerment, and the environment throughout Kenya and Africa. For more information, visit www.greenbeltmovement.org.
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Natural Resources Defense Council
The Natural Resources Defense Council is a national, nonprofit organization of scientists, lawyers and environmental specialists dedicated to protecting public health and the environment. Founded in 1970, NRDC has 1.2 million members and online activists, served from offices in New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Beijing. NRDC's online platforms include the issue-oriented main website NRDC.org, green living and family website SimpleSteps.org, pet-lover website GreenPaws.org, and breaking news blog, Switchboard. For more information, visit www.nrdc.org.
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National Wildlife Federation
National Wildlife Federation® (NWF) is America?s largest conservation organization, inspiring Americans to protect wildlife for our children?s future. NWF unites individuals from diverse backgrounds through a grassroots network of 4 million members and supporters, and is joined by 48 affiliated state wildlife organizations. National Wildlife Federation?s programs educate and inspire people from all walks of life to conserve wildlife and wildlife habitat. NWF focuses its conservation work in three major areas to have the biggest impact on the future of America?s wildlife: confront global warming, restore wildlife and habitats and connect people with nature. For more information, visit www.nwf.org.
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Oceana
Oceana campaigns to protect and restore the world?s oceans. Oceana?s team of marine scientists, economists, lawyers and advocates win specific and concrete policy changes to reduce pollution and to prevent the irreversible collapse of fish populations, marine mammals and other sea life. Global in scope and dedicated to conservation, Oceana has campaigners based in North America (Washington, DC; New York; Juneau, AK; Monterey, CA, and Portland, OR), Europe (Madrid, Spain; Brussels, Belgium) and South America (Santiago, Chile). More than 300,000 members and e-activists in over 150 countries have already joined Oceana. For more information, visit www.Oceana.org.
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Ocean Conservancy
Ocean Conservancy is the world's foremost advocate for the ocean. Through science-based advocacy, research, and public education, we inform, inspire and empower people to speak and act for the oceans. Ocean Conservancy is headquartered in Washington, DC, and has offices in New England, Florida, the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and California with support from more than half a million members and volunteers. For more information, visit oceanconsservancy.org.
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The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy is a leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people. To date, the Conservancy and its more than one million members have been responsible for the protection of more than 15 million acres in the United States and have helped preserve more than 102 million acres in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. For more information, visit www.nature.org.
