Tiempo Climate Portal

Taking Action

Interview with Erana Walker
In a Newswatch interview, Erana Walker talks of her expectations of the Copenhagen climate summit and about her experience of climate action at the community level. Published December 2009

Climate Change and Nepalese Youth
Abhishek Shrestha reports on the role of Nepalese youth in climate change activities. Published February 2009

DIY Guide to Combating Global Warming
101 practical steps each person can take to reduce their contribution to global warming. Originally produced by Reforest the Earth, with the assistance of the Greenhouse Crisis Foundation and Ark, and now presented in a new up-dated electronic edition by the Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary.

10:10
10:10 is a global campaign to cut carbon by 10 per cent a year, starting in 2010.

350.org
350.org is an international campaign dedicated to building a movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis - the solutions that science and justice demand. It organizes the International Day of Climate Action.

About My Planet
About My Planet delivers green news and tips with a down to earth approach that anyone can apply to their daily life. The Amp Blog Network has set up related sites covering topics such as hybrid vehicles and ecofriendly products and services.

Act On CO2
Find out what your carbon footprint is and how you can make some simple changes to help tackle climate change.

AllGreen
AllGreen provides quick access to ideas about green technologies for use in the home and garden, at leisure and in business.

Artists' Project Earth
Artists' Project Earth aims to help create a better world by bringing the power of music and other arts to 21st century challenges. It supports appropriate action and facilitate awareness-raising and education with regard to environmental disasters, climate change and related challenges, assisting in the implementation of sustainable development.

Avaaz - climate campaign
Avaaz - "voice" - is a global web movement that aims to close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want.

Bloom
From the BBC, Bloom provides information and support to enable you to make smarter decisions about the things you can do to become more climate-friendly

Campus Climate Challenge
The Campus Climate Challenge is a project of more than 30 leading youth organizations throughout the United States and Canada. The Challenge leverages the power of young people to organize on college campuses and high schools to win 100% Clean Energy policies at their schools, growing a generation-wide movement to stop global warming.

Carbon Connections
The Carbon Connections project aims to enable universities to address the problem of increasing carbon emissions, through the creation of new technologies, improvement of existing technology and innovative approaches to behavioural change.

Carbon Footprint Calculator
BP's Carbon Footprint Calculator estimates your impact on carbon emissions. Requires Macromedia Flash Player.

Carbon Offset Project List
The Environmental Defense Fund provides a list of recommended carbon offset projects.

Celsias
The Celsias website enables individuals, organizations and companies to take real action against global warming. On Celsias, you can learn, commit and do actions that will reduce your carbon footprint.

Climate Change Education
Climate change education.org is a portal web site dedicated to global warming education.

Climate Justice Action
Climate Justice Action is a global network of people and groups committed to take the urgent actions needed to avoid catastrophic climate change.

Climate Solutions Campaign
The Climate Change Solutions Campaign is a three-year project to educate and motivate all levels of the global community.

climatespace
Meet up in climatespace to make it easier to take steps to tackle climate change. A "this helped me why don't you try it", "anyone know how I do this?" kind of site, with content from its readers.

Community Carbon Reduction Programme (CRed)
The aim of the Community Carbon Reduction Programme is to cut carbon emissions by 60% by the year 2025.

Connect2earth
connect2earth provides a space for you to tell the world, using video, photos or text, why you care about the environment and why it should be protected.

Coolproducts
Coolproducts is a campaign to set ambitious minimum requirements for energy efficiency and other environmental aspects of products sold in the European Union.

Copenhagen Climate Council
The Copenhagen Climate Council comprises 30 global leaders from business, science, and policy dedicated to create awareness of the importance of COP15, the UN conference to be held in Copenhagen in December 2009 where world leaders will meet to agree on a new treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol. The website provides news, information and an opportunity to become part of the Copenhagen process.

DECC 2050 Calculator Tool
The 2050 Calculator Tool from the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change aims to help policymakers, the energy industry and the public understand how to move to a secure, low-carbon energy system over the period to 2050.

Earth 911
Earth 911 delivers actionable local information on recycling and product stewardship that empowers consumers to act locally, live responsibly and contribute to sustainability.

Earth Charter Foundation
The Earth Charter Foundation's primary objective is to encourage all people - individuals, groups, organizations, small and big businesses and governments - to support and implement the principles of the Earth Charter as a framework of action for the wellbeing of humanity and all other species dependent on the Earth's environment for survival.

Earth Day Network
The Earth Day Network provides support for all governments, businesses, schools and other groups wanting ideas or collaboration for activities on Earth Day, April 22nd. There are over 184 countries in the Network.

Earth Hour
Earth Hour is the biggest voluntary power down in history as people round the world turn off their lights. It has inspired many people and businesses to change their energy habits and has influenced government policy in some countries.

EarthAware
The EarthAware Environmental Awareness software (shareware) quantifies the amount of carbon dioxide you put into the atmosphere, covering home energy and water, tranportation, consumerism, waste, advocacy, livelihood, land use and family planning.

Ecolect - a sustainable materials community
Ecolect provides information about building design materials with sustainable attributes.

Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative
The Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative is a diverse coalition environmental justice, religious, climate justice, policy and advocacy networks in the United States working for climate justice.

Equality Trust
The Equality Trust aims to reduce income inequality through a programme of public and political education. Website makes available resources including video and slide shows.

Focus the Nation
Focus the Nation is a major educational initiative that is coordinating teams of faculty, students and staff at over a thousand colleges, universities and high schools in the United States, to collaboratively engage in a nationwide, interdisciplinary discussion centered around the theme of "Global Warming Solutions for America". The project will culminate January 31, 2008, in the form of one-day, national symposia held simultaneously on campuses across the country.

Forests Now
The main aim of the Forests Now website is to offer tools which facilitate communication and collaboration amongst the forest protection community in the run-up to the United Nations climate meeting in Copenhagen in December 2009. It lists a calendar of events, actions, case studies and resources related to forests and climate change. The Forests Now declaration can also be endorsed through the site.

Generating Energy from Wind for Home Power
Comprehensive introduction to solar power.

Global Climate Campaign
Global Climate Campaign is the collective name given to all the organizations, groups and individuals around the world who come together for the Global Day of Action on climate

Global Cool
Harnessing the power of popular entertainment and environmental science, Global Cool works to stir anyone who cares about the planet to do their bit to save the planet they care about. Site contains promotional material from pop singers and bands and resources to assist everyone to make a contribution.

Global Releaf
Global ReLeaf is American Forests' education and action programme that helps individuals, organizations, agencies and corporations improve the local and global environment by planting and caring for trees.

Global Warming - Undo It
Briefing on the basics of the global warming issues and steps to control the threat from the Environmental Defense Fund.

Green Maven
Green Maven is a search engine that focuses on green and sustainable websites.

Green Pages
Green Pages, the online gateway to environmental products and services, aims to deepen and broaden consumer´s ability to make a positive impact through their purchasing, and promotes a shift of public and private financial flows into projects and programmes that encourage and contribute to environmentally and socially sustainable development. Contains listings of information sources, organizations, services and suppliers as well as editorial material.

Green R3
GreenR3.com focuses on tips and techniques that will help you lessen your carbon footprint and enhance your quality of life.

Growing Together in a Changing Climate: The United Nations, Young People, and Climate Change
Growing Together in a Changing Climate: The United Nations, Young People, and Climate Change, from the United Nations, contains information on some of the many climate change initiatives – projects, campaigns, educational tools, websites and publications – produced by the United Nations and young people, independently or in partnership. Published December 2009

How to Save the Climate (0.7MB download)
How to Save the Climate, from Greenpeace, provides a concise guide to actions everybody can take to protect global climate.

In the Morning of a Day
In the Morning of a Day provides activists and event organizers with an opportunity to announce and promote their events and actions about global warming, informs the general public about these events and actions and gives them the opportunity to participate in them and connects event organizers, by informing them about each others' actions.

International Year of Biodiversity
2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity, a celebration of life on earth and of the value of biodiversity.

It's Getting Hot in Here
It's Getting Hot in Here is the voice of student and youth leaders of the global movement to stop global warming, a global online community with over 100 writers from countries around the world.

Japan for Sustainability
The Japan for Sustainability website includes a useful information centre listing sustainability news and also ideas for responding to climate change and other threats.

Know the Number
The Carbon Counter displays the running total amount of long-lived greenhouse gasses in the earth's atmosphere, measured in metric tons. A desktop widget is available.

Lick Global Warming
A campaign to fight global warming, sponsored by the Dave Matthews Band, Ben and Jerry's and Saveourenvironment.org.

Live Earth Film Project
Award-winning filmmakers have created short films, commissioned by Live Earth, to showcase the diversity and creativity of the international response to the climate crisis.

Metaefficient
A guide to the most efficient things in the world.

Microsoft Hohm
Microsoft Hohm is a free online beta application that helps you save energy and money.

My Footprint
Calculate your ecological footprint in any nation of the world.

National Carbon Calculator
The Guardian's National Carbon Calculator allows you to set United Kinggdom policy on energy, transport and other sectors and measure the carbon emissions generated.

Nepalese Youth for Climate Action
Nepalese Youth for Climate Action (NYCA) is a coalition of Nepali youth and youth groups formed with an aim to tackle climate change. NYCA works with universities, schools, organizations, and communities at national and international level to protect our future from the threats posed by climate change.

Not Stupid
Not Stupid is the action campaign of the climate movie The Age of Stupid.

Oxfam: Climate Change Campaign
Oxfam UK provides information, ideas and other resources for those wishing to take action on the climate issue.

Planet Ark
A campaigning and educational site providing access to information to assist communities and groups establish environmentally-sustainable daily practices. Provides access to environment-related news and pictures.

Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign
The Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign, organized by UNEP, encourages people, communities, business and industry, civil society organizations and governments to commit tree planting pledges with the objective of planting at least one billion trees worldwide during 2007.

Plant-a-Tree-Today
The PATT foundation aims at providing economic, social and environmental sustainability through community based forestry projects in developing countries. Working in conjunction with corporate partners, government and intergovernmental agencies, non governmental organizations, local authorities, and local communities, it plans to plant 1 million trees per year in locations worldwide.

Power to the People
Power to the People is a non-profit organization working with volunteers to bring solar electricity to community buildings in rural areas of the developing world.

Radical Riverists
Radical Riverists aim to restore rivers to the heart of cities.

Rough Guide to a Better World
The Rough Guide to a Better World discusses ways to combat hunger, disease and illiteracy and suggests ways in which we, as individuals, can get involved.

Safe Climate
The Safe Climate project, organized by the World Resources Institute, guides you to act to reduce your impact on global warming and learn more about the climate issue.

Save Our World
Through campaigns, information and lobbying, Save our World acts to help protect and sustain the natural world through increasing awareness and caring for human beings and all other species, as well as inspiring and empowering people to change attitudes, habits and lifestyles. Climate change is a major focus.

Save the Planet
Save the Planet encourages the adoption of alternative energies or energy conservation in home, office and throughout industry. Site contains background material, news and other resources.

Six Tools to Make Climate Change Art
Franke James discusses what climate change art means and presents the six tools for making climate change art that he relies on.

Solar Nation
Solar Nation is a national campaign, based on popular support through initiatives such as Vote Solar, that is changing state and federal policy to make solar a significant part of America's energy future.

Step It Up 2007
Step It Up 2007 is the organizing hub for a National Day of Climate Action in the United States, April 14th, 2007, when there will be "hundreds and hundreds of rallies all across the country"

Stop Global Warming
Stop Global Warming is a collective working to encourage governments, corporations, and politicians take the steps necessary to stop global warming. It is organizing the Stop Global Warming Virtual March.

Target Neutral
Target Neutral, a BP initiative, enables British drivers to offset their carbon emissions

The Green Dot Internet Eco-Guide
The Green Dot's Internet Eco-Guide covers environmental protection, waste management and recycling in Germany.

The Greens
The Greens is a site for kids from Boston broadcaster WGBH about sustainability and green living. Through the animated episodic adventures, a blog, kids' mail, and regular updates, the Greens explores green living, sustainability, ecology, environmental care, and social equity.

The Solar Guide
Online reference guide to the use of wind power in the home.

Throwplace
Cut landfill by giving away your excess goods to others who can use them.

Tiki the Penguin
Tiki the Penguin provides a guide to climate change, including action you can take to combat the problem.

TreeHugger
TreeHugger strives to be a one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information.

UN CyberSchoolBus
Introduction to the Millennium Development Goals and opportunities for youth involvement.

Unite for Climate
Unite for Climate is an entry point into the world of youth action on climate change. You can join the community, participate in global campaigns, and work to extend the impact of the Copenhagen Climate Summit.

UNite to Combat Climate Change
UNite to Combat Climate Change is the United Nations campaign to promote a deal at the 2009 climate treaty negotiations in Copenhagen.

United for Climate
Unite for Climate is your entry point into the world of youth action on climate change. You can join the community, participate in global campaigns, and work to extend the impact of the COP 15.

VoiceYourself
VoiceYourself, set up by Woody Harrelson and Laura Louie, promotes and inspires individual action to create global momentum towards simple organic living and to restore balance and harmony to our planet. Site provides news, inspiration, ideas and a virtual art gallery.

WalkIt
WalkIt provides walking routes between user-defined points in selected British cities, with an estimate of the carbon savings.

WE ACT
WE ACT for Environmental Justice (West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc.) is a non-profit, community-based, environmental justice organization dedicated to building community power to fight environmental racism and improve environmental health, protection and policy in communities of colour.

World Environment Day
Site provides information packs, posters and booklets suggesting activities to commemorate World Environment Day, 5th June, each year.

World Land Trust
You can offset your carbon emissions with the World Land Trust. Site also contains an emissions calculator and tips on reducing emissions.

World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
The WWF educational site includes tips on how to save the planet and other teaching materials.

WorldChanging
WorldChanging provides tools, models and ideas for building a bright green future.

WRAP
WRAP works in partnership, helping businesses and the general public to reduce waste, to use more recycled material, and recycle more things more often. This helps to minimize landfills, reduce carbon emissions and improve our environment.

Youth Climate Pledge
The Youth Climate Pledge is a collaborative plan of action that young people can sign on to and get others to commit to.

Youthink!
Youthink! from the World Bank provides information about global issues and an opportunity to share your stories and views.

Autogenerated: 29 Aug 2010

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