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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.

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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 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 - 101 ways to reduce your food waste.
• Drawdown - The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming.
• Six Degrees: Our future on a hotter planet.
• Cradle to Cradle - Remaking the way we make things.
• The Rough Guide to Green Living - fact-filled, user-friendly guide to living a low-carbon, eco-friendly life.

Climate Protection Projects

• Trump Forest - Where ignorance grows trees.
• OneTreePlanted - Non profit focused on global reforestation.
• Rainforest Alliance - Working with you to rebalance the planet.
• myclimate.org - Calculate and compensate for your CO2 footprint.
• helsinkifoundation.org - Create your own personal wilderness reserve, or give one to someone else.
• Rainforest Partnership - Data driven international nonprofit dedicated to protecting tropical rainforests.
• Plant a Billion - Plant trees and restore forests around the globe.
• Green Providers UK - UK’s leading directory of eco-friendly, fair trade and ethical companies.

Companies

• Give Directly - Send money directly to people living in extreme poverty.
• 350.org - building the global grassroots climate movement that can hold our leaders accountable to science and justice.

Apps

• Eco Buddy - A diary of your carbon footprint. Currently only available in the UK.
• ShareTheMeal - Together we can end hunger.
• Plume Labs - The first smart air quality tracker.
• farmdrop - The ethical grocer. Currently available in London, Bristol & Bath (UK).

Blogs / Publications

• Faster Than Expected - Diary about a world that is changing faster than expected, as reported by various sources.
• Reddit Environment - Recent news, information and issues related to the environment.
• Carbon Friendly - Articles about climate change and living sustainably.

Reference

• Wikipedia - List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions per capita
• NASA - Global Climate Change - Vital signs of the planet.
• Tipping Elements - the Achilles Heels of the Earth System

Tools

• Global Carbon Atlas - 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? - Climate simulator letting you explore more than 8,100 climate scenarios.
• WWF Footprint Calculator UK - Calculate your environmental footprint.
• Earth Null School - A visualization of global weather conditions.
• Climate Reanalyzer - A platform for visualizing climate and weather datasets.
• Climate Life Events - Climate change and life events estimation tool.
• Danish Metereological Institute - Artic Temperatures - Daily mean temperatures north of 80 degree north.

Articles

• 2018-02-28 - Nobody is Coming to Save Us From Climate Change (infographic)
• 2018-02-02 - Can We Stop Global Warming?
• 2017-11-13 - World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice
• 2017-11-02 - Climate change 'will create world's biggest refugee crisis'
• 2017-10-18 - Warning of 'ecological Armageddon' after dramatic plunge in insect numbers
• 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?"
• 2017-08-29 - More Than 1,000 Died in South Asia Floods This Summer.
• 2017-08-29 - Why are the crucial questions about Hurricane Harvey not being asked?
• 2017-08-07 - 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
• 2017-07-10 - Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says.
• 2017-07-09 - The Uninhabitable Earth - 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.
• 2016-08-15 - We Need to Literally Declare War on Climate Change.
• 2015-07-27 - It's not climate change - it's everything change.

Movies

• Before The Flood - documentary about Climate Change, featuring Leonardo DiCaprio.
• An Inconvenient Truth - 2006 documentary about Climate Change made by Al Gore

YouTube

• Paul Beckwith - videos about abrupt climate change (Paul Beckwith bio)

Contests

• MIT Climate CoLab - A collaborative online community centered around a series of annual contests that seek out promising ideas for fighting climate change.
• Climate Action Challenge - global design competition calling on the creative community to submit bold, innovative solutions to combat the impacts of climate change.

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