Sustainable Living
20 results found
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1,000,000 Miles for the Climate
Climate Ride - Non-Profit - www.climateride.org
Help Climate Ride expand our network of eco-activist cyclists, or Climate Riders, by developing a "1,000,000 Miles for the Climate" campaign & showcasing bicycles as one solution to the climate crisis. Since 2008, more than 300 Climate Riders have pedaled 100,000 miles during our multi-day charitable rides. What if green-minded bike-enthusiasts at home could also become climate warriors by tracking their everyday cycling? The campaign's focus is the promotion of a yet-to-be-developed web-based tool/wireless-app that logs miles pedaled, shares it via social media, and displays the community's combined total. With help, we envision 1,000…
1,654 votes -
Farm to Restaurant Project
Santa Fe Alliance - Non-Profit - www.santafealliance.com/farmtorestaurant
Highlighting and facilitating regional, food sourcing by local Santa Fe restaurants.
960 votes -
Sustainability Television
Sustainability Television - Hybrid - www.sustainabilitytelevision.com
We have dedicated ourselves to creating a better world through a web-based platform for sharing proactive, solutions-oriented ideas to engage, inform and inspire people to embrace more sustainable living practices. Free Range Studios can play a pivotal role in assisting us create this reality by providing strategic development services to address critical areas such as branding, partnerships, content development and more. Free Range Studios guiding values and principles are well aligned with our own and teaming up has the great potential to energize, reinforce and amplify the voices of those working towards a more…
941 votes -
Green Home: Environmental Responsibility Starts at Home
Hogar Verde - Hybrid - http://hogar-verde.com
Free Range could help my cause, because you have the media tools for creative and inspiring messages with original content. My dream is to educate all family members in sustainable living practices through green real tips in our ordinary life.
Animations could reach a targeted public and reach all ages and education categories. Short films could be translated in several languages and spreaded over the world.
We can not expect that other people will do something with our environment. We must do something now begining in our own homes.
494 votes -
Good Food Good Mood
Central Rivers Farmshed - Non-Profit - www.farmshed.org
Central Rivers Farmshed is a non profit organization representing all aspects of the food system whose members are committed to making Central Wisconsin a renowned, local food community. Farmshed works to expand the connection between local residents and their food. We strive to provide opportunities for participation, education, cooperation, and action to support a local food economy in Central Wisconsin.
The following priority areas are fundamental to strengthening the local food economy in Central Wisconsin: Food System Education, Local Eating, Farmer Capacity Building, Local Food Networks, Public Markets, & Nutrition for Learning and…
325 votes -
The EcoMeter: Combating Green Washing by Empowering Consumers
EnviroSpeakMedia.com - Profit - www.envirospeakmedia.com
Our world is one where corporations can no longer "game" green rating systems; where consumer environmental values become just as important as research derived from product, consumer and brand level data. In our world, consumers will impact the way corporations make future products. Free Range can continue their consumer journey and bring a solution to every woman, man, and child by empowering consumers to abolish green washing by challenging corporations with smart purchasing decisions. Free Range will use their creative talent to create a video that can unite green consumers under one unifying force; "The…
274 votes -
Project Earth Intentional Community - Be Part of a New Paradigm
Project Earth - Non-Profit - www.projectearth.org.au
Many people in the modern world feel disconnected. We are disconnected from each other, disconnected from nature and our Earth. Our solution to this is an intentional community, which will embody our holistic approach, recognising that many issues and also their solutions are intricately intertwined. Our five streams of focus: Sustainable Living, Permaculture, Animals, Wildlife & Environment, Education and Spiritual & Personal Growth will be integrated in our community, which will function as a shining example of a new model for living; a new paradigm. Through collaboration, workshops and events we will encourage others…
208 votes -
Shamalada Healing Sanctuary
Shamalada - Profit - Shamalada.blogspot.com
As a social entrepreneur who has been called to create heaven on earth, I need assistance to expand my reach. I need an inspiring website using a variety of platforms to provide educational resources to the global community. Shamalada will be more than a physical space in PA; it is a global movement and a website will carry the message of Shamalada to the world.
80 votes -
Sustainable Eco Villages - Connecting People for Sustainable Living in Socially Healthy Communities
Sustainable Eco Villages - Hybrid - www.sustainableecovillages.net
Our vision is the creation of genuinely sustainable eco-villages worldwide.
Our three areas of approach:
Our web site for people to find others that they can form an eco-village with.
Providing resources, information and connections to education centres.
Setting up a non-profit organisation to provide low interest loans to help groups on a low budget.
Free Range Studios can help us with establishing and structuring the non-profit organisation. They can also help with marketing the site and networking with organisations with compatible goals.
69 votes -
Eco-nomy
Plug-in TV - Non-Profit - plugintv.net
A virtual web2/mobile-app. representation of food resources or ingredients of your kitchen that can list recipes with the present items entered and suggest recipes with only one or more ingredients missing.
60 votes -
We Are What We Eat: Part 1
WeAreWhatWeEat.org - Hybrid - www.WeAreWhatWeEat.org
I have been working solo on a film about health, agriculture and the environment for the last 6 years. I have interviewed close to 100 thought leaders in the field and am ready to bring the project to fruition. There has been mush debate about the viability of the project as a feature doc. Some feel the topic is too vast. I believe that the project has vast potential in multiple venues, online, educational media, film etc. To date I have been solo and I admittedly could use some help taking the message further. I…
59 votes -
Solar Guerrilla
Terra Foundation - Non-Profit - www.ecoterra.org
We are a small NGO based in Barcelona and we developed a new tool for energy autonomy. We invented a solar panel that can be plugged directly to a home socket. It allows people to produce their own electricity, reduce CO2 emissions, and save money from the energy bill. And we need a proper identity, a manual, a box, ads, etc.
42 votes -
GREEN: Global Renewable Energy Electricity Network
Campaign for GREEN - Hybrid
GREEN stands for the "Global Renewable Energy Electricity Network"
GREEN is a global grid linking together the world's abundant sources of renewable energy, delivering clean energy to every country on the planet.
GREEN addresses climate change, poverty and sustainability.
GREEN costs 1% of global GDP per year and will take 20 years to complete.
GREEN is spending better not more: we already spend more on polluting and finite conventional energy and subsidies.
GREEN is co-operative and equitable: each country pays for and receives energy in direct proportion to its needs.
GREEN is already happening: DESERTEC…
23 votes -
Changing the Success Paradigm from Money to Happiness
Gross National Happiness USA - Non-Profit - www.gnhusa.org
Gross National Happiness (GNH) provides an optimistic approach for Americans to change our emotionally and environmentally destructive ways by moving away from GDP as our measure of success. Instead, we incorporate new economic thinking and the science of happiness to measure success as the genuine well being of people and our environment. GNH offers a way forward that acknowledges the limits of our planet but does not send people into frantic states of denial. It is a new movement, and we need to educate and inspire the masses.
We need to go…
21 votes -
Growing an Urban Community Garden Project
Wyomanock Center, Inc. - Non-Profit - www.wyocenter.org
Although Westside Farm Project has been operating for only two years, the initiative has generated the support of over 36 local organizations and businesses, numerous individuals, and the City of Pittsfield. From 2008 to 2010, the Project has grown from one to three gardens and has gone from producing 500 pounds to over 3,000 pounds of vegetables per year. Only one individual receives paid compensation at this time, but if fundraising efforts pay off in 2011, the organization could build its capacity city- and even county-wide. The Project is poised for exponential expansion…
18 votes -
Simplicious... A Fresh Take on Food
GreenChic/Simplicious Magazine - Profit - www.thegreenchiclife.com
My mission is to educate individuals on natural/sustainable living, show them that healthy eating is easy and exciting, and inspire them to get into their own kitchens... all through my online green food magazine. Simplicious. A Fresh Take on Food.
9 votes -
The Clean Energy Innovation Project
Americans for Energy Leadership - Non-Profit - www.leadenergy.org
With the death of cap and trade in congress, the clean-energy agenda has stalled. How can the next generation of environmentalists and energy reformers create green jobs, fight global poverty, and save our planet from environmental catastrophe? A new vision is needed to push government towards action, one founded on the limitless potential of innovation and not the politics of limits. Americans for Energy Leadership has worked diligently to craft this message, but needs help creating a video which captures this vision and defines the voice of a new climate and energy…
9 votes -
Advent Calendar - 24 innovative, new or simply surprising stories on sustainable development
Gammarus Environmental Consulting - Non-Profit - www.advent-calendar.info
We would love to have help from Free Range to go international with our online calender. It started 1999 with 24 case studies in Switzerland from NGOs, innovativ busineses and gov. agencies and will be offered in 5 languages this year. Last year we reached over 50000 readers who enjoy opening their advent calendar windows each day; but the potential is much larger. The website has lots of great content, but could use visual and technical redesign, more interactivity.
6 votes -
Cha-Ching Cha-Ching?? $$$ into their pockets or YOURS?
Live HARDY Economically - Hybrid
Beginning in childhood, buying has become such a wasteful hobby. All ages seem to have succumb to mass consumerism as the normal way of life. Thrift, ingenuity, lessons learned during the depression about survival have been forgotten. It can be taught through activities which show the personal reward inherent in being frugal.
1 vote -
Full Spectrum Vehicle Sharing
Fort Collins CarShare - Hybrid - Fortcollinscarshare.com
Create concise video pieces that communicate the power and efficiency of full spectrum vehicle sharing.
1 vote