Environment & Conservation
29 results found
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RU4YNP?
Greater Yellowstone Coalition - Non-Profit - www.greateryellowstone.org
At the Greater Yellowstone Coalition we work to protect the forests, waters and wildlife of Yellowstone National Park and the 20 million acres that surround it. With your help we propose to launch our first online donor acquisition and outreach campaign: RU4YNP? Today we have 17,000 supporters from all over the country.~ But more than three million people visit Yellowstone every year. Our goal is to use online outreach to translate the public's love for Yellowstone into new support for protection of free-roaming wolves, grizzly bears, bison, elk and their habitat, and protection…
2,259 votes -
It's Where We Live
SELVA International - Non-Profit - www.selvainternational.org
SELVA International has formed a diverse collaboration to create a unique project that communicates ecological facts through online media. The resource will be geared toward educators and the public. We have designed a game-like experience that leads users through a series of interactive stories teaching a basic fact: the environment is where WE live. This theme is explored through quest-like modules centered on core environmental issues. By forging their own path through realistic scenarios, users will learn/engage with the issues on a personal level. They will learn specific actions for positive change and how…
1,349 votes -
Outsourcing the Problem: Consumption, Climate and China
Public Interest Research Centre - Non-Profit - www.pirc.info
Help us reveal an untold scandal: how the West exports carbon emissions to countries like China - expecting them to pay for the impact of our consumption. We need an engaging animation to explain the problem - for which we'll provide research, a voiceover from George Monbiot, and promotion from ChinaDialogue. The animation will inform the public, inspire campaigners and give us a tool to lobby government to take responsibility.
609 votes -
"The Story of Coffee: From Bean to Cup"
Green Café Network - Non-Profit - www.greencafenetwork.org
Over 50% of Americans drink coffee on a daily basis. After oil, coffee is the world’s second most traded commodity, and supports over 25 million producers worldwide, who often receive prices that are less than the costs of production. Our love for the bean brings massive environmental impacts from transportation and brewing processes along with innumerable tons of waste in the cafes that serve our morning brew. "The Story of Coffee will be a compelling online video that will wake up Americans to the impacts of the coffee industry and empower people to…
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Yakamas for a Cleaner Columbia
Yakama Nation Fisheries Resource Management - Hybrid - host119.yakama.com
As young children, Yakamas learn about the relationship between humans, plants, animals, fish and the land. In this way, Yakamas grow up aware of their responsibility to protect the resources for those not yet born. The Yakama Nation is concerned about the toxic pollution in the Columbia River, the largest river in the Pacific Northwest. We stand to gain significantly by restoring America's fourth largest watershed to its cultural and historical importance. A cleaner Columbia Basin will restore the environment and improve the wellbeing of Northwest people.
103 votes -
Dodging Pollution: An Underdog Story
Earthjustice - Non-Profit - www.earthjustice.org
Some of the worst air polluters have dodged controls for decades, pumping dirty air that makes playing outside a dangerous game for kids across the U.S. Though 2011 brings unprecedented opportunities to clean up these polluters, only public pressure can counteract the polluter lobby's influence. A humorous video can help: in a dodgeball game between kids and pollution, large men dressed as mercury, soot, and other pollutants hurl dodgeballs labeled with diseases (e.g. asthma ) while kids counter with balls marked "health" and "clean air". The message: join the kids' team to ensure dirty industries…
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Fix Global Warming, End Unhappiness, Achieve World Peace
Irthlingz - Non-Profit - www.meltesedodo.com/meltesedodo/mp3/
"The Meltese Dodo" is a movie about an intrepid detective (The Earth) who discovers the truth about climate change through a series of encounters with "reliable sources", including molds, yeasts and bacteria.
"The Brontosaurus Song" occurs in the first scene, as The Earth reflects on the positive qualities of the human species ("imagination, love, poetry" the kind of species you'd hate to lose") and thinks back to another fun species, the brontosaurus.Free Range would create an animation to go with "The Brontosaurus Song" which we would use to promote our project, end unhappiness and…
55 votes -
OpenSourceCoal.org: Questioning the Viability of a Coal-Based Future
Appalachian Voices - Non-Profit - www.AppalachianVoices.org
OpenSourceCoal.org is an online user-friendly compendium which seeks to tame bewildering and wildly scattered government coal data. How many tons of coal were surface-mined by Massey Energy in 1998? What are the annual CO2 emissions from power plants in NC? The data available on OpenSourceCoal.org offers a comprehensive view of the rising costs and declining production of coal.
We have the tool plus relationships with the public, media, and elected officials. Free Range can provide the means of keeping the data current and disseminating this important information, helping to create a clean energy future…
601 votes -
Trash Free Potomac Watershed
Alice Ferguson Foundation - Non-Profit - trashfree.org
AFF's Trash Free Potomac Watershed Initiative seeks a Trash Free Potomac by 2013. A public education campaign is in-development to grab the attention of litterers and inspire them to change their behavior. Social marketing indicates that admitted litters of all ages and demographics respond to concerns about health, protecting their children, and cleanliness. Social marketing is essential to cost-effectively reaching the Potomac River Watershed's 6 million residents and important to the campaign's success, especially with teenage and young adult litters. The Initiative needs experts like Free Range to help create an anti-litter video…
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Water - A Chance for Peace in the Middle East
Friends of the Earth Middle East - Non-Profit - www.foeme.org/www/?module=home
Friends of the Earth do amazing work in the Middle East, bringing Jordanian, Palestinian and Israelis together to protect their shared water resources. I am looking for help to get their work better known around the world, through short films that can be put online.
16 votes -
The Value of Nature
Eco Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve - Hybrid - www.carbonneutralplanet.org
Natural capital belongs to the countries and natural deficit is a by-product of the rich ones. It is the Global South who own and work the last healthy, high biodiversity areas that sustain life on Earth, they should be sacred. There is an alternative voluntary way to reduce CO2 involving rural South communities in high biodiversity areas and to share the burden of caring for Nature's values: wildlife, water, fresh air, climate regulation, carbon dioxide capture, landscape management, recreation services, and peace of mind. Help us transfer this know-how, recognize the…
537 votes -
People4Predators
Wildlands Network - Non-Profit - www.wildlandsnetwork.org
We want a world without racism against animals -- predators, in particular. Myth, fear mongering and domination have led to the decimation of bears, cougars, and many other important species worldwide. Their disappearance is silently causing the collapse of habitats all around us. Few realize this signals our own demise. Predators are Nature's best managers. With a natural ability to maintain a balance between living things, they are our guardians, not enemies. An animated movie would call out the misguided human wildlife predator and inspire a new network of people to respect, protect and…
191 votes -
Grow nutrient dense food, regenerate soils, forests and stabilize the climate
Remineralize the Earth - Non-Profit - www.remineralize.org/
Our mission is to regenerate soils and forests and as a key strategy to sequester carbon and stabilize the climate through remineralization of soils with finely ground rock dust and sea minerals. One project we would like to duplicate is our Agroforestry project in Costa Rica designed by John Todd to provide food, fuel and income to sustain local communities. This website design grant would allow us to greatly improve our education and outreach through creating an Action Center to provide education materials to local activists, farmers and gardeners with the tools they…
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We speak Earth. She says, "F*** Me!"
Grist.org - Non-Profit - www.grist.org
At Grist, we have a little problem. As a green media platform committed to "irreverent environmentalism", we're tempted to shun Earth Day. But we know it's the one day when all eyes are on the issues. So each year, we spend a lot of time wondering what the eff we're going to do to "celebrate", and how we can use it to mobilize more people to work toward a sustainable world. We've gotten pretty creative in the past (take our Screw Earth Day and Earth: FML campaigns), but we want this year's campaign to be…
14 votes -
Nature, who me?
Eco Value - Non-Profit - www.ecovalue.org.in
"Nature - who me?", an online movie would tell people that they are "nature". Most of the urban youth thinks that nature is something that one does on a Sunday for adventure. With globalization, we fail to see the connection with everything on this planet.
Movie aims to tell people that whatever they do, it comes back, as we all are connected. What we eat, drink, and see is biodiversity. If we can convince that we all are connected, all good or bad we do is going to come back to us, it would…
11 votes -
River and Life
TREE-Training Research Education for Empowerment - Non-Profit - www.treebd.org
For centuries the river system of Bangladesh have watered the fields, put fish on the table and acted as avenue of the in and outside the world. The importance of rivers, gives them a crucial place in the ecology of myth and religion of some groups. Now people are just competing with nature and destructing its as much as they can. The result is that there is a threat of traditional livelihoods and long term impacts on ecology and environment.
However, during 1990s government polices to accelerated the country's GNP, to…
1,511 votes -
The Coexistence Project
The Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative - Non-Profit - www.nrccooperative.org
As wildlife conservation in the Western US becomes ever more embroiled in the identity politics of the nation, bringing different constituencies together for conservation grows more difficult. NRCC has a history of working constructively - but quietly - at the grassroots for successful wildlife conservation across constituencies. Now is the time to bring 20 years of lesson on wildlife coexistence to a broader audience, with the message that conservation, even of contentious species like wolves and bears, should, and can, be a common goal no matter what your politics. We seek…
8 votes -
The SuitSak
Suitsak Marketing Corp. - Profit - www.suitsk.com
By helping us create awareness about our product and allowing more people to get out of their cars and make the environmentally friendly and healthy chioce to bike to work
10 votes -
EcoCloud Innovation Network
Sustainable Silicon Valley - Non-Profit - www.sustainablesv.org
We want to create a viral story that will illustrate our vision of creating a cradle to cradle economy within the existing Silicon Valley industrial/commercial community. Our vision is to create real and virtual relationships for information and resource exchange that can be quickly scaled up for replication in other regions in the US and globally.
13 votes -
Clean energy now, help kick the oil and coal addiction.
Clean Energy Now - Non-Profit - CleanEnergyNow.ws
I need help in creating a strong and robust web site in my effort to create a clean energy popular movement. Also I much appreciate Free Range Studios previous ID logo design sensibility, and need help in this area too.
27 votes