“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.” —Rachel Carson
“We have to convince the people in the world they should tell the politicians they’re concerned.” —David Attenborough
We are in the midst of an existential crisis. Our planet is undergoing dramatic climate changes, created by humans, which threaten our existence. Fossil fuel exhaust now in the atmosphere is a big part of the problem. It traps heat, warming Earth’s atmosphere. It contributes to what scientists refer to as positive feedback loops that are harmful to life on our planet and may, in the near future, become irreversible. Each of us must do more to be part of the solution to climate change and less of the cause of climate change. It’s time we up our game and become energy and impact net zero citizens. We must each lighten our carbon and energy footprints on this overstressed planet.
Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the late 1700s, humans have put lots of carbon in the air and cut down lots of trees. This has significantly impacted Earth’s climates, resources, biodiversity, and extreme weather events. Scientific evidence indicates that human activities like the burning of fossil fuels have recently led to 17 of the 18 warmest years on record. Ice is one of the casualties. Glaciers are retreating. Greenland and Antarctica are each losing no less than 36 cubic miles of ice every year. The melt has a global affect, already harming communities and wildlife. Many things in nature are out of our control and can’t be changed. But human impact can be changed. Each one of us can help … by reducing our carbon footprint. Taking action now is smarter than waiting until costly, irreversible climate change happens. We need to act to preserve Earth’s precious ice. Taking action now is smarter than waiting until costly, irreversible climate change happens.
We can make choices every day that lighten our individual carbon footprint:
Use less electricity, gas, water and petroleum products, including plastics.
Choose the clean energy options offered on your utility accounts.
Compost. Plant trees. Eat fewer animal products. Eat more organically and locally-grown plants
Drive and fly less. Bicycle and walk more. Use public transportation.
Purchase fuel-efficient vehicles.
Encourage elected officials to impose a carbon fee and dividend.
Working together, our collective actions will make an impact now, when we need it most.
Citizens Climate Lobby: Empowering everyday people to work together on climate change solutions. Their supporters are organized in more than 400 local chapters across the United States. Together they’re building support in Congress for a national bipartisan solution to climate change.
Science Moms founded this website to help mothers who are concerned about their children’s planet, but aren’t confident in their knowledge about climate change or how they can help. Great people with great love for our planet.
MERGE was created by The Climate Action Committee of Radnor Meeting in Pennsylvania, believing that Quakers are called to think globally and act in community, acknowledging responsibility within the current environmental crisis.
Osterberg Lab For Ice, Climate and Pollution, Dartmouth College - Climate scientist Erich Osterberg, Dartmouth College points out that 2,000 elephants charging into the ocean every second would equal the amount of ice melting into the oceans from Greenland. That’s 250 billion tons of ice lost from Greenland every year.
Environmental Defense Fund is one of the world’s leading environmental organizations.
The Sierra Club Foundation promotes climate solutions, conservation, and movement building through a powerful combination of strategic philanthropy and grassroots advocacy. The Foundation is the fiscal sponsor of Sierra Club’s charitable environmental programs.
Union of Concerned Scientists uses science to make change happen. They are experts and everyday people, fighting for change together.
Greenpeace is a global, independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful protest and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future.
Quakers and Climate Change: Many Quakers worldwide view climate change as a peace and justice concern. They seek to transform the human activities which feed environmental crises unprecedented in human history, including the rate of species extinction, ocean acidification, soil erosion, chemical pollution and the rate of rising global temperature. Many Quakers view these crises as symptoms of a broken relationship with the Earth. In turn, they seek to live with hope and love, to live more sustainably and fairly in cherishing Creation.
The Natural Resources Defense Council: Defending our air, water, communities, and wild places requires more than a single voice.
Earth Justice: The lawyers for the environment.
350.org stands up to the fossil fuel industry to stop all new coal, oil and gas projects and build clean energy for all.
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions: Building common ground for practical climate solutions. From the local to the global, teaming up with policymakers, businesses and other stakeholders to meet our critical climate and energy challenges.
Getting to Zero is the most ambitious effort in human history. Every year, humans add 51 billion tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. If we’re going to avoid a climate disaster, we have to get from 51 billion to zero in just 30 years.
Founded in 2014, Project Drawdown® is a nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world reach “Drawdown”— the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline. Stopping global warming is possible with solutions that exist today.
With over 200 businesses, cities, and countries committed to 100% clean, renewable energy, momentum is building. The Solutions Project is here to support that momentum and accelerate the transition to clean energy for all. They honor clean energy leaders, invest in promising solutions, and build relationships between unlikely allies.
The Nature Conservancy: Conserving the lands and waters on which all life depends. Every acre they protect, every river mile restored, every species brought back from the brink, begins with you. Your support will help make a lasting difference around the world in 79 countries and territories.
The mission of Green America is to harness economic power—the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace—to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society. They help people in their roles as consumers, investors, business owners, homeowners, community activists, teachers, people of faith, children and parents, to take both personal and collective action that promotes positive social and environmental progress.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.
Yale Program on Climate Change: Conducting scientific research on public climate change knowledge, attitudes, policy preferences, and behavior, and the underlying psychological, cultural, and political factors that influence them. They engage the public in climate change science and solutions, in partnership with governments, media organizations, companies, and civil society, and with a daily, national radio program, Yale Climate Connections.
Global Warming Policy Foundation
Fire Drill Fridays: Joining Greta Thunberg, Jane Fonda and many others to stand up for climate action.
The Earth Institute of Columbia University: Columbia’s Earth Institute blends research in the physical and social sciences, education and practical solutions to help guide the world onto a path toward sustainability.
Real Climate: A one stop link for resources that people can use to get up to speed on the issue of climate change.
Planet Ark: Positive environmental actions for everyone
Environmental News Network has a mission to inform, educate, enable and create a platform for global environmental action.
World Wildlife Federation views climate change as is perhaps the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system, and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.
Conservation International protects the nature we all rely on for food, fresh water and livelihoods.
Audubon Society urges Congress to support climate solutions.
Friends of the Earth fight for a more healthy and just world. They speak truth to power and expose those who endanger the health of people and the planet for corporate profit. They organize to build long-term political power and campaign to change the rules of our economic and political systems that create injustice and destroy nature.
Climate.org: Instrumental in moving climate change onto the international agenda, fostering collaboration between developing countries and richer nations, and in launching and implementing pioneering studies and initiatives on subjects such as environmental refugees, transforming the energy infrastructure of small island states, and catalyzing policymaker focus on the necessity of limiting emissions of black carbon and other short-lived climate forcers.
Save Our Environment is a national coalition for the environment and a collaborative effort of the nation’s most influential environmental advocacy organizations harnessing the power of the internet to increase public awareness and activism on today’s most important environmental issues.
Our good friends The Okee Dokee Brothers have affiliated with Askov Finlayson that writes, “We can’t imagine the North without cold winters. And so we created a climate positive company to help protect the very thing our products are designed to celebrate. We hold ourselves accountable for our carbon footprint and Give 110% to support leading-edge solutions to the climate crisis each and every year. Together, we can Keep The North Cold™ for generations to come.”
“There are so many things we can do starting with talking about climate change, even when it’s uncomfortable … Vote for the people who are the bravest, who have the courage to step up and do the right thing.”
Oceans are the lifeblood of the planet. They produce one-half of the world’s oxygen. They absorb a quarter of the carbon emitted into the atmosphere. From fish, they provide one-sixth of the protein humans eat.
We haven’t treated them well. A garbage truck of plastic enters the oceans every minute, contributing to those floating massive junk yards. Some ocean locations are like underwater deserts because they’re overfished and poorly managed. We must be better stewards of the oceans, protecting and preserving them the way we protect and preserve national parks.
The Ocean Cleanup uses exciting new technology that super-excites the techies in Force For Good. They aim to remove 90 % of floating ocean plastic, which requires global initiative. With the help and support of individuals, corporations, and governments all over the world, they aim to realize the mission and work towards a future where plastic no longer pollutes our oceans.
Oceanic Global inspires us to care deeply for the ocean and provides solutions to protect it. This international NGO sheds light on humanity’s essential relationship to the ocean and empowers individuals, communities, and industries to create positive change. They create educational experiences, consultations on sustainable operations, and engage local communities to generate measurable impact for our collective well-being.
Fabien Cousteau Ocean Learning Center was created to empower local communities to champion ocean conservation in ways that are most meaningful to them.
Ocean Futures Society has a mission to explore our global ocean, inspiring and educating people throughout the world to act responsibly for its protection, documenting the critical connection between humanity and nature, and celebrating the ocean's vital importance to the survival of all life on the planet.
ThisFish Inc. is a leader in seafood traceability and production software that improves business efficiency and increases trust and accuracy in supply chain data. Their mission is to improve the social, environmental, and financial sustainability of the seafood industry. CEO Enno Tamm: “We can track where fish come from. 25% of imported seafood is illegal or unregulated. Fish processors can change that fast. Digital data makes it easy to choose sustainable fish.”
Here’s One Green Planet’s list of “Ten Amazing Organizations Bravely Fighting for Marine Conservation.”
Oceana works to protect the oceans. Our oceans and marine life face threats from plastic pollution to climate change to overfishing.
The Inland Ocean Coalition’s approach is unique in that they give inland communities a voice in protecting our oceans by empowering them to become ocean champions in their communities and connecting them with their legislative leaders. This unique niche allows IOC to work with its chapters and supporters around the United States to convey to legislative leaders that we all have a stake in ocean protection, even if we live inland.
Conservation International has worked since 1987 to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity. Combining fieldwork with innovations in science, policy, and finance, they’ve helped protect more than 2.3 million square miles of land and sea across more than 70 countries. They have offices in more than two dozen countries and a worldwide network of thousands of partners.
Project Zero is supported by renowned scientists, business leaders, culture makers, campaigners, and ocean experts who are all working to awaken the fight to protect and restore the ocean.
Clean Ocean Action’s mission is to improve the degraded water quality of the marine waters off the NJ/NY coast. They use research, education, and citizen action to unite and empower people to protect the ocean.
Ocean Conservancy educates and empowers citizens to take action on behalf of the ocean. From the Arctic to the Gulf of Mexico to the halls of Congress, they bring people together to find solutions for our water planet. Informed by science, their work guides policy and engages people in protecting the ocean and its wildlife for future generations
Ocean Pledge creates ocean-inspired projects geared toward turning awareness into action, to shift the paradigms in perceptions and behaviors that have contributed to a throw-away culture.
The National Ocean Service provides data, tools, and services that support coastal economies and their contribution to the national economy.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, works to understand and protect the planet and find solutions to our most pressing environmental challenges.
Urban Ocean Lab cultivates rigorous, creative, equitable, and practical climate and ocean policy for the future of coastal cities.
The Surfrider Foundation is dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world’s oceans, waves, and beaches for all people through a powerful activist network.
The Office of National Marine Sanctuaries serves as the trustee for a network of underwater parks encompassing more than 600,000 square miles of marine and Great Lakes waters from Washington state to the Florida Keys, and from Lake Huron to American Samoa. The network includes a system of 14 national marine sanctuaries and Papahānaumokuākea and Rose Atoll marine national monuments.
The Nature Conservancy is a global environmental nonprofit working to create a world where people and nature can thrive. Founded at its grassroots in the United States in 1951, The Nature Conservancy has grown to become one of the most effective and wide-reaching environmental organizations in the world. Thanks to more than a million members and the dedicated efforts of diverse staff and more than 400 scientists, they impact conservation in 72 countries and territories: 38 by direct conservation impact and 34 through partners.
From a David Lang TED Talk, Reef Check empowers people to save our reefs and oceans.
Rutgers Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences explores critical processes on this ocean planet.
Greenpeace efforts help protect the oceans.
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system, and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is the world’s independent leader in ocean discovery, exploration, and education, working to understand and sustain one of humanity’s most precious common resources.
Ocean’s Visions connects oceanographic and academic research institutions, marine resource managers, conservation organizations, investors, entrepreneurs, and governments to collaborate on the development, testing, and deployment of scalable and equitable solutions in the ocean-climate nexus.
“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”—Jacques Yves Cousteau
“There’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.”—Sarah Kay
“If the ocean can calm itself, so can you. We are both salt water mixed with air.”—Nayyirah Waheed
“Be alone with the sea for it is there you will find answers to questions you didn’t realize exist.”—Khang Kijarro Nguyen
“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”—Rachel Carson
“For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.”
“From outer space Earth looks like an awesome blue marble. That’s because most of Earth’s surface—more than 70 percent—is covered by oceans.”
“An estimated 50-80% of all life on earth is found under the ocean surface”
“I really don’t know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea (…) And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea – whether it is to sail or to watch it – we are going back from whence we came.”
“If you do just one thing—make one conscious choice—that can change the world, go organic. Buy organic food. Stop using chemicals and start supporting organic farmers. No other single choice you can make to improve the health of your family and the planet will have greater positive repercussions for our future.”—Maria Rodale
Organic food is simply food grown the way it used to be. Today, the majority of food crops are engineered with chemicals and sprayed with pesticides and herbicides. Organics are more nutritious and delicious, just the way nature intended. Eating organically grown food benefits our health. It’s good for the people who eat it. It’s good for the people who grow it. And it’s good for the people who live downstream and downwind of the organic farms that grow it. Organic matter is the lifeblood of fertile, productive, healthy soil. And soil is the lifeblood of our planet.
Organic Farmers Association has a mission to provide a strong and unified national voice for domestic certified organic producers.
Snipes Farm & Education Center in Morrisville, PA, U.S. has a mission to model and teach sustainable farming, while building community and reconnecting people to the land. We filmed here for our Organic song-film.
Northeast Organic Farming Association is a coalition of seven state chapters. Their purpose is to advocate for and educate on organic and sustainable agriculture, family-scale farming, and homesteading in rural, suburban and urban areas, agricultural justice and other related policy issues.
Pennsylvania Sustainable Agriculture a Pennsylvania has promoted sustainable agriculture association since 1992. Their vision is of a world where agriculture nourishes, heals, and empowers. Their missions is to cultivate environmentally sound, economically viable, community-focused farms and food systems.
Midwest Organic Services Association promotes organic integrity through practical, reliable, and friendly certification services.
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association is a broad-based community that educates about and advocates for organic agriculture, illuminating its interdependence with a healthy environment, local food production, and thriving communities.
The Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont promotes organic practices to build an economically viable, ecologically sound and socially just Vermont agricultural system that benefits all living things.
Community Supported Agriculture supports real food, real farmers, and real community.
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system, and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.
Conservation International protects the nature we all rely on for food, fresh water, and livelihoods.
Friends of the Earth fights for a healthier and just world. They speak truth to power and expose those who endanger the health of people and the planet for corporate profit. They organize to build long-term political power and campaign to change the rules of economic and political systems that create injustice and destroy nature.
Committee on Sustainability Assessment helps organizations understand sustainability with easy and credible, science-based solutions.
“We must make organic the conventional choice and not the exception available only to the rich and educated.”
The world consumes 60 million plastic bottles every hour. The United States consumes 24 million of them every hour, and less than a quarter end up recycled. A plastic bottle can take up to 450 years to decompose. Enough plastic is thrown away each year to circle the earth four times. The equivalent of a garbage truck of plastic ends up in our oceans every minute. There is good news. Some forward-thinking communities are part of the pollution solution. They’ve outlawed plastic bags, Styrofoam, and straws. Europe has banned single-use plastic. It’s a lot cheaper to recycle plastic than to make it from scratch, and in the U.S., we’re starting to recycle more materials, but we still have a long way to go to catch up to the latest technologies.
People profiting from the creation of plastic must be held accountable for plastic pollution. Let’s initiate EPR - Extended Producer Responsibility - to hold the manufacturers of plastic accountable for the mess they’ve created. Let’s do a better job of reducing, reusing, and recycling plastic. We don’t have a disposable planet. Don’t be useless. Use less. Say no to plastic. Ban single-use plastic. Ban plastic foam containers. Ban plastic bags.
Plastic Pollution Coalition is a growing global alliance of more than 1,200 organizations, businesses, and thought leaders in 75 countries working toward a world free of plastic pollution and its toxic impact on humans, animals, waterways, the ocean, and the environment. We at Force For Good are proud members of this organization of people dedicated to doing the right things.
Plastic Change is a Danish environmental organization working hard to break the exponential growth of plastic pollution on a global scale.
ECHO Systems is on a mission to make less trash by building a sustainable model run by a network of environmental experts, local businesses, passionate members, and the next generation of community leaders. ECHO systems designs integrative models to replace everyday single use plastic items with convenient reusable options. Their programs are designed to grow on the local level, seed community engagement, increase awareness, and generate solutions. Force For Good has had the pleasure of working with this organization and its founder and CEO, Alisa Shargorodsky.
Break Free from Plastic is a global movement envisioning a future free from plastic pollution. Since its launch in 2016, more than 11,000 organizations and individual supporters from across the world have joined the movement to demand massive reductions in single-use plastics and to push for lasting solutions to the plastic pollution crisis. BFFP member organizations and individuals share the common values of environmental protection and social justice, and work together through a holistic approach in order to bring about systemic change under the #breakfreefromplastic core pillars. This means tackling plastic pollution across the whole plastics value chain - from extraction to disposal – focusing on prevention rather than cure and providing effective solutions.
Waste Free Advocates is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering and connecting Oregon communities to minimize overconsumption and waste.
HERE ARE SOME OF THE FILMS WE WATCHED TO HELP US CREATE THE INFORMATION IN OUR MUSIC VIDEO:
Open Your Eyes is a compelling four-minute video featuring stunning plastic pollution information, featuring Jeff Bridges.
The Story of Plastic (Documentary Film) is a compelling two-minute video backed by a song by Jackson Browne with plastic pollution information that will inflame and activate anyone with the eyes and ears to let this one sink in.
Don’t Throw it Away (By Keb Mo Featuring Taj Mahal) is an inspiring three-minute video encouraging all to refuse single-use plastic.
Breathe This Air, created by Peak Plastic Foundation, is an eight-minute documentary that reveals how the costs of polluting refineries inflict the most damage on low-income and color communities.
Here’s a National Geographic running list of action on plastic pollution. The world is waking up to a crisis of ocean plastic. They’re tracking the developments and solutions as they happen.
Waste Authority has a vision to make Western Australia a sustainable, low-waste, circular economy in which human health and the environment are protected from the impacts of waste.
Total Green Recycling is putting a stop to the flow of electronic waste to landfills. They recover useful materials and redirect them into productive, profitable, green enterprise solutions. They support local communities with purposeful employment and education. They strive to clean our environment and to reduce carbon emissions, one electronic device at a time.
Here’s a great book by Beth Terry titled Plastic-Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too. Like many people, Beth Terry didn't think an individual could have much impact on the environment. She read an article about the staggering amount of plastic polluting the oceans and decided then and there to kick her plastic habit. Now she wants to teach you how you can too. In her quirky and humorous style, Terry provides solutions and tips on how to limit your plastic footprint.
An October 8, 2019, game-changing, inspiring TED talk by Andrew Forrest about a way to make recycling of plastic viable.
Living Without Plastic: More Than 100 Easy Swaps for Home, Travel, Dining, Holidays, and Beyond is “An eye-opening guide on how to lessen one’s dependence on plastics. . . . This is a clarion, convincing wake-up call to the scope of the global plastic problem and what readers can do about it.” —Publishers Weekly
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system, and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.
“Only we humans make waste that nature can’t digest.”—Charles Moore
“We don’t need a handful of people doing zero waste perfectly. We need millions of people doing it imperfectly.”
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”
“Waste is a design flaw.”
“We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.”
The sun is absolutely brilliant! In 15 minutes, it radiates as much energy as humans consume in an entire year. Solar energy is the cheapest and most abundant energy source on Earth. Over 1.6 million solar power systems in the United States are generating enough electricity to power 9.5 million homes.
And we’re just getting started. Want to make money while the sun shines? Want to help reduce dependency on fossil fuels without exhausting yourself marching in protests and lobbying reluctant politicians? Invest in solar panels! (You might still protest and lobby too.) The future is bright. Go solar!
Vote Solar fights for a 100% clean energy transition that puts the interests, health, and well-being of people at its center.
Getting to Zero is perhaps the most ambitious effort in human history. Every year, humans add 51 billion tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. To avoid a climate disaster, we have to get from 51 billion to zero in just 30 years.
Exact Solar is a solar energy advocate and solar panel installer who installed 26 panels on Jonathan’s home in 2017, helping him earn an 8% return on his investment while offsetting more than 64,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions in the first five years!
PennEnvironment helps protect the places we all love and promote core environmental values, such as clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and clean energy to power our lives. They focus on timely, targeted action that wins tangible improvements in the quality of our environment and our lives. Jonathan and Rodney were invited to show three of our films at one of their Climate Crisis Conferences in a Philadelphia suburb.
Groundswell develops community solar projects and programs that connect solar power with economic empowerment. They believe that clean energy is a necessity, not a luxury; we’re all in this together; and we can’t afford to leave our neighbors in need behind.
The Solar Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to advancing the use of solar and solar-compatible technologies worldwide. They believe increasing access to this clean, abundant, reliable, and affordable energy source will lift up people’s lives and bring about a prosperous future for all.
The American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) is a 501(c)(3) national nonprofit organization that unites finance, policy, and technology to accelerate the transition to a renewable energy economy.
Planet Ark is Australia's most trusted environmental organization. They provide positive environmental actions, for everyone.
Citizens Climate Lobby empowers everyday people to work together on climate change solutions. Their supporters are organized in more than 400 local chapters across the United States. They work to build support in Congress for a national bipartisan solution to climate change. Force For Good has worked with the local Philadelphia, PA, United States chapter. These are compassionate, smart, global-minded people who work selflessly for this greater cause.
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system, and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.
Conservation International works to protect the nature we all rely on for food, fresh water, and livelihoods.
Earth Day has been celebrated every April 22 since 1970. Each of us has the power to change the world.
Friends of the Earth fights for a healthier and just world. They speak truth to power and expose those who endanger the health of people and the planet for corporate profit. They organize to build long-term political power and campaign to change the rules of economic and political systems that create injustice and destroy nature.
The Earth Times aims to provide with current environmental news coverage and green blogs to give background information needed to better understand what can sometimes be complicated and controversial environmental issues.
Alliance to Save Energy works toward using energy more productively to achieve economic growth, a cleaner environment and greater energy security, affordability and reliability.
Climate Institute is instrumental in moving climate change onto the international agenda, fostering collaboration between developing countries and richer nations, and in launching and implementing pioneering studies and initiatives on subjects such as environmental refugees, transforming the energy infrastructure of small island states, and catalyzing policymaker focus on the necessity of limiting emissions of black carbon and other short-lived climate forcers.
RFF’s mission is to improve environmental, energy, and natural resource decisions through impartial economic research and policy engagement.
Sustainable Princeton (NJ, United States) is leading community change toward sustainability.
Quakers and Climate Change involves Quakers worldwide who view climate change as a peace and justice concern. They seek to transform the human activities which feed environmental crises unprecedented in human history, including the rate of species extinction, ocean acidification, soil erosion, chemical pollution, and the rate of rising global temperature.
Established in 1954, American Solar Energy Society is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that advocates for sustainable living and 100% renewable energy by sharing information, events and resources to cultivate community and power progress.
Founded in 2014, Project Drawdown® is a nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world reach “Drawdown”— the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline. Stopping global warming is possible with solutions that exist today.
Environmental Defense Fund works to reduce energy waste while saving customers money.
The Solar Electric Light Fund mission is to design and implement solar energy solutions to assist the 1.2 billion people living in energy poverty with their economic, educational, health care and agricultural development. Since 1990, SELF has completed projects in more than 25 countries and pioneered unique applications of solar power such as for drip irrigation in Benin, health care in Haiti, telemedicine in the Amazon rainforest, online learning in South Africa, and micro-enterprise development in Nigeria.
Power Up Gambia The Gambia Ministry of Energy has named solar power for decentralized electricity production as the top renewable energy opportunity in The Gambia. Providing solar power solutions to hospitals and clinics is a priority issue for the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. This well run and heartfelt organization was the charitable recipient of our Force For Good online Solar Energy event in 2021.
The Philadelphia Solar Energy Association (PSEA) is a volunteer based, member supported nonprofit whose goal is to promote the rapid adoption of solar energy in the Philadelphia region and across the state. Founded in 1980, PSEA has sponsored the Junior Solar Sprint every year since 1994, inspiring many young people to pursue careers in math and science. PSEA has played a key role in the development of clean energy policies in Pennsylvania in order to accelerate the adoption of solar energy to reduce our collective carbon footprint, improve energy security and move toward energy independence.
“We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Natures inexhaustible sources of energy – sun, wind and tide. … I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”
When it comes to wind turbines, we’re big fans! Wind energy is the main source of U.S. renewable energy. In 2020, 8.4% of U.S. electricity was generated from wind. America’s wind energy potential is 17 times the annual U.S. electricity consumption. One modern wind turbine can generate enough power for 500 homes. In a year, one new turbine can offset the equivalent of 900 gas-powered cars’ worth of carbon. There are more than 60,000 utility-scale wind turbines in the United States in 41 states, Guam, and Puerto Rico. The 2019 U.S. wind capacity offset an estimated 198 million metric tons of CO₂ emissions.
“We should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”—Thomas Edison
Getting to Zero is the most ambitious effort in human history. Every year, humans add 51 billion tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. If we’re going to avoid a climate disaster, we have to get from 51 billion to zero in just 30 years.
Ampyx Power is developing utility-scale Airborne Wind Energy Systems with tethered wings that convert stronger winds above 200 meters into electricity. Using compact systems, they avoid the use of heavy towers and foundations, making it a cost-effective and environmentally friendly solution for the production of wind energy.
Skypull uses advanced drone technology to generate wind energy.
Kitepower develops the future generation of wind energy systems. Innovative technology can significantly reduce the cost of wind energy and can be used in remote locations. Their systems are environmentally friendly with minimal visual and noise impact.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory focuses on creative answers to today's energy challenges. From breakthroughs in fundamental science to new clean technologies to integrated energy systems that power our lives, NREL researchers are transforming the way the nation and the world use energy.
Resources For the Future’s mission is to improve environmental, energy, and natural resource decisions through impartial economic research and policy engagement.
American Wind Energy Association is the voice of wind energy in the United States promoting renewable energy to power a cleaner, stronger America.
Citizens Climate Lobby is committed to building the political will for the climate solutions we all need. As empowered citizens, they talk with neighbors, friends, and local officials about how national climate action can help ensure a healthy future while strengthening the American economy. We at Force For Good are big fans (so to speak) and supporters of our local CCL group.
PennEnvironment protects the places we love while promoting core environmental values, such as clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and clean energy to power our lives. They focus on timely, targeted action that wins tangible improvements in the quality of our environment and lives. We are Force For Good are big fans (so to speak) of PE. Our Wind film debuted at their Philadelphia Climate Change Conference in 2019.
Sustainable Princeton (NJ, United States) is leading community change toward sustainability.
The Global Wind Energy Council has a mission to ensure that wind power establishes itself as the answer to today’s energy challenges, providing substantial environmental and economic benefits. They help deliver the jobs, clean and affordable power, and energy security needed for a sustainable economic recovery.
American Clean Power is the voice of companies from across the clean power sector that are powering America’s future and providing cost-effective solutions to the climate crisis while creating jobs, spurring massive investment in the U.S. economy, and driving high-tech innovation across the nation. Sustainability is at the core of everything the people at ACP do. In addition to supporting policies that advance America’s clean energy economy, ACP also focuses on reducing their own operational impact on the environment and encourages staff to use best practices to promote sustainability in their personal lives.
World Wind Energy Association is an international non-profit association embracing the wind sector worldwide, with more than 600 members in some 100 countries, working for the promotion and worldwide deployment of wind energy technology.
This is a list of wind farms in the US (most are in the Great Plains) with a fascinating graph and statistics indicating leading states (North Dakota).
American Council on Renewable Energy is a national nonprofit organization that unites finance, policy, and technology to accelerate the transition to a renewable energy economy. They provide a focal point for collaborative advocacy across the renewable energy sector.
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system, and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.
“Twelve states in the Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater then the electric use of our entire nation.”
“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls while others build windmills.”—Chinese Proverb
“The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”—John Muir
“The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.”—Ramakrishna
“First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe.... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it! It only serves to turn a few mills, blow a few vessels across the ocean, and a few trivial ends besides. What a poor compliment do we pay to our indefatigable and energetic servant!”
“U.S. wind power has more than tripled over the past decade, and today is the largest source of renewable electricity in the country.”
“As yet, the wind is an untamed, and unharnessed force; and quite possibly one of the greatest discoveries hereafter to be made, will be the taming, and harnessing of it.”
