Group Category: Environment & Conservation

Regeneration, Equity and Justice is a grassroots nonprofit dedicated to fostering a more equitable, just, and regenerative world. It was founded by activist…

The Story of Stuff Project promotes and organizes civic campaigns around environmentalism and sustainability. The organization was formed to build on the momentum…

Kiss the Ground promotes regenerative agriculture, which is a set of farming practices designed to reduce environmental and social harms.  Their educational programs…

Instituto Kairós is a non-profit based in São Sebastião das Águas Claras, Brazil that seeks to promote a socially equitable, culturally diverse and…

Vlad Sokhin is an award-winning documentary photographer, videographer, and multimedia producer with significant experience covering social, cultural, environmental, health, and human rights issues…

Fighting for people and planet since 1985, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) works to preserve forests, protect the climate, and uphold human rights by…

Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) partners with Indigenous and local communities to protect tropical forests and strengthen traditional culture. ACT works toward three global…

Slow Food USA is part of the global Slow Food movement creating dramatic change in more than 160 countries. In the US, there are more than 150 local chapters and 6,000 members. Slow Food USA gathers likely and unlikely allies to transform the way people produce, consume, and enjoy food.

La Via Campesina launched the idea of Food Sovereignty at the World Food Summit in 1996. This idea has since grown into a global people’s movement carried by a large diversity of social sectors, including the urban poor, environmental and consumer groups, women’s associations, fisher-folks, pastoralists, and many others. It is also recognized by several institutions and governments. Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through sustainable methods, as well as their right to define their own food and agriculture systems.

Upaya Zen Center is a Zen Buddhist practice, service, and training center. Its vision focuses on the integration of practice and social action, bringing together wisdom and compassion. Its mission is to provide a context for community practice, education in Buddhism, and social service in the areas of death and dying, prison work, the environment, women’s rights, and peace work. It endeavors to fulfill the vision of the Five Buddha Family Mandala, by understanding the integration of all of its functions.