The internet is a marvellous place. Here are a few websites that I’ve come across recently and reckon are worth sharing with you. In their own words:
Global Cool is run by the Global Cool Foundation, a not-for-profit that specialises in communicating sustainability to the mainstream. […] Since 2006 Global Cool has been helping you lead a greener and happier life by showing you countless ways to help protect the planet without sacrificing the things you enjoy.
Green Thing is a public service that inspires people to lead a greener life. With the help of brilliant videos and inspiring stories from creative people and community members around the world, Green Thing focuses on seven things you can do – and enjoy doing. Join people from 209 countries doing their green things and making a difference.
Over two years, Postulate One will document 5-7 visionaries, all under 30, who are working on a unique solution to the global issues of microfinance, education, and the environment. As the stories unfold, they will bring perspective on these issues to our viewers through the lens of their individual struggles. They are human interest stories that viewers can watch in real time, participate in and have the power to influence. Postulate One will serve as a platform that enables viewers to build direct relationships with the visionaries, and support their cause by sharing media, offering business connections, or donating.
Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Adbusters is a not-for-profit, reader-supported, 120,000-circulation magazine concerned about the erosion of our physical and cultural environments by commercial forces. Our work has been embraced by organizations like Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, has been featured in hundreds of alternative and mainstream newspapers, magazines, and television and radio shows around the world. Adbusters offers incisive philosophical articles as well as activist commentary from around the world addressing issues ranging from genetically modified foods to media concentration. In addition, our annual social marketing campaigns like Buy Nothing Day and Digital Detox Week have made us an important activist networking group.
[We] bring you the second, third, and fourth level of analysis you will not find anywhere else. Be it doping in sport, hot topics like Caster Semenya or Oscar Pistorius, or the dehydration myth, we try to translate the science behind sports and sports performance.
Just because I have found these sites interesting and included them here should not be considered a recommendation of any goods, services, or causes that these sites may promote. I’m certainly not responsible for any of them, and trust that you’re intelligent enough to form your own opinions.
