Get Involved in Your World
Earth Designs owner Jeff De Pew urges you to get involved
in the world. Get started with the following organizations
making a real difference in the world today.
Leave No Trace
The Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics is an educational,
nonprofit organization dedicated to the responsible enjoyment
and active stewardship of the outdoors by all people, worldwide.
Global Response
Global Response empowers people of all ages, cultures, and
nationalities to protect the environment by creating partnerships
for effective citizen action. At the request of indigenous
peoples and grassroots organizations, Global Response organizes
urgent international letter campaigns to help communities
prevent many kinds of environmental destruction.
The
Action Blog
Save endangered species. Stand up for human rights. Protect
a forest from being cut down -- all in a day's work.
Care2
The global network for organizations and people who "Care2" make
a difference!
BoGo
Light
A scientific, eco-friendly breakthrough that is making an
impact worldwide and improving lives by replacing costly
kerosene, candles, and disposable battery flashlights with
an affordable, long lasting, solar flashlight.
PlayPumps: Kids Play, Water Pumps
A life-changing and life-saving invention – the PlayPump® water
system -- can provide easy access to clean drinking water,
bring joy to children, and lead to improvements in health,
education, gender equality, and economic development. The
PlayPump systems are innovative, sustainable, patented water
pumps powered by children at play. Installed near schools,
the PlayPump system doubles as a water pump and a merry-go-round
for children. The PlayPump system also provides one of the
only ways to reach rural and peri-urban communities with
potentially life saving public health messages.
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