Europe · Western Europe
7 projects · 7 organizations
A rooster on a church wall in Germany means the building's energy, water, paper and waste have been audited under an environmental management system based on the EU's EMAS rules.
A Hamburg-based foundation buys up forests, moors, meadows and farmland across Germany and manages them purely for native wildlife.
Germany's leading ocean foundation sends teenage researchers to sea and has connected over 62 million people with ocean science since 2021.
A grassroots collective turned a rubble-strewn Berlin vacant lot into a mobile organic garden, and is now doing it again on a former cemetery in Neukölln.
A Brandenburg village of about 130 residents has run entirely on its own wind, solar and biogas power since 2010.
Drained peat soils are one of Europe's largest hidden carbon leaks, and this Greifswald foundation floods them back while teaching farmers to grow crops in the wet.
A nature-and-consumer group founded in 1975 has sued dozens of German cities into enforcing nitrogen-dioxide limits, and its clean-air case has now been referred to the European Court of Justice.