Europe · Western Europe
8 projects · 8 organizations
Founded by surfers in Biarritz in 1990, this network now organizes thousands of volunteer cleanups on beaches, riverbanks and seabeds across Europe every year.
A French company channeling corporate funding into certified forest restoration and agroforestry projects worldwide.
A nationwide alliance of more than 70 French farmer and gardener organizations working to keep peasant seed varieties in circulation outside the industrial seed trade.
Supermarket collection drives run by volunteers in towns across France feed a national stockpile of pads and tampons that goes to people who cannot afford them.
Founded by Abbé Pierre in 1949 to house Paris's homeless, this movement now runs hundreds of self-funding solidarity communities on four continents.
French clean-air association Respire helped push Paris to 279 car-free or calmed streets outside schools, and in 2026 celebrated forcing Suez to drop an incinerator project at Istres.
Founded in 1912 to stop the slaughter of puffins in Brittany, LPO is now France's largest nature-protection association, sheltering wildlife across a 70,000-hectare refuge network.
A tiny Paris NGO took on France's industrial fishing lobby with a comic strip, 900,000 signatures and a decade of stubbornness — and got deep-sea trawling outlawed across the EU.