Asia · South-Eastern Asia
15 projects · 15 organizations
An award-winning geotourism and restoration project protecting 2,700 hectares of 60-million-year-old karst landscape in the Upper Marikina Watershed.
Grown out of the campaign that won the Philippines' Clean Air Act, this coalition now battles the backyard trash fires that keep filling Filipino neighborhoods with toxic smoke.
A Portland-based nonprofit partners with grassroots engineers to build community-owned micro-hydro systems that bring reliable, affordable electricity to Indigenous villages in the Philippine highlands.
A Manila social enterprise run entirely by a Deaf team, turning discarded bottles, jars, and fabric into home and wellness goods that keep waste out of landfills.
Filipino cyclists ranked their own cities and malls on how bike-friendly they actually were, and the mayors started competing for the rating.
LAMAVE is a Philippine non-profit researching and protecting whale sharks, manta rays, turtles, and other marine megafauna nationwide.
Manila Water Foundation says it has led the installation of over 300 multi-faucet hand-hygiene stations in Philippine schools and public institutions, many with ten taps so a whole class can wash at once.
A Manila-based network founded in 2001 turns air-quality science into action plans for hundreds of choking Asian cities, from Metro Manila to New Delhi.
A farmer-scientist alliance safeguarding the Philippines' rice heritage by collecting, breeding and freely sharing thousands of traditional and climate-resilient rice varieties.
The Philippines' oldest conservation group replants degraded watersheds with native, fruit-bearing trees instead of fast-growing exotics, rebuilding both forests and rural livelihoods.
Oriental Mindoro's church launched a renewable energy plan in December 2025 and by September 2026 had solar running at 19 of its 43 parishes and facilities, ahead of schedule.
Seahorse photos uploaded by ordinary divers revealed a Philippine hot spot, and local communities answered by creating a new marine protected area.
A grassroots, almost entirely Ifugao-run movement that keeps the 2,000-year-old, UNESCO-listed Cordillera rice terraces alive by getting mountain farmers and youth back onto abandoned paddies.
The Philippines' native giant clam was written off as extinct in the 1980s, until a hatchery in Palawan found survivors, spawned 132 million of them, and started planting them back on protected reefs.
Small-scale gold miners handle mercury because it works and they were never shown anything else — so the argument that changed minds was not health, it was that gravity methods recover more gold.