Asia · South-Eastern Asia
10 projects · 10 organizations
An award-winning geotourism and restoration project protecting 2,700 hectares of 60-million-year-old karst landscape in the Upper Marikina Watershed.
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.
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.
LAMAVE is a Philippine non-profit researching and protecting whale sharks, manta rays, turtles, and other marine megafauna nationwide.
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.
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.
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.
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.