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37 projects · 37 organizations
The first urban Indigenous women-led land trust in the US is quietly buying and receiving back parcels of Ohlone territory across the San Francisco Bay Area, acre by acre.
A grassroots effort to stitch together the largest nature reserve in the continental United States across Montana's shortgrass and mixed-grass prairie.
Retired Special Operations veterans trade combat missions for coral restoration dives, finding a new sense of purpose while helping rebuild America's reefs.
Nebraska ranchers formed the state's first prescribed burn association, pooling equipment and labor to torch encroaching cedar trees and bring their grasslands back to life.
Co-founded by Jimmy Buffett in 1981, this Florida nonprofit funds manatee rescue, rehabilitation and the Adopt-A-Manatee programme that has made the species a global conservation icon.
A collaborative of Arizona-New Mexico borderlands ranchers invented "grassbanking" — trading grazing rest on drought-hit ranches for conservation easements — to keep nearly a million acres of open range intact and productive.
Borderlands Restoration Network installs thousands of erosion-control structures across the Sky Islands drylands of the US-Mexico borderlands to heal gullied land and recharge groundwater.
America's oldest Camphill community, where adults with developmental disabilities live, farm, and garden together on a 750-acre biodynamic homestead in New York's Hudson Valley.
A national network founded by Mohawk seedkeeper Rowen White that reunites Native American nations with ancestral seeds lost to colonization and helps tribes rebuild their own seed systems.
A Maryland-founded nonprofit certifies Black middle and high school girls as scuba divers and trains them as marine science and conservation leaders.
Founded in 1969 by Marjory Stoneman Douglas, this Florida watchdog group sues, lobbies and campaigns to send clean fresh water flowing south again through the Everglades wetlands.
The original riverkeeper patrol boat that inspired a global movement still hunts down pollution on the Hudson and safeguards drinking water for millions of New Yorkers.
A national climbers' organization turns crag days into conservation days, rallying volunteers for litter clean-ups, trail work and land purchases that keep climbing areas wild.
The US nonprofit behind the country's biggest-ever dam removal, which reopened 400 miles of the Klamath River to salmon in 2024.
Formerly the Insight Garden Program, this nonprofit teaches incarcerated Californians permaculture and ecological literacy, cutting three-year reincarceration to a fraction of the state average.
Baltimore's googly-eyed, solar-and-water-powered trash-eating wheel that keeps the harbor clean.
An Indigenous-led nonprofit installs off-grid solar and battery systems for Navajo and Hopi families still living without electricity.
A Colorado nonprofit recycler where most employees are autistic or otherwise disabled, proving ethical e-waste recycling and inclusive employment go hand in hand.
Volunteers tear up unused asphalt and concrete across Portland, turning parking lots and schoolyards back into soil, trees and community green space.
Groundwork Hudson Valley uncovered a river buried under a Yonkers parking lot for 90 years, turning it back into a living stream and public park.
TreePeople plants and distributes shade trees across Los Angeles' hottest, least-canopied neighborhoods to fight extreme heat and clean the city's air.
A grassroots health movement that has mobilized more than a million Black women across the US to walk daily for their physical, mental and community health.
The Amah Mutsun Land Trust is training tribal members as wildland firefighters to bring cultural burning back to California's Central Coast, lighting the first fire of its scale in the Santa Cruz Mountains in roughly two centuries.
After wildfire killed thousands of ancient giant sequoias, this park partner is funding cone collection, nurseries, and hand-replanting to bring the burned groves back.
Charm Industrial converts leftover crop and forestry residue into bio-oil that gets injected deep underground, locking carbon away for thousands of years.
On 80 acres in upstate New York, a Black- and Indigenous-led farm is training a new generation of farmers of color while feeding families locked out of the food system.
The world's largest reef restoration organization, returning hundreds of thousands of nursery-grown corals to Florida's reefs.
A Washington DC nonprofit rescues surplus food and trains unemployed residents to cook it into scratch meals for schools and shelters.
Co-founded by Yurok tribal member Margo Robbins, the Cultural Fire Management Council is putting Indigenous-led 'good fire' back into Northern California's forests to restore basket-weaving plants, food sources, and fire-resilient land.
A Colorado nonprofit founded by a disabled Iraq war veteran that trains climbing gyms nationwide in adaptive techniques and takes climbers with disabilities on world-class rock and ice trips.
Shucked oyster shells that used to go to landfill are hauled back to the coast in mesh bags, where they seed new reefs that break the waves eating Louisiana's salt marsh.
Ship time on a deep-sea research vessel costs tens of thousands a day, which is why most of the seafloor is unexplored — so this institute gives it away and puts every dive on YouTube.
Native Seeds/SEARCH conserves and freely shares thousands of arid-adapted heirloom seed varieties tied to Indigenous farming traditions of the American Southwest.
Founded by Harlem residents in 1988, WE ACT puts air-quality sensors and policy power directly into the hands of the Black and Brown New Yorkers who breathe the city's worst air.
Residents choking on port-truck diesel exhaust turned themselves into scientists, building the community air-monitoring model that reshaped California clean-air law.
Free-diving alongside wild sharks off Oahu's North Shore, marine biologist Ocean Ramsey's team turns every encounter into photo-ID research and the advocacy that outlawed shark killing in Hawaii.
Thawing permafrost, vanished sea ice and storms with nothing to break them are taking Alaska Native villages house by house — and no US agency has the job of relocating a community.