Argument and transparency in public debate

• Quality education
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Waymo partnered with dashcam company Nexar to analyze 500 million miles of driving, including 335 crashes, to create the 'largest ever’ dataset of pedestrian and cyclist injuries

• cities
• cycling
• mobility

• Data science for social good
• Peer-reviewed research
• Hardware

Counting trucks for environmental justice

• air quality
• Reduced inequalities
• cities

• Civic data
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Cameras

The Atlas contains measurements of nine indicators for cities all around the world.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• cities
• mass transit

• Mapping
• Civic maps

In the period between the beginning of 2021 and the middle of 2022, we investigated open-source digital infrastructures used by communities that are under the constant threat of violation of civil and environmental rights.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action
• reports

• Advocacy tech
• Environmental data

DreamSpace Academy is a social enterprise tackling local socio-economic and environmental challenges through challenge-based learning, grassroots innovation and impact venture building.

• Community
• Sustainable Development Goals
• sustainability

• Innovation teams and labs
• Civic and social impact companies
• Public Interest Tech

Falling Fruit is a massive, collaborative map of the urban harvest.

• Zero hunger
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

This database by Mozilla Foundation maps intersections between the key social justice and human rights areas of our time and documented AI impacts and their manifestations in society.

• human rights
• Decent work and economic growth
• racial equity

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic tech catalogs

Developed out of NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering, Building Diagnostic Robotics (BDR) created robotics tools and AI analytics to aid in assessing building envelope efficiency.

• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities
• buildings

• Emerging tech
• Drones

Building spaces to grow the global conversation on environmental data access and use

• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Civil society research outfits
• Environmental data

Help us create the world's most advanced open database on litter, brands & plastic pollution.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• apps

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Blockchain

BLOXHUB is the Nordic Hub for Sustainable Urbanization.

• cities
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Meet the others
• Hubs
• Smart Cities and sensors

The Nordic Smart City Network is a collaboration initiative joining five Nordic countries, and currently 20 Nordic cities with a common goal: to explore the Nordic way to create livable and sustainable cities.

• cities
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Smart Cities and sensors

This map will help us grow volunteer engagement at a neighborhood level and track our progress towards increasing tree stewardship across District 33 (in New York City)

• trees
• cities
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps

We are a platform of more than 140 thousand activists, organizations and groups that mobilize to transform behaviors and attitudes, generating influence in public policies and thus building a more tolerant, fair, sustainable, inclusive and participatory country.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech
• Citizen Engagement

The Environmental Justice Index (EJI) scores census tracts using a percentile ranking which represents the proportion of tracts that experience cumulative impacts of environmental burden and injustice equal to or lower than a tract of interest.

• Good health and well-being
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps

Supporting Indigenous land and data stewards for community centered science

• indigenous
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Community Lattice is a social enterprise that helps communities understand and optimize land revitalization programs, like EPA Brownfields, as a pathway to environmental and climate justice.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

자신이 주운 쓰레기 종류와 개수 데이터를 실시간으로 누적할 수 있으며, 플로깅을 마치면 GPS기반 소요시간/이동거리 등의 활동 정보가 ‘나의 쓰담기록’으로 저장됩니다. 어플 사용자 간 실시간 랭킹을 확인할 수 있음은 물론, 어플에 개설된 다양한 컨셉의 플로깅 프로그램에 참여할 수 있어 보다 흥미롭게 ‘지구쓰담’을 즐길 수 있습니다. (An app that lets you track your litter collection efforts)

• apps
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Crowdsourcing

LandOS facilitates project design, due diligence, finance and certification – all key to unlocking supply at scale.

• Climate action
• sustainability
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• 2020 Emerging Tech Projects

Africa’s first investigative environmental journalism unit, which combines traditional investigative reporting with data analysis and geo-mapping to expose offenses and track crime syndicates

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Investigative journalism tech

How to increase public engagement in environmental issues is a central question in environmental communication and environmental psychology literatures.

• research
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Peer-reviewed research
• Academia
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

A Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek is designed in phases that we are developing over time.

• local
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artistic interventions

A Sustainable Internet for All

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action

• News and blogs

The New York Times's interactive on what belongs in the trash and what gets recycled

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Games and gamification
• Solutions journalism

Terreform ONE is a nonprofit architecture and urban design research group. We endeavor to combat the extinction of planetary species through pioneering acts of design.

• buildings
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Design

We are environmental charity with a unique approach - we use the power of our laws to protect life on Earth.

• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Legal tech

Solidarity with frontline communities using tech to defend environmental & human rights. Co-building mapping & monitoring tools. Challenging tech colonialism.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• human rights

• Digital rights

The Open Forest Protocol (OFP) is changing how forestation (reforestation, afforestation and conservation) projects are monitored, verified and funded with blockchain technology.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• forests
• Life on land

• Blockchain
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

Spark Eco will invest in solar energy projects, fund non-profits working on solar projects in developing communities, and support land preservation efforts.

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Blockchain
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

Ocean Protection, Decentralized

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Life below water

• Blockchain
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

Dataphyte is a media research and data analytics organisation with the mission to deploy data tools and technology for the socio-economic development of Nigeria.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Data science for social good

ODI & ARUP report and call to action

• Climate action
• cities
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Urban planning
• Reports

The ArcticHubs project is an ambitious, multi-disciplinary international collaboration that aims to develop research-led, practice-based solutions to help address the urgent challenges faced in the Arctic.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action
• Arctic

• Partner networks and coalitions

The South African Cities Open Data Almanac (SCODA) is a city-centric data portal that contains data and indicators on issues such as city demographics, productive cities, inclusive cities, sustainable cities and well governed cities

• cities
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Fighting air inequality through open data and community

• air quality
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Open civic data

Find Environmental Impact Assessments Near You. And register for alerts in your area.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Service alerts

EDGI is an action-oriented research collaborative driven by the Environmental Right to Know (ERTK) – the belief that people should be able to know and make decisions about environmental conditions of concern, and that the collection and stewardship of environmental information should equip people, communities, and workers to protect their health and support the flourishing of surrounding ecosystems.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Life on land

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

Data to understand who is working in a given region and what are their assets; this can improve outcomes for many applications, at multiple scales.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Mapping tools

Open source project using Raspberry Pis and sensors to learn about the health of a bee colony by monitoring the temperature and humidity inside and outside the hive over multiple years.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

A collaboration of government, nonprofits, and you to map all the trees of San Francisco's urban forest and understand the ecosystem services they provide.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Life on land

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Flex, the company’s flagship product, predicts and controls tens of thousands of energy resources from millions of customers by ingesting, storing, and managing petabytes of data from trillions of endpoints.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Responsible consumption and production

• Mapping
• Civic maps

Realize an Emissions Free World by 2040

• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Tech for public challenges
• Carbon calculators

Bloom Network is an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. Local Bloom hubs around the world grow participation in practices such as food security, local economies, celebrations of diversity, and art as cultural transformation.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Fundación Avina is a Latin American foundation created in 1994 and focused on producing the large-scale changes necessary for sustainable development by fostering collaborative processes among leaders from different sectors, thereby contributing toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

• biome
• cities
• Climate action

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors