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The following initiatives (in alphabetical order), conducted by a variety of organizations and individuals around the world, demonstrate the Zeitz Foundation’s philosophy on the ground:
Bushblok – turning a thorn bush into briquetteshttp://www.cheetah.org/?nd=ccf_bush_project
The purpose of the Bush Project is to create a viable market for biomass products derived in environmentally and socially appropriate means. This project encourages the removal of excess bush from Namibian farmlands.
Carbon Footprinthttp://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator1.html
A carbon footpring is a measure of the impact our activities have on the environment, and in particular climate change. It relates to the amount of greenhouse gases produced in our day-to-day lives through burning fossil fuels for electricity, heating and transportation etc. This site allows you to calculate your impact.
Conservation for Poverty Reduction Initiativehttp://www.iucn.org/about/work/initiatives/sp_cprihome/
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) launched the Conservation for Poverty Reduction Initiative (CPRI) to harness and focus the institutional capacity in biodiversity conservation as a tool for improving human well-being and to provide a facility to mobilize needed complementary skills through partnerships and alliances.
Danamon Go Greenhttp://www.danamonpeduli.or.id/index.php?op=kegiatan&id=2&lang=en
This project converts market organic waste into high-quality organic fertilizer. Through this program, Indonesia is striving to obtain food self-sufficiency based on organic farming.
Ecosystem Marketplacewww.ecosystemmarketplace.com/pages/dynamic/web.page.php
The Ecosystem Marketplace, a project of Forest Trends, is a leading source of news, data, and analytics on markets and payments for ecosystem services (such as water quality, carbon sequestration, and biodiversity.
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