The FishNET project has developed a low-cost, collaborative monitoring system to stop illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing in international waters and coastlines.

Information just became more accessible to the masses through Ushahidi, a non-profit company whose open source crowdsourcing and mapping software helps people deploy information in real-time. It became widely known after its critical role in the 2010 Haiti earthquake relief efforts.

Recyclebank believes mobilizing a large group of people to make small lifestyle changes can have an astounding collective positive impact on the environment.

The GSMA mWomen Programme, launched with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in October 2010,  addresses the key barriers to women’s ownership of mobile phones.

Following the migration patterns of birds, bats and insects can reveal a lot about our world—from how diseases are transmitted to how to predict weather.

Researchers at Innowattech and Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel have discovered a new way to generate clean energy by converting the mechanical energy from highways and railroads into electricity.

What began as the book Half the Sky is now a global movement to inspire societal change through empowering women worldwide.

Evergreen Brick Works hopes to epitomize the “think global, act local” mantra for urbanites in need of nature.

Panthera, a conservation NGO, contributes to sustaining our planet by protecting the world’s wildcats and their habitat.

To stop war atrocities in Sudan, George Clooney and John Prendergast of Enough Project launched the Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) to monitor the region for human rights violations.

A simple solution of fortified table salt could save the lives of some of the 3.6 million infants a year who currently die because of malnutrition.

Aviva Investors, UNPRI, UN Global Compact and UNCTAD have teamed up to promote sustainability reporting in the world’s stock exchanges.