Explore our map to find your local Tool and Lending Libraries – and start sharing in a trusted location!

These mini-libraries can foster reading and sharing culture even in communities that lack traditional library institutions. 

Tips, tricks and resources for Librarians interested in the circulation of Non-Traditional Lending items aka "Library of Things"

ShareStarter.org is the site for the proposed Lending Library Alliance (LLA). The LLA promotes the establishment of new Libraries of Things and Tool Libraries across the country and around the world by spreading the idea, inspiring the creation of new tool lending libraries, and providing the information and assistance necessary to help launch sustainable tool libraries.

Share compost waste with people and organizations that can compost them.

Join the food revolution and register your victory garden here.

Register a pantry, donated extra crops, or find a local food pantry if you are in need.

The Great Global Cleanup is a worldwide campaign to rid the environment of waste and plastic pollution for good. Join us and help create a waste-free world.

The Shoreline Cleanup currently recognizes five Canadian municipalities as Clean Shoreline Communities: The City of Vancouver, District of West Vancouver, City of Lethbridge, City of Calgary and the City of Hamilton.

Every year during Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup™, hundreds of thousands of volunteers comb lakes, rivers and beaches around the world for trash. Find a cleanup leader near you and join the movement.

The aim of Precious Plastic is to provide a global solution to the plastic waste problem. We provide machine plans, product designs, knowledge on plastic and the industry, business models and a full ecosystem that can be adopted by anyone that wants to take the problem into their own hands. Everything we learn and publish online is free and open for anyone to use and modify.

Did you know there are thousands of waterbodies across Canada that need your help? By helping scientists collect baseline data, we can notice when things go wrong and work together to solve water’s biggest problems.

Where are plastic bags banned or taxed around the world?

 Volunteers (pilots) sign up for bike rides with the elderly as often or as rarely as they want to. It’s all driven by people’s own motivation. At present (December 2021) more than 2,700 chapter locations around the world offer Cycling Without Age from well over 3,700 trishaws – and the numbers are still growing. More than 35,000 trained pilots ensure that the elderly get out of their nursing homes, out on the bikes to enjoy the fresh air and the community around them. They give them the right to wind in their hair.

Try our interactive map to find out where the climate change protests have been happening across the globe.

Our local and national groups are the core of Extinction Rebellion. Get in touch with yours by search below to connect with rebels, learn about training, and get involved.

FRIDAYS FOR FUTURE or FFF, is a youth-led and -organised global climate strike movement that started in August 2018, when 15-year-old Greta Thunberg began a school strike for climate. In the three weeks leading up to the Swedish election, she sat outside Swedish Parliament every school day, demanding urgent action on the climate crisis. She was tired of society’s unwillingness to see the climate crisis for what it is: a crisis.

Want to learn more about where deforestation is happening around the world? Use the interactive map to explore tree cover loss and forest change over time. One Tree Planted has planting projects in four global regions: North America, Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

Under the European green deal, the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 commits to planting at least 3 billion additional trees in the EU by 2030

By working closely with our partners at the U.S. Forest Service, we assess reforestation need and direct our support to where the need is greatest. From longleaf pine forests in Florida to the high alpine whitebark pine forests of the West, we’re planting millions of trees every year across our National Forests. Explore the map below to learn about our projects.