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Earth Island?s Project Support Program provides essential services and support for new and established projects working across a spectrum of bold environmental initiatives.
Since our founding in have helped launch some 200 projects.
Some have remained with Earth Island for the entirety of their existence, while others have spun off to become independent nonprofit organizations.
In fiscal year our Project Support Program provided services for 83 projects located across the United States and around the world.
A designated project advisor works with each project to coordinate financial and administrative operations, technical assistance, and expert consultation that helps them succeed in the growth and development of their business.
In South Central Siberia, The Alt ai Project supported surveys of more than falcons, steppe eagles, and others), including the care and release of captive-bred young, banding, and GPS-tagging and tracking of migration of a dozen raptors.
While coordinating local campaigns to fight industrial logging operations in Malaysian Borneo, The Borneo Project completed eight months of rigorous data collection for the Baram Heritage Survey.
Indigenous technicians walked on flora, fauna, socioeconomics, and land use.
The data will be used to support efforts to establish a protected area.
Using its expertise in establishing living schoolyard programs, Green Schoolyards Am er ica founded and led the National COVID-large-scale effort to help schools around the country teach outdoors as a way to address the pandemic and reduce virus transmission.
The initiative included more than collaborating partner organizations and more than 300 volunteers, while winning two awards for its work.
With an increase in wildfires in the western United States, the work of the John Muir Project has become more crucial than ever to counter some of the common misconceptions about these ecological events.
and ?fuels reduction,? and advocates for science-based alternatives that protect forests and mitigate climate change while also keeping communities safe.
he Cit y continues to facilitate access to the outdoors in San Francisco, while also participating in the city?s Climate Action Plan, creating a Climate Career Corps program, organizing eight educational nature walks, servicing 38 garden clients, and planting 500 native plants.
Public Lands Media continued reporting on topics critical to the preservation of public lands, such as wildfire ecology, livestock grazing, and forest service policies.
Coverage was widespread in media outlets throughout the western United States, with audiences expressing appreciation for analysis on issues that are often under-reported.
In partnership with Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda, Viva Sier ra Gorda created a carbon-footprint campaign that directly supports local landowners and communities working to protect the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve in Mexico.
Advancing Wild Her it age?s work of advocating for the protection of primary forests in the United States and throughout the world, the project?s Chief Scientist, Dominick DellaSala, has been a sought-after spokesperson on the issue for several major media outlets, including The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Wild Heritage also became a key advisor to the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin, a new initiative endorsed by the IUCN World Conservation Congress to protect the Amazon by 2025.
ÉnergieRich is developing a permanent Center for Innovation to bring together engineers from West Africa and the United States to work with communities across West Africa on renewable-energy systems.
Many of the students that have participated in ÉnergieRich?s innovation workshops have said that the experience has been life changing and has inspired them to improve their communities and the world for the better.
Although the pandemic severely curtailed their ability to gather for tree-planting events, Richm ond Trees maintained a group of dedicated volunteers to care for the trees already planted, contributing to climate solutions in their community.
Sust ainable Agr icult ure and Food Systems Thanks to the advocacy of the California Clim at e & Agr icult ure Net work (CalCAN) and a diverse coalition, unprecedented investments of $California?s 2021?2022 budget to build a more healthy, just, and resilient food and farming system.
CalCAN also won improvements that will make it easier for small and limited-resource farmers to apply to an on-farm water-conservation grant program, developed new partnerships to advance agricultural policy solutions to wildfire mitigation, and continued the growth of a national network of farmer-centered organizations focused on passing healthy soils policy.
Cast anea Fellowship supported and developed programming for its working at the intersections of food, health, environment, agriculture, regional economies, and community development.
The effort resulted in increased collaboration between a diverse group of fellows, creating new synergy, partnerships, and projects.
program, while also hosting a successful Fall Seed Swap and the Living Soil Awards to honor farmers who are cultivating healthy soils while growing food for the community.
Food Shif t expanded its Covid-Together, from a pilot to a full program, filling in the gaps where regular food supply chains are interrupted by the pandemic and connecting excess produce from wholesalers with frontline food assistance organizations.
Num i Foundat ion shifted its focus during the pandemic to provide critical food relief.
Real Food Real St or ies added virtual events on Listening to Black Leaders, Celebrating Indigenous Foodways, and Grief Medicine.
The stories that emerged reminded us that in a time of distance, narratives that draw us into solidarity and community are essential to collective healing and transformation.
Urban Beet is one of Earth Island?s newest projects, run by 2020 Brower Youth Award winner Chander Payne.
Urban Beet also built residents to the earth and empower people experiencing homelessness.
Com m unit y Resilience With its activities rooted in the One Health approach, a framework embraced by leading global health organizations that recognizes the interconnection of people, animals, plants, and their shared environment, EcoVet Global has redoubled its commitment to preventing the next pandemic by addressing animal health and welfare needs (domestic and wildlife) as a key component to community and ecosystem resilience.
Keeping up its work catalyzing the power of vulnerable populations and igniting community capacity, EFCWest , in partnership with the U.S. Climate Action Network, trained five grassroots organizations throughout the country in root-cause analysis and systems thinking to address racial disparities in climate activism.
Fr iends of Muonde continues to provide support in Southern Zimbabwe for projects and local partners working on agroecological innovation and cultural restoration.
The organization?s training events and video tutorials are becoming more widely recognized, demonstrating how bottom-up initiatives can inspire and spread to others across society.
Green Life continued to organize and connect with frontline organizations and reentry service providers to support a collaborative network of care for those impacted by incarceration and Covid-19.
In addition, reentry leaders and local youth volunteers worked on several successful environmental-service projects.
Transit ion Ear t h increased awareness of the effects of unsustainable growth and its impacts on people and the planet via online meetings, bringing people together to advocate for a global systems change that will enable a shift to a sustainable planet for all.
Environm ent al Education All One Ocean transitioned its Ocean Warriors youth leadership initiative to a virtual program for underserved communities, educated 75 students in a surf camp about the destructive impact of litter on our oceans and waterways, built 15 new beach cleanup stations, and performed 22 beach cleanups, which were critical during the pandemic when beaches had an uptick in users and, consequently, an increase in trash.
Through its Exploring a Sense of Place project, the Children in Nat ure Collaborat ive created a successful video that encourages people to connect with nature where they live.
Exploring a Sense of Place also inspired place-based practices in Austria and China.
Conservat ion Kids continues to connect young adults with the environment through photography.
Young people?s drive to connect with the natural world, even in the most challenging of times, has been evident and encouraging, the project reports.
Junior Wildl ife Ranger programs opened at four new locations in California, Texas, Arizona, and Massachusetts, expanding the program?s goal of teaching children about the significance of wildlife protection and about our nation?s public lands.
Kids for t he Bay delivered its programs online during the Covid-bring hands-on learning to students in under-resourced schools.
In partnership with classroom teachers, the project created virtual lessons with experiments and investigations that could be done at home, and encouraged outdoor activities to help students connect with nature in their local watersheds and take much-needed screen-time breaks.
West Count y DIGS has worked hard during the pandemic to keep its students in touch with nature and with health, wellness, and nutrition by digging deeper into online learning.
The project increased its social media education and gave away a greenhouse full of plants to more than families, sowing seeds of hope in a school district in which students face poverty, racial tension, and food deserts.
As a college freshman trying to explore different subject areas, your magazine has been amazing in introducing me to wildlife conservation and organizations in a fun and interactive way," said a student reader.
Environm ent al Justice Mapping for Environm ent al Just ice produced a map of Colorado indicating that communities of color breathe nearly twice as much diesel pollution and are likely to live near a Superfund site than white communities.
People of t he Global Major it y in t he Out doors, Nat ure, and Environm ent (PGM ONE), which creates affinity spaces for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), developed a series of monthly virtual programs that reach a national audience of for sharing information with more than 600 participants.
Jam es, a new project with Earth Island, has been fighting to prevent Formosa Plastics from building its next petrochemical plant in a community that has already suffered its share of polluting industries.
a ?victory for environmental justice,? said Rise St. James Director Sharon Lavigne.
archives to prepare them for preservation and their potential availability to public access.
As a result of the project, the archives of several renowned artists will find long-term homes in museums and academic institutions.
In times that desperately call for wisdom and insight, Sacred Land Film Project turned to its rich trove of materials and launched the Sacred Land Audio Archive, a series of short outtakes and interviews with Indigenous leaders and leading environmentalists sharing their thoughts on traditional sacred lands, human rights, and the environment.
Acting in kinship and building community in order to seed solutions based on respect, honor, and mutual care, Seeding Sovereignt y launched the Community Defense and Land Liberation program to get security gear and essential legal self-defense training to frontline environmental protectors; filed a landmark case against the federal government on a right to wilderness; established a program to assist in the healing process of residential-school survivors amid the recent tragic discovery of thousands of murdered Indigenous children during the last century; created Medicine Wheels to meet the mental health needs of Indigenous and BIPOC youths who have been worn down and isolated by the pandemic quarantine; and opened Ancestral Acres Farm and Garden to grow food sovereignty and distribute health nutrition to food-insecure communities.
Preserving Oceans and Wat er Alaska Clean Wat er Advocacy maintains its momentum in the effort to thwart the development of a major copper and zinc mine in the Chilkat Valley in Alaska, which is home to the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve and a critical habitat for salmon.
The project has succeeded in blocking numerous permits and has brought international attention to the issue through widespread media coverage.
A multiyear effort by the California Urban St ream s Par t nership culminated in a stream-restoration project on Codornices Creek, which runs out of the hills near an urban neighborhood in the San Francisco East Bay and is an important part of the area?s watershed.
Rest orat ion was finally able to apply their engineering designs to a critical creek-restoration project in the Los Padres National Forest.
After being blocked for decades, access was restored to aquatic-organism passage and greatly improving the watershed.
with its state-of-the-art bomb-detection technology and alert system.
featuring interviews on the topic of water with a diverse group of expert guests, including chemists, artists, physicists, biologists, and others.
Wild Oyst er Project gathered more than oyster shells from San Francisco Bay Area restaurants, built oyster reefs with the shells, educated more than 400 students about oyster restoration, and partnered with a company in Australia to design an app to collect oyster data around the bay.
Preventing Pollut ion and Toxics Compelled by the need for safety and sanitation during the pandemic, public drinking fountain to make the system touchless.
The project is building alliances with San Francisco city leaders in the effort to install fountains throughout the city and reduce the need for plastic water bottles.
The ALERT Project prevailed in its lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a landmark decision requiring the EPA to update its decades-old regulations on the use of toxic chemical dispersants in oil spill responses.
the most comprehensive piece of legislation on plastic pollution to date.
Working to raise awareness of toxic fertilizers and the impact of degraded soils on climate change, Save Our Soil continues to participate in events and collaborate with others to keep communities safe.
Most recently, Save Our Soil reviewed Michigan?s fertilizer regulations, helping to develop a road map for those working on sustainable agriculture issues in Michigan.
In collaboration with Earth Island?s International Marine Mammal Project, Baikal Wat ch has been working to provide training for Russian environmentalists that have launched the first program in their country for rescuing marine mammals found in distress.
Since the program began, nearly Russian shorelines have been disentangled from fish netting and other plastic debris.
Project Coyot e prevailed in its multiyear battle to convince the Mendocino Board of Supervisors to terminate a long-standing contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture?s misnamed Wildlife Services program, which will save countless numbers of animals from brutal and unnecessary death.
And after nearly a decade of campaigning by Project Coyote and allies, New Mexico finally banned traps, snares, and poisons on the state?s public lands.
Rapt ors Are t he Solut ion was instrumental in the passage of the California Ecosystems Protection Act, curbing the use of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides, which have been linked to deaths of nontargeted wildlife such as mountain lions, foxes, and owls.
The bill places a moratorium on second-generation anticoagulant rodenticide use until the California Department of Pesticide Regulation reevaluates the products to ensure the poisons will not have significant adverse effects on wildlife.
SAVE Int ernat ional has been partnering with Birds Korea on a campaign to protect an important black-faced spoonbill habitat in the Hwaseong Wetlands from development.
Working to eliminate the global shark fin trade and protect sharks worldwide, Shark St ewards rallied sign on in support of two bills making their way through Congress, one to eliminate the sale of shark fins and the other to address driftnet fishing, which harms marine life.
to inform the public about the important role this apex predator plays in the landscape.
Yout h Empowerment Bay Area Wilderness Training cultivated several new partnerships to better serve the needs of its San Francisco Bay Area community.
The effort has helped the project reach hundreds of students and train more than educators and youth leaders to create equitable access to outdoor experiences.
Led by Feldman, Herbicide-Free Cam pus (HFC) is one of Earth Island?s newest projects.
We must solve the democracy crisis before we solve the environmental crisis.
With that in mind, Ult im at e Civics has been deep in development with the Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education to create lesson material about using civic power as responsible citizens to shape, operate, and maintain an equitable and more sustainable democracy for all.
Em powered Act ion Cam p (YEA Cam p) ran four successful summer sessions and launched its first-ever winter camp.
, the Arm enian Environm ent al Net work was awarded a grant to organize and implement the first permaculture design workshop held in Armenia.
The pandemic put a lid on most international travel, but Et hical Traveler remained a sought-after source for information on ethical and transformative travel, and on the ways travel will evolve as the world recovers from the pandemic.
list, which received widespread media coverage due to the increasing interest in sustainable travel.
With the pandemic affecting international tourism, Guias Unidos helped their local tour guides implement education and conservation activities on Ometepe Island, Nicaragua, by creating an adopt-a-tree program at the request of the kids that have attended the project?s environmental education classes in the past.
Working with and for the people of East Africa to build lasting protection of the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem, Serenget i Wat ch developed a program to supply Maasai women with beehives, the honey from which they sell, providing a source of income, empowerment, and enthusiasm.
Wom en's Environm ent al Leadership Clim at e Wise Wom en effectively developed partnerships and shaped financial opportunities that meaningfully support women?s leadership on local climate initiatives.
government aid agencies in a substantive dialogue focused on shifting their efforts toward funding locally led enterprises.
Wom en for Wildl ife supported the launch of Women for Conservation Botswana and cohosted its first leadership workshop for 15 Indigenous women in that country.
Wom en?s Clim at e Cent ers Int ernat ional (WCCI) conducted a community baseline assessment in Tororo, Uganda, a rural agriculture community in East Africa, which provided new insights into what local people need and want, and how to translate that information into future activities, projects, and programs.
WCCI?s flagship center, also in Tororo, creates economic opportunities for local women as they implement climate-smart technologies in their communities.
In its mission to empower women?s leadership, Wom en?s Ear t h All iance hosted its third annual Indonesia Grassroots Accelerator, catalyzing the efforts of leaders, from 15 regions, who are protecting their communities and ecosystems from environmental and climate threats like palm oil extraction, plastic pollution, and sea level rise.
Each year the New Leaders Initiative produces the Brower Youth Awards program, which honors the work of six outstanding young environmentalists, ages 13 to 22, for their leadership and achievements.