WiserEarth | WiserPlatform
WiserEarth serves the people who are transforming the world. It is a community-editable international directory and networking forum that maps and connects the largest movement in the world the hundreds of thousands of organizations and concerned individuals that address social justice, poverty, and the environment.
Why WiserEarth?
The millions of organizations and individuals who actively work towards ecological sustainability, economic justice, human rights, and political accountability address issues that are systemically interconnected and intertwined. Their effectiveness to prevent harm and institute positive change is undermined by the lack of a collective awareness, duplicative efforts, and incomplete connectivity.
WiserEarth provides the ability for organizations, businesses funders, social entrepreneurs, students, organizers, academics, activists, scientists, and citizens to find each other, make connections, build alliances and share resources.
WiserEarth:
- Contains the most extensive international directory of more than 105,000 organizations based in 243 countries, sovereign islands, and territories, including contact details, geographic maps, areas of interest, and mission statements.
- Includes the first detailed taxonomy of the organizations within civil society.
- Is searchable by areas of interest, geography, organization, profession or pursuit (for individuals), and scope of activity.
- Offers the ability for anyone to find "who is working on what and where" so that organizations can leverage their experience, knowledge, and resources.
- Provides funders with an information landscape of all organizations engaged in program activity in their field of interest, a helpful tool to better evaluate proposals and dockets.
- Posts free listings of jobs, positions, and resources for organizations, prospective employees, interns, volunteers, and students.
- Establishes the means for bioregional hubs to empower local and living economies.
- Provides lists of resources including books, conferences, events, other databases, definitions, magazines, articles, podcasts, streaming audio and video, maps, research reports, and educational opportunities.
Have questions about WiserEarth?
Contact Peggy Duvette,Executive Director at peggy@wiserearth.org
By conventional definition, this is not a movement. Movements have leaders and ideologies. You join movements, study tracts, and identify yourself with a group. You read the biography of the founder(s) or listen to them perorate on tape or in person. Movements have followers but this movement doesn't work that way. It is dispersed, inchoate and fiercely independent. There is no manifesto or doctrine, no authority to check with. Three different types of groups—environmental, social justice, and indigenous—are emerging as a global humanitarian movement arising from the bottom up. Historically social movements have arisen primarily because of injustice, inequities, and corruption. Those woes remain legion but a new condition exists that has no precedent: the planet has a life threatening disease that is marked by massive ecological degradation and rapid climate change.
—from Blessed Unrest
