Earth
A curated list of 326+ resources, services, products, and ideas to help individuals and businesses reduce their environmental impact.
What is Earth?
Awesome Earth is a curated GitHub repository listing over 326 resources, tools, and services that help individuals and organizations reduce their environmental footprint. It addresses the climate crisis by providing actionable options across categories like carbon reduction, sustainable finance, eco-friendly products, and developer APIs. The project aggregates vetted links to empower users to make planet-positive decisions in daily life and business operations.
Environmentally conscious individuals, developers, sustainability officers, and businesses seeking practical ways to lower their carbon impact and adopt greener practices. It’s especially useful for those looking to integrate sustainability into personal habits, product development, or corporate strategy.
Unlike generic eco-lists, Awesome Earth offers a highly organized, community-maintained directory with a strong focus on actionable, verified resources. It saves users hours of research by curating tools across diverse domains—from consumer choices to technical APIs—making sustainability accessible and implementable.
Overview
"What can I do about the climate crisis?" Here are 326 things you can do.
Use Cases
Best For
- Finding vetted carbon offset platforms and footprint calculators
- Discovering sustainable alternatives for everyday products (clothing, food, hygiene)
- Integrating carbon tracking or tree-planting APIs into software applications
- Locating ethical banking and investment options
- Reducing food waste through apps and local initiatives
- Exploring green job boards and career opportunities in sustainability
Not Ideal For
- Organizations needing real-time, audited data for carbon compliance reporting
- Developers looking for fully-documented SDKs with official support channels
- Users in regions with limited coverage (e.g., Asia or Africa) seeking hyper-local solutions
- Teams wanting in-depth comparative analyses or performance benchmarks of tools
Pros & Cons
Pros
Aggregates over 326 vetted links across 25+ categories like carbon reduction and sustainable finance, saving users hours of research by focusing on tangible steps such as offsetting emissions or switching to renewable energy.
Includes specific APIs like 1 Click Impact for carbon capture and Step CI for testing CO2 emissions, enabling seamless integration of sustainability features into software products with minimal code.
Highlights resources with certifications like B Corp and Fair Trade, as seen in categories like clothing and finance, ensuring users can trust the environmental claims of listed options.
Features a wide range of global and local initiatives, from international platforms to hyper-local food rescue groups, empowering users to find solutions tailored to different contexts.
Cons
As a GitHub repo reliant on community contributions, links and information may become outdated over time, with no guaranteed update schedule or real-time data validation.
Provides only curated links without in-depth reviews, comparisons, or performance metrics, leaving users to evaluate the effectiveness of resources like carbon offset platforms on their own.
Heavily skewed toward English-speaking regions (e.g., UK, US) and European solutions, with limited coverage for non-Western countries, as evident in categories like finance and food.
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