Title: Ukrainian Youth Climate Association (UMKA)

URL: http://world.350.org/ukraine/umka

Description: Ukrainian Youth Climate Association (UMKA) implements projects to unleash the potential of young activists as community leaders, "green" professionals, and future officials. In the fall of 2012 UMKA partners enlisted the support of more than 500 people from all over Ukraine. UMKA initiated independent teams in Kiev, Lviv, and Rivne that together and separately implemented more than 20 practical projects and campaigns on climate change. Ukrainian Youth Climate Association is a dynamic platform for development and interaction of sustainability change agents. We facilitate multi-stakeholder cooperation on pressing environmental issues and create opportunities for youth from across the country to kick-start their own sustainability projects. Working with like-minded partners we learn and share best practices to create a better Ukraine. Our aim for 2015 is create a critical mass of youth to tackle global environmental change and strengthen the social-ecological relationship. Our instruments are our projects: Take and make (or wake and bake) is a campaign of practical eco-interventions: start a project to make your city better, people – happier, and planet safer. Web-site: http://take-and-make.org.ua/; PowerShift Educational and Practical Forum, which aims to shift power to communities and implement practical projects for climate mitigation and adaptation. Web-site: http://powershift.org.ua/#!/; Sustainable lifestyles: a pathway to a healthy planet and low-carbon lifestyle for Ukrainians. The first wave was introduced in 2013; Sustainable livelihoods: We work with educational institutions, communities, and companies to create best practices for sustainability–-helping to create tool-libraries, eco-lofts etc.

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Subject:   Ukraine,  Climate,  Conservation

Title: The Institute for Environment and Development (IED)

URL: http://www.ied.cn/

Description: Established in 1994 as a domestic NGO, IED is an independent research institute working in the fields of environmental protection and social development.

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Subject:   Entrepreneurship,  Environmentalism,  Strategic planning

Title: Slow Japan

URL: http://www.sloth.gr.jp/

Description: This website aims to introduce you to the Japanese “Slow Living Movement.” In July 1999, ten or so people got together in Tokyo and started the Sloth Club. It became a catalyst of the so-called “Slow Life” movement in Japan, whose creed is “slow is beautiful." Some ten years later, the Sloth Club still exists and the word “slow” has become widely recognized. Slow can be understood to mean alternative, sustainable, ecological, local, and happy. Slow means “to connect”," with other people, with nature, etc. In the last ten years, we have witnessed positive changes all over Japan. The concept of slow has made an impact on many aspects of the society. The movement, for example, encouraged people to start acknowledging the richness of rural life and communities. Many like-minded groups have also formed to address issues as diverse as nuclear disarmament, peace between Japan and Korea, decentralization, and pollution. The movement as a whole is creating a new sustainable and ecological culture.

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Subject:   Rural,  Sustainable living,  Local food,  Slow movement,  Communities

Title: Shanghai Oasis Ecological Conservation and Communication Center (Oasis)

URL: http://www.oasiseco.org

Description: Oasis is the first officially registered grassroots environmental conservation NGO in Shanghai, established in November 2004 by ecological specialists and people concerned about the environment. Currently, it is mainly engaged in conservation and protection of wildlife and its habitat, water environment, as well as energy saving, emission reduction and global climate change.

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Title: Energy Efficient Cities of Ukraine (EEMU)

URL: http://www.enefcities.org.ua

Description: Energy Efficient Cities of Ukraine (EEMU) a voluntary NGO, created to promote energy efficient principles among member municipalities. Our focus is transforming local economies into sustainable communities. We build relationships with key stakeholders on a local level to help communities achieve energy security, preserve the environment, improve local quality of life and continue along the path of sustainable development. Our awareness raising campaigns, informational support, seminars, workshops, consulting sessions, and projects are meant to improve the efficiency of energy consumption and lower energy bills; improve the quality of energy services and create a forecast for energy demand; increase investment in municipal energy efficiency projects and related infrastructure, and pioneer new financing methods; develop more effective institutional frameworks within local communities and implement efficient approaches to managing energy consumption, supply and production; and partake in national policy making pertaining to the implementation of European initiatives for energy security, sustainable development and environmental protection.

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Subject:   Energy Efficiency,  Climate,  Ukraine