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Cora Ball: Washing Fleece Without Guilt

Roddy Scheer Cora Ball, Coral, corwdfund, crowdfunding, food chain, fuzz, gyre, Kickstarter, laundry, lint, non-profit, ocean, plastic, plastics, reef, Rozalia Project, sea, upcycle

The Rozalia Project’s Cora Ball works in any washing machine by catching plastic microfibers so they can’t flow out with the drain water.

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Cool Effect Launches Beta Platform for Individuals to Take Action on Climate Change

E The Environmental Magazine app, Butterfly Effect, Cool Effect, Kickstarter, non-profit, Ripple Effect, South by Southwest, Southern Ute, start-up, SXSW

Through Cool Effect, individuals have the ability to directly fund the world’s best projects that verifiably reduce carbon pollution from the atmosphere as measured in metric tonnes of CO2 emission reductions. The new platform will not only enable personal impact at a click of a button, but will show the collective effect highlighting the community of supporters and progression of funding…

The World Parrot Trust is raising money to support its work getting captive birds back into the wild using the non-profit crowdfunding platform Razoo

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How are environmentalists using crowdfunding to get their projects off the ground?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer crowdfunding, Franklin Land Trust, fundraising, GoFundMe, Indiegogo, Kickstarter, Nature Conservancy, non-profit, project, Razoo, Washington Youth Garden, world parrot trust USA

Dear EarthTalk: How are environmentalists and environmental groups using crowdfunding to get their projects off the ground? —Sean Jackson, Baltimore, MD Crowdfunding relies on the collective effort of a large amount of individuals making online contributions to allow a project or venture to happen. ArtistShare, […]