PiggyBee is a collaborative shipping network, connecting people who want to get or ship something with travelers.
It can be anything from (or to) anywhere. The platform also offers eco-friendly freecycling to get rid of things. Ship anything for free. Crowdsourced delivery. Collaborative shipping.

Unstash is a P2P platform for collaborative consumption aimed at fostering the sharing experience by making sharing fun, easy and social. The organization is based in Toronto.

According to their founders: “Every social circle has a huge overlap in consumer goods that don’t all need to be purchased, owned, and maintained by every individual. 62% of people state that they are interested in sharing consumer goods; they just haven’t had effective tools to do so, until now”.

The platform enables a community of users willing to share their goods.

GroundTruth is a communications platform designed to help researchers, designers, journalists, community organizers and social innovators establish sustainable engagement via the simplest mobile phones with people in the communities who have valuable insights and a willingness to contribute their knowledge and experience, but lack the stature and networks to do so.

Appropedia is built upon the remarkable success of wiki-based infrastructures. Whereas existing wikis have focused on the power of collaborative web-based information centralization and developing collaboration policies to make that information solid, referenced and reliable for capturing what is well-established, Appropedia is expanding this concept to include collaborative research, development and problem-solving by incorporating real-world experiences of both amateurs and experts backed by policies that enable critiques, commentary and scoring of solutions.

Appropedia runs on the software MediaWiki. Currently, it houses more than 14,000 articles in 8 different languages. It was founded in California in 2007 but has quickly become a global community for sharing and co-creating knowledge on sustainability.

Sustainable Living Foundation is a community based not-for-profit organisation committed to promoting, celebrating and practicing the principles of sustainable living. SLF brings together values, expertise and resources to inform and inspire the wider community about sustainable living.

SLF aims to make its contribution especially through the creation of ‘platforms‘ that enable large numbers of people and organisations to cooperate in the pursuit of social and ecological sustainability.

The Foundation is driven by a collective of people who share the common goal of creating a sustainable future.

To achieve this goal, the Foundation aims to:

> Conserve and protect the natural environment.

> Foster the rapid adoption, by the whole of our community, of ways of living that will make it possible to sustain the community of life locally and globally.

> Make our contribution especially through the creation of ‘platforms’ that enable large numbers of people and organisations to cooperate to pursue these purposes effectively.

> Be a leading example of an entity that practices and pursues ecological and social sustainability.

Samasource is a nonprofit organization that brings dignified, computer-based work opportunities to people living in poverty around the world. The organization’s mission is based on the belief that poverty can be alleviated by tapping into the brainpower of the poor and empowering them as producers of goods and services in the global economy.

Samasource derives its name from the Sanskrit word sama, which means equal, and was founded in 2008. The company’s board and management team includes experts in the fields of distributed work, economic development, and outsourcing.

The organization secures contracts from enterprise customers to provide data entry, digitization, content moderation, and other outsourcing services. The work is divided into smaller tasks called “microwork” which are completed by Samasource’s distributed workforce. This workforce comes from Service Partners in 6 different countries including Haiti, India, Kenya, Pakistan, South Africa, and Uganda.

UNUM is a Collective for Creators, where your fashion ideas are voted on, made by us, and sold as yours. Your signature goes on each piece, you receive a percentage of profits, and your voice gets heard in the industry. The best part is that you can use that voice for good. UNUM makes their pieces from leftover and rescued fabrics – giving everyone a more creative and fulfilling way to go about ‘fashionable responsibility’.

BrightFarms operates hydroponic rooftop greenhouses at grocery retailers, eliminating time, distance and cost from the food supply chain. They design, finance, build and manage the operations of the BrightFarm to deliver produce at equal or higher service levels than the retailer currently requires of its other suppliers. There is no cost to the retailer to build the BrightFarm, only an obligation to purchase the output.

By selling food immediately upon harvesting, with no storage or shipping, the retailer provides its customers with produce that is visibly fresher and more attractive, and that will last meaningfully longer and be more nutritious. A BrightFarm greenhouse grows food with a fraction of the land and water, using integrated pest management; our methods produce no agricultural runoff and have a dramatically reduced carbon footprint.