The Academy is a 10-year initiative to enable leaders, communities and networks in critical systems to catalyze and facilitate societal, environmental and economic wellbeing on a scale that matters.  The Academy convenes leaders to help lay a foundation of shared learnings to accelerate the growth of healthy social, economic and human systems.  Areas of focus for the Academy's work will be on emerging leaders, education systems, marine ecosystems and community development.

Architecture 2030 is a non-profit, non-partisan and independent organization that was established in response to the climate change crisis by architect Edward Mazria in 2002.  It's mission is to rapidly transform the U.S. and global buidling sector from being the major contributor of greenhouse gas emissions to being a central part of the solution.  Its goal is to achieve a dramatic reduction in the greenhouse gas emissions of the world's building sector by changing the way buildings and developments are planned, designed and constructed.  It's 2030 challenge for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from the build environment has been embraced by a wide diversity of architects and builders around the world.

The mission of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine is to lead the transformation of healthcare by creating, educating & actively supporting a community of professionals who embody the philosophy & practice of Integrative Medicine. The Center defines integrative medicine (IM) as healing-oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person (body, mind, and spirit), including all aspects of lifestyle.  The Center was founded by Dr. Andrew Weil.

Since its inception, the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine has focused its efforts on three domains: education, clinical care, and research - with the primary emphasis on education. It offers a broad range of educational opportunities for healthcare professionals with an interest in learning and practicing the principles of integrative medicine and emphasizes the therapeutic relationship, making use of all appropriate therapies, both conventional and alternative.

Dr. Weil’s overall philosophy is that the health of the planet needs to be taken as seriously as individual health.
 

Arjuna Capital works with high net worth individuals, families and foundations to create a suite of sustainable investments that make sense for and to their clients. They seek to provide competitive financial returns while promoting a more vibrant economy, a healthier environment, and a more just society.

Babson Collge is a highly selective private business school that specializes in entrepreneurship.  The school offers a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration as well as masters degrees in business administration, accounting, management and finance.  Babson is one of the most highly ranked schools for entrepreneurship in the world, and educates students from around the globe. 

The Babson Social Innovation Lab is part of the Lewis Institute at Babson College, and specializes in drawing forth new ideas from a diversity of minds -- students and those from business, government and non-profit worlds -- and developing ways of putting those ideas into action. New concepts in social innovation are prototyped, evaluated and proved in real world contexts.

         Biomimicry for Social Innovation is a platform for the exchange of ideas, insights, and services for applying nature’s intelligence toward a thriving and regenerative human society.

It is part of a growing global network of innovators, designers, biologists, and leaders who are emulating the genius of the natural world to create conditions conducive to life. This niche builds on Biomimicry’s design and engineering successes, focusing on social transformation, business / organizational leadership, and culture change. Biomimicry for Social Innovation works closely with Biomimicry 3.8 and the Biomimicry Institute, translating biological knowledge and ecosystem success strategies into tools and practices for the social sector.
 

The Biomimicry Institute's mission is to nurture and grow a global community of people who are learning from, emulating, and conserving life's genius to create a healthier, more sustainable planet.

Biomimicry (bios meaning life; mimesis meaning to imitate) is the practice of developing sustainable technologies inspired by ideas from Nature. The core idea is that nature, imaginative by necessity, has already solved many of the problems we are grappling with. Energy efficient buildings inspired by passive cooling in termite mounds and non-toxic fabric finishes inspired by water repellant lotus plants are examples of biomimicry changing our world today.

Founded in 1990, Bioneers promotes practical environmental solutions and innovative social strategies for restoring Earth's imperiled ecosystems and healing our human communities.

Dreaming New Mexico is a Bioneers initiative that offers workshops, lectures and networking opportunities that can inform and advance policy change for an ecologically sound and socially just economy. In collaboration with local organizations, Dreaming New Mexico will address the state's alternative energy future, water concerns, racial and environmental issues, food security, urban growth, transportation and more.

Blue Legacy is an initiative started in 2008 by Alexandra Cousteau. The mission of Blue Legacy is to tell the story of our water planet to the world, to inspire people to take action on critical water issues in meaningful ways and to help shape society's dialogue to include water as one of the defining issues of our century and the primary vehicle through which climate change will be felt.

Cascadia's mission is to promote the design, construction and operation of buildings in Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon that are environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places to live, work and learn.

The Cascadia Region Green Building Council is one of three original chapters of the U.S. Green Building Council and, as a chapter of the Canada Green Building Council as well, is the only international chapter in North America.

It strives to become the first and last word on green building by forging alliances with organizations that have a stake in the future of this region.

The Clinton Global Initiative is a project of the Clinton Foundation that brings together a community of global leaders, university students, and private citizens to identify and implement innovative solutions to the world's most pressing challenges, including poverty alleviation, climate change, global health, and education.

The Clinton Climate Initiative is making a difference in the fight against climate change in practical, measurable and significant ways, by working with 40 of the world's largest cities to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. CCI is assisting partner cities to make energy-savings improvements to buildings, transit systems, lighting and waste management.

The CEC is a well-established environmental nonprofit focused exclusively on energy efficiency and renewables, alternative transportation, and climate change. We work from grassroots to policy levels to help community members reduce their carbon footprint and to end our region's dependency on fossil fuels to become "Fossil Free by 2033."

The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) works with communities around the world to help them develop legal protections for their environmental resources and community integrity. They have been the legal pioneers for the Rights of Nature movement, a global initiative to endow nature with legal rights that can be protected in a court of law.  

The Diablo Trust was formed in 1993 by the Metzger Family, owners of the Flying M Ranch, and the Prosser Family, owners of the Bar T Bar Ranch, to create a collaborative process for developing ideas to assist ranches in the protection of open spaces and healthy habitats.  The trust comprises the two ranch properties and adjoining federal lands that occupy an area approximately as large as metropolitan Phoenix.  The trust operates in partnership with the federal government to "demonstrate innovative approaches to restore and maintain the natural processes that create and protect a healthy, unfragmented landscape to support a diverse flourishing community of human, plant and animal life in the Diablo Trust land area."

The Earth Council Alliance (ECA) supports sustainability initiatives aimed at preserving the world for present and future generations.  The alliance's goal is to support the acceleration of progress in the achievement of sustainability goals framed by the Earth Charter, Agenda 21 and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.  ECA supports programs designed to optimize access and cooperation across sectors, issues and regions to deploy best practices, and to develop platforms for leaders at grassroots and national levels to work together outside the confines of traditional bureaucracies. The ECA is being incorporated as a Swiss Foundation in Geneva and has established offices in San Diego, CA and Beijing, China.

Ecodistricts is an independent and innovative nonprofit that specializes in green city initiatives.  The organization brings together leaders from the public, nonprofit, private business and neighborhood sectors to incubate partnerships, drive innovation and solve tough problems on a metropolitan scale.

Through scalable and replicable projects, they transform research into action, promote smart policy, and drive targeted investment in new technologies and practices.  One of their prime objectives is to develop initiatives that hold the potential for application in cities everywhere.

Future Farmers is a group of artists, researchers, designers, architects, scientists and farmers founded in 1995 that are aligned through an open practice of making work that is relevant to the time and place surrounding us.

"We deconstruct systems such as food policies, public transportation and rural farming networks to visualize and understand their intrinsic logics.  Often through this disassembly we find new narratives and potential reconfigurations that propose alternatives to the principles that once dominated these systems.  Our work provides a playful entry point and tools for participants to gain insight into deeper fields of inquiry -- not only to imagine, but to participate in and initiate change in the places we live."

Members of the group teach in the visual arts graduate programs at the California College of Arts in San Francisco, Mills College in Oakland, and in the art and engineering programs at Stanford University.

The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature is an emergent network of countries that is dedicated to helping communities develop the legal means of protecting their ecosystems.  The work of the alliance is based on the recognition that our ecosystems -- including trees, oceans, animals, mountains -- have rights just as human beings have rights.  Rather than treating nature as property under the law, rights of nature acknowledges that nature in all its forms has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles.  Human beings have the legal authority and responsibility to enforce those rights on behalf of ecosystems. The ecosystem itself can be named as a defendant in legal procedures.

Efforts to develop legal means to protect nature have been emerging in a number of countries over the past few years, a group that includes India, Nepal, Australia, South Africa and the United States.  Ecuador has adopted rights of nature provisions in its updated constitution.

As of the middle of 2013, close to 125,000 people from 122 countries have signed petitions advocating for the adoption of the rights of nature as part of community legal structures.

The cities of Berkeley, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica and the County of Marin created Green Cities California in 2007 so that they could work collaboratively to accelerate local, regional, national and international efforts to achieve sustainability.

Member cities have focused their efforts on:

• Reductions in Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Extended Producer Responsibility
• Sustainable Land Use, Building and Development  
• Waste Reduction  
• Water Conservation  
• Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy  
• Reduction in Vehicle Miles Traveled and Single Occupancy Vehicles  
• Equitable Distribution of Environmental Benefits and Burdens

Our primary objective is to help farmers and ranchers, as well as public land managers and development organizations, to achieve the following goals:  

• Enhance the efficiency, natural health, productivity and profitability of their land  

• Increase annual profits, effectively and significantly

• Provide a framework for family, owners, managers, foremen, communal agriculturalists and other ranch/farm stakeholders to work together toward a common future

• Enable conservation or public land managers to consistently improve the health of the land while minimizing the cost to the public or constituencies

• Enable development agencies working with marginalized farmers or pastoral people to break the cycle of food and water insecurity. 

We are committed to furthering Holistic Management education worldwide, to supporting trained Holistic Management professionals, and to forming strategic partnerships that address a wide range of environmental, social and economic objectives.

Hollyhock is Canada's premier experiential learning center.  It brings together a wide variety of students and teachers dedicated to personal growth, creativity and social change.  Each year Hollyhock offers dozens of programs designed to inspire participants to develop self-awareness and their creative potential, and to live life with meaning and a dedication to purposes larger than themselves.  

The Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) mission is to help communities around the world address environmental, economic and social challenges to build a better future that can be shared by all.

ISC brings together practices from the public and private sectors, and uses creative, flexible training and mentoring to help communities produce breakthrough results.  To date the organization has managed 70 projects in 19 countries, leaving a legacy of strong community leaders, organizations and networks with the capacity to keep building on its work.  It specializes in connecting civic participation with environmental problem solving.

The organization was founded in 1991 by former Vermont governor Madeleine M. Kunin.

LEAN Energy US is a national organization dedicated to the accelerated expansion of community choice aggregation (CCA) across the United States.  CCA is an energy procurement program that allows local governments to combine, or aggregate, the electric load of its residents and businesses in order to purchase energy on their behalf.  CCA is fueled by a belief in consumer choice, an open energy market, lower energy bills, and rapid expansion of local clean energy supply.

LEAN Energy was launched in the spring of 2011 with the help of the Galvin Electricity Initiative for the purpose of providing a not-for-profit hub organization for CCA practicioners, companies, policymakers and advocates interested in expanding the CCA model into new communities and states.

This is the first network of its kind in the United States.  LEAN Energy was inspired by the pioneering work of Charles McGlashan and the Marin Energy Authority, the first municipal utility in California that is based upon the enabling legislation of CCA.