Ivy provides ground cover, which is crucial to preventing weeds and keeping soil moist.

Give a pitchfork to help volunteers spread mulch, which provides nutrients for plants and trees.

Help one volunteer make a park or garden litter free. Includes a pair of gloves, a stabber, and garbage bags.

Provide gloves for a team of volunteers to protect them while weeding, planting, mulching, removing debris, and more.

Provide all the tools a volunteer needs to plant one shrub: a shovel, a pair of gardening gloves, a shrub, and a trowel.

This kit contains three gallons of paint, two paint roller kits, and two extension poles so volunteers can put a fresh coat of paint on walls at parks, gardens, and other public spaces.

Trees need mulch to get nutrients and retain moisture. Volunteers will spread mulch so trees can grow to clean the air and provide shade. This kit includes mulch for one tree, a wheelbarrow, a pitchfork, and a shovel.

Includes ten gallons of paint and painting supplies to transform an empty playground into a vibrant place for children to play.

This kit contains items needed to stop erosion at one small park: erosion jute netting, ground staples, hardwood tree stakes, grass seed, and hay.

Your donation will provide ground cover and plants for one small park in New York City.

Your gift will fund two hours of research for a movie about green building. As there are a growing number of successful green building projects with sufficient occupancy experience to provide real facts and figures on operating cost savings, occupancy health and productivity, and overall building value, now is the time to succinctly and powerfully communicate the business case for green building. RMI/ENSAR Built Environment...

Your gift will help the U.S. end its addiction to oil through a one-hour briefing for senior military staff about ways to improve efficiency of its heavy vehicles. The broad outlines of a national path beyond oil are strikingly simple: redouble the efficiency of using oil; save half of natural gas at an eighth of today’s market price, and then substitute it for nearly a...

$20 will cover research time for answering questions coming from visitors to RMI’s website about how to improve energy efficiency of homes.

$50 will cover one hour of time for an IT person working to improve the search capability of the biomimicry database. Already paint has been developed that mimics the surface of the lotus leaf. And universities and companies are hard at work trying to mimic the Van der Waals forces nature has perfected for the gecko so more natural adhesives can be available. RMI is...

Your gift will help develop a new generation of leaders. An internship at RMI deepens the education of a young person who is committed to stewarding the earth and its resources. Competition for these positions is intense, drawing applicants who excel at systems thinking that draws on multiple disciplines to solve complex problems. Candidates have broad interest in environmental and resource policy issues, and have...

Your gift will help RMI convince investors that cellulosic technologies are possible. We will work to convince the fuels industry how and why they can make money adopting these new technologies and concomitant business models. RMI has the capabilities to develop these compelling business cases. Once the business and regulatory strategies have been defined, RMI’s role will be to help bring this message to investors...

Your gift will help RMI convince utilities of its view that investments in energy efficiency, combined with a distributed power system that places smaller, modular electrical resources across the grid close to the loads they serve, will lower electrical bills, lower emissions, and provide secure, reliable power that would be impossible to disrupt by design or accident. While the policy debates will occur in Washington,...

Your gift will help the sanctuary to provide this much needed service, and will help save the life of one of these magnificent creatures.

Your gift will enable the Sanctuary to continue building large acreage habitats for rescued animals to live in. Animals that once lived in tiny cages, horse trailers, garages or concrete pits will finally be free - as they should be - and also be able to enjoy the companionship of others of their own kind. Your gift will make all the difference, as we believe:...

Determine the source of polluted water! Typically, a storm drain carries polluted street run-off from multiple sources. Occasionally though, it may be connected to a toilet or septic tank from a beach house,or perhaps an industrial waste discharge outfall. It is critical to determine the upstream source of any pipe that empties at your beach. This will help you figure out how to reduce or...