14 projects
Climate TRACE, TransitionZero, WattTime. Running
Climate TRACE is a coalition of more than 100 nonprofits, universities and companies that estimates greenhouse gas emissions from individual power plants, factories, ships and other sources worldwide, using satellite data and AI. It...
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Global Fishing Watch, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Running. 1 learning
Global Fishing Watch and university partners combined five years of radar and optical satellite images with ship-tracking data and used machine learning to find vessels and offshore structures. They found that about three-quarters of...
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Rainforest Connection. Running
Rainforest Connection, a nonprofit, places solar-powered listening devices called Guardians in forests. AI picks out the sounds of chainsaws and other threats, such as poaching, and alerts nearby rangers on their phones, and the same...
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Google DeepMind, Google. . 1 learning
In 2016, DeepMind and Google's data center team trained neural networks on historical sensor readings from a Google data center, then used them to recommend how to run pumps, chillers and cooling towers. In live tests, cooling energy...
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Open Climate Fix, National Energy System Operator (NESO). Running. 1 learning
Open Climate Fix, a nonprofit, built Quartz Solar, which forecasts how much electricity Britain's solar panels will produce. It combines machine learning with live satellite images and weather data, and is now used in the control room...
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Aspen Policy Academy. Proposed (handed to others to act on)
Mary-Clare Bosco, Jonathan Gilmour and Rebecca Kilberg, 2024 Aspen Policy Academy fellows, wrote a policy plan for Utah. They recommend that the Office of the Great Salt Lake Commissioner set water-efficiency targets for the tech sector...
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Public Environmental Data Partners. Running
When federal agencies took environmental justice tools offline in early 2025, the Public Environmental Data Partners rebuilt and re-hosted them, including EPA's EJScreen, the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool, and CDC's...
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Electricity Maps. Running
Electricity Maps maintains an open-source collection of programs, written with volunteer contributors, that gather electricity production, imports and exports from official sources around the world. The data shows how much carbon each...
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Microsoft. Stopped. 2 learnings
Microsoft sank a sealed data center holding 864 servers on the seafloor off Scotland's Orkney Islands in 2018, powered by the islands' renewable grid, and raised it two years later. Servers failed far less often than in a matching data...
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iNaturalist. Running. 1 learning
iNaturalist, a nonprofit where people share photos of plants and animals, trains a computer vision model on photos its community shares, and uses it to suggest what species someone has photographed. Its 2021 model covered over 38,000...
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Felidae Conservation Fund. Running. 1 learning
Felidae Conservation Fund runs camera traps across California to study pumas and bobcats. Its platform, WildePod, runs open-source AI models that throw out empty photos and suggest species, so more than 300 trained volunteers can spend...
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Earth Species Project. Running
Earth Species Project is a nonprofit research lab that builds AI to help people decode how animals communicate. It released NatureLM-audio, an open model for analyzing animal sounds, and works with field biologists on species such as...
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Project CETI, Dominica Sperm Whale Project, MIT CSAIL. Running. 1 learning
Project CETI analyzed about 9,000 sperm whale click patterns, called codas, recorded off Dominica over more than a decade. The team found that whales vary the rhythm and tempo of codas, stretch them to match each other, and add extra...
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Google Research. Pilot. 1 learning
Google Research's Green Light uses Google Maps driving trends to recommend new timings for city traffic lights. City engineers accept or reject each suggestion and make changes with their existing equipment. It is available in over 100...
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