All Sustainability crowdfunding projects

With your support, ViCAFE and Orang Utan Coffee can secure the future of 100 Indonesian coffee farmers by building an own processing station in Takengon, Sumatra.

Our goal is to promote sustainability by involving the local community in construction with bamboo materials, as well as in the activities in our eco-friendly community resort. You can help us to finance our project and to support our community of 90 families in Wayanad, a rural district of Kerala, in South India!

Did you know that in Switzerland more than 2 Mio. tons of food are thrown away every year? This shocking number covers the whole range of all edible goods, from raw food to convenience food. In agriculture, 10 to 30 % of the production of all fruits and vegetables will not end up being distributed to supermarkets, because they do not satisfy certain criteria. The association Bio für Jede concentrates its efforts on the rejects of the organic vegetable market. We buy these vegetables from farmers on a value conserving basis and provide everyone with them. This way, we create a new market of the biological side stream vegetables and provoke a change of values in the society. Until now, the material of the association and the vegetables have been scattered all over the city. . To be more proactive and efficient, we want to gather all our resources in one location. Using this crowdfunding project, we will be able the create our headquarters, consisting of: - A rolling kitchen: Cooking place for healthy, vegan meals. These are cooked from discarded and saved organic vegetables and organic products (1. Step: 14000 CHF). - A refrigerated storage facility: The central „Bio für Jede“ vegetable depot for “Bio für Jede” Zürich and „Bio für Jede“ Schweiz (2. Step: 9000 CHF). - Material and dry storage facility: The storage for our whole infrastructure in one place. This allows our material to be quickly ready for various occasions (3. Step: 5000 CHF). - Meeting point: Platform for cultural exchange in the form of music and art in a non-commercial form. Furthermore we want to strengthen our regional groups by supporting the financially (4. Step: 6000 CHF). With the usage of discarded vegetables, you support organic farmers and help creating a market for side stream vegetables, in which organic goods get a value free of norm. Everyone pays as much as he or she can or want to give, in accordance to our trial of an alternative economy. Our experience has shown us, that human beings are best reached through the stomach. We want to raise the awareness for our health and environment in this way. Supporting his project means contributing to a greener, fairer and peacefuller world. We put a seed in the heart of Zurich for a movement which is spreading across the world. With combined forces, we vouch for a sustainable world and change the general framework of our society in a positive manner!

EcoCar Solaire wants to convert Dakar’s fossil-fuel-powered shared taxis into solar-powered cars solaires, offering a large portion of the Senegalese metropolis' inhabitants environmentally-friendly mobility. With this solution, everyone can afford to travel to work, school or university without causing any pollution harmful to climate and public health, and the market women can continue to transport their goods for sale at the local market.

Would you also love to know which companies and organizations act local and produce in a sustainable and meaningful way? The challenge: The label jungle is dense. The flood of information on search engines is overwhelming. And outside of supermarkets, it costs conscious consumers a lot of time to find alternatives for all needs of life 🏘️🚲🏕️ - We want to change that together with GreenPick and your support! 🤸

The non-profit rental fashion boutique Kleihd is discontinued. We from SHAREaLOOK - a young rental fashion startup - want to keep the boutique alive and develop it into a shared wardrobe for all women in Zurich. Support us with our project!