Green Cross Australia helps people to adapt to our changing climate, in ways that embrace sustainability and community resilience. We are motivated by our understanding of a resource-constrained, warming planet and our belief that this challenge presents opportunities for a bright future.

We are not an advocacy group - rather we work with respected business, research, community and government partners to deliver world-class digital projects that foster a global values shift towards a secure and sustainable future.

Our mantra, Think + Act + Share = Change, is key to every project we deliver. We believe the power of our projects is empowering Australians to take practical, informed action.  So we don't just focus on awareness, we encourage people to take action, and then give them the tools via social and digital media to share their actions with their friends. We use mapping technologies to visualise participation in our projects and to ensure we can measure engagement.

We are also excited by advancements in technology and what this could mean for a sustainable energy future.

We think that every Australian wants to work towards a positive future, but are turned off by the politics, the arguments, the scare tactics, or the complicated science. We don't need to be paralysed just because we are polarised about climate change.

CSIRO research shows that 88% of Australians believe that climate change is happening. While 46.5% of them believe that humans are significantly contributing to it, 42.2% believe it's just a natural fluctuation in earth's temperatures. Whatever our belief, Australians know we need to prepare for a very different 21st century.

Since 2009 Green Cross Australia has deployed six award-winning websites engaging with 190,000 Australians, inspiring them to 160,000 measurable actions that advance our purpose.

Some of our major programs include the Extreme Weather Heroes project, which encourages young people to join emergency services; the Green Lane Diary, which encourages primary school students to develop environmentally friendly, sustainable behaviours; Build It Back Green, which provides communities with the tools necessary to re-build after natural disasters in environmentally sustainable ways; Witness King Tides which raises awareness about the affects of climate change on our oceans and coastal communities; and Future Sparks, a national school competition that explores clean energy options for the future.

We are proud members of an international network with a distinctive history; after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Mikhail Gorbachev became deeply engaged with the Rio Earth Summit, prompting him to found Green Cross International in 1993 in order to create a new approach to solving the world's most pressing environmental challenges by reconnecting humanity to the environment.

Today, Green Cross operates in more than 30 countries across the world, fostering a global value shift towards a sustainable future. You can check out the work of Green Cross Australia below.

Green Cross Projects

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We raise awareness about the affects of climate change on our coastal communities through a fun community photography project.

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We help disaster affected communities build back sustainably and to become more resilient.

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We work with young people to inspire a new generation of Australians to become emergency volunteers.

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We inspire primary school children to take every day actions to make a difference through our environmental education

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We raise awareness about clean energy options for the future through a video competition for school children.

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We help prepare people for extreme weather events to protect families, properties and communities.

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To find out more about Green Cross and their projects, visit the Green Cross Australia website.