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Important:Organizations and resources listed here are highlighted for informational purposes. This page does not imply a formal partnership unless specifically stated.
Credible charity research
Explore charities and climate-focused organizations.
Browse organizations ACC highlights and visit each one directly to learn more about its mission, current work, and public information.
Innovation • Direct route verifiedDonate directly to JAB Innovations →
Julian Brown / NatureJAB
Explore Julian Brown’s emerging Plastolene work. Give directly through JAB Innovations.
Read moreRead less about Julian Brown / NatureJAB
NatureJAB presents Julian Brown’s emerging Plastolene work and identifies JAB Innovations as the nonprofit behind it. JAB Innovations appears in the IRS August 2026 EO BMF as a 501(c)(3) organization (EIN 41-3420050). Donations use JAB Innovations’ own checkout and receipt process.
See the NatureJAB donation card ↑Recipient status checked August 26, 2026. IRS listing • NatureJAB.Science • Policy
Environmental Defense Fund
Works on major environmental challenges through science, economics, policy, and partnerships.
Visit organization →Image: © 2026 Environmental Defense Fund. Original source.Conservation • Advocacy
Sierra Club Foundation
Supports climate solutions, conservation, movement building, and charitable environmental programs.
Visit organization →Official Sierra Club Foundation branding. Original source.Climate • Public interest
Natural Resources Defense Council
Works to protect people, wildlife, and the natural systems that support life.
Visit organization →Photo: Tom Brewster Photography via Bureau of Land Management, CC BY 2.0. NRDC source.Nature • Restoration
The Nature Conservancy
A global environmental nonprofit focused on conservation, biodiversity, land, water, and climate resilience.
Visit organization →Photo: Adam Vradenburg / Unsplash. TNC source.Independent science
Union of Concerned Scientists
Uses independent science and analysis to address climate, energy, transportation, and public-health issues.
Visit organization →Official Union of Concerned Scientists branding. Logo source.Policy • Resilience
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
Promotes practical policy and action to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and strengthen resilience.
Visit organization →Official C2ES branding. Logo source.Freshwater
Friends of the Ganges
A WWF resource highlighting river protection, sustainable water use, and the Mitras “friends of the Ganges” initiative.
Visit resource →Photo: © WWF-India. WWF source.Emerging ideas
Hemp The Climate
Advocates for industrial hemp as a climate-resilient material and sustainability resource.
Visit organization →Photo: Lloyd Belcher. Official source.Rainforests
Cool Earth
Supports Indigenous peoples and local communities working to protect rainforest and fight the climate crisis.
Visit organization →Image: Cool Earth official website. Original source.Climate movement
350.org
A global, people-led climate movement working to end fossil fuels and expand clean, safe, and affordable energy for all.
Visit organization →Official 350.org branding. Logo source.Environmental law
Earthjustice
Uses the power of law and partnership to protect people’s health, preserve wild places and wildlife, advance clean energy, and combat climate change.
Visit organization →Photo: Bob Wick / BLM. Earthjustice media kit.Community solutions
The Solutions Project
Funds and amplifies frontline climate-justice solutions, including community-led clean-energy and resilience projects.
Visit organization →Photo: The Years Project. Official source.Campaigns • Action
Greenpeace
A global network of independent campaigning organizations that uses peaceful protest and creative confrontation to expose environmental problems and promote solutions.
Visit organization →Photo: © Bente Stachowske / Greenpeace. Official source.Forests • Agriculture
The Rainforest Alliance
Works with farmers, forest communities, businesses, and local partners to protect forests, strengthen livelihoods, and advance more sustainable agriculture.
Visit organization →Photo: Nu Image Communications. Rainforest Alliance source.AI, water & power
Reducing AI’s environmental impact
Better data-center infrastructure and clearer estimates of computing’s impacts are two ways to work on AI’s environmental demands. These organizations approach the problem from different angles.
Infrastructure
Elemental Impact
A nonprofit investor leading the Data Center Innovation Initiative. Its priorities include cooling approaches and retrofits intended to reduce data-center energy and water use, alongside work on power systems and materials.
These are program aims. ACC has not independently verified completed DCII savings. We are awaiting confirmation about contributions restricted to cooling and water efficiency.
Measurement
CodeCarbon & EcoLogits
The French nonprofit Code Carbon maintains these free, open-source tools. CodeCarbon uses accessible hardware energy readings and estimates to calculate computing energy and emissions. EcoLogits estimates impacts from supported generative-AI API requests, including energy and water where supported.
EcoLogits models provider infrastructure; it does not meter those servers directly. Its scope excludes model training, networking and end-user devices. Tool estimates do not establish a measured footprint for every AI service.
Elemental and CodeCarbon/EcoLogits information reviewed October 15, 2026.
These listings explain work worth exploring. They do not establish an ACC partnership, a completed contribution or an offset for our AI use.
1% recipient pending
Beginning October 15, 2026, we commit 1% of eligible earned revenue across our businesses and projects to work addressing AI’s environmental impacts. We’ve asked Elemental whether contributions can be directed specifically to its Facility Cooling & Water Efficiency work. The recipient remains pending while we await its reply. ACC donations and grants retain their designated purposes.
Read the commitment and calculation →Inside CodeCarbon
How the tools work
- CodeCarbon Computing on accessible hardware
- Uses available hardware energy readings and estimates to calculate electricity use. It combines that result with electricity carbon-intensity data to estimate greenhouse-gas emissions.
- Read the CodeCarbon method →
- EcoLogits AI running on remote servers
- Models supported AI requests using model and usage information, plus assumptions about infrastructure. It estimates indicators such as energy, emissions and water; it does not directly meter the provider's servers.
- Read the EcoLogits method →
Their published methods make the assumptions and limits visible, helping people interpret the estimates and look for ways to reduce impacts.
Explore both approaches on our AI education page →
More organizations to explore
Research & policy
AI Now Institute
AI Now Institute conducts independent research on AI's societal impacts. Its North Star Data Center Policy Toolkit gives communities and policymakers ways to stop, slow or restrict data-center development, addressing water, energy, pollution and transparency.
Support helps sustain public-interest research and policy work that communities can use.
AI Now’s funding policy excludes corporate donations. Review its funding policy before giving. Policy checked October 15, 2026.
Water, energy & community organizing
Food & Water Watch
Food & Water Watch combines research with community organizing on food, water and climate. Its Stop Data Centers Now campaign calls for a pause on new data centers until communities and the environment have stronger protections.
General gifts support its broader work, rather than an AI-specific fund.
Electricity emissions data
WattTime
WattTime develops electricity emissions data and tools that help organizations choose cleaner power. Its load-shifting approach helps flexible electricity users, including computing operations, choose times when their demand can cause fewer emissions.
Gifts support its broader work. Actual emissions changes depend on how the tools are used.
Other organization information and donation destinations checked October 4, 2026. Review each recipient’s current terms before giving.
The wider resource directory
More groups working on AI’s environmental impacts
These groups work on research, policy, software standards and infrastructure. Their roles and support options differ. Listing a resource does not make it our 1% recipient.
Together with Elemental, CodeCarbon/EcoLogits, AI Now Institute, Food & Water Watch and WattTime above, these entries cover the 14 organizations and projects in this resource collection. Not all offer public charitable giving or a dedicated AI energy-and-water fund.
Research, policy and digital sustainability
Ceres
Publishes guidance on sustainable data centers, covering energy, water, grid strain, and community impacts beyond AI alone.
Its work covers data centers broadly. Listing Ceres here does not select it as our 1% recipient.
Green Web Foundation
Builds tools for fossil-free web hosting and digital carbon accounting across the internet, not AI specifically.
Its wider digital mission is not an AI-specific cooling or water-efficiency program.
Data & Society
Examines climate technology and justice, studying how tech infrastructure affects environments and communities.
Research can inform community decisions; this is not a facility retrofit program.
Epoch AI
Tracks data on AI compute growth and data center capacity, offering resource estimates and methodology.
Power-capacity estimates are not metered electricity or water use, and research does not itself establish reductions.
AlgorithmWatch
Produced the SustAIn project, publishing AI sustainability assessments and policy recommendations.
The original SustAIn project ended in 2024; its published resources remain available for reference.
Standards, benchmarks and engineering
Green Software Foundation
Develops the Software Carbon Intensity for AI and other green-software standards and methodologies.
Standards guide measurement; applying them does not by itself demonstrate lower resource use.
MLCommons
Runs MLPerf Power, benchmarking energy use of AI systems under standardized testing conditions.
System benchmarks do not measure whole-facility impacts or establish cooling-water savings.
AI Energy Score
A separate collaborative project rating inference energy use of AI models under controlled tasks and hardware.
Inference GPU energy is not the same as total facility energy, training impacts or water use.
Open Compute Project
Publishes open data center facility designs covering power, cooling, and water engineering approaches.
Engineering resources do not establish verified savings from a particular project or donation.
Resource descriptions reviewed October 15, 2026. Listings are informational and do not establish an ACC partnership, contribution or chosen 1% recipient.