Offline maps on OpenStreetMap from a not-for-profit fork of Organic Maps, no tracking

Open-source map of sustainable shops and projects, mostly in Germany, run by a charity

Open-source offline maps and turn-by-turn navigation built on OpenStreetMap data

Free live map of how much carbon each country's electricity emits, open-source parsers

Indie US trail guide site by one hiker, 1,900+ hikes mapped; uses Google ads and analytics

Free map of wheelchair-accessible places on OpenStreetMap, by Berlin nonprofit Sozialhelden

Community-centred alternative to existing home-sharing platforms

KDE's free, open-source virtual globe and world atlas for Linux, Windows and Mac

Free, open-source hospitality exchange for travellers, run by a UK non-profit foundation

Free hospitality exchange with 230,000 members, run by a French non-profit, open source

Free, editable map of the world built by volunteers, with open data anyone can reuse

Open-source, cookie-free analytics, free and donation-funded, run from Ireland on EU servers

Open-source, cookie-free web analytics; self-host free, or cloud plans from $0 to $20 a month

Opt-in only, self-hosted web analytics with encrypted data; feature-complete since 2024

Enterprise analytics and consent suite; cloud runs on Microsoft Azure unless you pick Sweden

Paid real-time web analytics from independent London firm Go Squared, with no ad business

Cookie-free, open-source web analytics hosted in the EU by a bootstrapped team of 10

Product analytics for app makers that you can self-host; hosted plans from $175 a month

Cookie-free web analytics from Amsterdam, free for hobby sites or €20 a month

Cookie-free web analytics from a bootstrapped Canadian company with no outside investors

Open-source web analytics you can host yourself for free, with a paid cloud option

Open-source voice assistant carried on by the Mycroft community, for Raspberry Pi and Linux

Open-source smart home hub that runs locally, from the non-profit Open Home Foundation

Self-hosted, open-source smart home hub; optional Gladys Plus from €6.99 a month

Tiny tracker-free blogging run by one developer who pledges no ads, no VC and no sale

Ad-free minimalist blogging that collects no personal data, from $6 a month

Free open-source CMS for larger, complex sites, with security releases every few weeks

Free desktop app that builds fast static websites you can host anywhere, open source

Ad-free journals and communities since 2009, open source, free or paid accounts

Open-source CMS with 23 years of development and a small, friendly community, GPL licence

Free open-source CMS since 2005, recognised as a Digital Public Good, GPL licence

Free open-source CMS forked from Drupal 7, with releases every four months, 3,600+ sites

Open-source publishing for one person or a group, with IndieWeb replies across sites

Blog hosting for $5 a month with a pledge never to raise money, sell up or shut down

Open-source blogs and paid newsletters from a non-profit foundation that can't be sold

Free open-source CMS you can host anywhere; one person, Matt Mullenweg, controls WordPress.org

Open-source minimalist blogging that federates with Mastodon, from the team behind Write.as

Hannah Ritchie's data-led 2024 case that a sustainable world is still within reach

Jason Hickel's 2020 case for degrowth: rich countries using less so everyone lives well

Cory Doctorow's 2025 account of how tech platforms decay, and how to switch and fight back

Kelly Small's guide to ethics and mindful practice for working creatives (2020)

Swiss e-readers from Lugano that open EPUB and PDF files without an Amazon account

Greta Thunberg's climate speeches that sparked the school strikes, Penguin paperback

Bill McKibben asks whether climate change and runaway tech can still be stopped (2019)

Anand Giridharadas on why billionaire philanthropy protects the status quo (2018)

Paul Mason argues info tech and sharing are eroding capitalism from within (2015)

IEEE's free 2019 guide to putting human well-being first in AI and autonomous systems

Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone's practice for facing the climate crisis, revised 2022

Rachel Carson's 1962 book on pesticides that helped start the environmental movement

Andrew Simms and Joe Smith's 2008 essays on living well without costing the earth

Food writer Joanna Blythman on what really goes into processed food (2015)

UNEP's 2016 report on principles and real cases for communicating sustainable living

Amber Case's 2015 O'Reilly guide to designing tech that stays out of the way

Jeff Goodell's 2017 reporting on rising seas and the coastal cities most at risk

Climate scientist Peter Kalmus on living low-carbon and finding a better life (2017)

Trine Falbe and co-authors on user experience design without the dark patterns (2017)

Evgeny Morozov on the folly of trying to fix every social problem with an app (2013)

Kat Holmes on inclusive design that starts from the people products leave out (2018)

Chris Nodder on the persuasive design tricks that steer users, and how to spot them

Philosopher Peter-Paul Verbeek on how the things we design shape our moral choices (2011)

Tim Jackson's case for a good life on a finite planet without endless growth

Muhammad Yunus on social business as a path to zero poverty, unemployment and carbon

Wilkinson and Pickett's data on why more equal societies do better for everyone (2009)

The Minimalists' 2014 memoir of leaving corporate jobs to live with far less

Ha-Joon Chang's 2010 myth-busting guide to how capitalism actually works

Organiser Matthew Bolton on turning protest into lasting local power (2017)

Lynne Twist on changing how we earn, spend and give, so money serves our values

Satish Kumar on caring for soil, soul and society as one ethic, from Parallax Press

Tim Frick's 2016 guide to building lower-carbon websites and digital products

David Wallace-Wells' 2019 survey of what unchecked warming could do to the world

Amitav Ghosh on why our novels, politics and history fail to grasp climate change

Cennydd Bowles' 2018 practical ethics for designers and the people who build tech

Mike Berners-Lee on the carbon footprint of everything, from a search to a flight

Jonathan Safran Foer on factory farming and what our food choices say about us (2009)

George Monbiot's 2017 case for a politics of belonging, built from communities up

Naomi Klein's 2017 guide to resisting shock politics and winning a fairer world

Rutger Bregman's case for universal basic income and a shorter working week (2017)

Kate Raworth's 2017 model for an economy that meets needs within planetary limits

William MacAskill's 2015 case for giving and working where evidence says it helps most

Peter Singer's short essays on real ethical dilemmas, now expanded to 90 essays

Tech critic Andrew Keen's 2018 look at how societies can rein in Big Tech

Thich Nhat Hanh's seven meditations on living mindfully, from Plum Village (2017)

Community-owned full fibre for the rural north of England, gigabit from £35 a month

Catalan telecoms co-operative for mobile and fibre, with no minimum contract term

Not-for-profit broadband from Hebden Bridge since 2003, full fibre from £34.50 a month

Not-for-profit email owned by an educational charity, on renewable power, from £60 a year

Broadband and mobile from OurCoop, a UK consumer co-operative with over a million members

Free extension from Aarhus University that answers cookie pop-ups for you, your way

Blocks ads, then quietly clicks them all so ad networks can't build a profile of you

Mozilla's Firefox add-on that walls Facebook off in its own container so it can't follow you

Free, open-source ad and tracker blocker by Raymond Hill; Chrome users get uBO Lite

Open-source ad and tracker blocker, funded by donations and untargeted search ads

Tracker-blocking extension whose block list also powers protection in Firefox and Edge

EFF's free, open-source extension that learns to block invisible trackers as you browse

A browser extension that tells you if the news site you're reading is reliable

Volunteer-built version of Firefox with telemetry removed and uBlock Origin built in

Open-source browser rebuilt on Firefox code with tracker blocking, now made by Astian

Firefox-based browser with telemetry stripped out, owned by its founder again since 2023

Norwegian browser with no outside investors and no AI chatbot; its interface code is closed

Chromium browser that blocks ads and trackers by default; earns from its own ads and crypto

Lightweight open-source browser from the KDE community, with ad blocking built in

Browser that sends your traffic through the Tor network, from the non-profit Tor Project

Open-source browser from Mozilla, which gets about 85% of its income from Google's search deal

Free climate-solutions simulator from Climate Interactive and MIT Sloan, updated monthly

See how many Earths your lifestyle needs, from the non-profit Global Footprint Network

WWF-UK carbon footprint quiz built with the Stockholm Environment Institute, for UK homes

Open-source Android calendar with no ads, no tracking and no account, updated October 2026

Open-source Android app that syncs calendars, contacts and tasks with any CalDAV server

Open-source Android calendar app, free on F-Droid, last updated July 2026

Swiss email and calendar built entirely on free software, from CHF 5 a month

Spark provides distraction-free email – only notifying you about emails from people you know

Secure and private email since 1999

WRAP's recycling campaign for England and Northern Ireland, behind Recycle Week

UK recycling locator and how-to guides run by Valpak, a waste compliance company

The Restart Project's gathering for community repairers and right to repair campaigners

Free, volunteer-run free software conference in Brussels; next edition 30 to 31 January 2027

Yearly London festival on media ownership and reform, run by the Media Reform Coalition

UK vegan festivals with food, talks and stalls; 2026 events in Bristol, Brighton, London

Open-source design and prototyping tool, free in the cloud or self-hosted; made in Madrid

Free, open-source painting app made by artists, funded by its Development Fund and donations

Free vector graphics editor, a Software Freedom Conservancy member project since 2007

Free 3D creation suite from the Amsterdam-based Blender Foundation, funded by donations

Free image editor made by volunteers, with donations run through the nonprofit GNOME Foundation

Popular free Linux desktop used by millions, funded by donations and its website's ads

Fully free GNU/Linux for homes, schools and small offices, based on Ubuntu

Volunteer-run free operating system with over 70,000 packages and a public Social Contract

Security-focused free desktop OS that keeps your apps apart in isolated virtual machines

The free software project behind GNU/Linux, with a list of fully free distributions

Collective of small ethical hosts offering email, cloud and video tools, started by Framasoft

Non-profit privacy tool recommendations with public criteria, no ads and no affiliate links

Plain-language list of ethical alternatives to Big Tech apps, volunteer-run, no trackers

Open-source 0 to 10 ratings of privacy policies; scores last updated January 2025

Curated US directory of small sustainable shops, farms and farmers' markets

Long-running list of free software that avoids mass surveillance; last updated Dec 2024

Open-source mailboxes for your own domains, encrypted with your password, from $3 a month

Email from the makers of the /e/OS de-Googled phone, 1 GB free

French email with family and children's accounts, ad-free from €1.50 a month

Email from a UK co-operative run by worker co-ops, £24 a year

Founder-owned Cambridge host with verified renewable power, email from £1.67 a month

Free email and cloud from a volunteer collective, all on free software

Email for your own domain: unlimited addresses for $19 a year, self-funded

Swiss email with 20 GB free, no ads, on certified renewable power

Ad-free email from a small Australian not-for-profit association, A$24 a year

Email with enhanced security

Unsubscribe from unwanted subscription emails and reduce your carbon footprint

Send one email per day for 365 days to representatives of the 365 most polluted cities across the globe

Easy to use end-to-end encrypted email service

Community funded and supported with no ads and no spying

Dutch email built around your own domain, with no AI filtering

Swiss email and calendar built entirely on free software, from CHF 5 a month

Open-source email with advanced search, translation, spellcheck and more

Spark provides distraction-free email – only notifying you about emails from people you know

Donation-funded email for activists and social movements, by invite only

Secure and private email since 1999

Slick email app with one-click encryption

Pioneers in encrypted email

Email powered by renewable hydroelectricity

Private and encrypted email made easy

Private and secure email, calendars, and contacts

Tuta claims to be the world's most secure email service

Secure email based in Switzerland

Not-for-profit email owned by an educational charity, on renewable power, from £60 a year

The Mozilla Foundation's open-source email offering

Secure email service founded in the wake of the Snowden revelations – also available for €1 a month

Powered by 100% green electricity and ad-free, Posteo costs €1 a month

Independent London institute researching how data and AI can work for people and society

Nonprofit giving free, open access to air quality readings from monitors worldwide

Free online network for conservation tech, set up with WWF; ran the first ICTC in Lima, 2026

Volunteer community of 10,000+ tech workers pushing climate action at work, on Slack

Open-source non-profit building solar and wind forecasts for UK and Dutch power grids

Nonprofit from the team behind The Social Dilemma, now pushing for safer AI and social media

Free step-by-step repair guides plus parts and tools, from a right to repair company

London repair charity running free Restart Parties and campaigning for the right to repair

Free open-source RSS reader for Mac, iPhone and iPad that only collects opt-in crash logs

Free open-source feed reader you self-host, with OPML export and support for mobile apps

Open-source feed reader that strips trackers, self-host free or use hosting at $15 a year

End-to-end encrypted cloud storage from Swiss Proton, 5 GB free, mostly owned by a non-profit

German end-to-end encrypted cloud storage with open-source apps and no outside investors

End-to-end encrypted photo storage with shared family albums, 10 GB free, open source

Open-source file sync and sharing from Berlin's Heinlein Group, built by ex-ownCloud developers

Valencia-made encrypted cloud storage, open source and audited, 1 GB free; VC-backed

Nonprofit digital archive with no recurring fees: $10 per gigabyte, paid once, 1 GB free

Decentralised storage network built from spare drives; you pay once in its ANT crypto token

Fast open-source file sync to run on your own server, from a team in Singapore and China

Toronto-based cloud storage with end-to-end encryption, so the company can't read your files

End-to-end encrypted storage from Swiss Post's Tresorit, hosted on Microsoft Azure

Hamburg-made, end-to-end encrypted file sync for firms and associations, from €6.33

Closed-source peer-to-peer file sync, now part of enterprise storage firm Nasuni

Free peer-to-peer file transfer in your browser, files go straight from you to the recipient

Open-source sync between your own devices, no cloud copy, run by a Swedish non-profit

Self-hosted, open-source file sharing for organisations, now part of Berlin's Wire Group

End-to-end encrypted docs, sheets, forms and kanban, open source, from France's XWiki

Open-source file sync, calendar and office hub from Stuttgart; self-host or use a provider

Shalini Kantayya's 2020 film on bias in facial recognition, following Joy Buolamwini

Becky Hutner's 2022 film on designer Amy Powney's bid to make a fully sustainable range

David Allen's 2023 film on the Knepp estate's rewilding, from Isabella Tree's book

Lush ethics director Hilary Jones on why ethical is the new normal (Meaning 2016)

Pam Warhurst on the small actions that grew into Incredible Edible (Meaning 2012)

Jo Berry of Building Bridges for Peace on the disarming power of empathy (Meaning 2016)

Andrew Morgan's 2015 film on the people and places that pay for cheap fashion

Liberti and Parenti's 2018 film tracing how China's meat demand reaches the Amazon

Tristan Harris on how a few tech firms steer billions of minds every day (TED 2017)

Fisher Stevens and Leonardo DiCaprio's 2016 climate film, shot on five continents

Baichwal, de Pencier and Burtynsky's 2018 film on how humans reshape the planet

NASA climate scientist James Hansen on why he had to speak out on warming (TED 2012)

Graham Hill on living with less stuff, in less space, and being happier (TED 2011)

Richard Stallman on free software and digital freedom at TEDxGeneva 2014

Amber Case on calm technology that informs without grabbing attention (2017 talk)

Mariah Hay on why product managers carry a duty to do no harm (Mind the Product 2018)

Amber Case on how phones and screens are turning us all into cyborgs (TED 2010)

Ellen MacArthur on the circular economy she saw after sailing solo round the world

Ron Finley on planting food gardens on the verges of South Central LA (TED 2013)

Kathryn Schulz on why being wrong is human, and worth embracing (TED 2011)

Charles Ferguson's Oscar-winning 2010 film on what caused the 2008 financial crash

Ron Fricke's wordless 1992 film, shot in 25 countries, a meditation on humanity

Chris Kelly's BAFTA-nominated film on Cambodia's land-rights protests, shot over 6 years

Ai Weiwei's 2017 film on the refugee crisis, shot by 25 crews in 22 countries

Robert Waldinger on what a 75-year Harvard study says makes a good life (TED 2015)

Greta Thunberg's case for acting on climate right now, at TEDxStockholm in 2018

Tristan Harris's 2017 talk on 'time well spent' and design that competes for attention

James Balog's time-lapse record of melting glaciers, from The Social Dilemma's director

Jerry Rothwell's 2015 film on the friends who founded Greenpeace, from unseen footage

Hedge fund founder Paul Tudor Jones on why capitalism must serve more than profit

Shaun Monson's 2005 film on how we use animals for food, clothing, fun and research

Louie Psihoyos' Oscar-winning 2009 film on the dolphin hunt in Taiji, Japan

Thich Nhat Hanh and David Suzuki in conversation on ecology and mindfulness

Free learning app for ages 2 to 8 from non-profit Khan Academy, no ads or subscriptions

Free block-based coding for kids from the non-profit Scratch Foundation, open source

8,300+ hand-picked videos for curious kids; free pages carry Google ads, members' don't

Children's science and nature apps for a one-off £2.99 to £3.99, no data sold

Nonprofit age ratings for films, games and apps; ToS;DR grade D and ad trackers on site

Encrypted surveys from $39 a month, now built around AI analysis of your responses

French non-profit running free, ad-free tools like Framaforms, funded by your donations

Privacy-centric alternative to Google Forms and Typeform

End-to-end encrypted docs, sheets, forms and kanban, open source, from France's XWiki

Game and ebook bundles with a cut to charity, $250m+ raised, owned by media group Ziff Davis

Independent indie game store where creators choose what share of each sale itch.io keeps

DRM-free game store, bought back by co-founder Michał Kiciński from CD Projekt in 2025

Ad-free nonprofit solutions journalism, free to read; the site runs social ad trackers

Tech journalism from a company founded by 4 reporters, $10 a month, Plausible analytics only

Free monthly newsletter on greening the web, from London agency Wholegrain Digital

Illustrated good news site by artist Mauro Gatti; the site runs Google ads

A lifestyle magazine for the ethically minded

Archive of Futuribile's tech and social justice newsletter, last issue February 2022

Archive of a Canadian feminist enterprise magazine, merged into rabble.ca in 2023

Free environmental journalism and opinion, published at the Yale School of the Environment

Essays, films and print volumes on ecology, culture and spirit, from Kalliopeia Foundation

Inspired by the talent and energy of people across the world working to create a better tomorrow

Liverpool print magazine on purpose-led small businesses, out every April and October

Global justice magazine since 1973, co-owned by its staff and about 4,600 readers

Kai Brach's weekly hand-picked links on design, tech and culture, 410 issues since 2018

Reader-funded print magazine on the human side of tech; paused, back issues on sale

Tri-annual print publication covering the race to a zero carbon economy

Free essays on philosophy, science and culture from a donation-funded registered charity

Six issues a year on ecology, activism and the arts from the Resurgence Trust, a UK charity

Subscriber-funded ratings of 40,000+ brands since 1989, from a not-for-profit co-op

Solar-powered magazine on old and low-tech fixes for a sustainable way of life

Donation-funded reporting on nonviolent movements worldwide, free under Creative Commons

Australian online magazine on sustainable living; no new articles since September 2024

Solutions journalism owned by 1,500 readers as a community benefit society, quarterly in print

Independent global news and investigations, owned by a UK non-profit foundation

Free open-source newsletter and mailing-list software you self-host, AGPL licence

Self-funded newsletter tool, free for your first 100 subscribers, no investors

Encrypted group mailing lists for activists and collectives, free software you self-host

Open-source newsletter software you host yourself, AGPL licence, new 3.7 release in 2026

Open-source marketing automation, community-run under the Open Source Collective

Free GNU software for running email discussion lists and newsletters on your own server

Open-source blogs and paid newsletters from a non-profit foundation that can't be sold

Messenger with no phone number, username or user ID at all; audited and open source

French encrypted messenger with no phone number or email, certified by France's ANSSI

Swiss end-to-end encrypted messenger with open-source apps, a one-off USD 6 to buy

Privacy conscious, device-to-device contacts app

Decentralised, end-to-end encrypted, communication protocol

Open standard for encrypted, federated chat, stewarded by a UK nonprofit

Encrypted-by-default XMPP chat app for Android, free on F-Droid, ToS;DR grade A

Volunteer peer-to-peer messenger with no servers or phone number; contacts see your IP

Encrypted messenger that works without internet over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, in maintenance mode

Encrypted messenger built on email relays, no phone number needed, grant-funded

Matrix chat with encrypted private rooms, from a VC-backed UK firm that sells to governments

Peer-to-peer calls and chat with no phone number or central server, a GNU project

Nonprofit messenger with everything end-to-end encrypted by default; needs a phone number

Open-source Android app for watching YouTube with no ads and no Google account needed

Volunteer-run app store for Android that lists only free and open-source apps

Offline maps on OpenStreetMap from a not-for-profit fork of Organic Maps, no tracking

Gift-economy app for giving and getting free things from neighbours, no ad cookies

Volunteer-run UK reuse network for giving things away free; the site shows personalised ads

Contacts notebook for iPhone and Mac that keeps everything on your device, no account

Free app linking blind and low-vision people with sighted volunteers by video call

Plum Village's free meditation app. Disclosure: its publisher is linked to ethical.net

Every cognitive bias in your pocket

Federation of courier-owned bike delivery co-ops, with software licensed to co-ops only

Worldwide guide to vegan and vegetarian places, funded by ads and a £4.99 app

Fashion and beauty brand ratings for people, planet and animals, from Australia

Open-source community for sharing mental health experiences with trusted friends

UN World Food Programme app for donating meals from your phone, 338 million so far

Focus timer that has funded 2.1 million real trees through Trees for the Future

App selling surplus food from shops and restaurants at a discount, VC-backed

De-Googled Android from the non-profit Calyx Institute, for Pixels, Fairphones and Motorolas

Hardened, open-source Android from a non-profit project; installs only on Google Pixel phones

Linux phone OS from Finland's Jolla that runs Android apps; parts of it are closed source

Community-made Linux phone OS from UBports; version 24.04-2.0 shipped in July 2026

Free, volunteer-built Android that keeps older phones updated; new changelog October 2026

De-Googled Android from the non-profit e Foundation, also sold preinstalled on Murena phones

Self-hosted online office suite built on LibreOffice by its largest team of developers

Open-source notes app with end-to-end encryption, sync via its EU cloud or your own server

French non-profit running free, ad-free tools like Framaforms, funded by your donations

Free, open-source notes app from Automattic; notes aren't encrypted on its servers

Fast team wiki with a free plan, hosted on AWS in the EU, with an AI assistant built in

Open-source office suite under AGPL from Latvia's Ascensio System, free desktop apps

Free office suite from the Apache Foundation, updated rarely; LibreOffice moves faster

Audited, end-to-end encrypted notes app with a free plan, part of Proton since 2024

Encrypted, open-source notebook from a tiny team; one desktop release since 2019

End-to-end encrypted docs, sheets, forms and kanban, open source, from France's XWiki

Open-source real-time text editor to self-host, no telemetry, with 290 plugins

Free office suite from The Document Foundation, a non-profit, with no forced AI

Free search of every registered UK charity, using data straight from the regulators

US nonprofit that files shareholder resolutions, 131 company engagements in 2026

UK think tank researching democratic ownership of energy, housing and work

Nonprofit in Canada and the US campaigning to move banks and brands off fossil fuels

UK charity working for a food system that's fair to people, animals and the planet

UK environmental charity running playful campaigns on waste, food and e-waste

Bristol packaging compliance scheme for brands, a certified B Corp since 2020

UK research group campaigning to end fossil fuel sponsorship of museums and the arts

UK charity with 817,000+ members sharing simple daily actions for a happier, kinder life

New York nonprofit that studies kindness and turns it into school and workplace programmes

Paid and brand-sponsored recycling for hard-to-recycle waste; 2021 labelling settlement

Edinburgh repair charity that fixes, refurbishes and gifts tech, with repair workshops

Stories and reports on how fast societies have changed before, to speed up climate action

Nonprofit film team behind The Cove and Racing Extinction, campaigning for the oceans

Not-for-profit, open-source online shop software for farmers and food hubs in 15+ countries

Swiss foundation with CO2 calculators and climate project donations; no 'offset' claims

UK anti-poverty charity campaigning with trade unions and Global South partners

Conservation nonprofit carrying on Jane Goodall's work for chimpanzees, people and forests

Australian movement of 1 million+ women taking climate action through daily life

US nonprofit researching plastic pollution, with citizen-science litter counts via TrashBlitz

Global campaign for a fair, transparent fashion industry, behind Fashion Revolution Week

Free career advice for doing good, from a UK nonprofit that now focuses mainly on AI risk

UK charity supporting the worldwide movement of local Transition groups

UK network training progressive organisers and campaigners in comms and movement building

Free human-centred design methods and case studies for social impact work, from IDEO

Free climate campaign training guides from 350.org in 8 languages; not updated since 2022

Open-source participatory democracy software born in Barcelona, used by 500+ organisations

Campaign to make Amazon ethical + great list of Amazon alternatives

Nonprofit platform where workers start and run petitions to change their workplace

UK crowdfunding for legal action: £60m raised for 1,800+ cases, including environmental ones

Structured debate site that maps the pros and cons of a question, free, with a school version

Paris Marx's weekly critical look at Big Tech and its politics, listener-supported on Patreon

Nate Hagens on energy, ecology and the economy's limits, from a US nonprofit, 431 episodes

Long-running podcast on owning less and living deliberately, 559 episodes so far

Clean energy podcast by Wood Mackenzie, a private equity-owned energy consultancy

Technical clean-tech podcast by Wood Mackenzie, a private equity-owned consultancy

Podcast from the nonprofit Center for Humane Technology on how tech shapes our minds

Krista Tippett's podcast on meaning, faith and science, from a US nonprofit

Weekly climate politics podcast from Global Optimism, Christiana Figueres's group

Joshua Spodek's podcast on acting on your environmental values, 860+ episodes

Douglas Rushkoff's weekly podcast on human autonomy in a digital age; ad-free via Patreon

Interviews on AI ethics and society with Ben Byford, 117 episodes and still going

Christopher Butler's podcast on design, tech and being human; archive, last episode Sep 2019

Dan Harris's podcast on meditation for sceptics, 3 episodes a week, ad-free for app members

BBC Radio 4's live weekly debate on the moral questions behind the news

Weekly podcast on cutting everyday toxins from food, body and home, 499 episodes so far

Brooke and Ben McAlary's podcast on slow living, from the makers of The Slow Home Podcast

BBC Radio 4's weekly environment series and podcast, with Tom Heap and Helen Czerski

Comedy podcast on green guff and climate talk, 276 episodes; archive, last episode Dec 2022

People-first tech principles from the Small Technology Foundation, an Irish not-for-profit

W3C community guidelines for building lower-impact websites, updated September 2026

2019 UX Collective essay on how product designers can help people use tech less

Bret Victor's 2015 essay on what technologists can do about climate change

Center for Humane Technology's sourced list of tech's harms to society, last updated 2021

150 principles for a new direction in tech, written by 150 people at Techfestival 2018

Amber Case's 2018 scorecard for designing products that don't demand attention

Ind.ie's ethical design manifesto from 2017, kept online through the Internet Archive

Amber Case's principles for tech that needs as little of your attention as possible

Free principles and articles on designing digital products that respect people

Harry Brignull's catalogue of deceptive design, with laws and enforcement cases

Open-source metasearch you can run yourself, pulling results from up to 261 search services

Swedish open-source search engine with its own index that favours small, non-commercial sites

Totally private search with no tracking or storage of your searches or IP address

Ad-free search on Brave's index from a foundation-owned Berlin B Corp, €19 a year

UK search engine with its own 9-billion-page index, no tracking, since 2004

Ad-free metasearch from German non-profit SUMA-EV, pay as you go, €5 lasts about 2 months

French search owned by OVH's founder, partly on its own EU index; ads come via Microsoft

Google and Bing results without the tracking; ads via Google, majority owned by System1

Search engine that spends its profits on planting trees; ads come via Google and Microsoft

Founder-owned search with contextual ads, mostly served through Microsoft's ad network

E Ink minimalist phones from Warsaw's Mudita, with 5 years of updates on the Kompakt

Linux phone with 5 hardware privacy switches, $199.99 from PINE64; low-powered, for tinkerers

Belgian mobile co-operative on the Orange network, plans from €8 a month

Catalan telecoms co-operative for mobile and fibre, with no minimum contract term

Modular, repairable phones from SHIFT GmbH in Falkenberg, Germany, with a device deposit

Broadband and mobile from OurCoop, a UK consumer co-operative with over a million members

UK mobile network that puts all its profits into rewilding land, on 30-day rolling plans

Linux phone with hardware kill switches from US firm Purism, $799 for 3 GB of RAM

Modular phone rated 10/10 by iFixit, with updates until 2033, from €649

End-to-end encrypted photo storage with shared family albums, 10 GB free, open source

Ad-free, federated short-video app from Pixelfed's developer, still in beta

Federated, donation-funded discussion forums in the style of Reddit, no ads or tracking

Open-protocol public network with 44 million users and no ads; says it won't train AI on posts

Free, open-source space for local and purpose-driven groups, with no ads or algorithm

Federated, nonprofit tool for public events and community groups, run from France

Image-sharing community owned by a Massachusetts nonprofit, posting from $3 a year

A social network built for organising and sharing knowledge

Free, open-source forum software built by volunteers; you need your own host

Volunteer-run, open-source forum software with regular security updates; self-hosted

Open-source social network and chat on the XMPP standard, funded by its users

Federated platform for community sites with groups, files and calendars, run by an association

Volunteer-run peer-to-peer network for censorship-resistant sites and forums

Open-source forum software, free to self-host, with a free hosted plan and Pro at $100 a month

Ad-free, chronological microblogging with your own domain, from $5 a month

Ad-free, open-source photo sharing on the fediverse with chronological feeds

The original decentralised Facebook alternative, volunteer-run and still updated

Facebook-style federated network with no company behind it; talks to Mastodon

Nonprofit-run, ad-free network of 7,360 independent servers with chronological feeds

Bandcamp-style music store run by a US worker co-op; artists set the fee, 10% by default

French hi-res music streaming and download store with an audited payout of $0.0187 a stream

Indie music store taking a 15% cut, owned by Songtradr since 2023; bans AI music

Free films for library card holders; libraries pay per view, owned by OverDrive

Ad-free classic and art-house film streaming from the Criterion Collection, $99.99 a year

Canada's public film producer, streaming its documentaries and animation free of charge

Curated art-house film streaming, venture-backed since a $100M Sequoia round in 2025

Independent film streaming for the UK and US from a small Kent company

Film streaming from the UK's BFI charity, £6.99 a month, plus rentals and free archive films

Human-curated radio channels built from YouTube and SoundCloud links; open source, no ads

Federated music and podcast server with no ads or tracking, run by a members' collective

Open-source team chat owned by the nonprofit Zulip Foundation, free to self-host

Thread-first team chat from bootstrapped, remote-first Doist, free or €6 per user a month

Volunteer-run open-source platform that makes self-hosting web apps a few clicks

Open-source time tracker made in Austria, free to self-host or as a hosted cloud plan

Project boards from Digicoop, a French worker co-op owned by its staff, hosted in the EU

Open-source SIP phone for calls, video and chat, with ZRTP end-to-end encryption

French private networks for teams and groups, free up to 100 members, Pro €3 per user

Ad-free, self-hosted collaboration platform from a German co-op, used by 88,000 people

Open-source forum software, free to self-host, with a free hosted plan and Pro at $100 a month

MIT-licensed software for fair proposals and votes in large groups, made in Berlin

Open-source group decision tool from a worker-owned co-op, from $25 a month for non-profits

End-to-end encrypted, open-source team messenger from Berlin, free for teams of up to 5

Matrix chat with encrypted private rooms, from a VC-backed UK firm that sells to governments

Open-source team chat that federates over Matrix; VC-backed, with a defence focus

Peer-to-peer calls and chat with no phone number or central server, a GNU project

Open-source video calls; hosting a room on meet.jit.si needs a Google, GitHub or Facebook login

Minimalist open-source Kanban board to self-host, in maintenance mode but still patched

Half-hourly carbon forecasts for Britain's grid in 14 regions, from grid operator NESO and WWF

Uptime and certificate checks with no spyware and no dark patterns

Reference manager that shares no data and runs its own analytics, €4.99 a month for students

Life-cycle studies of everyday products and materials, made by UC Davis design students

Website and app blocker that keeps your stats on your device, with a one-time Pro licence

App and site blocker for all your devices, from $3.33 a month; its site uses Google Analytics

Free, plain-language guides to digital privacy, AI and wellbeing from Berlin NGO Tactical Tech

Free API that estimates a trip's carbon footprint using IPCC, DEFRA and GHG Protocol methods

Organising toolkit from the not-for-profit Action Network, built with the AFL-CIO

Free calculator for a web page's carbon footprint, by London studio Wholegrain Digital

Open-source checker that flags insensitive or exclusionary words in your writing

Recurring donations platform run by a French non-profit that takes no cut of what you get

Open-source translator you can run offline or use on the web, API keys from $14 a month

Cologne-made AI translator; free-version texts train its models, Pro texts are deleted

Free, open-source rule-based translator, strong on minority and closely related languages

Self-hosted, open-source live streaming with built-in chat and fediverse follows

Open-source Android app for watching YouTube with no ads and no Google account needed

Ad-free, federated short-video app from Pixelfed's developer, still in beta

Open-hardware cinema camera from a Vienna nonprofit, with code still updated in 2026

Stock photos and video from an artist-owned co-op in Victoria, Canada

Free, volunteer-built media server you run at home for films, music and photos

Open-source YouTube front end with no ads or Google account needed; 5 public servers listed

GNU media hosting you run yourself for video, audio and photos; small but updated

Federated, ad-free video platform from French nonprofit Framasoft, 1,581 servers

Independent London host, B Corp since 2023, on power matched 100% with renewables

Founder-owned Cambridge host with verified renewable power, email from £1.67 a month

Swiss email with 20 GB free, no ads, on certified renewable power

Amsterdam host running on Dutch wind power, verified by Green Web, with internet freedom work

Not-for-profit email owned by an educational charity, on renewable power, from £60 a year

German WordPress hosting from €18 a month, owned by private-equity-backed team.blue

UK WordPress hosting from £10 a month in a data centre Green Web lists as renewable

Managed WordPress hosting built entirely on Google Cloud, so its green claim rests on Google

Californian host with solar panels powering its own data centre, formerly AISO.net

London B Corp web agency, green hosting at £24 a month on a renewable-powered UK data centre

UK host whose data centre runs on renewable power, with REGO proof listed by Green Web

The free encyclopedia written by volunteers, run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, no ads

Nonprofit wiki of 24,000+ articles on sustainability and appropriate technology, CC BY-SA

Volunteer-written wiki on hitchhiking: spots, routes and border tips, edited daily

Volunteer wiki on dumpster diving and saving food and goods from waste, city by city