Happy Eco News is a not-for-profit entity focussed on disseminating positive news about the environment, in order to help alleviate the eco-anxiety all too common in society these days.

We have 3 goals:

1. Help alleviate eco-anxiety and climate grief by providing proof that all of the news is not bad. That there are good people doing good things, and there are lots of them doing it.
2. Help promote the good people who are doing the good things. The people doing the work are not necessarily the best at self-promotion. Happy Eco News will help them get noticed and raise awareness of them, their projects, and their causes.
3. Connect the good people who are doing good things with others like them. We want to help the people doing the work to reach each other and to reach the regular people who want to help if they can. We want to help grassroots activists share resources and raise money for worthy projects, scholars, and leaders.

We do this for free and do not take any money from the charitable side of the organization. Instead, we will fund our operations via traditional web business models. Advertising, affiliate, and other web and IRL monetization tactics will ensure the business has resources to continue to do the good work as long as it is needed.

We are growing organically and steadily and all the growth has been funded by the founder, Grant Brown. To reach our goals it has become apparent that we need to begin to generate revenue to offset the costs. The intention is to keep it free for anyone who wants to read it, so advertising revenue from commercial entities (that align with our mission and ethics) is our only option.

We need 5x viewers and 5x subscribers to start generating meaningful revenue. We need to 10x these numbers to really start making an impact.

Help us, help good people doing good things.

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On the web: HappyEcoNews.com, Twitter: @HappyEcoNews, Instagram: @OfficialHappyEcoNews

Project Scope:

Globally, there are many people working to help make the environment better. These may be individuals working at a grassroots level, established organizations with large staff and payroll, or somewhere in between. Often, these groups are working in isolation, unaware of other groups doing the same type of project or with the same type of goals. Happy Eco Media intends to create a comprehensive searchable database of all of these people and organizations with the intention of connecting them in order that they are better able to share resources, knowledge, and influence.

The Database of Environmental Organizations project will require participants to search the internet for credible environmental organizations starting locally in Canada and expanding to the USA and other parts of the world. They will reach out to these organizations by email or phone to collect data such as name, number of staff, contact information, location, type of project, etc.

The database will require a web-based interface to allow search by people from external organizations. The interface must have security features to prevent abuse and fraud. The database must also be able to be reconfigured to add features in the future, and all information must be able to be exported easily into an industry-standard, non-proprietary format.

All costs to host and develop the database will be borne by Happy Eco Media.

I will be available any time by email to help answer questions or provide guidance. I will be available by zoom 1x per week to have a group catch up call.