
Just a Change
Just a Change is a Portuguese non-profit that renovates homes for people living in housing poverty, relying entirely on volunteer labour. Si…
Around the capital, sustainability is urban and social: REFOOD and Fruta Feia rescuing food at scale, Biovilla's cooperative in the Arrábida hills, and Terra Alta teaching permaculture an hour from the city. Proof that the movement isn't only rural.

Just a Change is a Portuguese non-profit that renovates homes for people living in housing poverty, relying entirely on volunteer labour. Si…

Valorpneu is a non-profit company, licensed by the Portuguese State, that manages the collection and treatment of used tyres. It has run the…

Cascais Ambiente (EMAC) is the municipal environment company of Cascais, created in 2005. It handles urban cleaning, waste collection, green…

Banco Alimentar Contra a Fome is a Portuguese federation of 21 regional food banks that collect surplus food from farms, companies and the p…

Quinta dos 7 Nomes is an ecological cooperative founded in 2007 in Colares, Sintra, running a permaculture lab, an organic grocery shop, com…

Biocoop is a consumer cooperative in Prior Velho, near Lisbon, selling organic food to its members since 1993. It also organises farm visits…

Causas de Raiz is an independent, non-profit citizen map tracking environmental conflicts in Portugal, with over 100 documented and sourced …

APREN is Portugal's renewable energy association, founded in 1988, representing over 90% of the country's installed renewable capacity. It t…

CASES is a Portuguese public interest cooperative that represents and supports the social economy sector, including cooperatives, associatio…

Obras de Terra is a one-person consultancy in Portugal specialising in natural building, building pathology diagnosis and geoenvironmental h…

Ecopassive Houses is a Portuguese website dedicated to passive and ecological construction, offering guidance, articles and resources on sus…

ICNF is the Portuguese public institute responsible for nature conservation and forest management, including the national network of protect…

Instituto Português de Ecopsicologia (IPEP - Alma Gaia) is a clinic and training centre near Palmela, Setúbal, offering nature-based psychot…

A Eira is a Galician social-initiative cooperative based in the Costa da Morte, combining web design, education and socio-educational projec…

Uma Boa Questão is a cooperative network born from a meeting between the Hip-Hop movement and the solidarity economy, running cultural, soci…

Colmeia62 is a housing cooperative with collective land ownership in Zambujal, Mafra, developing an ecovillage rooted in permaculture and co…

Youth Coop is a non-profit cooperative of youth work professionals based in Agualva-Cacém, Sintra, running local and European projects on ci…

AJAP is a national association representing young farmers in Portugal, offering training, business support and advocacy for generational ren…

Bicicultura is a non-profit cooperative based in Lisbon, founded in 2019, dedicated to promoting cycling for transport, work, leisure and th…

Granel Saloio is a bulk grocery store in Fontanelas selling certified gluten-free, organic, vegan and zero-waste products. Run by Tiago and …

Do Zero is a Portuguese sustainability platform curating conscious brands, collaborations and a podcast, and organising Cidade Do Zero, one …

EVOA is a bird-watching and nature interpretation centre in the Tagus estuary, near Vila Franca de Xira, 30 minutes from Lisbon. It combines…

O Granel da Sofia is a Lisbon-based bulk grocery and eco shop selling packaging-free food, natural personal care items and sustainable toys.…

MF Casas de Madeira is a Portuguese manufacturer of prefabricated timber houses, offering turnkey construction with certified Nordic pine an…

AGROBIO is a Portuguese non-profit association founded in 1985 dedicated to promoting organic farming through training, technical assistance…

Casa do Impacto is a Lisbon-based hub for impact entrepreneurship, promoted by Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, offering incubation, ac…

ABAAE (Associação Bandeira Azul de Ambiente e Educação) is a national non-profit environmental NGO that runs recognised programmes such as B…

Lisboa E-Nova is Lisbon's municipal energy and environment agency, a non-profit association promoting sustainable development through energy…
Minha Terra is the Portuguese federation of 58 local development associations, coordinating LEADER-funded rural development work across the …

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's Nature and Biodiversity Protection Programme provides core funding to eight environmental NGOs across P…

Quinta da Herdeira is a family-run certified organic farm in Foros de Amora, growing vegetables and fruit without synthetic chemicals since …

Residual Studio is a Lisbon-based architecture, design and research atelier focused exclusively on sustainability and circular economy, crea…
Projecto Matéria is a Portuguese non-profit platform, founded in 2016 by chef João Rodrigues and Vânia Rodrigues, that celebrates and connec…

Reservas da Biosfera de Portugal is a digital territorial platform that showcases Portugal's 13 UNESCO Biosphere Reserves, promoting their n…
CORE Sustentare is an independent, science-driven consultancy specialising in ESG strategy, sustainability reporting and corporate social re…

Movimento ALP is a registered national initiative that has been organising community beach clean-ups and eco team-building activities across…

Aqua eXperience is an education and awareness project on water efficiency and the water-energy nexus, run by ADENE and EPAL with support fro…

SPEA is a Portuguese non-profit environmental NGO, founded in 1993 and affiliated with BirdLife International, dedicated to the study and co…

ANP | WWF is a Portuguese environmental NGO working in association with WWF to conserve nature, restore ecosystems and influence environment…

GRACE – Empresas Responsáveis is a public-benefit, non-profit business association founded in 2000 that promotes corporate social responsibi…

Associação Dariacordar / Zero Desperdício is a Portuguese non-profit founded in 2011/2012 that fights food and textile waste through a natio…

Blanky is a fast-growing Portuguese sustainable home textiles brand, best known as the first weighted blanket company in Iberia, offering ba…

Unidos Contra o Desperdício is a national movement, under the High Patronage of the President of Portugal, that brings together companies, i…

Quinta dos Medronheiros is a certified organic farm in Lazarim, Almada, offering fresh biological produce through weekly organic boxes. It p…

Graneleiro de Janas is a community storage and distribution space for local agroecological produce, located within the Janas Ecovillage in S…
Quinta Ecosophia is a permaculture farm in Colares, Portugal, hosting volunteers, concerts, talks and cultural gatherings centred on sustain…

AltogaGreen is a Lisbon-based company bringing together three initiatives — Ludicenter, Educativa, and Ecocenter — that combine playful educ…

REPLAY is a Portuguese project that collects end-of-life toys and creatively recycles their plastic and other materials into new objects, ta…

Trokaki is a community exchange shop in Carnide, Lisbon, where people trade unwanted items and services for credits, with no money involved.

ISTO. is a Portuguese sustainable fashion brand offering luxury everyday clothing made from organic, natural, and recycled materials, with f…

AIM Forest is a natural capital investment platform developing sustainable, irrigated cork oak forestry projects in southern Portugal, combi…

An educational project by ABAAE, run within Portugal's Eco-Schools Programme, that gives schools tools, challenges and information to encour…

Quinta do Pisão, officially the Parque da Natureza de Cascais, is a municipal nature park in Alcabideche for biodiversity conservation, outd…

Agrofloresta de Campolide - Bela Flor Respira is a community-led pilot project that turned a degraded hillside in Lisbon into an urban agrof…

Jinja is a sustainable design brand in Porto, founded in 2012 by Norma Silva. It makes handmade home products from reused industrial textile…

Oásis Biosistema is a Portuguese company founded in 2022 by Alberto Tassi, specialising in the design and construction of natural pools, orn…

A sustainable eco-tourism and education platform in Sintra offering workshops, reconnection activities and eco-village experiences that prom…

LPN – Liga para a Protecção da Natureza is the oldest environmental NGO in the Iberian Peninsula, founded in 1948, dedicated to nature conse…

Portugal Farm Experience is a tour platform that connects travellers with real farms across Portugal for hands-on activities such as fruit p…

An international foundation based in Lisbon that works on ocean conservation through science, policy advocacy and collaboration with decisio…
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WAKESEED is a Lisbon association dedicated to personal and community sustainability. It combines human development, health and wellbeing pra…

Tinctorium Studio is a natural dye and eco-print atelier near Lisbon that makes one-of-a-kind wearable art from locally foraged and permacul…

Enraizar is a non-profit Learning Community in Santo Isidoro, Mafra, that supports children and families through nature-based, participatory…

Azeitão Eco-consciente is a community movement in Azeitão, Portugal, that promotes sustainable, active and connected living through events s…

Grupo Lobo is a Portuguese association that has worked to conserve the Iberian wolf since 1985. It combines scientific research, environment…
Pinho&Palha is a project in Sarilhos Grandes, Portugal, oriented towards sustainability.

ImpacTrip is a purposeful travel agency that offers meaningful social and environmental volunteering programs across Europe.

A historic walled forest in Mafra used for biodiversity conservation, research and public nature activities. It is part of the Real Edifício…

A family-run agro-tourism project in Santo Isidoro, near Ericeira, with rooms and villas in quiet green countryside close to the sea. It bri…

CATCH (Centro de Arte, Tecnologia e Criatividade Humana) is a family-run initiative in Porto Brandão, Portugal, that combines permaculture, …

Salina Greens produces certified organic halophyte plants and products made from them, such as salicornia, sea salt substitutes and infusion…

K-Evolution is a Portuguese non-profit association, founded in 2013, that promotes sustainability, citizenship and entrepreneurship through …

Ilhas de Biodiversidade plants dense native mini-forests with the Miyawaki method in industrial, educational and community settings across P…

United to Remake (U2R) is a Portuguese social innovation startup that works with brands and organisations to upcycle discarded materials, fr…

Circular Economy Portugal is a non-profit association promoting the transition to a circular economy in Portugal. It does this through capac…

Transitar is a Portuguese environmental association based in Lisbon, and the first in Portugal to bring internationally recognised sustainab…
A nature and arts space in a small forest inside a quinta in São João do Estoril, with playgroups, family workshops, holiday programmes and …

Pela Terra is a regenerative agriculture investment fund in the Alentejo that restores farmland such as olive groves and almond orchards, an…

Regen Waves is a non-profit movement working to regenerate the Arrábida bioregion through native “superforests”, community-led Regen Walks a…

ZERO is a Portuguese environmental NGO, founded in 2015, that advocates for sustainability on energy, pollution, waste, biodiversity and soc…

Sociedade Ponto Verde (SPV) is Portugal's leading packaging waste management organisation. Since 1996 it has diverted over 11 million tonnes…

A Waldorf-inspired educational community for homeschooled teenagers in Colares, Sintra, combining academic content with art and experiences …

Quinta Maravilha is an agroecological farm near Palmela, founded in 2017, that grows organic vegetables and distributes them through a CSA/A…

Sintropia Temperada is a regenerative farm in Palmela that grows food in syntropic agroforestry consortia while restoring soil and water cyc…
Founded by the architect Katharina, Ananda Earth Atelier is a creative and educational project. It runs online mentoring programmes and in-p…

An organic farm in Sobral da Abelheira, Portugal, selling fresh produce, honey, eggs and artisanal bread through an online shop and a physic…

Portugal's first renewable energy cooperative supplies green electricity, finances renewable energy projects through collective investment a…

Mind the Trash is Portugal's first zero-waste online store, founded in Lisbon in 2017, and sells sustainable, organic and plastic-free produ…

A nonprofit, multi-sector cooperative in Lisbon's Anjos neighbourhood. Rizoma runs a self-managed community grocery store, with further sect…

Comunidade CER is a Portuguese platform that connects citizens, businesses and energy companies to form Renewable Energy Communities, so the…

A certified organic farm in Azueira, Mafra, producing a wide variety of vegetables, fruit and bread, delivered weekly in baskets directly to…

Goparity is a regulated crowdfunding platform connecting investors with sustainable projects aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goa…

Maria Granel opened in Lisbon in 2015 as Portugal's first bulk organic grocery store, selling organic bulk food and sustainable accessories …

Plantar uma Árvore is a Portuguese environmental NGO that conserves native forest and restores habitats through volunteer tree planting and …

Electrão is Portugal's largest waste management compliance organisation and the only one managing recycling systems for three waste streams:…

Corkor is a Portuguese brand that handcrafts vegan accessories from genuine cork in Barreiro, as a cruelty-free alternative to leather. It m…

Terrapalha is a natural building architecture studio founded in 2008 by architect Catarina Pinto. Based in Sintra and on the Alentejo coast,…

Founded in 1985, Quercus is Portugal's largest independent environmental NGO, working on nature conservation and environmental defence natio…

OArborista is a certified arboriculture company based in Sesimbra and Lisbon, led by the professional arborist Ruben Oliveira, who has over …
GEOTA (Grupo de Estudos de Ordenamento do Território e Ambiente) is a national non-profit environmental NGO, active since 1981, working on e…

Zero Waste Lab is an independent hub and NGO in Lisbon that pilots collaborative solutions towards zero waste and circular economy practices…

NÃM Mushroom Farm is a certified B Corp urban farm in Lisbon that grows fresh gourmet mushrooms on coffee waste, using a circular approach. …

Planetiers is a global ecosystem and active community based in Lisbon, Portugal, connecting sustainable solutions with organizations and ter…

Sat Village is a small conscious eco-community being developed near Sintra and Ericeira, Portugal, rooted in sustainability, intentional liv…

Fruta Feia CRL, a Portuguese cooperative founded in November 2013, rescues “ugly” fruit and vegetables from going to waste. It distributes t…

Terra Alta Permaculture is an off-grid permaculture education and research centre in a protected valley near Sintra, Portugal. It runs immer…

Refood is a citizen-led movement, 100% volunteer-run, that rescues surplus food from local businesses and delivers it to people in need thro…

SerVivo is a co-living community and event venue in the Natural Park of Arrábida, near Palmela, given over to human development through danc…

Green Embassy is a Lisbon-based botanical company that designs, installs and maintains indoor plant environments for offices, hotels and hom…

Aldeia do Vale is an agroecological and permaculture project between Sintra and Mafra, Portugal, with courses, workshops and practical exper…

Biovilla Sustentabilidade is a sustainable development cooperative on the Herdade de Pinhal Basto in Palmela, combining nature tourism, sust…