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Open Source For Common Good

A curated list of open source projects that serve a social or environmental goal.

Some projects out there didn't make the list, because while being cool, didn't have any history of pull-requests and few or no collaborators. Right now, I'm only including projects that have had some activity in the past year. I might start a second list for projects that look promising, but have gone quiet and could use a revival.


Climate Change

Mature Projects

These are projects that already have multiple collaborators

Project Description Status / Last Commit
Project Drawdown Solutions See the book. Comprehensive and modelled plan for reversing climate change based on the work of hundreds of experts. GitHub last commitGitHub last commit
Climate Choice We've created straight-forward guides on the choices you can make today, to take action and help prevent earth’s climate breaking down GitHub last commit GitHub contributors
Climate-Watch Climate Watch offers open data, visualizations and analysis to help policymakers, researchers and other stakeholders gather insights on countries' climate progress. GitHub last commit GitHub contributors
Laws and Pathways Climate Change Laws of the World and Transition Pathways Initiative CMS + Front end Applications GitHub last commit GitHub contributors
NorthApp North automatically calculates the climate impact of your daily choices by connecting to apps and services you already use. https://www.north-app.com GitHub last commit GitHub contributors
Electricity Map A real-time visualisation of the Greenhouse Gas (in terms of CO2 equivalent) footprint of electricity consumption built with d3.js and mapbox GL, maintained by Tomorrow. GitHub last commit GitHub contributors
Python for Power Systems Analysis PyPSA is a free software toolbox for simulating and optimising modern power systems that include features such as conventional generators with unit commitment, variable wind and solar generation, storage units, coupling to other energy sectors, and mixed alternating and direct current networks. GitHub last commit GitHub contributors
Wind Python The windpowerlib is a library to model the output of wind turbines and farms. https://oemof.org/ GitHub last commit GitHub contributors
Trillion Tree Campagin There's enough space in the world for lots of new trees. In total, an area the size of the USA could be reforested! Discover on the map where trees have already been planted and where more can be planted. GitHub last commit GitHub contributors
Oasis Loss-Modelling Framework An open source catastrophe modelling platform, free to use by anyone. GitHub last commit GitHub contributors

New Projects

These are projects that are new, have few contributors, or are looking for collaborators

Project Description Status
Climatescape Front end for climatescape.org, an open directory of organizations and investors focused on climate change solutions. GitHub last commit GitHub contributors
Predict PV Yeild If we have more accurate predictions of how much electricity a PV installation will produce over the next few hours then we can reduce the amount of fossil fuel backup required. GitHub last commit
Power Genome Power system optimization models can be used to explore the cost and emission implications of different regulations in future energy systems. A tool to quickly and easily create inputs for power systems models GitHub last commit
Soils Revealed Platform for direct visualization, analysis and reporting of soil organic carbon predictions and changes over time. GitHub last commit

Citizen Journalism

Project Description Status
Aleph Aleph is a tool for indexing large amounts of both documents (PDF, Word, HTML) and structured (CSV, XLS, SQL) data for easy browsing and search. It is built with investigative reporting as a primary use case. GitHub last commit
DogwoodBC's Ban Big Money API A Django-rest api for political contributions in BC, Canada GitHub last commit GitHub open pull requests
Tabula Useful for pulling tables from PDFs GitHub last commit GitHub open pull requests

Civic Data

Project Description Status
OpenStates The Open States Project collects and makes available data about state legislative activities, including bill summaries, votes, sponsorships and state legislator information GitHub last commit GitHub open pull requests
Pupa A framework for scraping legislative/government data GitHub last commit
Councilmatic The django-councilmatic app provides the core functionality for the Councilmatic family, a set of web apps for keeping tabs on local city council. GitHub last commit GitHub open pull requests
OpenSpending OpenSpending is a project to make government finances easier to explore and understand. It started out as "Where does my money go", a platform to visualize the United Kingdom's state finance, but has been renamed and restructured to allow arbitrary financial data to be loaded and displayed. GitHub last commit

Community Building

Humanitarian

Robotics

Ecological Research

Other

Project Description Status
Protecting US Federal climate data Climate Mirror - an open project to mirror public climate datasets
Stolen Bike Index It is the most widely used and successful bicycle registration service in the world with over 188,000 cataloged bikes, 550 community partners and tens of thousands of daily searches. GitHub last commit GitHub open pull requests
ElectricityMap Real-time map for CO2 emissions by country/region from electricity GitHub last commit GitHub open pull requests
Our Sci Write scripts to visualize data from open source hardware sensors live on an android app. From GOAT, which is all about open source Ag Tech http://forum.goatech.org/

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