Programs

Greenheart's core goal is to design, build, and operate a new type of small cargo vessel. As we pursue this, complementary programs have emerged - programs that will make our ships more effective in changing the world for the better.

Blue Sea Miles
is the tentative name we have given to an effort to launch and promote a consumer label that will identify products shipped in way that preserves and protects the cleanliness of our oceans. We have been networking with other clean ocean transport concerns such as Skysails, Eco-Freight, Atlantis Zeilende Handelsvaart and others, in order to publicly launch the new label during the COP-15 Climate Summit in Copenhagen this December.

Marine Auction
is a combination publicity/ fundraising effort that aims to include recreational and sporting yachtsmen, as well as firms that produce such equipment in the Greenheart Project. The yachting community around the world is generally sympathetic to efforts to protect the marine environment, to develop new sailing technologies, and to improve the lives of artisanal sailors in developing nations. We hope to bring their enthusiasm and innovative ideas into our project and forge ties with yacht clubs and marine product manufacturers that will improve and strengthen the global sailing community.

Education
is a central goal of the Greenheart Project. We realize that our photogenic and inspirational ships will have the power to influence millions of people not directly involved with their operations. To this end, we conducted a successful Poster Design Contest that attracted the imaginative participation of children in many countries around the world. We are also actively developing the role that public events, live web-based educational programming, and training seminars will play in our activities.

Carbon Offset
is a concept that promotes the active remediation of carbon-emitting activities by supporting carbon-fixing efforts, such as planting trees. Greenheart will offset 100% of its small carbon footprint over time, and intends to provide carbon offset credits to other industries trying to compensate for their polluting emissions.

Green Banks
are those financial institutions that use their investment power to promote cooperative and ecologically sound enterprises. We are keeping most of our funds in such banks, and intend to try and spread their popularity in the commercial sector and around the world through our global activities.

Locally
, that is, in Japan, where the largest concentration of active members reside, we have networked with groups active in environmental protection and Fair trade promotion, as well as participating in NPO/NGO events, and organizing zero-emissions picnics, movie nights, and other community-building activities.

Campaigns

United Nations Millennium Campaign
The historic promise 189 world leaders made at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000 when they agreed to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The United Nations Millennium Campaign supports and inspires people from around the world to take action in support of the Millennium Development Goals.
Read more at http://www.endpoverty2015.org

Climate Action
The Global Climate Wake-Up Call, tcktcktck is a global movement for a unified voice against climate change. International day of climate action, 350.org is an international campaign dedicated to building a movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis - the solutions that science and justice demand. And any other international campaigns dedicated to building a movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis. The solutions that science and justice demand. Read more

Oxfam's Trade Campaign
"World trade rules have been developed by the rich and powerful on the basis of their narrow commercial interests. Rich countries and powerful corporations have captured a disproportionate share of the benefits of trade, leaving developing countries and poor people worse off. Trade rules should be judged on their contribution to poverty reduction, respect for human rights, and environmental sustainability. Instead of robbing half the world of a proper living, trade could help millions of poor farmers and workers in developing countries beat poverty, and change their lives for good. But this will not happen unless countries change the way they trade."
Read more at http://www.oxfam.org/en/campaigns/trade