What is “One Million Acts of Green”

One Million Acts of Green facilitates how easy it can be for you, your community and the entire world to take better care of the resources that have been provided by our planet. Through this online site, we hope that you will come together with others to show the power of the human network when we act as one.

In October of 2008, Cisco launched One Million Acts of Green in Canada to show how each individual, organization and community can act on their own, but contribute to a greater good. Our success with that project has prompted us to extend the program to those in the United States, where we expect just as great an impact.

What is an Act of Green?

An Act of Green ranges from changing a light bulb or turning off the faucet between dishes to the addition of solar panels to your roof. They can be small or large changes, but all of them are changes to improve our environment.

The best way to understand an Act of Green is to browse the list of Acts on our site.

How does an Act of Green work?

Find an Act that you’d like to complete to learn more about it. You can “Pledge” to complete an act or simply do it, depending on the Act that you’ve chosen. Once it’s been completed, we’ll calculate the greenhouses gases that the Act has saved and add it to your individual, country and worldwide totals.