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Mobility

ATE
Equivalent to the TCS for breakdown cover and legal insurance but with the great advantage of being active in environmental protection.
eMobile
An association that promotes the most ecological vehicles on the market.
Mobility
More than 2000 vehicles at your disposal in public car parks for car sharing
E-car pooling, car pooling
This site can link up drivers and passengers with the same destination and who want to share a vehicle on an occasional or regular basis.
Pro-velo
The Swiss PRO VELO is involved in promoting cycling on a daily basis and works with the authorities to improve safety and convenience for cyclists.
Myclimate
Myclimate is not-for-profit organisation started at the Zurich Ecole Polytechnique Federale (EPFZ). Its aim is to offer a system of offsets for greenhouse gases resulting from air travel.


Free collection and recycling of waste for businesses

Ecologistic
This centre for professional integration offers a free service for collecting and recycling your old printer cartridges.
Petrecycling
Swiss organisation undertaking to collect PET free of charge. You will also find a huge choice of collection containers.
Swico
From 250kg of used electronic material, the SWICO organisation is obliged to remove your used hardware free-of-charge. The hardware should be stored on frame pallets which can be ordered from their site.
Papirec
This firm does not charge for transport to collect your recycling paper and cardboard. You can also give them your wood pallets.
Your paper, please!
Order waste paper baskets for each of your staff: you will be billed at the wholesale price.


Saving energy

Topten
Topten is a comparison shopper which helps you learn about products that have the least environmental impact.
Minergie
Minergie is a label intended for new and refurbished buildings that gives priority to renewable energy.


Air quality

PM10
An excellent site to inform people who were unaware of the fact that fine particles (diesel engine, oil heating) kill!
Ozone info
This site gives you information on rates of pollution by town and by quarter in real time for nitrogen dioxide (NO2), fine particles (O3) and ozone (O3).


Protecting nature and the environment

WWF
Global organisation for protection of nature. Its goal is to stop the state of the environment from deteriorating and to help build a future where man will live in harmony with his surroundings.
Greenpeace
Independent environmental organisation that exposes global environmental problems and promotes solutions for a peaceful and ecological future.
Pro Natura
Pro Natura is an organisation in Switzerland that promotes long-term conservation of threatened species and their habitats.
Nicolas Hulot Foundation
An apolitical and non-confessional NGO, the foundation's goal is to develop environmental education.
Bruno Manser Fund
Foundation committed to conservation of threatened rainforests and diversity of its species.
Shipstern Nature Reserve
Public interest foundation whose aim is to provide concrete protection, on the ground, for tropical environments.