WiserEarth is a user-generated online community space for the social and environmental movement , tracking the work of non-profits around the world . The online platform maps and connects non-governmental organizations (NGOs), businesses, governments, and individuals addressing global issues such as climate change, poverty, the environment, peace, water, hunger, social justice, conservation, human rights and more. WISER is an acronym for World Index of Social and Environmental Responsibility.

WiserEarth is a fiscally sponsored project of the Natural Capital Institute . The seed of WiserEarth is explained by Paul Hawken in his book Blessed Unrest. The author had collected business cards, during numerous meetings and conferences, from thousands of organizations over the years.

He came to realization that nobody knew who was behind the "movement" , the people behind the great work done towards social justice and environmental restoration. As he saw it, the issue was that the more than one million organizations and the one hundred million individuals who actively work towards ecological sustainability, economic justice, Human rights, and political accountability were not as effective as they could be at preventing harm and instituting positive change because they lacked collective awareness, duplicated efforts, and were poorly connected to each other. What is missing, Hawken posited, was a map and directory of this network that includes the resources for communication and cooperation, created and managed by the community; in essence, an infrastructure through which to coordinate the efforts of this invisible community.[citation needed] In 2005, Hawken convened a team with the objective to gather information from 100,000 environment and social justice organizations around the world and map this movement.

This project, named WiserEarth, was launched on Earth Day in 2007. Other functionality were added later to the website, such as a social networking service and group collaboration tools. WiserEarth was launched in Earth Day 2007.

As of December 2008, WiserEarth provided a directory of more than 110,000 organizations worldwide, over 26,500 registered members, and more than 1,300 groups (communities of action), with content organized in 46 areas of focus and 379 sub-areas. The area of focus structure is currently under revision, a simpler organization matching the Earth Charter principles is under discussion.

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