The Black Sea Catchment has gone in the last decades through a ecologically unsustainable development and inadequate resource management, which is leading to severe environmental, social and economic problems. The EnviroGRIDS project addresses these issues by bringing several emerging information technologies that can improve the way we observe our planet. The aim is building a data-driven vision of the earth that feeds into models and scenarios to explore our past, present and future. In this regards EnviroGRIDS aims at building the capacity of scientist to assemble such a system in the Black Sea Catchment, the capacity of decision-makers to use it, and the capacity of the general public to understand the important environmental, social and economic issues at stake.