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Clearedge Power

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ClearEdge Power create innovative products to help their costumers improve their energy efficiency and reduce their carbon emissions at home or at their business. With a team of scientists, engineers and managers they use clean tech solutions for the growing energy demands. They are a world leader in fuel cell stacks that provide reliable power for buildings and vehicles.

Organization Type: For-Profit

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(877) 257-3343

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7175 NW Evergreen Parkway, Building 100 Hillsboro, OR 97124

Farm Power

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Farm Power is a Washington and Oregon company that works towards sustainable agriculture and renewable energy. Their facilities use an anaerobic manure digester that harvests methane gas from manure. They use the methane to create electricity and send the manure to their partnered farms to use as an organic fertilizer. Their goal is to build manure digesters for as many dairy farms in the Pacific Northwest as possible. They work with groups of dairy farmers to design regional digesters that can serve multiple farms. By using their digesters they reduce thousands of tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year.

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(360) 424-4519

EarthShare Washington

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EarthShare Washington partners with businesses across Washington to promote environmental education, volunteerism and charities. EarthShare Washington is part of the national organization EarthShare.

Their mission is to provide “opportunities for individuals, employers and organizations to support a healthy and sustainable environment through collaboration and focused giving.”

Organization Type: Non-Profit

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(206) 622-9840

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1402 Third Avenue, Suite 817 Seattle WA 98101

Northwest Energy Efficiency Council

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Northwest Energy Efficiency Council is a non-profit association for the energy efficiency industry. They provide products, services and develop energy efficiency programs.

Their mission is “to promote energy efficiency policies, programs and technologies that create jobs, foster economic growth and environmental improvement.”

According to their website “NEEC advocates an affordable, energy efficient future for commercial, industrial and residential customers by:

  • Promoting energy efficient products and services as the cleanest and lowest cost energy resource;
  • Serving as the voice of the industry in state and local program and policy issues;
  • Providing members with the most up-to-date information within the industry.”

Organization Type: Non-Profit

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(206) 292-5592

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605 First Ave, Ste 401 Seattle, WA 98104

Interior Alaska Green Star

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Interior Alaska Green Star is a non-profit organization that “encourages households and businesses to practice waste reduction, energy conservation and pollution prevention.” The Green Star Award program was created in 1990 by state regulators, environmentalists and business leaders to give positive recognition to organizations that exercise environmental responsibility. Interior Alaska Green Star started in 1998 and focused on the encouragement of recycling in both the domestic and corporate parts of Alaska. Since 2006, Alaska has faced many recycling hardships, but has been able to start up several different recycling programs including a computer recycling program and has many started many outreach or education programs.

From 2012 their new accomplishments include:

  • Expanding community participation in the Electronics Recycling program, especially from the business community
  • Publishing a new edition of the Fairbanks Recycling Guide in the fall of 2012
  • Expanding our Educational Programs
  • Re-engaging the local business community in the Green Star Award program

Organization Type: Non-Profit

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(907) 452-4152

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565 University Avenue, Suite 4, Fairbanks, Alaska 99709

Ada County Highway District Commuteride

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Commuteride is a carpooling, vanpooling, or “ridematching” service within the Ada County of Idaho. It also promotes biking and walking by providing Bike Lane Maps and incentives of biking and walking.

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(208) 345-7665

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3775 Adams St. Garden City, Idaho 83714

Idaho Smart Growth

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Idaho Smart Growth is a non-profit organization that educates and advocates smart growth in the local communities of Idaho. They educate Idaho citizens, build groups who support smart growth, implement statewide policies for smart growth, help and advise community leaders.

Their mission is to bring “people together to create great places to live.”

Idaho Smart Growth believes that “Smart Growth is defined around a list of ten principles” these principles give insight into their conservation practices:

  • Provide a variety of transportation choices.
  • Mix land use.
  • Create a range of housing opportunities and choices.
  • Create walkable neighborhoods.
  • Encourage community and stakeholder collaboration.
  • Foster distinctive, attractive communities with a strong sense of place.
  • Preserve open space, farmland, natural beauty, and critical environmental areas.
  • Strengthen and direct development towards existing areas.
  • Adopt compact building patterns and efficient infrastructure design
  • To learn more about the practices go to: http://www.idahosmartgrowth.org/index.php/resources/resource/best_practices/

Organization Type: Non-Profit

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(208) 333-8066

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P.O. Box 374 Boise, ID 83701

Northwest National Resource Group

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Northwest National Resource Group promotes “the emergence of a sustainable, environmentally sound economy throughout the Pacific Northwest in which healthy ecosystems are fully integrated with the social, economic, and cultural systems of human society.” They focus on conservation and economic goals through market-based conservation tools. They try to understand the links between forestry, watershed health, water quality, habitat corridors and economic performance.

Their mission is to “use the marketplace to restore forests and local economies.”

They work on:

  • Supporting the growth of a profitable and sustainable timber industry in Washington state.
  • Advocating Forest Stewardship certification in the Northwest
  • Developing their Watershed Innovation program

Organization Type: Non-Profit

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(206) 971-3709

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1917 1st Ave, Level A, Suite 200 Seattle, WA 98101

Build Local Alliance

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Build Local Alliance works with businesses, builders and artisans in northwest Oregon and southwest Washington to develop the local economy through sustainable forestry by supporting and using local wood for green building projects. The Build Local Alliance is composed of forest owners, millwrights, architects, designers, builders, craftsmen, homeowners and more.

Their mission is “to improve the vitality of local forests and related human communities by connecting local, responsibly grown and processed wood with local projects.”

Organization Type: Non-Profit

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(503) 221-6911 x101

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Portland, Oregon

Washington Organic Recycling Council

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Washington Organic Recycling Council is a non-profit organization that supports and promotes organic recycling in Washington.  They provide a unified statewide voice for issues such as “research, education, product safety and standards, government regulations, environmental planning, trade, marketing, and public education and involvement.” They work with organic recyclers, state organizations and provide communication between the public and private sectors.

What they do:

  • Promote composting, wood sorting and grinding
  • Develop and promote programs that spread awareness and educate on organic recycling such as Soils for Salmon Project
  • Develop training programs for compositors, regulators and consultants
  • Promote and develop standards and regulations for organic recycling
  • Support scientific research, process innovation and new product development

Organization Type: Non-Profit

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(360) 556-3926

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PO Box 3011 Pasco, WA 99301