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Viva Farms

Viva Farms “provide new farmers affordable access to education, training and technical assistance; capital and credit; land and markets.” Farmers are given a square mile of farm land to get started. The vegetables are sold in a CSA (community supported agriculture) approach in box shares. Its parent organization is GrowFood.org, a national organization.

Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation

Website

http://www.vivafarms.org/

Contact e-mail

infoATvivafarms.org

Telephone

(360) 707-3223

Address

Viva Farms P.O. Box 1714 Mount Vernon, WA 98273

Earth Economics

Earth Economics uses principles of economics to find solutions to climate change. Some of the services they provide, taken from their website, are:

Ecosystem Service Valuations: Working with public, private and NGO agencies, Earth Economics’ Ecosystem Service Valuation (ESV) studies quantify the value of the goods and services provided by regional ecosystems. This valuation justifies the shift of investment toward environmental preservation and/or restoration.
Scenario Mapping and Planning: “Working with leading systems modelers, ecologists and hydrologists, Earth Economics analyzes ecosystem services such as freshwater provisioning, carbon sequestration, flood protection, biodiversity and hurricane protection.”
Conversion to Sustainability: Working with the electronic recycling industry, paper mills and other industries, Earth Economics helps catalyze the shift from unsustainable to sustainable technology and industrial processes.

Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation

Website

http://eartheconomics.org/

Contact e-mail

inform@eartheconomics.org

Telephone

(253) 539-4801

Address

107 N. Tacoma Avenue Tacoma, WA 98403

Pacific Northwest Biochar Initiative

Biochar is a sequestration process of putting charcoal into the soil. This organization is comprised of academics, researchers, engineers, foresters, farmers, and policy experts to look into biochar technology for use in soil amendment.

Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation

Website

http://www.biochar-international.org/regional/pnw

Contact e-mail

jmiedema@peak.org

Telephone

(541) 929-5975

Address

International Biochar Initiative 640 Brook Run Dr. Westerville, OH 43081 United States

DePave

Depave is an 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that removes unnecessary pavement from the Portland area, to create community gardens and water runoff mitigation areas. Pavement is harmful in its social and environmental impacts, and this organization seeks to replace this material with soil and eventually plants. This is accomplished through community events that reconnect people with nature.

Organization Type:

Website

http://depave.org

Contact e-mail

info@depave.org

Address

P.O. Box 12503 Portland, Oregon, 97212