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Mountains to Sound Greenway

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Mission: “The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust leads and inspires action to conserve and enhance the landscape from Seattle across the Cascade Mountains to Central Washington, ensuring a long-term balance between people and nature.”

Vision: “An iconic 1.5 million-acre landscape that conserves a healthy and sustainable relationship between land and people by balancing built and natural environments. A landscape providing places for nature and wildlife, for outdoor recreation and education, for working forests and local agricultural production, while embracing vibrant urban areas with strong economies.  A landscape supported by a broad cross-section of society, working together as an effective coalition to preserve this heritage for future generations.”

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(206) 382-5565

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911 Western Ave, suite 203, Seattle, WA, 98104

Cascadia Green Building Council

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Description of Organization: Cascadia Green Building council works with PNW policymakers to pass legislation that puts green construction on par (financially) with more traditional construction and design practices, and to educate the public about sustainable building design.

Mission: “We help set the global vision for the transformation toward true sustainability, even as we support the place-based solutions that will bring us to the future we hope for, not the tomorrow we fear.”

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(206) 223-2028

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410 Occidental Ave. South, Seattle, WA 98104

Sustainable Connections

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Description of Organization: Sustainable Connections works with local independent businesses to look at more sustainable options, from where goods are bought from, to more efficient and environmentally friendly energy usage.

Mission: “To be the local forum where businesses come together to transform and model an economy built on sustainable practices.”

Vision: “We envision a thriving, collaborative community where local businesses are prosperous, and contribute to a healthy environment and the well-being of all citizens.”

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(360) 647-7093

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1702 Ellis St. Suite 221, Bellingham, WA, 98225

North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative

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Description of Organization: The NPLCC connects a broad range of groups and organizations, both publically and privately funded, to discuss and come to consensus on the issues of climate change, and possible steps to take in response.

Mission: “The North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative promotes development, coordination, and dissemination of science to inform landscape level conservation and sustainable resource management in the face of a changing climate and related stressors.”

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(360) 534-9330

Northwest Climate Science Center (NW CSC)

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Description of Organization: The NW CSC is a federally funded collaboration between (primarily) researched from Oregon State University, the University of Washington, and the University of Idaho.

Mission: “The center’s mission is to provide resource managers with the scientific information, tools, and techniques they need to anticipate, monitor, and adapt to climate change.”

Vision: “To become nationally recognized as a best-practice model for the provisions of climate science and decision support tools to address conservation and management issues in the Pacific Northwest Region.”

History: Founded in 2010 by the US Department of Interior to aide management decisions related to Climate change issues in the PNW region.

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(541) 737-2525

Climate Impacts Research Consortium (CIRC)

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Description of Organization: CIRC is a research organization that combines knowledge and resources from several state universities in Oregon Washington and Idaho to study the impacts of Climate Change on the PNW region, and connects climate change researches with key policymakers.

Mission: We have brought together natural, physical, and social scientists, education and outreach specialists, modelers, resource managers, planners, and practitioners across the region through existing networks and by knitting together new capabilities and partners.

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(541) 737-5705

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326 Strand Ag Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331