According to their website: “EVEN is an official 501(c)(3) non-profit, providing education, information and resources to encourage people to explore the benefits of a plant-based diet.”
This is a Low Impact Lifestyle, reducing individual carbon output.
Organization Type: Non-Profit
http://www.eugeneveg.org/index.html
According to their website the Lands Council is a “group of area physicians, concerned about the environment’s effect on people’s health. The Lands Council is a local grassroots, non-profit dedicated to protecting the quality of life in the Inland Northwest. Today they are the leading conservation voice in the Inland Northwest.”
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit
(509) 838-4912
From their website: “The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of more than 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, progressive utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and British Columbia. We promote development of renewable energy and energy conservation, consumer protection, low-income energy assistance, and fish and wildlife restoration on the Columbia and Snake rivers.”
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit
(206) 621-0094
Since 2006, Noveda has been building software solutions for energy and water use monitoring. Through web-based monitoring, businesses and governments can monitor and reduce their carbon footprints. Noveda can also track energy and water use for interested parties in order to determine financial effects of improved energy technologies.
Organization Type: For-Profit Corporation
(908) 534-8855
A reduction in driving is an important aspect of behavioral change that will reduce Carbon emissions. This organization, while not working on climate issues overtly, incentives lifestyle changes through making biking an easier and realistic transportation alternative option. According to their website “Cascade Bicycle Club is a non-profit organization based in Seattle, Washington that serves more than 14,000 members and the Puget Sound bicycling community. Their mission is to Create a Better Community through Bicycling.”
Organization Type: Not-for-Profit
(206) 522-BIKE
“Our mission is to engage and mobilize the winter sports community to lead the fight against climate change. Our focus is on educational initiatives, activism and the support of community-based projects.”
P.O.W. Is a group of snow sports professionals and industry leaders that are actively trying to raise awareness and educate members of the snow sports industry about the effects of climate change and how to personally mitigate them. They leaders in studying the effects of climate change in the winter recreation industry. They have an education program that has reached out to over 15,000 students nationwide. The North West Chapter has been heavily critical of the local coal export proposals.
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From their site: “Operating as a program of the International Sustainable Development Foundation, ZWA has over a twelve-year history working with industry and communities to identify and overcome barriers to zero waste. ZWA’s work has included the formation of the Green Electronics Council, the Outdoor Industry Eco-Index, the Sustainable Oregon Schools Initiative, the International Society of Sustainability Professionals and the Chemical Assessment and Ranking System.”
Organization Type: Non-government Organization
(503) 279-9383
The ACCAP serves as an informed intermediary between the scientific community and Alaskan governmental, industrial, and social interests. The Center, working with the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, aggregates and analyses data on natural systems and uses that data to model future climate concerns. This information is then reviewed and policy suggestions based thereon are published online and in white-papers.
Organization Type: Government Agency
(907) 474-7812
Conservation sequesters Carbon and deforestation is a major cause of climate change, Cascadia Wildlands aims to conserve wild spaces. According to their website they “protect the most threatened wild places and wildlife from Oregon to Alaska. They work in the Cascadia bioregion (within the US) where threats to wild places and wildlife are highest. The Cascadia bioregion is the forest zone extending along the Pacific Coast from northern California to south-central Alaska. They envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, and vibrant communities sustained by the unique landscapes of the Cascadia bioregion. Cascadia Wildlands educates, agitates, and inspires a movement to protect and restore Cascadia’s wild ecosystems. Cascadia Wildlands began in 1998 when a small group of passionate students and community members decided to take action against rampant clear cutting in Oregon’s Cascades and Coast Range. Since then Cascadia Wildlands has grown into a regional conservation leader. Though grassroots organizing, policy work and litigation.”
Organization Type: NGO
(541) 434-1463
Calera is a private clean-tech start-up backed by venture capital firm Khosla Ventures. Calera’s signature technology allows carbon dioxide from energy production to be sequestered in carbonate products, replacing Portland cement in the concrete production process. Portland cement production is responsible for 5% of all anthropogenic greenhouse emissions.
Organization Type: For-Profit Corporation
(408) 340-4600