Vision – From their website: Healthy, prosperous communities, living in balance with the natural world
Mission – From their website: RE Sources promotes sustainable communities through recycling, education, advocacy, and conservation of natural resources.
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation
(360) 733-8307
According to their website, “The Thurston Climate Action Team (TCAT) is local non-profit dedicated to creating a healthy and sustainable future for Thurston County by encouraging, coordinating and taking action on climate change. TCAT is pursuing three priority areas for its work:
TCAT meets the third Thursday of every month, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm, in Room 280 of the Thurston County Building 1.”
Analysis of Thurston Climate Action Team Activities:
Thurston Climate Action Team GM winter 13
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation
(360) 791-8376
Conservation sequesters Carbon and deforestation is a major cause of climate change Audubon Washington aims to conserve wild spaces state that “the mission of Audubon Washington is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems – focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats – for the benefit of humanity and the earth’s biological diversity.”
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit
Earth Economics uses principles of economics to find solutions to climate change. Some of the services they provide, taken from their website, are:
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation
(253) 539-4801
On their website they state that “Zero Waste Washington protects people and our natural world by advocating for products designed and produced to be healthy, safe, and continually recycled and reused. We are the public’s voice for zero waste. We envision a just and sustainable world where society responsibly produces, consumes and recycles.”
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit
(206) 441-1790
Conservation sequesters Carbon and deforestation is a major cause of climate change Cascadia Wildlands aims to conserve wild spaces. They state on their web stite that “The Washington Wildlife and Recreation Coalition is a non-profit citizens group founded in a historic bipartisan effort by former Governors Dan Evans and Mike Lowry. Their members consist of a diverse group of over 250 organizations representing conservation, business, recreation, hunting, fishing, farming, and community interests. They state that their “breadth and diversity is the key to our success–no one member of the Coalition could secure such high levels of funding for parks and habitat on their own.”
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit
(206) 748-0082
The official website says:
Part of the international Greendrinks network, Seattle Greendrinks is a volunteer-driven non-profit created to connect and grow Seattle’s environmental community. Founded in 2003, Seattle Greendrinks’ main event remains a monthly informal social networking gathering. However, in 2008 Seattle Greendrinks began to broaden its mission, acknowledging the need for more deliberate, targeted efforts to grow and activate the environmental community beyond its traditional core. Seattle Greendrinks now offers a number of events, including Fresh! , an intimate, informal evening of wine & chocolate tasting; Bloom, a speaker-focused event highlighting innovation in sustainability; and the Agent Green program, in which the consumptive power of the crowd helps businesses reduce their environmental footprint.
Organization Type: Non-government organization
The Mountaineers is a non-profit organization that works to preserve and protect landscapes through conservation, recreation resources, education, advocacy and stewardship. They offer “an informed, boots-on-the-ground perspective into land management policies and practices. Our members recreate volunteer, study and teach on a patchwork of lands managed by state, federal and local agencies.”
Their mission is: to enrich the community by helping people explore, conserve, learn about and enjoy the lands and waters of the Pacific Northwest.”
Their priorities include:
Conservation
Environmental Literacy
Low Impact Recreation
Organization Type: Non-Profit
(206) 521-6000
As stated on the webpage, “City Repair is an organized group action that educates and inspires communities and individuals to creatively transform the places where they live. City Repair facilitates artistic and ecologically-oriented placemaking through projects that honor the interconnection of human communities and the natural world. The many projects of City Repair have been accomplished by a mostly volunteer staff and thousands of volunteer citizen activists.”
City Repair emphasizes sustainability through localization. With Placemaking as a sustainability strategy, they hope to foster engaged and active relationships between community members and the spaces they inhabit. They assist community members in creating communal and ecologically oriented places through educational or hands-on projects such as Intersection Repair and Village Building Conference.
Other City Repair fields include:
•Urban Planning and Design
•Ecological and Social Sustainability
•Community resource localization
•Nonhierarchical decision-making
•Equality, diversity and peace
•Cultural identity and Bioregionalism
Organization Type:
(503) 235-8946
According to their website“Earth Justice is a non-profit public interest law organization dedicated to protecting the magnificent places, natural resources, and wildlife of this earth, and to defending the right of all people to a healthy environment.”
Conservation of wild areas is natural carbon sequestration.
Organization Type:
(206) 343-7340