Category Archives: Activism/Advocacy

Organizations that use protest or political means to raise awareness about and modify policies and practices that contribute negatively to climate change.

Transition Network

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Description: Transition Olympia

Transition Olympia connects and strengthens our network of individuals and groups that focus on building local resilience. We support self-reliance and an abundant, vital community that can adapt to changes in food, energy, economic, and social systems.

By working in the community with volunteers, Transition is helping the residents and business of Olympia become more green. With classes teaching about food co-ops, and a handful of online resources, the Transition website is a great place for Olympians to start their transition into the greener lifestyle.

Transition Network:

Transition is a network that reaches out to all communities around the globe, pushing them to take the initiative and become eco-friendly. Transition Initiatives, community by community, are actively and cooperatively creating happier, fairer and stronger communities, places that work for the people living in them and are far better suited to dealing with the shocks that’ll accompany our economic and energy challenges and a climate in chaos. And here’s how they’re doing it…

  • start awareness raising around peak oil, climate change and the need to undertake a fair and just community-led process to rebuild resilience and reduce carbon emissions
  • connect with existing groups, including local government
  • hold focused events that help groups to form to look at all the key areas of life (food, energy, transport, health, psychology of change, economics & livelihoods, etc)

Communities Taking the Initiative:

  • Olympia
  • Brockley
  • Stamford
  • Bell
  • Ivercargill
  • Kurlipa
  • Santa Cruz
  • Brazil
  • UK
  • ect…

Currently, there are over 984 communities seising the initiative! http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/map

 

Transition Network

Organization Type: Non-Government Organization

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(UK international) 05601-531882

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43 Fore Street, Totnes, TQ9 5HN, UK

Transportation Choices

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They state that “over the last fifty years, the U.S. has developed a transportation system that is environmentally, economically and socially unsustainable. It was from this landscape that Transportation Choices Coalition emerged in 1993, inspired by the tremendous challenge of changing the state’s future. They seek to bring Washingtonians more and better transportation choices — real opportunities to take a bus, catch a train, ride a bike, or walk.”

Organization Type: Not-For-Profit

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(206) 329-2336

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219 1st Ave S Suite 420 Seattle, WA 98104

The Lands Council

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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

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(509) 838-4912

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25 W. Main Ave. Ste 222 Spokane, WA 99201

Northwest VEG

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According to their website their goal is to “Build, support & maintain community.” They make the low impact lifestyle of vegetarianism easier to access and keep up.

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(503) 746-8344

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24305 NE Elkhorn Rd. Brush Prairie, WA 98606

American Rivers

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American Rivers is a national non-profit working to preserve, protect, maintain and restore America’s rivers and streams. AR publicizes the risks that climate change poses to river ecosystems and works to assess future water-availability risks and solutions through regional Topic Advisory Groups, which develop state-wide action plans for water conservation and river preservation. Based on this work, AR lobbies for river-friendly legislation through its Washington, D.C. headquarters.

Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation

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(202) 347-7550

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1101 14th Street NW, Suite 1400 Washington, DC 20005

SOLVE

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SOLVE is a non-profit organization that brings together proud Oregonians (native and newly-transplanted) to improve the environment and to build a legacy of stewardship.  By making connections between individuals, business groups, and service and conservation groups through volunteering and education, we are building a stronger tomorrow for this place we all love.

Organization Type: Not-for-profit corporation

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(503) 844-9571

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2000 SW 1st Ave, Suite 400 Portland, OR 97201

North West Energy Coalition

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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

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(206) 621-0094

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811 1st Ave, Suite 305 Seattle, WA 98104

Protect Our Winters P.O.W.

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“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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1157 Embury Street Pacific Palisades, CA 90272

Cascadia Wildlands

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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

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(541) 434-1463

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Eugene, Oregon Office PO Box 10455 Eugene, OR 97440

DePave

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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.

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P.O. Box 12503 Portland, Oregon, 97212