Category Archives: Education

Organizations working to raise awareness about the causes and effects of climate change.

The Mountaineers

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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

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(206) 521-6000

Address

7700 Sand Point Way NE Seattle, WA 98115

Earthsave Canada

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According to their website “Earthsave Canada is a non-profit, educational organization promoting awareness … We advocate the move towards a more whole foods, plant-based diet for environmental sustainability.”

Low Impact Lifestyles

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(604) 731-5885

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PO Box 2213 Station Terminal Vancouver, BC V6B 3W2 Office #106 - 1850 Lorne Street Vancouver, BC V5T 3B7

City Repair Project

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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

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(503) 235-8946

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PO Box 42615 Portland, OR 97242

Build a Bike

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According to their website, “During their 13 years of community involvement, they have given away over 1400 bikes; about 800 of those have found homes locally. The rest have been shipped around the world through connections with individuals and groups. They have sent bikes to Togo, Ghana, Latvia, Romania, Vietnam, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, and one bike to Ireland.

This truly is a community project. Were it not for continuing support from the community, this project would cease to exist. We are grateful for support.

We welcome donations of bikes, time, money and ideas. The Build-a-Bike shop is open on Sundays from noon to 4pm.”

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(360) 539-0955

Address

Boulevard Rd. & 18th Ave Olympia, WA

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

Address

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

Address

219 1st Ave S Suite 420 Seattle, WA 98104

Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium

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The Point Defiance Zoo is an organization that promotes conservation education through educational exhibits that give visitors a close and personal experience with wildlife from around the world. Their efforts include education on climate change and its effects on species worldwide, particularly the polar bear.

Organization Type: Non-profit Corporation

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(253) 591-5337

Address

5400 North Pearl Street Tacoma, WA 98407


The Eugene Veg Education Network (EVEN)

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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

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http://www.eugeneveg.org/index.html

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Eugene Veg Education Network (EVEN) 1574 Coburg Rd., #120 Eugene, OR 97401

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

Address

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