The Climate Change Education Partnership has the goal of changing the way climate change education is taught through their partnerships with parks and refugees in the Puget Sound region. Their goal is to work with these parks and refugees to help the general public understand climate change through their local natural environment.
Organization Type:
pending
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.
Organization Type:
(541) 737-2525
The wet science center is a scientific learning center that educates the public on issues of water conservation, treatment, and reclamation. Their focus includes climate change and the effect rising sea levels will have on downtown Olympia and their onsite treatment site.
Organization Type: For-Profit Corporation
(360) 664-2333
From their Website –
“We develop and administer model community engagement programs to increase demand for efficiency and small-scale renewable energy projects. We work to increase supply side offerings of renewable energy and efficiency through new delivery models and a more effective workforce. We provide technical assistance and develop tools to facilitate project development. We develop partnerships with allied businesses and institutions to provide more in-depth, site-specific assistance, such as feasibility studies and business planning. We analyze renewable energy policies and incentives that can lead to the development of efficient, distributed renewable energy that benefit rural and urban communities. “
Organization Type:
(541) 654-4054
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.
Organization Type:
(541) 737-5705
They state that the “Faith Action Network (FAN) is a statewide interfaith advocacy 501(c)3 non-profit organization through which thousands of people and 60 congregations across Washington State partner for the common good. They are a voice of the faithful building a more just, peaceful, and sustainable world.”
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit
(206) 625-9790
According to their website, “Transition Olympia is a grassroots effort in Olympia (and surrounding areas) confronting the triple threat of Global Climate Change, Peak Oil, and Economic Contraction by catalyzing local resilience and revitalizing our communities.
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. They are making movements towards small, site specific, community-based solutions.”
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation
(360) 481-4235
The Tribal Climate Change Project is a collaborative project between the University of Oregon Environmental Studies Program and the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station. The project focuses on understanding needs and opportunities for tribes in addressing climate change, examining the government-to-government relationship in a climate context and exploring the role of traditional knowledge in climate change studies, assessments and plans.
This project is part of the USDA Forest Service 2010 Coordinated Approach to Tribal Climate Change Research. Other Forest Service Research Stations engaged in this type of research include the Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station and the Forest Service Northern Research Station.
Organization Type: Government Agency
(541) 346-5777
Mission statement: Columbia Riverkeeper’s mission is to protect and restore the water quality of the Columbia River and all life connected to it, from the headwaters to the Pacific Ocean.
Columbia Riverkeeper is a result of two groups, Columbia River United and Clean Water Columbia, which merged in 2000. A public interest group working to protect the Columbia river, they remain a grassroots organization powered by the river communities. Their strategies include pushing for enforcement of environmental laws, hands-on citizen action and community organizing. With these strategies, Columbia Riverkeeper seeks to make a positive difference in water quality as well as climate change as a whole.
Organization Type:
(503) 387-3030
They state that they “ research the issues and educate the public about what’s at stake. Through our reports, news conferences and interviews with reporters, we help the media cover environmental issues in ways that make sense. Our canvassers meet citizens where they are — starting conversations in public places or going to door-to-door — explaining our mission while raising awareness and funds for environmental protection.”
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit
(206) 568-2850