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
“The goal of the ecovillage is to create a sustainable, eco-friendly community committed to providing a sustainable, ecological and safe living environment for all residents.”
Organization Type:
(971) 219-1813
Sustainable Northwest’s mission is to bring “people, ideas, and innovation together so that nature, local economies and rural communities can thrive.” In the area of decarbonization they are trying to develop local energy sources, specifically biomass energy. They are working both for the development of biomass energy and the maximization of energy output from that biomass. One of the things they have done is to get a lumber mill to dedicate part of their trees to start producing wood based fuels. They have also worked to get the small diameter trees removed in forest restoration efforts made into wood pellets and bricks.
Organization Type: Non-Profit Organization
(503) 221-6911
According to their website, “The Evergreen Bike Shop is a student led community run do-it-yourself bike shop that is open to the entire Olympia area. Our goal is to provide various resources to the community in order to promote cycling as an active lifestyle as well as educate people regarding alternative transportation issues. The shop tries to provide an alternative to the often-prohibitive nature of bike repair and culture both in financial cost and accessibility. By maintaining a free learning environment where anyone, student or not, can develop skills of bike self-reliance, the shop encourages a developing ethic of environmental and social consciousness.”
Organization Type:
(360) 867-6399
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
From their website: Faculty and staff in King, Snohomish and Whatcom County are working to develop a volunteer based program, Carbon Masters™. This program will provide individuals, communities and the environments they live in, with trained volunteers who have had interdisciplinary based education to help citizens, business leaders and local officials make informed decisions about the most effective choices concerning their carbon usage while pointing out key strategies for confronting the impacts of climate change.
Organization Type:
(509) 335-0000
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
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
Organization Type:
(604) 731-5885
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