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.
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(206) 343-7340
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…
Communities Taking the Initiative:
Currently, there are over 984 communities seising the initiative! http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/map
Transition Network
Organization Type: Non-Government Organization
(UK international) 05601-531882
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.”
Organization Type:
(360) 539-0955
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
(206) 329-2336
Aquamarine Power is a European company that has developed a way of harnessing wave power that they call Oyster technology. Oyster technology consists of a near shore (around half a kilometer away from shore) device that uses a hinged flap to push high pressure water through a subsea pipeline to an onshore hydroelectric turbine, like the ones used with dams. They want to install a “demonstration array” of three Oyster generators on the West Coast by 2016. So far they have been given a $100,000 grant from the Oregon Wave Energy Trust to find out about suitable sites for wave energy on Oregon’s coast. They are also pursuing opportunities in Washington and California.
Organization Type: For profit corporation
44 141 524 1440 (international)
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
(253) 591-5337
The University of Washington is responsible for tidal energy research and Oregon State University is concerned with wave energy research. These two institutions are doing research that looks at the potential of installing wave energy on the West coast and some of the possible consequences of doing so. Some key issues are: how the devices that gather wave/tidal energy will affect the distribution of sediment, how they will affect h actual pattern of currents, how they will affect the fauna, especially mammals and sea animals that depend on magnetic fields for navigation, how they will affect the food chain, and how to deal with he reduced efficiency that comes with accumulated bio fouling.
Organization Type: Government organization (partnership between the University of Washington and Oregon State University funded by the DOE)
(206) 543-7544
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
http://www.eugeneveg.org/index.html
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
(509) 838-4912
Description:
South Sound Solar combines 30+ years of energy related experience with free solar workshops to tailor individual needs to consumers seeking to reduce electric demands. They can provide 60-70% of hot water needs, the second largest energy loads today. Current systems repay initial start-up costs within 5-15 years.
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South Sound Solar
Organization Type: corporation
(360) 352-7869