The Climate Trust promotes and offers logistical support to carbon-offset programs to utilities, businesses and governments. The trust has worked with Seattle Light and several Portland businesses to reduce carbon footprints and utilize carbon-offsets. The trusts also advises local governments on greenhouse-gas monitoring and response.
Organization Type: Non-Profit Corporation
(503) 238-1915
Mission statement: The Climate Trust’s mission is to provide expertise, financing, and inspiration to accelerate innovative and effective climate solutions that endure.
Climate Trust hopes to achieve sound climate policy. By providing carbon credits, voluntary customized climate programs, and climate consulting services, they specialize in climate solutions for governments, utilities and large businesses.
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(503) 238-1915
Conservation sequesters Carbon and deforestation is a major cause of climate change conservation northwest aims to conserve wild spaces. On their website they state “ today they are ensuring the region is wild enough to support wildlife, from wolves to grizzly bears to mountain caribou. We work with local communities on forest restoration, creating sustainable timber jobs and wilderness protection. We help ensure safe passage for wildlife, including those moving north and south in the Cascades and across the Canadian border, and east and west between the Cascades and Selkirks of the Rockies.”
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(206) 675-9747
According to their website, “The Thurston Climate Action Team (TCAT) is local non-profit dedicated to creating a healthy and sustainable future for Thurston County by encouraging, coordinating and taking action on climate change. TCAT is pursuing three priority areas for its work:
TCAT meets the third Thursday of every month, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm, in Room 280 of the Thurston County Building 1.”
Analysis of Thurston Climate Action Team Activities:
Thurston Climate Action Team GM winter 13
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation
(360) 791-8376
Conservation sequesters Carbon and deforestation is a major cause of climate change Audubon Washington aims to conserve wild spaces state that “the mission of Audubon Washington is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems – focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats – for the benefit of humanity and the earth’s biological diversity.”
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit
The David Suzuki Foundation is based in Vancouver B.C. with diverse range of interest and approaches to maintaining the health of (mostly Canadian) environments. The group is huge and far reaching and wishes to restore a Canadian connection with nature.
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(604) 732-4228
Earth Economics uses principles of economics to find solutions to climate change. Some of the services they provide, taken from their website, are:
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation
(253) 539-4801
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
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
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