The Greenbelt Land Trust (GLT) acts to conserve and protect in perpetuity native habitats, working lands and lands of natural beauty, which provide a connection to the natural world for residents of the Mid-Willamette Valley.
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation
(541) 752-9609
The Department of Ecology works in all areas of the environment to protect and manage Washington’s natural resources. Their work includes education in environmental issues, working with different groups on all kind of different issues, including climate change.
Analysis of Department of Ecology Activities:
WA Department of Ecology
Organization Type: Government Agency
(360) 407-6300
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
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 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“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
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
American Rivers is a national non-profit working to preserve, protect, maintain and restore America’s rivers and streams. AR publicizes the risks that climate change poses to river ecosystems and works to assess future water-availability risks and solutions through regional Topic Advisory Groups, which develop state-wide action plans for water conservation and river preservation. Based on this work, AR lobbies for river-friendly legislation through its Washington, D.C. headquarters.
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation
(202) 347-7550
From their website: “The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of more than 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, progressive utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and British Columbia. We promote development of renewable energy and energy conservation, consumer protection, low-income energy assistance, and fish and wildlife restoration on the Columbia and Snake rivers.”
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit
(206) 621-0094