Category Archives: Oregon

Organizations located or doing work in Oregon.

Zero Waste Alliance

From their site:Operating as a program of the International Sustainable Development Foundation, ZWA has over a twelve-year history working with industry and communities to identify and overcome barriers to zero waste.  ZWA’s work has included the formation of the Green Electronics Council, the Outdoor Industry Eco-Index, the Sustainable Oregon Schools Initiative, the International Society of Sustainability Professionals and the Chemical Assessment and Ranking System.”  

Organization Type: Non-government Organization

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Telephone

(503) 279-9383

Address

227 SW Pine Street, 220 Portland OR 97204

Cascadia Wildlands

Conservation sequesters Carbon and deforestation is a major cause of climate change, Cascadia Wildlands aims to conserve wild spaces. According to their website they “protect the most threatened wild places and wildlife from Oregon to Alaska. They work in the Cascadia bioregion (within the US) where threats to wild places and wildlife are highest. The Cascadia bioregion is the forest zone extending along the Pacific Coast from northern California to south-central Alaska. They envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, and vibrant communities sustained by the unique landscapes of the Cascadia bioregion. Cascadia Wildlands educates, agitates, and inspires a movement to protect and restore Cascadia’s wild ecosystems. Cascadia Wildlands began in 1998 when a small group of passionate students and community members decided to take action against rampant clear cutting in Oregon’s Cascades and Coast Range. Since then Cascadia Wildlands has grown into a regional conservation leader. Though grassroots organizing, policy work and litigation.”

Organization Type: NGO

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Telephone

(541) 434-1463

Address

Eugene, Oregon Office PO Box 10455 Eugene, OR 97440

DePave

Depave is an 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that removes unnecessary pavement from the Portland area, to create community gardens and water runoff mitigation areas.  Pavement is harmful in its social and environmental impacts, and this organization seeks to replace this material with soil and eventually plants.  This is accomplished through community events that reconnect people with nature.

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P.O. Box 12503 Portland, Oregon, 97212

Bike Farm

According to their website “Bike Farm is a non-profit, volunteer-run bicycle maintenance collective. They are all volunteers and all love bikes. They open the shop and their tools to the public five days a week so everyone can learn the joys of working on their own bike.” Reducing the use of cars/other carbon outputting transport is an important way to fight climate change. Bike Farm is a resource to do this.

Organization Type: Non-Profit

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Telephone

(971) 533-7428

Address

305 NE Wygant St Portland, OR 97211