“Green Empowerment provides villages in the developing world access to clean water, electricity through renewable energy, and sustainable solutions” Green Empowerment’s end goal is to help create a sustainable world with clean water, renewable energy and a healthy environment. Green empowerment has projects in 8 countries and have delivered water to the homes of 10,416 people.
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(503) 284-5774
The Olympic Forest Coalition works to conserve and restore natural forest ecosystems and their processes on the Olympic Peninsula.
“The programs of OFCO focus on educating members of the public, officials, agencies, and other environmental, community and recreation groups on issues of importance to help achieve these goals.”
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation
Not indicated on website
As said on their website “Northwest SEED educates, equips, and empowers communities to develop their own solutions that provide real community benefits. As a non-profit organization, they work directly with communities to identify practical solutions that support a sustainable local economy founded on locally owned energy.”
Organization Type: Non-Profit Organization
1 (866) 759-SEED or (206) 328-2441
According to their website “Solar Washington is a nonprofit organization composed of people, companies, programs and organizations working to advance the solar industry in our state. It offers volunteer and job opporunities, as well as links to many local organizations.”
Organization Type: Non-Profit Organization
No phone number found
Their website says, “North Coast Land Conservancy has been working since 1986 to conserve and connect the landscape of the North Oregon Coast. We work to ensure that this extraordinary region is a place where healthy communities of people, plants and wildlife can all thrive.”
Mission: The North Coast Land Conservancy will serve as a resource for Northwestern Oregon coastal communities and landowners to conserve and protect land in perpetuity for its ecological and cultural values.
Organization Type: Non-government organization
(503) 738-9126
Save Habitat and Diversity of Wetlands, or SHADOW, is a nonprofit organization that works to save wetlands and forests in Western Washington. Founded in 2000, they have served 2,000 people with their preservation and educational efforts. SHADOW’s main concern is to preserve the 5,000 year old Shadow Lake Bog, which is a peat bog located in King County. Shadow Lake Bog stores more carbon than it releases, which makes SHADOW fit into the natural sequestration wedge. Not only is preservation of this bog so important because of the containment of carbon, but also because Shadow Lake Bog is home to many animals and vegetation that are on the verge of extinction. SHADOW also works to restore the health of the Watershed and offers educational tours to inspire students to help preserve their own habitats. In 2011, SHADOW removed a stream barrier and put a bridge in its place for safe and easy access to the bog for students and restoration volunteers. All in all, SHADOW is an honest organization that only has one full-time employee and their financial records are consistent with that.
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(425) 432-4914
River Network’s mission is to empower and unite people and communities to protect and restore rivers and other waters that sustain the health of our country. We envision a future where everyone has access to plentiful clean water, providing prosperity, health and recreational opportunities for all. We work for the day when all people feel responsibility for their local river, lake, wetland or bay and have the capacity to effectively protect those resources.
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Phone: (503) 223-4544
According to their website, “Community Energy Solutions is a Bainbridge Island based non-profit organization. We see our country’s economic, energy and climate challenges as opportunities for positive change at the local level. Empowering communities is our key to creating meaningful change. We do this by: creating local community-based renewable energy and energy efficiency projects; providing education about efficiency and renewable energy; helping communities to discover opportunities to reduce their carbon footprint; and engaging public agencies, businesses, individuals and students to raise awareness on energy consumption and its impact.”
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation
(206) 261-5259
Mission statement: Ecotrust’s mission is to inspire fresh thinking that creates economic opportunity, social equity and environmental wellbeing. Our goal is to foster a natural model of development that creates more resilient communities, economies, and ecosystems here and around the world.
Ecotrust believes in radical transformation of current institutions and the current ways of living that are unsustainable. Their initiatives include:
•Consulting
•Fisheries
•Food and Farms
•Forests and Ecosystems Services
•Knowledge Systems
•Marine Consulting Initiatives
•Indigenous Affairs Program
•Natural Capital Fund
•Whole Watershed Restoration Initiative
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(503) 327-6225
Climatico is a non-profit organization that was founded in Oxford but later incorporated in Seattle. Climatico is a non-biased community of researchers and scientists analyzing the latest happenings in the world of climate change and report their findings in an easy way to understand. Their publications cover adaption, emissions targets and other policy developments. Their funds mostly come from individual donors but they also had some large corporations such as Google and the Waterloo foundation help them out as well. Climatico would fit into the “Mitigation and Adaption” wedge because they inform people about climate policies that are mostly about adaption and mitigation. Partnered with other legitimate international nonprofit organizations, Climatico is an authentic community of researchers.
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(206) 792-9496