Category Archives: Sphere of Effect

Cascade Bicycle Club

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A reduction in driving is an important aspect of behavioral change that will reduce Carbon emissions. This organization, while not working on climate issues overtly, incentives lifestyle changes through making biking an easier and realistic transportation alternative option. According to their website “Cascade Bicycle Club is a non-profit organization based in Seattle, Washington that serves more than 14,000 members and the Puget Sound bicycling community. Their mission is to Create a Better Community through Bicycling.”

Organization Type: Not-for-Profit

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(206) 522-BIKE

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7400 Sand Point Way NE Suite 101S Seattle, WA 98115

Northwest Wind and Solar

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NW Wind & Solar is a division of SME, Inc. of Seattle, a leading electrical contractor with over 38 years of expertise and vast experience with home, commercial and industrial electrical systems, including primary electric service, wiring, and electrical generator systems for Homes and Industry. At NW Wind & Solar, we believe in renewable energy. We have several LEED accredited professionals on staff. We integrate recycling, renewable energy, and employee commuting benefits into our work. We have installed both a solar energy system and a wind power generator at our main office. Our belief in the importance of sustainable business practices extends to our own operations.

NW Wind & Solar offers:

  • A staff of renewable energy experts to guide you through the process of implementing effective, user-friendly solar power or wind energy systems
  • A professional in-house engineering staff to design your renewable energy systems to meet your specific needs
  • Skilled, experienced, certified, and licensed installation experts
  • A full five-year warranty on our work — one of the best in the industry.

At NW Wind & Solar, their goal is to help you reduce your dependence on nonrenewable energy sources and start achieving sustainability in your business or home. Their business is helping you make choices that are good for the environment and right for your home or business.

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(206) 587-6527

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828 Poplar Place S. Seattle, WA 98144

GRuB

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From their website, “We partner with youth and people with low-incomes to create empowering individual and community food solutions, offering tools and trainings to help build a just and sustainable food system.”

They work in Thurston and Mason counties in Washington State.

Through their GRuB in the Schools Initiative, disengaged and/or low-income students earn credits while learning about and contributing to their local food systems. They focus on the themes of Farming Self (personal development), Farming Land (sustainable land stewardship), and Farming Community (civic engagement & community service).

Organization Type: Non-Profit Organization

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(360) 753-5522

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2016 Elliott Ave NW Olympia, WA 98502

Renewable Northwest Project

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According to their website, “RNP’s mission is to promote the implementation of environmentally responsible renewable resources, such as wind, solar and geothermal, in the Northwest.  All that is lacking is the will and determination to make the change.”

Organization Type: Non-Profit Organization

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(503) 223-4544

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421 SW 6th Ave, Suite 1125 Portland, OR 97204-1629

Protect Our Winters P.O.W.

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“Our mission is to engage and mobilize the winter sports community to lead the fight against climate change. Our focus is on educational initiatives, activism and the support of community-based projects.”

P.O.W. Is a group of snow sports professionals and industry leaders that are actively trying to raise awareness and educate members of the snow sports industry about the effects of climate change and how to personally mitigate them.  They leaders in studying the effects of climate change in the winter recreation industry.  They have an education program that has reached out to over 15,000 students nationwide. The North West Chapter has been heavily critical of the local coal export proposals.

 

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1157 Embury Street Pacific Palisades, CA 90272

Zero Waste Alliance

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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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(503) 279-9383

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227 SW Pine Street, 220 Portland OR 97204

Puget Sound Energy

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Puget Sound Energy is a local energy company called based in Bellevue. This company has a great program that allows customers to buy local energy from nearby green or alternative fuel producers. If you purchase by the block, you can buy 160 kW at the cost of two dollars, or you could purchase an 800 kW monthly block for 12 dollars. The Green Power program is great.

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Organization Type: For-Profit Company

Cascadia Wildlands

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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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(541) 434-1463

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Eugene, Oregon Office PO Box 10455 Eugene, OR 97440

DePave

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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

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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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(971) 533-7428

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305 NE Wygant St Portland, OR 97211