According to their website, “Bike Works is an organization centered around bicycles that combines youth development, community engagement, bicycle recycling and a social enterprise bike shop to help build a sustainable and healthy community.”
Organization Type: Non-Profit Organization
(206) 695-2522
The official website states that the “PSCAA is special-purpose, regional agency chartered by state law in 1967 (RCW 70.94). While we work in partnership with the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Washington State Department of Ecology, we are a separate organization. Our jurisdiction covers King, Kitsap, Pierce and Snohomish counties, spans 6,300 square miles and is home to more than 3.5 million people — over half the state’s population.”
Mission Statement: We work together to clean the air we breathe and protect our climate through education, incentives and enforcement.
Strategies include:
“We also have certain mandates that are spelled out by the federal Clean Air Act and the Washington Clean Air Act. These include activities such as monitoring for air pollution throughout our region and regulating businesses that have the potential to cause air pollution.”
Organization Type: Government agency
(206) 343-8800
Climate Solutions has focused on showing that clean energy and economic prosperity can go hand in hand. Their programs “Business Leaders: New Energy Cities” and “Harvesting Clean Energy” have focused on developing local clean energy sources and gathering political force to do something about climate change.
Analysis of Climate Solutions Activities:
Climate Solutions Company Paper
Organization Type: Non-Profit Organization
(360) 352-1763
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
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
Sustainable Northwest’s mission is to bring “people, ideas, and innovation together so that nature, local economies and rural communities can thrive.” In the area of decarbonization they are trying to develop local energy sources, specifically biomass energy. They are working both for the development of biomass energy and the maximization of energy output from that biomass. One of the things they have done is to get a lumber mill to dedicate part of their trees to start producing wood based fuels. They have also worked to get the small diameter trees removed in forest restoration efforts made into wood pellets and bricks.
Organization Type: Non-Profit Organization
(503) 221-6911
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The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust is a coalition of farmers, environmentalists, timber companies, developers, federal and state agencies and more. They strive for a sustainable relationship between people and nature in the 1.5 million acre landscape.
Their mission is to lead and inspire action “to conserve and enhance the landscape from Seattle across the Cascade Mountains to Central Washington, ensuring a long-term balance between people and nature.”
Their Work Includes:
Organization Type: Non-Profit
(206) 382-5565
According to their website, “The Evergreen Bike Shop is a student led community run do-it-yourself bike shop that is open to the entire Olympia area. Our goal is to provide various resources to the community in order to promote cycling as an active lifestyle as well as educate people regarding alternative transportation issues. The shop tries to provide an alternative to the often-prohibitive nature of bike repair and culture both in financial cost and accessibility. By maintaining a free learning environment where anyone, student or not, can develop skills of bike self-reliance, the shop encourages a developing ethic of environmental and social consciousness.”
Organization Type:
(360) 867-6399
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