Category Archives: Stabilization Strategies

In 2004, Pacala and Sokolow published “Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies” in the journal, Science. In this article, they outlined a multilateral approach to stabilizing climate change using existing technologies. Rather than coming up with one BIG solution to global warming – an elevator down from dangerously high atmospheric temperatures – they conceived of a stack of relatively slender “wedges” that can provide us with a way – a somewhat more gradual escalator – back down to sustainable levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Climate Access

From their website –
“A bridge between research and action.
For years, we at TRIG’s Social Capital Project have been hearing from climate practitioners that this is what they need. Those in government and nonprofits trying to communicate to the public about climate change say that they often lack the time and resources to digest the latest research and incorporate it into their campaigns. Similarly, researchers wish to know more about how their findings are playing out in the field. Everyone wants to know what they need to know, and to have it available at their fingertips.
Climate Access is that bridge.”

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The Resource Innovation Group P.O. Box 51182 Eugene, OR 97405

The Council of Canadians: For Social Justice

The Council of Canadians works to protect Canadian independence by promoting progressive policies on fair trade, clean water, energy security, public health care, and other issues of social and economic concern to Canadians.

They develop creative campaigns to put some of the country’s most important issues into the spotlight. We work with a network of over 70 volunteer chapters to organize speaking tours, days of action, conferences and demonstrations. The Council also produce research reports, create popular materials, and work with individuals and organizations across the country and around the world. They do all of this to ensure that governments know the kind of Canada we want.

The Council does not accept money from corporations or governments, and is sustained entirely by the volunteer energy and financial assistance of its members.

 CouncilofCanadiansChapters

 

Organization Type: Non-Government Organization

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(613) 233-2773

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The Council of Canadians 170 Laurier Avenue West, Suite 700 Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5V5

International Institute for Sustainable Development; Canadian Chapter

The International Institute for Sustainable Development is a Canadian-based, international public policy research institute for sustainable development.

IISD has chosen to focus on topics that are ripe for transformation—where a shift in policy has the potential to snowball and, before too long, to change the nature of the game. It is only through a focus on game-changers that we will make up the sustainability deficit that has accumulated and move towards a better future.

Because they aim to make a difference in how policy is crafted and implemented, they translate the research insight into practical, realistic and cost-effective policy options that can be taken up by policy-makers at all levels.

  • Their vision: Better living for all—sustainably.
  • Their mission: To champion innovation, enabling societies to live sustainably.
  • Their role: IISD promotes the transition toward a sustainable future; we seek to demonstrate how human ingenuity can be applied to improve the well-being of the environment, economy and society.
  • Their tools are policy research, information exchange, analysis and advocacy.
  • Their products are action recommendations based on careful analysis, knowledge networks to build the capacity of civil society and other organizations in both South and North, and timely reporting of international negotiations critical to the sustainability of the planet.
  • Their audiences are government, business and civil society.
  • Their style is to increase our influence by working collaboratively with other institutions—building long-term strategic alliances, while retaining the institutional agility necessary to confront the challenges of sustainable development. 

 Internation Institute for Sustainable Development; Candian Chapter


Organization Type: Non-Government Agency

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1 (204) 958-7700

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161 Portage Avenue East, 6th Floor Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3B 0Y4

Puget Sound Partnership

The Puget Sound Partnership is a community effort to restore and protect the Puget Sound. They priorities cleanup and improvement projects, coordinate federal, state, local, tribal and private resources. The Puget Sound Partnership works with salmon recovery, and oil spills  and ECO Net (Education, Communication and Outreach Network)

Organization Type: Government

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(360) 464-1232

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1111 Washington Street SE Olympia, WA 98504-7000

ForTerra

ForTerra works to conserve land. In the past twenty years they have conserved more than 180,000 acres of important urban green space, working lands, and rivers, streams and forests throughout the region. ForTerra practices conservation by protecting lands, land stewardship practices, conservation initiatives for the central cascade region and across the Olympic Peninsula, by transferring development rights and minimize damage to sensitive natural areas.

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(206)292-5907

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King County Office (Main Office) 901 5th Avenue, Ste. 220 Seattle, WA 98164