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
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
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
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
About:
Northwest Energy Angels is a non-profit early-stage investment organization that focuses exclusively on cleantech industries. NEA funds young “cleantech” or “greentech” companies primarily in the Pacific Northwest that can significantly contribute to the sustainable economy.
Their mission is to “create successful cleantech companies by connecting promising entrepreneurs with experienced cleantech investors.”
The cleantech sectors they are most interested in are:
Clean Energy
Biofuels and Energy from Waste
Energy Stroage
Energy Efficiency and Conservation
Green Building
Clean Transportation
Recycling & Waste Reduction
And More… http://www.nwenergyangels.com/what-we-fund
Organization Type: Non-Profit
(425) 785-4015