Category Archives: Energy Efficiency & Conservation

This category includes organizations that focus on producing and using energy more efficiently, in power plants, in our homes and businesses, and for transportation.
This approach to CO2 stabilization includes the following strategies:
Developing and Using More Efficient Vehicles
Reducing the Use of Vehicles
Designing and Retrofitting Buildings for Greater Efficiency
Designing and Building More Efficient Baseload Coal Plants

Build a Bike

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According to their website, “During their 13 years of community involvement, they have given away over 1400 bikes; about 800 of those have found homes locally. The rest have been shipped around the world through connections with individuals and groups. They have sent bikes to Togo, Ghana, Latvia, Romania, Vietnam, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, and one bike to Ireland.

This truly is a community project. Were it not for continuing support from the community, this project would cease to exist. We are grateful for support.

We welcome donations of bikes, time, money and ideas. The Build-a-Bike shop is open on Sundays from noon to 4pm.”

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Telephone

(360) 539-0955

Address

Boulevard Rd. & 18th Ave Olympia, WA

Transportation Choices

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They state that “over the last fifty years, the U.S. has developed a transportation system that is environmentally, economically and socially unsustainable. It was from this landscape that Transportation Choices Coalition emerged in 1993, inspired by the tremendous challenge of changing the state’s future. They seek to bring Washingtonians more and better transportation choices — real opportunities to take a bus, catch a train, ride a bike, or walk.”

Organization Type: Not-For-Profit

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Telephone

(206) 329-2336

Address

219 1st Ave S Suite 420 Seattle, WA 98104

Aquamarine Power

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Aquamarine Power is a European company that has developed a way of harnessing wave power that they call Oyster technology.  Oyster technology consists of a near shore (around half a kilometer away from shore) device that uses a hinged flap to push high pressure water through a subsea pipeline to an onshore hydroelectric turbine, like the ones used with dams.  They want to install a “demonstration array” of three Oyster generators on the West Coast by 2016.  So far they have been given a $100,000 grant from the Oregon Wave Energy Trust to find out about suitable sites for wave energy on Oregon’s coast.  They are also pursuing opportunities in Washington and California.

Organization Type: For profit corporation

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Telephone

44 141 524 1440 (international)

Address

Elder House, 24 Elder Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 3DX

Try Vegan PDX

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According to their website “Try Vegan PDX is a vegan outreach group in Portland, Oregon. Their goal is to help people who have made the decision to go vegan by offering resources, support and community-building activities.”

This organization supports the Low Impact Lifestyle of veganism.

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(808) 854-7414

Bonneville Environmental Foundation

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The B.E.F. is a non-profit organization that markets green power products to public utilities, businesses, government agencies and individuals. It was founded in 1998 to support watershed restoration programs and develop new sources of renewable energy. What began as a partnership with the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) has expanded to include other suppliers and markets.

“BEF works collaboratively to help manage human interaction with carbon, energy, and water. It spans a broad range of solutions, from carbon offsets to energy consulting, to water restoration in a variety of innovative ways.”

 

 

Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation

Website

Telephone

(503) 248-1905

Address

240 SW 1st Avenue Portland OR 97204

The Lands Council

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According to their website the Lands Council is a “group of area physicians, concerned about the environment’s effect on people’s health. The Lands Council is a local grassroots, non-profit dedicated to protecting the quality of life in the Inland Northwest. Today they are the leading conservation voice in the Inland Northwest.”

Organization Type: Not-For-Profit

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(509) 838-4912

Address

25 W. Main Ave. Ste 222 Spokane, WA 99201

American Rivers

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American Rivers is a national non-profit working to preserve, protect, maintain and restore America’s rivers and streams. AR publicizes the risks that climate change poses to river ecosystems and works to assess future water-availability risks and solutions through regional Topic Advisory Groups, which develop state-wide action plans for water conservation and river preservation. Based on this work, AR lobbies for river-friendly legislation through its Washington, D.C. headquarters.

Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation

Website

Telephone

(202) 347-7550

Address

1101 14th Street NW, Suite 1400 Washington, DC 20005

North Cascadia Adaptation Partnership


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This organization’s goal is to increase awareness of climate change, assess its impact, and incorporate the findings into current land management policies. They do this through workshops and seminars for government employees in the parks and services sector.

Organization Type: Government Agency

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Telephone

(206) 732-7809

Address

No listed address.

North West Energy Coalition

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From their website: “The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of more than 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, progressive utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and British Columbia. We promote development of renewable energy and energy conservation, consumer protection, low-income energy assistance, and fish and wildlife restoration on the Columbia and Snake rivers.”

Organization Type: Not-For-Profit

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Telephone

(206) 621-0094

Address

811 1st Ave, Suite 305 Seattle, WA 98104

Northwest Renewable Energy Corporation

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Description:

North West Renewable Energy invests and researches in “green technology” through taking common electrical energy consuming building components and redesigning them to be solar powered and energy efficient. We specialize in creating environmentally friendly products with no grid supplied energy consumption with simple installation and improved innovative results. Upfront initial investment in converting conventional operational systems to new unique photovoltaic power pays for itself with no running cost and no additional fees.

NWREC’s mission is the redesign of “non-green” components, products and practices that have been used in the commercial and industrial construction markets for decades. Transforming components, products and practices into a “green” component by which a clear and decisive benefit of the new redesigned “green” product will naturally fit itself into the marketplace due to its high level of performance. Components, products and practices that have for years been implemented without regard to their efficiencies. NWREC pursues not only the redesign of building components but also oversees the in-house manufacturing of the new “green” products, bringing them into the commercial and building construction markets.

NWREC cooperates with structural and mechanical engineering firms, state and federal agencies whose aim is the oversight of energy efficient retrofitting of commercial and industrial structures and facilities.

Organization Type: Corporation

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Telephone

(503) 515-3317

Address

North West Renewable Energy Corp Yamhill, Oregon 97148