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

Corvallis Bicycle Co-op

According to their site their philosophy is “Putting Bikes Under People.

The Corvallis Bike Collective is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. We are comprised entirely of volunteers dedicated to putting safe, affordable, working bikes under all people of Corvallis and putting those bikers on the roads.”

Organization to promote low impact lifestyles (cycling as transport).

Organization Type: Non-Profit

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Telephone

(541) 224-6885

Address

PO Box 188; Corvallis, OR 97339

Community Cycling Center

According to their website:

“The Community Cycling Center, broadens access to bicycling and its benefits.”

Oregon organization to make low impact lifestyles (cycling as transport) accessible to all.

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Telephone

(503) 288-8864

Address

3934 NE MLK Blvd., Suite 202 Portland, OR 97212

Center for Appropriate Transport

An Oregon organization focused on cultivating sustainable transport; changing lifestyles is an important part of fighting climate change.

From their website: “Founded in October 1992, the Center for Appropriate Transport is a non-profit organization that is committed to community involvement in manufacturing, using, and advocating sustainable modes of transportation.”

Organization Type: Non-Profit

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Telephone

(541) 344-1197

Address

Center for Appropriate Transport 455 W. 1st Ave Eugene, Or 97401

Noveda Technologies

Since 2006, Noveda has been building software solutions for energy and water use monitoring. Through web-based monitoring, businesses and governments can monitor and reduce their carbon footprints. Noveda can also track energy and water use for interested parties in order to determine financial effects of improved energy technologies.

Organization Type: For-Profit Corporation

Website

Telephone

(908) 534-8855

Address

3434 Route 22 West, Suite #110 Branchburg, NJ 08876

Cascade Bicycle Club

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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Telephone

(206) 522-BIKE

Address

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

Northwest Wind and Solar

Description:

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.

 Northwest Wind & Solar

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Telephone

(206) 587-6527

Address

828 Poplar Place S. Seattle, WA 98144

Renewable Northwest Project

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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Telephone

(503) 223-4544

Address

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

Zero Waste Alliance

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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Telephone

(503) 279-9383

Address

227 SW Pine Street, 220 Portland OR 97204

Cascadia Wildlands

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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Telephone

(541) 434-1463

Address

Eugene, Oregon Office PO Box 10455 Eugene, OR 97440

DePave

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