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

Interior Alaska Green Star

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Interior Alaska Green Star is a non-profit organization that “encourages households and businesses to practice waste reduction, energy conservation and pollution prevention.” The Green Star Award program was created in 1990 by state regulators, environmentalists and business leaders to give positive recognition to organizations that exercise environmental responsibility. Interior Alaska Green Star started in 1998 and focused on the encouragement of recycling in both the domestic and corporate parts of Alaska. Since 2006, Alaska has faced many recycling hardships, but has been able to start up several different recycling programs including a computer recycling program and has many started many outreach or education programs.

From 2012 their new accomplishments include:

  • Expanding community participation in the Electronics Recycling program, especially from the business community
  • Publishing a new edition of the Fairbanks Recycling Guide in the fall of 2012
  • Expanding our Educational Programs
  • Re-engaging the local business community in the Green Star Award program

Organization Type: Non-Profit

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Telephone

(907) 452-4152

Address

565 University Avenue, Suite 4, Fairbanks, Alaska 99709

Columbia Green

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Columbia Green is a company in Portland, Oregon that sells green roof technology. According to their website: “Columbia Green’s core technologies is focused on vegetative roofs and are based on sustainable functions that help manage the quality/quantity of stormwater, energy use, air/water pollution.  Cities across the world are using vegetative roofs to manage these environmental issues.  Columbia Green is a USA manufacturer delivering product through domestic and international channels to meet those needs. Growth and innovation are not only characteristics of Columbia Green’s technologies, but also our employees – who are the foundation of our success.”

Organization Type: For-Profit Corporation

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Telephone

(503) 327-8723

Address

79 SE Taylor Street, Ste 201 Portland, OR 97214 USA

Idaho Smart Growth

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Idaho Smart Growth is a non-profit organization that educates and advocates smart growth in the local communities of Idaho. They educate Idaho citizens, build groups who support smart growth, implement statewide policies for smart growth, help and advise community leaders.

Their mission is to bring “people together to create great places to live.”

Idaho Smart Growth believes that “Smart Growth is defined around a list of ten principles” these principles give insight into their conservation practices:

  • Provide a variety of transportation choices.
  • Mix land use.
  • Create a range of housing opportunities and choices.
  • Create walkable neighborhoods.
  • Encourage community and stakeholder collaboration.
  • Foster distinctive, attractive communities with a strong sense of place.
  • Preserve open space, farmland, natural beauty, and critical environmental areas.
  • Strengthen and direct development towards existing areas.
  • Adopt compact building patterns and efficient infrastructure design
  • To learn more about the practices go to: http://www.idahosmartgrowth.org/index.php/resources/resource/best_practices/

Organization Type: Non-Profit

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(208) 333-8066

Address

P.O. Box 374 Boise, ID 83701

Washington Aggregates and Concrete Association

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From their website:  “Strives to work with all related state agencies to promote a positive and cooperative relationship while providing mutual education regarding agency objectives and balancing production, economies and promoting practicable and achievable compliance.”

The Washington Aggregates and Concrete Association has been around since 1959 and have always been taking an active role in their community and building from the ground up with green materials. Trying to set an example for others.

Organization Type: Green Technology

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(206) 878-1622

Address

22223 7th Avenue, South Des Moines, WA 98198

Northwest Environmental Advocates

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Mission statement:  To work through advocacy and education to protect and restore water and air quality, wetlands and wildlife habitat.

Northwest Environmental Advocates (NWEA) use strategies such as negotiation, litigation, education, community organizing, and advocacy.  This includes:

  • filing lawsuits to obtain program implementation and remedy egregious threats
  • advocating for funding, enforcement, and environmental results
  • working on advisory committees to build support for implementation
  • education and community organizing to ensure an informed and involved public

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Telephone

(503) 295-0490

Address

P.O. Box 12187 Portland, OR 97212-0187

Engineered Compost Systems

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Engineered Compost System’s mission is to…

ECS is an engineering and manufacturing firm dedicated to providing appropriate compost design, technology, and on-going technical support to our composting clients… We design, build and test all of our products at our UL Listed manufacturing facility in Seattle, WA.
-From the About Us page of their website

Organization Type: For-Profit Corporation

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Telephone

(206) 634-2625

Address

4211 24th Avenue West Seattle, WA 98199

Northwest National Resource Group

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Northwest National Resource Group promotes “the emergence of a sustainable, environmentally sound economy throughout the Pacific Northwest in which healthy ecosystems are fully integrated with the social, economic, and cultural systems of human society.” They focus on conservation and economic goals through market-based conservation tools. They try to understand the links between forestry, watershed health, water quality, habitat corridors and economic performance.

Their mission is to “use the marketplace to restore forests and local economies.”

They work on:

  • Supporting the growth of a profitable and sustainable timber industry in Washington state.
  • Advocating Forest Stewardship certification in the Northwest
  • Developing their Watershed Innovation program

Organization Type: Non-Profit

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(206) 971-3709

Address

1917 1st Ave, Level A, Suite 200 Seattle, WA 98101

American Petroleum Environmental Services

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American Petroleum Environmental Services mission is…

To collect used oil from the Puget Sound, Portland, and Canadian Regions. Process this resource into a new and higher quality product that conserves existing resources and is environmentally friendly. Aggressively market this environmentally friendly service while promoting the benefits of using of the finished product.
-From the About Us page on their website

Organization Type: For Profit Corporation

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(253) 538-5252

Address

2117 East River St. Tacoma, WA 9842

BURN Design Lab

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According to their website, “BURN Design Lab is a non profit corporation that creates customized biomass stove solutions to meet the cooking needs of the developing world. Working with implementing organizations, we develop sustainable stove dissemination systems that will appeal to cooks and have a profound impact on deforestation, women’s health and global warming.”

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(585) 503-3459

Address

18850 103rd Ave SW Vashon, WA 98070 United States

Build Local Alliance

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Build Local Alliance works with businesses, builders and artisans in northwest Oregon and southwest Washington to develop the local economy through sustainable forestry by supporting and using local wood for green building projects. The Build Local Alliance is composed of forest owners, millwrights, architects, designers, builders, craftsmen, homeowners and more.

Their mission is “to improve the vitality of local forests and related human communities by connecting local, responsibly grown and processed wood with local projects.”

Organization Type: Non-Profit

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(503) 221-6911 x101

Address

Portland, Oregon