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.”
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation
(503) 223-4544
“Green Empowerment provides villages in the developing world access to clean water, electricity through renewable energy, and sustainable solutions” Green Empowerment’s end goal is to help create a sustainable world with clean water, renewable energy and a healthy environment. Green empowerment has projects in 8 countries and have delivered water to the homes of 10,416 people.
Organization Type:
(503) 284-5774
According to their website, “Community Energy Solutions is a Bainbridge Island based non-profit organization. We see our country’s economic, energy and climate challenges as opportunities for positive change at the local level. Empowering communities is our key to creating meaningful change. We do this by: creating local community-based renewable energy and energy efficiency projects; providing education about efficiency and renewable energy; helping communities to discover opportunities to reduce their carbon footprint; and engaging public agencies, businesses, individuals and students to raise awareness on energy consumption and its impact.”
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation
(206) 261-5259
Description of Organization: Cascadia Green Building council works with PNW policymakers to pass legislation that puts green construction on par (financially) with more traditional construction and design practices, and to educate the public about sustainable building design.
Mission: “We help set the global vision for the transformation toward true sustainability, even as we support the place-based solutions that will bring us to the future we hope for, not the tomorrow we fear.”
Organization Type:
(206) 223-2028
Mission statement: Ecotrust’s mission is to inspire fresh thinking that creates economic opportunity, social equity and environmental wellbeing. Our goal is to foster a natural model of development that creates more resilient communities, economies, and ecosystems here and around the world.
Ecotrust believes in radical transformation of current institutions and the current ways of living that are unsustainable. Their initiatives include:
•Consulting
•Fisheries
•Food and Farms
•Forests and Ecosystems Services
•Knowledge Systems
•Marine Consulting Initiatives
•Indigenous Affairs Program
•Natural Capital Fund
•Whole Watershed Restoration Initiative
Organization Type:
(503) 327-6225
From their website: Washington Conservation Voters is the statewide political voice for the environment. We work to elect environmentally responsible candidates to state and local offices. Working with our allies in the community, we advocate for strong environmental policies and hold our elected officials accountable during the legislative session. Through our political work we are strengthening laws that safeguard the health of our communities, the beauty of our state and our economic future.
Organization Type: Non-Government Organization
Mission: To provide legal oversight, monitoring and public education to protect Oregon Waters from pollution and development.
“FLOW was formed in 2002 to help protect and restore Oregon’s waters. We understand and develop the need for increased grassroots activist organizing and public participation concerning river and water issues is needed in Oregon due to the magnitude and range of pollution and development threats. Volunteers lead the organization and do the legal, conservation and outreach work.”
FLOW is a grassroots organization committing extraordinary time and effort to their work and volunteerism.
Organization Type: Non-government Organization
Not indicated on website
According to their website, the Pacific Northwest Salmon Center’s mission is “to perpetuate and enhance the genetic diversity and stocks of Wild Salmon in Hood Canal through the protection and restoration of salmon habitat, stewardship and research for watershed and marine ecosystems, community education and outreach, and any other means appropriate.”
Organization Type: Non-Government Organization
(360) 275-3575
What is the NPLCC?
According to their webpage “The NPLCC is one of 22 LCCs established by the Department of Interior. The North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative is a self-directed partnership between federal agencies, states, Tribes/First Nations, non-governmental organizations, universities, and other entities to collaboratively define science needs and jointly address broad-scale conservation issues, such as climate change.”
Organization Type: Non-Governmental-Corporation
According to their website, “PNDSA is a non-profit association formed in 2000 to provide information exchange, advocacy on conversation policy issues and research coordination that supports the adoption of environmentally sustainable and economically viable direct seed cropping systems. PNDSA unites growers under a cropping system, rather than one specific crop. We are passionate about bringing together diverse groups with common interests to advance the future of sustainable farming.”
Organization Type: Non-Profit
(509) 995-6335