The Climate Trust promotes and offers logistical support to carbon-offset programs to utilities, businesses and governments. The trust has worked with Seattle Light and several Portland businesses to reduce carbon footprints and utilize carbon-offsets. The trusts also advises local governments on greenhouse-gas monitoring and response.
Organization Type: Non-Profit Corporation
(503) 238-1915
According to their website, Facing the Future “is a nonprofit leader whose mission is to create tools for educators that equip and motivate students to develop critical thinking skills, build global awareness and engage in positive solutions for a sustainable future.”
Their mission: To learn about our strategic objectives and the metrics by which we evaluate our success.
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation
206-264-1503
According to their website “The CIG focuses on the intersection of climate science and public policy/resource management. Key areas of the group’s collective expertise include but are not limited to: downscaling global climate model data; regional climate modeling; hydrologic modeling; water resources and terrestrial/aquatic ecosystem modeling and impacts assessment; coastal impacts assessment; climate change vulnerability assessment and adaptation planning; and outreach and education.”
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation
(206) 616-5350
From their website –
“Mobilizing the market toward energy efficiency is the most cost-effective way to meet our future energy needs. Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) is a non-profit organization using the market power of the region to accelerate the innovation and adoption of energy-efficient products, services and practices. Since 1997, NEEA and its partners have saved enough energy to continuously power more than 600,000 homes — enough to power Portland, Boise and Seattle each year.”
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1 (800) 411-0834
Mission statement: The Climate Trust’s mission is to provide expertise, financing, and inspiration to accelerate innovative and effective climate solutions that endure.
Climate Trust hopes to achieve sound climate policy. By providing carbon credits, voluntary customized climate programs, and climate consulting services, they specialize in climate solutions for governments, utilities and large businesses.
Organization Type:
(503) 238-1915
Conservation sequesters Carbon and deforestation is a major cause of climate change conservation northwest aims to conserve wild spaces. On their website they state “ today they are ensuring the region is wild enough to support wildlife, from wolves to grizzly bears to mountain caribou. We work with local communities on forest restoration, creating sustainable timber jobs and wilderness protection. We help ensure safe passage for wildlife, including those moving north and south in the Cascades and across the Canadian border, and east and west between the Cascades and Selkirks of the Rockies.”
Organization Type:
(206) 675-9747
Clackamas County Weatherization is a group that makes home more energy efficient for lower income homes. They educate homeowners on how to be more efficient and insulate their walls and fix air leaks and perform other modifications. This helps families to conserve money and helps the community conserve energy.
Organization Type:
(503) 228-6322
EDF Renewable Energy has had 25 years of experience working for the development and long term care of wind farms across the United State and Mexico (1 Project). Their main services are Project Development, Operations and Maintenance, and Asset Management. They have a renewable energy portfolio of over 70 renewable energy projects. They have two projects in Klickitat, Washington, and a solar project that they helped develop in Yamhill County, Oregon.
Organization Type: For Profit Corporation
(888) 903-6926
There mission states: Ecotrust Canada is an enterprising nonprofit whose purpose is to build the conservation economy in coastal BC and beyond. We work at the intersection of conservation and community economic development promoting innovation and providing services for communities, First Nations and enterprises to green and grow their local economies.
Organization Type: For-Profit Corporation
(604) 682-4141
Meetup.com is a carpool networking site that connects users based off of hundreds of user created events called “meetups”. Users create profiles and then events. They have events and groups in thousands of cities across the world and many in Olympia and the greater Northwest.
Organization Type: For Profit Corporation