Category Archives: Forests & Agricultural Soils

This category includes organizations that focus on carbon capture through an ecologically balanced approach to managing natural resources. This approach to carbon stabilization includes the following strategies:
Reduced Deforestation
Reforestation
Afforestation
New Plantations
Conservation Tillage

Edible Forest Gardens

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Edible Forest Gardens is a local non-profit organization that has put more than 35 Edible Forest Gardens in yards around Olympia over the past four years. They have done this using workshops where community volunteers and Evergreen students have had the opportunity to learn how to transform lawns into gardens through hands-on experience. They work with Evergreen teachers to offer permaculture learning experiences to interns and work study students.

By encouraging people to create gardens that supplement local food supplies, atmospheric CO2 emitted during transport of the food is cut out. CO2 is also taken up by the plants being cultivated.

Organization Type: Non-Profit

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Telephone

(509) 669-1549

Address

Edible Forest Gardens 3439 14th Ave NW Olympia WA 98502

Friends of the Earth

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Friends of the Earth focuses on bringing people from all over the world together to work on certain issues that have to do with climate change.  They are multi-faceted and deal with many different issues including promoting conservation of energy and the spread of clean energy.  One of the projects they are currently working on is fighting the tar sands oil coming from the Boreal Forest in Canada.

Organization Type: Grassroots Environmental Network

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(510) 900-3150

Address

2150 Allston Way, Suite 240 Berkeley, California 94704

David Suzuki Foundation

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The David Suzuki Foundation is based in Vancouver B.C. with diverse range of interest and approaches to maintaining the health of (mostly Canadian) environments.  The group is huge and far reaching and wishes to restore a Canadian connection with nature.

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(604) 732-4228

Address

: 219 – 2211 West 4th Avenue
Vancouver, BC V6K 4S2

Greenbelt Land Trust

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The Greenbelt Land Trust (GLT) acts to conserve and protect in perpetuity native habitats, working lands and lands of natural beauty, which provide a connection to the natural world for residents of the Mid-Willamette Valley.

 

 

Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation

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(541) 752-9609

Address

P.O. Box 1721 Corvallis, OR 97339

Washington State Department of Ecology


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The Department of Ecology works in all areas of the environment to protect and manage Washington’s natural resources. Their work includes education in environmental issues, working with different groups on all kind of different issues, including climate change.

Analysis of Department of Ecology Activities:
WA Department of Ecology

Organization Type: Government Agency

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(360) 407-6300 ‎

Address

300 Desmond Dr SE, Lacey, WA

Earth Economics

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Earth Economics uses principles of economics to find solutions to climate change.  Some of the services they provide, taken from their website, are:

  • Ecosystem Service Valuations:  Working with public, private and NGO agencies, Earth Economics’ Ecosystem Service Valuation (ESV) studies quantify the value of the goods and services provided by regional ecosystems. This valuation justifies the shift of investment toward environmental preservation and/or restoration.  
  • Scenario Mapping and Planning:  “Working with leading systems modelers, ecologists and hydrologists, Earth Economics analyzes ecosystem services such as freshwater provisioning, carbon sequestration, flood protection, biodiversity and hurricane protection.”
  • Conversion to Sustainability: Working with the electronic recycling industry, paper mills and other industries, Earth Economics helps catalyze the shift from unsustainable to sustainable technology and industrial processes.

 

Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation

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(253) 539-4801

Address

107 N. Tacoma Avenue Tacoma, WA 98403

Sustainable Northwest

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Sustainable Northwest’s mission is to bring “people, ideas, and innovation together so that nature, local economies and rural communities can thrive.” In the area of decarbonization they are trying to develop local energy sources, specifically biomass energy.  They are working both for the development of biomass energy and the maximization of energy output from that biomass.  One of the things they have done is to get a lumber mill to dedicate part of their trees to start producing wood based fuels.  They have also worked to get the small diameter trees removed in forest restoration efforts made into wood pellets and bricks.

Organization Type: Non-Profit Organization

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(503) 221-6911

Address

813 SW Alder, Suite 500 Portland, OR 97205

Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust

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The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust is a coalition of farmers, environmentalists, timber companies, developers, federal and state agencies and more. They strive for a  sustainable relationship between people and nature in the 1.5 million acre landscape.

Their mission is to lead and inspire action “to conserve and enhance the landscape from Seattle across the Cascade Mountains to Central Washington, ensuring a long-term balance between people and nature.”

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Organization Type: Non-Profit

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(206) 382-5565

Address

911 Western Avenue, Suite 203 Seattle, WA 98104

Washington Wildlife and Recreation Coalition

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Conservation sequesters Carbon and deforestation is a major cause of climate change Cascadia Wildlands aims to conserve wild spaces. They state on their web stite that “The Washington Wildlife and Recreation Coalition is a non-profit citizens group founded in a historic bipartisan effort by former Governors Dan Evans and Mike Lowry. Their members consist of a diverse group of over 250 organizations representing conservation, business, recreation, hunting, fishing, farming, and community interests. They state that their “breadth and diversity is the key to our success–no one member of the Coalition could secure such high levels of funding for parks and habitat on their own.”

Organization Type: Not-For-Profit

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(206) 748-0082

Address

1402 Third Avenue, Suite 507 Seattle WA 98101

Seattle Greendrinks

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The official website says:

Part of the international Greendrinks network, Seattle Greendrinks is a volunteer-driven non-profit created to connect and grow Seattle’s environmental community. Founded in 2003, Seattle Greendrinks’ main event remains a monthly informal social networking gathering. However, in 2008 Seattle Greendrinks began to broaden its mission, acknowledging the need for more deliberate, targeted efforts to grow and activate the environmental community beyond its traditional core. Seattle Greendrinks now offers a number of events, including Fresh! , an intimate, informal evening of wine & chocolate tasting; Bloom, a speaker-focused event highlighting innovation in sustainability; and the Agent Green program, in which the consumptive power of the crowd helps businesses reduce their environmental footprint.

Organization Type: Non-government organization

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