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

The Mountaineers

The Mountaineers is a non-profit organization that works to preserve and protect landscapes through conservation, recreation resources, education, advocacy and stewardship. They offer “an informed, boots-on-the-ground perspective into land management policies and practices. Our members recreate volunteer, study and teach on a patchwork of lands managed by state, federal and local agencies.”

Their mission is: to enrich the community by helping people explore, conserve, learn about and enjoy the lands and waters of the Pacific Northwest.”

Their priorities include:
Conservation
Environmental Literacy
Low Impact Recreation

Organization Type: Non-Profit

Website

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Telephone

(206) 521-6000

Address

7700 Sand Point Way NE Seattle, WA 98115

City Repair Project

As stated on the webpage, “City Repair is an organized group action that educates and inspires communities and individuals to creatively transform the places where they live. City Repair facilitates artistic and ecologically-oriented placemaking through projects that honor the interconnection of human communities and the natural world. The many projects of City Repair have been accomplished by a mostly volunteer staff and thousands of volunteer citizen activists.”

City Repair emphasizes sustainability through localization.  With Placemaking as a sustainability strategy, they hope to foster engaged and active relationships between community members and the spaces they inhabit.  They assist community members in creating communal and ecologically oriented places through educational or hands-on projects such as Intersection Repair and Village Building Conference.

Other City Repair fields include:

•Urban Planning and Design

•Ecological and Social Sustainability

•Community resource localization

•Nonhierarchical decision-making

•Equality, diversity and peace

•Cultural identity and Bioregionalism

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Telephone

(503) 235-8946

Address

PO Box 42615 Portland, OR 97242

Veg Seattle

They state that they are “a comprehensive resource for those interested in reducing the amount of meat and/or dairy products that they consume.”

Meat is a high impact industry, and reducing dependence on it reduces one’s carbon footprint.

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Telephone

(206) 250-7301

Address

Veg Seattle c/o NARN PO Box 15618 Seattle, WA 98115

The Eugene Veg Education Network (EVEN)

According to their website: “EVEN is an official 501(c)(3) non-profit, providing education, information and resources to encourage people to explore the benefits of a plant-based diet.”

This is a Low Impact Lifestyle, reducing individual carbon output.

Organization Type: Non-Profit

Website

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Telephone

http://www.eugeneveg.org/index.html

Address

Eugene Veg Education Network (EVEN) 1574 Coburg Rd., #120 Eugene, OR 97401

The Lands Council

According to their website the Lands Council is a “group of area physicians, concerned about the environment’s effect on people’s health. The Lands Council is a local grassroots, non-profit dedicated to protecting the quality of life in the Inland Northwest. Today they are the leading conservation voice in the Inland Northwest.”

Organization Type: Not-For-Profit

Website

Contact e-mail

Telephone

(509) 838-4912

Address

25 W. Main Ave. Ste 222 Spokane, WA 99201

Vegetarians of Washington

Vegetarians of Washington is an independent 501(c)3 non profit organization. They highlight resources and communities to assist in living the Low Impact Lifestyle that is vegetarianism.

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Website

Telephone

(206) 706-2635

Address

Vegetarians of Washington 15100 SE 38th St - #820 Bellevue, WA 98006

Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center

Promoting ancient forest stewardship through educational experiences inspired by Opal Creek’s natural and cultural history.

 

There mission states:

“Promoting conservation through educational experiences in wilderness.”

 

Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation

Contact e-mail

Telephone

(503) 892-2782

Address

721 NW 9th Avenue, Suite 236 Portland OR, 97209

Pacific Northwest Biochar Initiative

Biochar is a sequestration process of putting charcoal into the soil.  This organization is comprised of academics, researchers, engineers, foresters, farmers, and policy experts to look into biochar technology for use in soil amendment.

Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation

Website

Contact e-mail

Telephone

(541) 929-5975

Address

International Biochar Initiative 640 Brook Run Dr. Westerville, OH 43081 United States

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

Website

Contact e-mail

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