According to their website“Earth Justice is a non-profit public interest law organization dedicated to protecting the magnificent places, natural resources, and wildlife of this earth, and to defending the right of all people to a healthy environment.”
Conservation of wild areas is natural carbon sequestration.
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(206) 343-7340
According to their website, “During their 13 years of community involvement, they have given away over 1400 bikes; about 800 of those have found homes locally. The rest have been shipped around the world through connections with individuals and groups. They have sent bikes to Togo, Ghana, Latvia, Romania, Vietnam, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, and one bike to Ireland.
This truly is a community project. Were it not for continuing support from the community, this project would cease to exist. We are grateful for support.
We welcome donations of bikes, time, money and ideas. The Build-a-Bike shop is open on Sundays from noon to 4pm.”
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(360) 539-0955
They state that “over the last fifty years, the U.S. has developed a transportation system that is environmentally, economically and socially unsustainable. It was from this landscape that Transportation Choices Coalition emerged in 1993, inspired by the tremendous challenge of changing the state’s future. They seek to bring Washingtonians more and better transportation choices — real opportunities to take a bus, catch a train, ride a bike, or walk.”
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit
(206) 329-2336
Aquamarine Power is a European company that has developed a way of harnessing wave power that they call Oyster technology. Oyster technology consists of a near shore (around half a kilometer away from shore) device that uses a hinged flap to push high pressure water through a subsea pipeline to an onshore hydroelectric turbine, like the ones used with dams. They want to install a “demonstration array” of three Oyster generators on the West Coast by 2016. So far they have been given a $100,000 grant from the Oregon Wave Energy Trust to find out about suitable sites for wave energy on Oregon’s coast. They are also pursuing opportunities in Washington and California.
Organization Type: For profit corporation
44 141 524 1440 (international)
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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(206) 250-7301
According to their website “Try Vegan PDX is a vegan outreach group in Portland, Oregon. Their goal is to help people who have made the decision to go vegan by offering resources, support and community-building activities.”
This organization supports the Low Impact Lifestyle of veganism.
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The University of Washington is responsible for tidal energy research and Oregon State University is concerned with wave energy research. These two institutions are doing research that looks at the potential of installing wave energy on the West coast and some of the possible consequences of doing so. Some key issues are: how the devices that gather wave/tidal energy will affect the distribution of sediment, how they will affect h actual pattern of currents, how they will affect the fauna, especially mammals and sea animals that depend on magnetic fields for navigation, how they will affect the food chain, and how to deal with he reduced efficiency that comes with accumulated bio fouling.
Organization Type: Government organization (partnership between the University of Washington and Oregon State University funded by the DOE)
(206) 543-7544
The B.E.F. is a non-profit organization that markets green power products to public utilities, businesses, government agencies and individuals. It was founded in 1998 to support watershed restoration programs and develop new sources of renewable energy. What began as a partnership with the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) has expanded to include other suppliers and markets.
“BEF works collaboratively to help manage human interaction with carbon, energy, and water. It spans a broad range of solutions, from carbon offsets to energy consulting, to water restoration in a variety of innovative ways.”
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation
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
http://www.eugeneveg.org/index.html
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
(509) 838-4912