According to their website:
“The Community Cycling Center, broadens access to bicycling and its benefits.”
Oregon organization to make low impact lifestyles (cycling as transport) accessible to all.
Organization Type:
(503) 288-8864
An Oregon organization focused on cultivating sustainable transport; changing lifestyles is an important part of fighting climate change.
From their website: “Founded in October 1992, the Center for Appropriate Transport is a non-profit organization that is committed to community involvement in manufacturing, using, and advocating sustainable modes of transportation.”
Organization Type: Non-Profit
(541) 344-1197
Since 2006, Noveda has been building software solutions for energy and water use monitoring. Through web-based monitoring, businesses and governments can monitor and reduce their carbon footprints. Noveda can also track energy and water use for interested parties in order to determine financial effects of improved energy technologies.
Organization Type: For-Profit Corporation
(908) 534-8855
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
(541) 929-5975
A reduction in driving is an important aspect of behavioral change that will reduce Carbon emissions. This organization, while not working on climate issues overtly, incentives lifestyle changes through making biking an easier and realistic transportation alternative option. According to their website “Cascade Bicycle Club is a non-profit organization based in Seattle, Washington that serves more than 14,000 members and the Puget Sound bicycling community. Their mission is to Create a Better Community through Bicycling.”
Organization Type: Not-for-Profit
(206) 522-BIKE
Description:
NW Wind & Solar is a division of SME, Inc. of Seattle, a leading electrical contractor with over 38 years of expertise and vast experience with home, commercial and industrial electrical systems, including primary electric service, wiring, and electrical generator systems for Homes and Industry. At NW Wind & Solar, we believe in renewable energy. We have several LEED accredited professionals on staff. We integrate recycling, renewable energy, and employee commuting benefits into our work. We have installed both a solar energy system and a wind power generator at our main office. Our belief in the importance of sustainable business practices extends to our own operations.
At NW Wind & Solar, their goal is to help you reduce your dependence on nonrenewable energy sources and start achieving sustainability in your business or home. Their business is helping you make choices that are good for the environment and right for your home or business.
Northwest Wind & SolarOrganization Type:
(206) 587-6527
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. All that is lacking is the will and determination to make the change.”
Organization Type: Non-Profit Organization
(503) 223-4544
From their site: “Operating as a program of the International Sustainable Development Foundation, ZWA has over a twelve-year history working with industry and communities to identify and overcome barriers to zero waste. ZWA’s work has included the formation of the Green Electronics Council, the Outdoor Industry Eco-Index, the Sustainable Oregon Schools Initiative, the International Society of Sustainability Professionals and the Chemical Assessment and Ranking System.”
Organization Type: Non-government Organization
(503) 279-9383
Puget Sound Energy is a local energy company called based in Bellevue. This company has a great program that allows customers to buy local energy from nearby green or alternative fuel producers. If you purchase by the block, you can buy 160 kW at the cost of two dollars, or you could purchase an 800 kW monthly block for 12 dollars. The Green Power program is great.
Analysis of Puget Sound Energy Activities:
Puget Sound Energy
Organization Type: For-Profit Company
1 (888) 225-5773
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
(541) 434-1463