Tag Archives: Building

Clearedge Power

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ClearEdge Power create innovative products to help their costumers improve their energy efficiency and reduce their carbon emissions at home or at their business. With a team of scientists, engineers and managers they use clean tech solutions for the growing energy demands. They are a world leader in fuel cell stacks that provide reliable power for buildings and vehicles.

Organization Type: For-Profit

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(877) 257-3343

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7175 NW Evergreen Parkway, Building 100 Hillsboro, OR 97124

Columbia Green

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Columbia Green is a company in Portland, Oregon that sells green roof technology. According to their website: “Columbia Green’s core technologies is focused on vegetative roofs and are based on sustainable functions that help manage the quality/quantity of stormwater, energy use, air/water pollution.  Cities across the world are using vegetative roofs to manage these environmental issues.  Columbia Green is a USA manufacturer delivering product through domestic and international channels to meet those needs. Growth and innovation are not only characteristics of Columbia Green’s technologies, but also our employees – who are the foundation of our success.”

Organization Type: For-Profit Corporation

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(503) 327-8723

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79 SE Taylor Street, Ste 201 Portland, OR 97214 USA

Washington Aggregates and Concrete Association

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From their website:  “Strives to work with all related state agencies to promote a positive and cooperative relationship while providing mutual education regarding agency objectives and balancing production, economies and promoting practicable and achievable compliance.”

The Washington Aggregates and Concrete Association has been around since 1959 and have always been taking an active role in their community and building from the ground up with green materials. Trying to set an example for others.

Organization Type: Green Technology

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(206) 878-1622

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22223 7th Avenue, South Des Moines, WA 98198

Build Local Alliance

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Build Local Alliance works with businesses, builders and artisans in northwest Oregon and southwest Washington to develop the local economy through sustainable forestry by supporting and using local wood for green building projects. The Build Local Alliance is composed of forest owners, millwrights, architects, designers, builders, craftsmen, homeowners and more.

Their mission is “to improve the vitality of local forests and related human communities by connecting local, responsibly grown and processed wood with local projects.”

Organization Type: Non-Profit

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(503) 221-6911 x101

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Portland, Oregon

Cascadia Green Building Council

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Description of Organization: Cascadia Green Building council works with PNW policymakers to pass legislation that puts green construction on par (financially) with more traditional construction and design practices, and to educate the public about sustainable building design.

Mission: “We help set the global vision for the transformation toward true sustainability, even as we support the place-based solutions that will bring us to the future we hope for, not the tomorrow we fear.”

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(206) 223-2028

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410 Occidental Ave. South, Seattle, WA 98104

Community Power Works

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From their website: Community Power Works is an innovative pilot program testing new models for energy efficiency in the residential, commercial, and institutional sectors. We are developing and testing clean energy innovation through a series of robust public-private partnerships. Community Power Works is working with contractors, homeowners, and businesses to grow the clean energy economy.

Organization Type: For-Profit Corporation

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(206) 449-1170

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1927 3rd Avenue Seattle, WA 98101

Clackamas County Weatherization

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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.

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(503) 228-6322

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121 SW Salmon St., Portland 97204

Ecotrust Canada

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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

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(604) 682-4141

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200 -1238 Homer St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 2Y5 Canada

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

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107 N. Tacoma Avenue Tacoma, WA 98403

Northwest Renewable Energy Corporation

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North West Renewable Energy invests and researches in “green technology” through taking common electrical energy consuming building components and redesigning them to be solar powered and energy efficient. We specialize in creating environmentally friendly products with no grid supplied energy consumption with simple installation and improved innovative results. Upfront initial investment in converting conventional operational systems to new unique photovoltaic power pays for itself with no running cost and no additional fees.

NWREC’s mission is the redesign of “non-green” components, products and practices that have been used in the commercial and industrial construction markets for decades. Transforming components, products and practices into a “green” component by which a clear and decisive benefit of the new redesigned “green” product will naturally fit itself into the marketplace due to its high level of performance. Components, products and practices that have for years been implemented without regard to their efficiencies. NWREC pursues not only the redesign of building components but also oversees the in-house manufacturing of the new “green” products, bringing them into the commercial and building construction markets.

NWREC cooperates with structural and mechanical engineering firms, state and federal agencies whose aim is the oversight of energy efficient retrofitting of commercial and industrial structures and facilities.

Organization Type: Corporation

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(503) 515-3317

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North West Renewable Energy Corp Yamhill, Oregon 97148