Tag Archives: Education

Off the Chain Bicycle Collective

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According to their website: “Off the Chain is a low cost, volunteer run bicycle collective open to the Anchorage community. Off the Chain teaches people of all ages and backgrounds how to repair bicycles and strives to increase bicycle ridership, awareness, and safety through community service and education.”

This non-profit promotes low impact lifestyles (cycling as transport).

Organization Type: Non-Profit

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(907) 258-6822

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814 W. Northern Lights Suite W-15 (west end of the Mat-Maid building) Anchorage, AK

Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center

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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

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(503) 892-2782

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

Regional Approaches to Climate Change


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Regional Approaches to Climate Change works with the goal to combat climate change while making efforts to increase agricultural yields in the regions that are being effected by climate change in the Pacific Northwest. Their focus is on research and education.

Organization Type: Government Agency

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(208) 885-1230

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875 Perimeter Drive MS 2339
Moscow, ID 83844-2339


GRuB

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From their website, “We partner with youth and people with low-incomes to create empowering individual and community food solutions, offering tools and trainings to help build a just and sustainable food system.”

They work in Thurston and Mason counties in Washington State.

Through their GRuB in the Schools Initiative, disengaged and/or low-income students earn credits while learning about and contributing to their local food systems. They focus on the themes of Farming Self (personal development), Farming Land (sustainable land stewardship), and Farming Community (civic engagement & community service).

Organization Type: Non-Profit Organization

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(360) 753-5522

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2016 Elliott Ave NW Olympia, WA 98502

Protect Our Winters P.O.W.

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“Our mission is to engage and mobilize the winter sports community to lead the fight against climate change. Our focus is on educational initiatives, activism and the support of community-based projects.”

P.O.W. Is a group of snow sports professionals and industry leaders that are actively trying to raise awareness and educate members of the snow sports industry about the effects of climate change and how to personally mitigate them.  They leaders in studying the effects of climate change in the winter recreation industry.  They have an education program that has reached out to over 15,000 students nationwide. The North West Chapter has been heavily critical of the local coal export proposals.

 

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1157 Embury Street Pacific Palisades, CA 90272

Zero Waste Alliance

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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

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(503) 279-9383

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227 SW Pine Street, 220 Portland OR 97204

DePave

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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

Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence

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This organization promotes education surrounding  the world’s oceans in the face of climate change. They are made up of a team of scientists that work together with educators in the region to raise awareness and enhance knowledge on the subject.

Organization Type: Government
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(907) 274-9612

Address

1007 West Third Avenue, Suite 100 
Anchorage, AK 99501