Tag Archives: Parks

Urban Greenspaces Institute

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Mission statement:  To ensure that parks, regional trail systems, greenways and greenspaces are integrated with the built environment in the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan region; and to promote urban greenspace efforts nationally and internationally.

Motto: “In Livable Cities is Preservation of the wild.”

According to the webpage this motto was “chosen as a correlary to Henry David Thoreau’s aphorism, In Wildness is the Preservation of the Wild.”

The Group’s focus is on preserving and introducing nature and wilderness into urban areas.

Organization Type: Non-Governmental Organization

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(503) 319-7155

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Urban Greenspace Institute
 PO Box 6903 Portland, OR 97228-6903

National Parks Association Conservation: Glaciers

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“To protect parks and to get awareness out about them. Also to protect the animals and the terrain like mountains and glaciers.”

This website is dedicated to protecting the landscape and species of the national parks. They also have connections to other states where they are trying to help them get the protection that they need. They also wish for people to enjoy the parks while being aware of them.

http://www.npca.org/protecting-our-parks/air-land-water/mining-and-fracking/victory_for_glacier.html (link about glaciers)

 

Organization Type: Conservation

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(202) 223-6722

Address

777 6th Street, NW, Suite 700 Washington

Friends of Living Waters (FLOW)

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Mission: To provide legal oversight, monitoring and public education to protect Oregon Waters from pollution and development.

“FLOW was formed in 2002 to help protect and restore Oregon’s waters.  We understand and develop the need for increased grassroots activist organizing and public participation concerning river and water issues is needed in Oregon due to the magnitude and range of pollution and development threats. Volunteers lead the organization and do the legal, conservation and outreach work.”

FLOW is a grassroots organization committing extraordinary time and effort to their work and volunteerism.

Organization Type: Non-government Organization

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Not indicated on website

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FLOW, P.O. Box 2478,Grants Pass, OR 97528

Climate Change Education Partnership

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The Climate Change Education Partnership has the goal of changing the way climate change education is taught through their partnerships with parks and refugees in the Puget Sound region. Their goal is to work with these parks and refugees to help the general public understand climate change through their local natural environment.

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No permanent location.

Earth Justice

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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

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Northwest 705 Second Avenue Suite 203 Seattle, WA 98104