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Intercity Transit
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SeQuential Pacific Biodiesel is a used cooking oil collection company. They recycle used cooking oils throughout Oregon and produce biodiesel. They have many refueling stations around Portland and Seattle, but none in between.
Organization Type: For-Profit Company
(800) 447-3794
From their website:Seattle Electric Vehicle Association (SEVA) is the Electric Auto Association’s (EAA) 2nd largest chapter in the United States. Our members actively participate in numerous local events to promote the rapid adoption of EVs in the Seattle metro area and in all of Washington State working in concert with our sister EAA Chapters in Tacoma, Vashon, Wenatchee, Portland, Spokane (Post Falls, ID) and Vancouver, BC. –SEVA (About Page)
Organization Type: Not-For-Profit Corporation
(206) 524-1351
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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
(877) 257-3343
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Commuteride is a carpooling, vanpooling, or “ridematching” service within the Ada County of Idaho. It also promotes biking and walking by providing Bike Lane Maps and incentives of biking and walking.
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(208) 345-7665
The non-profit organization Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute’s mission statement is
“to increase citizen involvement in decisions that affect the region’s environment.” The Institute has grown into one of the most successful organizations in the region. In addition to Community Agriculture, they have programs in Watershed Restoration, Environmental Education, and Transportation.” These programs include watershed restoration in northern Idaho and parts of Eastern Washington, promoting alternative energy through tours and host bicycle and vanpool options. PCEI began in 1986 and they have received many awards due to their honest and hardworking operations.
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(208) 882-1444
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Western Washington Clean Cities is an organization that advances energy security and environmental health by promoting alternative fuels, efficient vehicles and reduction of petroleum. They provide education, access to grant funds, strategy assistance, and promote policies and incentives. They are part of the network of 80 communities in the US Department of Energy’s Clean Cities Program.
Their vision is to lead “the region in clean transportation, through the use of local, sustainable alternative fuels and technologies.”
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Organization Type: Government
(206) 689-4055
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Propel provides biodiesel and Flex Fuel (E85) in the Seattle area as well as in northern and southern California. Flex Fuel (E85) is a clean-burning mixture of 85% ethanol (derived from fermented starch and sugars) and 15% gasoline. The biodiesel product is made from sustainable resources such as vegetable oil waste and soybean oil and is compatible with every diesel engine.
Matt Horton, CEO Propel Fuels
“In building the infrastructure for today’s renewable fuel vehicles, we make further progress away from petroleum and help lead America toward a more promising future.”
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Organization Type: For-Profit Company
(800) 871-0773
Olympia Green Fuels manufactures and distributes biodiesel processors and tank farms from small tanks (100,000 gallons a year) to enormous systems that can produce three million gallons per year. With the equipment they sell, anyone who has access to large amounts of vegetable oil or other triglyceride greases can generate their own biodiesel.
Organization Type: Limited liability company
Meetup.com is a carpool networking site that connects users based off of hundreds of user created events called “meetups”. Users create profiles and then events. They have events and groups in thousands of cities across the world and many in Olympia and the greater Northwest.
Organization Type: For Profit Corporation