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Local Organizations (Palouse Area)
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Organizations
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Idaho Environmental Groups
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Our founder and supporter,
MaryJane Butters |
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Supporting Businesses
- MaryJanesFarm was created by
PCEI founder MaryJane Butters. At her farm 8 miles from Moscow,
MaryJane and her crew make the 60 instant or quick preparation organic
meals, desserts and drinks, as well as the ad-free magazine and books,
sold at her
website and at retail stores nationwide. MaryJane has been a
consistent supporter of PCEI. 888-750-6004 or 208-882-6819
- Alison Meyer
Photography
- AVISTA
UTILITIES
- BOOK PEOPLE OF
MOSCOW
Book People of Moscow, Moscow's locally owned downtown bookstore,
featuring books, magazines, videos and cards. Also buying and selling
used books. Serving the community for 29 years. Located at 521 South
Main. bookpeople@moscow.com
- Moscow Food
Coop 121 E. Fifth Street Moscow, Idaho 83843 The Moscow Food Co-op
is celebrating 30 years of natural foods on the Palouse. The Co-op is
now offering dine-in or take-out hot dinner entrees made fresh daily.
They also feature certified fair trade coffee, and whole grain breads
made fresh daily from scratch. Open 7:30 to 9 seven days a week in
Moscow, Idaho. 208-882-8537
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Air Quality/Field Burning Links
Please also see Transportation:
Public/mass
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Agriculture
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Cohousing
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Forestry
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Gardens, Community
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Global Climate Change
- Check out PCEI's new living roof!
PCEI has our demonstration living roof on top of our straw bale covered
bike shelter.
- An
Inconvenient Truth Movie Website, watch the trailer, read the
science, read reviews, buy the DVD
- Cool Cities
Solving Global Warming one city at a time. So what is a Cool City?
These are cities that have made a commitment to stopping global warming
by signing the U.S. Mayor’s Climate Protection Agreement. Visit this
link to find out if your city is cool.
- Climate Ark A
Climate Change and Global Warming Portal, Featuring a Genuine Climate
Change Internet Search Engine
- Stop
Global Warming, a virtual march
Download the recent UN IPCC Summary
Report on Global Warming(it is a big, big file, at 1.2mb).
Climate change information for businesses:
Safe Climate for
Businesses
PEW
Center on Climate Change business solutions
U Oregon Sustainable
Business Advantage
Climate change information for individuals:
WWF
31 Things you can do
The
Guardian (UK)
David Suzuki Foundation
For
corporations, municipalities, and policy-makers
Calculate your "carbon footprint:"
Vermont Earth
Institute carbon calculator
For
faith groups, schools, civic organizations, businesses, and
individuals
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Governmental Agencies
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Growth
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Kids
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Land Trusts / Conservation Easements
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Light Pollution
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Native Plants
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Palouse Prairie
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Pedestrian Issues
National groups
- Perils for
Pedestrians
A monthly television series promoting awareness of issues affecting the
safety of people who walk.
- National
Highway Traffic Safety Commission
Community walkability checklist, along with short term and long term
action items.
- USDOT
Federal highway Adminsitration Traffic Calming Site
- America
Walks
America Walks is a national coalition of local advocacy groups
dedicated to promoting walkable communities. Members are autonomous
grassroots organizations from across the country, each working to
improve conditions for walking in their area. The mission of America
Walks is to foster the development of community-based pedestrian
advocacy groups, to educate the public about the benefits of walking,
and, when appropriate, to act as a collective voice for walking
advocates.
- Pedestrian and
Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
A clearinghouse for information about health and safety, engineering,
advocacy, education, enforcement and access and mobility. The PBIC
serves anyone interested in pedestrian and bicycle issues, including
planners, engineers, private citizens, advocates, educators, police
enforcement and the health community.
- Go to this
PBIC site for a four-year report, "Growing Demand for Safe Walking
and Bicycling". Also, at this site, related to bicycling and walking.
Pedestrian/Bicycling Image
library. Database of walking and bicycling images, including
amenities and great examples.
- Conservation Law
Foundation: Transportation for Livable Communities Network
clf.org/transportation is a resource for people working to create more
livable communities by improving transportation. In New England, CLF
has advocated such transportation initiatives as:
*making neighborhoods safer, quieter and more child-friendly through
traffic calming;
*bringing new life to old commercial areas with public transit
improvements; and
*improving local mobility by retrofitting streets for bicycling and
walking.
CLF's transportation toolbox has four major compartments: Publications,
Reports, and Articles; Streettalk Listserv; CLF Casework; Recommended
Links
- Surface
Transportation Policy Project
The goal of The Surface Transportation Policy Project is to ensure that
transportation policy and investments help conserve energy, protect
environmental and aesthetic quality, strengthen the economy, promote
social equity, and make communities more livable. Bi monthly
newsletters
- Victoria
Transportation Policy Institute
The Victoria Transport Policy Institute is an independent research
organization dedicated to developing innovative and practical solutions
to transportation problems. We provide a variety of resources available
free at this website to help improve transportation planning and policy
analysis. We are funded primarily through consulting and project
grants.
- David
Engwicht’s Site
Examples of other Community Groups
- City
Repair
The City Repair Project is group of citizen activists creating public
gathering places and helping others to creatively transform the places
where they live.
- Neighborhood Alliance of
Spokane County
The Neighborhood Alliance of Spokane County is an alliance of concerned
communities committed to improving uses of land, resources and energy so
that nature, our environment and our quality of life are sustained or
improved rather than depleted or degraded.
- Mission
Pedestrian
Working for a walkable, livable Santa Cruz
- Idaho
Smart Growth
To encourage vibrant communities through sensible growth, Idaho Smart
Growth educates and engages the people of Idaho in activities that
support economically, socially and environmentally responsible
communities.
- North Idaho Bikeways
- California Safe Routes to
School Clearinghouse
The Clearinghouse exists to offer support to local activists and public
agency staff in their quest to develop Safe Routes to School in their
California communities.
- Transportation
Alternatives NYC
Encourage bicycling, walking and public transit as alternatives to
automobile use, and reduce automobile use and its attendant
environmental and social harms.
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Pesticides
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Press Releases
Fall 2007
Friday, September 21, 2007 Partridge_Creek_Watershed_Festival
Thursday, September 27, 2007 Moscow_Squash_Cook_Off
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 Moscow_Watershed_Festival
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 Xeriscape_Workshops
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Recreation
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Recycling and Waste Reduction
For more recycling tips and information, check out our Green Living Waste Management Resources
page!
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Rivers / Streams
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Soil Conservation
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Sustainable Building / Energy Conservation
For more information, tips, and sustainable building designs, take a
look at our Green Living Alternative
Building Resource page.
For more information on sustainable energy visit our Green Living Alternative Energy
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Toxic Waste
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Trails / Bikes
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Transportation: Bus / Carpool / Mass /Transit / Public
- PCEI’s
Vanpool Network
- Moscow's New Fixed Route Bus
System!
- Pullman
Transit operates a model small town transit system in Pullman,
Washington.
- WSU
Transportation Alternatives
- Valley Transit
(Regional Public Transportation)
- Wheatland
Express operates the Pullman-Moscow Commuter (free to all UI and WSU
students, staff, and faculty), and provides services to Lewiston, Walla
Walla, Pasco, Colfax. Wheatland Express also provides a charter service
and tours. For more information you can call 334-2200.
- A Spokane Airport
Shuttle is operated by Wheatland Express with daily
passenger service to and from the Spokane Airport with connections
throughout Latah and Whitman Counties (including Moscow, Pullman, and
Colfax). Scheduled trips to and from the Spokane airport are
available.
- COAST operates a dial a ride service in Latah and Nez Perce
Counties. Contact them at 800-873-9996.
- Valley Transit operates a dial-a-ride service in Nez Perce, Asotin
and Latah Counties, as well as a fixed
route service in Nez Perce, Asotin, and Latah Counties. Contact
them at 208-743-2545 or 208-883-7747.
- WSU
Transportation Alternatives Website provides alternatives to
parking a vehicle on campus. The website also includes carpool network
list serve information.
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Transportation: Bikes / Non-motorized
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Transportation: Roads
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University Affiliated
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Urban Ecology
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Water Conservation
For more links with tips, methods, and articles on water conservation
visit our Green Living Water
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Wilderness
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Wildlife
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