Puget Sound Green Pages

Economics and the Environment

Last updated: June 24, 2003


 


PUGET SOUND AREA

Cascadia Revolving Fund

 

A nonprofit, community development financial institution serving Washington and Oregon. We have been pooling socially responsible investments to make loans and provide technical assistance to low-income entrepreneurs since 1985.

EcoMall

Environmental Services Directory For Washington State

 

A business-to-business directory of environmental services, products & information sources available in Washington State. Published annually since 1991.

People for Fair Trade

 

Organizing efforts in opposition to the World Trade Organization.

Sustainable Connections

 

An organization of Bellingham/Whatcom County business people who have become sensitized to our environmental plight and have chosen to modify their business practices to secure a sustainable future.

 

 

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Corporate Watch

Creating Community Currencies

E.F. Schumacher Society

EcoMarket International

 

European platform for green products, services and information

Empowerment Resources.com

 

Tools For Personal Growth, Social Change, and Ecology

Environmental Background Information Center (EBIC)

 

Provides corporate research and strategic assistance to members of the public who are interested in getting involved in local environmental issues. Quick access to background information on corporations involved in environmentally dangerous projects, including: names of corporate officers, names of parent companies, locations of corporate operations, facilities currently or previously operated by the company, environmental enforcement actions, civil or criminal judgments worker safety problems.

Global Ecolabelling Network (GEN)

 

criteria for and certify products and services with lower environmental burdens and impacts than comparable products with the same function.

Green Seal

 

The independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the environment by promoting the manufacture and sale of environmentally responsible consumer products. It sets environmental standards and awards a "Green Seal of Approval" to products that cause less harm to the environment than other similar products.

International Corporate Environmental Reporting Site

Ithaca Hours

 

Local currency

Mondragon Corporacion Cooperativa, MCC

POCLAD: Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy

Public Citizen Global Trade Watch

 

The Public Citizen division that fights for international trade and investment policies promoting government and corporate accountability, consumer health and safety, and environmental protection through research, lobbying, public education and the media. Global Trade Watch is on the cutting edge of research and advocacy in the field of international trade and investment. Public Citizen is a national consumer and environmental organization founded by Ralph Nader in 1971.

Social Investment Forum

 

A national nonprofit membership organization promoting the concept, practice and growth of socially responsible investing.

Sustainable Business.com

US Department of Commerce

US EPA Enforcement and Compliance Information Online (ECHO)

 

This Web site allows you to search for facilities in your community for the purpose of determining whether: EPA or State/local governments have conducted compliance inspections violations were detected or enforcement actions were taken and penalties were assessed in response to environmental law violations.

WTO Watch

 

The global information center on the WTO and trade.

WWW Virtual Library

 

 

 


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