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Causes: Environment, Environmental Education, Recycling, Water, Water Resources, Wetlands Conservation & Management
Mission: Re sources promotes sustainable communities and protects the health of northwest washington's people and ecosystems through application of science, education, advocacy and action.
Programs: The re store program makes it easy for people to reduce, reuse and recycle. By salvaging and selling used building materials, the re store diverts millions of pounds of waste from landfills and enlivens a culture of reuse, while making projects affordable and green. The store employs 30 people, provides job skills training, reduces our community's carbon footprint, and keeps construction spending local.
the clean water program monitors and protects our precious water resources. North sound baykeeper uses science and action to reduce pollution and toxins in the salish sea and its uplands. Water work advocates for collaborative solutions, an active and informed public, and protective policies around water quantity.
the clean energy program promotes a clean energy economy and works against dirty energy production and export. It advocates and fights to protect our region from dangerous transport and export of fossil fuels, and advocates for clean energy solutions throughout washington state and our local communities. Re sources is the lead agency of power past coal-- an alliance of health, environmental, clean-energy, faith, and community groups in whatcom and skagit counties working to stop coal export from the west coast.