Strategic Plan

The Rivers Foundation of the Americas is the next bold move.

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Strategic Plan Index

• What We Do
• Our Framework: Systems Analysis, Indigenous Peoples, Mega-Linkages.
• Conservation Biology, Mega-Linkages and Re-Wilding
• Fragmentation
• Keystone Species
• Re-Wilding
• RFA's Mega-Linkages
• RFA Initiatives
• Clean Water, Biodiversity and Environmental Justice Initiative
• The Copper River watershed in Alaska
• Pacific Northwest: Columbia River in the U.S. and Canada
• The Colorado River watershed in the U.S. and Mexico
• Global Water Policy Initiative
• Human Health
• The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Watershed in Canada and the United States
• The Colorado River watershed in the U.S. and Mexico
• Rivers Foundation History
• Building Our River CPR Endowments
• Systems Analysis: Clean Water, Biodiversity, Human Health
• Strategic Action Plan 2004-2007: Indigenous Peoples

What We Do

The Rivers Foundation of the Americas (RFA) is a “public foundation” dedicated to promoting and funding the protection and restoration of rivers throughout the Americas.

• We support activists and their organizations with grants, technical and policy support; and in-kind donations.
• We are an operating foundation. That means, in addition to raising an endowment to give grants and other resources to environmental leaders and organizations, we also do projects.
• We actively work to change environmental policies in the Americas.
• Our science and research team works on direct restoration efforts.
• We educate people about the connections between land use, water pollution and ecosystem and human health.

We focus on the Americas because this is the interconnected area of the world in which we live. And where we believe our team can make the most difference. By example, we can amplify our effects elsewhere.

Vast areas of our hemisphere are under tremendous ecological pressure—and the health of these ecosystems is intimately connected through wildlife migration and from resource extraction and development activities of multinational corporations and our new global economy. Bird migration flyways intertie with water pathways and large wetlands and animal migration pathways.

These connections are glaringly obvious in some cases, linking :

• The largest concentration of nesting shorebirds in North America in the Copper River Delta of Alaska
• A key migration stop on Sauvie Island in the Columbia River in Portland, Oregon
• The split delta of the Colorado River on the Gulf of California in Mexico and the Salton Sink of California
• A habitat in Central and South America all the way to the southern tip of Tierra del Fuego

Our Framework: Systems Analysis, Indigenous Peoples, Mega-Linkages.

People are to rivers what they are to their own heartbeats. A strong pulse brings energy and life while a weak pulse foreshadows disaster for the veins and arteries it powers. This is as true for rivers as it is for people. The interconnected relationship of rivers to people and their surrounding lands has long shown the best way to ensure permanent river health is to work with people who care about specific rivers—and who have the vision to use diverse strategies to protect and restore those resources. Our strategies include…

Conservation Biology, Mega-Linkages and Re-Wilding

Our work is grounded in the best conservation and restoration science. We, by necessity, look at a very big picture. Why do we say that? Simply put, scientists have, over the past 20 years, recognized critical “megalinkages” in biodiversity conservation.

"A thing is right, when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community."

- Aldo Leopold

The history of conservation has progressed over the last century from the first designations of “monumental” great places like Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks, and the pretty river canyons of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Scientists and policy makers then realized that protection of “biodiversity”—the great sweep of plant and animal species on the earth could not be done through the designation of parks and monuments alone.

Protection of species diversity and all the benefits of fresh air, clean water, productive soils, nutritious food, valuable medicines and other products derived from species diversity had to include protection of a wide variety of habitats and ecosystem types.

Conservation biology and the effort to protect large unmanaged wilderness landscapes in North America evolved from these ideas in the 1920s and 1930s. Those roots, in turn, led to Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic ("A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community") and the efforts to call for an end to government policies that persecute large predators. Groups like the Nature Conservancy arose to preserve first, individual species and then a variety of habitats and species.  Regulatory measures also arose by the 1970s, including the Endangered Species, Clean Air and Clean Water Acts.

Fragmentation

Next came the understanding that small isolated populations of animals and plants were highly vulnerable to accidents of population shifts, genetic limitations, climate fluctuations and incremental development and destruction. Connecting these “islands” of biodiversity was seen as necessary for genetic and demographic rescue and for viability of wide ranging species.

We subsequently learned that even areas as large as the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem could not provide sufficient resilience and protection for animals such as wolverines and grizzly bears—the “keystone” predators whose role in healthy landscapes and biodiversity protection is only recently becoming understood. Suburbanites well know the ecological and economic damage caused by the proliferation of deer due to the absence of large carnivores like wolves and cougars.

More dramatically, even in the protected “wilderness” of Yellowstone as wolves were eliminated, large populations of elk overgrazed river banks, driving out beavers who had nothing left to eat or build dams with—thus drastically reducing their role in creating and moving wetland habitats and sustaining aquatic diversity. In the few years since wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone, elk herds don’t dally as long near streams, beaver have begun to re–inhabit large valleys and plant and bird diversity is returning.

Keystone Species: Organisms whose influence on ecosystem function and diversity are disproportionate to their natural abundance.

Recent studies in South America documented by The Wildlands Project show that construction of a large Venezuelan dam caused flooding of a vast area and creation of isolated, though protected, islands. Many of the islands lacked large predators (jaguar, puma, harpy eagles) and on those islands the reproduction and replacement of many species of canopy trees came to a halt. On middle sized islands, though 60-70 species of trees coexist, only a handful of species are represented in young recruits. Scientists note that because herbivores (leaf eating monkeys, ants, rodent seed predators etc.) became superabundant due to the loss of the large predators, the entire island ecosystem began crashing.

Another frequent consequence of the absence of large predators is a remarkable bird-killing increase in the number of small carnivores including house cats, foxes, and opossums, which cause severe declines in many songbirds and other small prey animals.

Re-Wilding

Re-wilding then, calls for reintroduction of keystone species on a landscape scale; often this means the reintroduction of large predators over large areas; and changes in governmental policies and public attitudes toward these predators.

RFA’s Mega-Linkages

At the Rivers Foundation we look at continental mega-linkages in the context of large river basins in North, Central and South America. We are implementing the science developed by the Wildlands Project and others and putting it into practice.

Shown here is a modified version of the major wildlife pathways “mega-linkages” map from The Wildlands Project.

The Rivers Foundation began by constructing a program of mega-linkages in North America.  As we roll out our efforts over the next decade, the structure we have undertaken in North America will expand to embrace Central and South America. Our North America work includes four critical major watersheds and two initiatives…

RFA Initiatives

Clean Water, Biodiversity and Environmental Justice Initiative

The Clean Water, Biodiversity and Environmental Justice Initiative links RFA’s policies of supporting indigenous peoples, drumming home the common sense linkages between clean healthy water for human use, strong biodiverse and healthy ecosystems, and environmental justice for indigenous peoples and economically disadvantaged people throughout the Americas.  These three critical elements are all present in our work in our first three great watersheds--the Copper River basin in Alaska; the Columbia River and the Pacific Northwest; and the Colorado River in the United States and Mexico. In 2004, we will expand this work to the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence watershed, and in 2005 to the Pantanal, the world’s largest freshwater wetland system, in the Parana-Paraguay river watershed in South America.

1. The Copper River watershed in Alaska:
   

   RFA provides fundraising assistance, small directed grants, along with organizational, policy and planning consultation with an indigenous nonprofit advocacy organization, the Eyak Preservation Council, and fundraising and occasional other assistance to the multi-stakeholder Copper River Watershed Project.

   Clean Water: public awareness will be raised with production of an independent documentary film, “Cultural Survival: Oil, the Arctic Refuge and the Copper River Delta”.

   Biodiversity: The Copper River Delta is an enormously important bird nesting area, nursery for salmon and other fisheries, and a relatively unspoiled wilderness area with keystone predators including wolves and grizzlies.

   Environmental Justice: supporting the Eyak Preservation Council in formation and operation of the Native Lands Conservancy, to help regain control of ancestral tribal lands and work for their permanent protection.

   Copper River Summer Sojourns: Our annual raft trip to the Copper River wilderness brings journalists, donors and activists to the watershed and raises funds and support for the Rivers Foundation and the Eyak Preservation Council.

2. Pacific Northwest: Columbia River in the U.S. and Canada:
   

   The Columbia River watershed is a critical link in the mega-linkages of the Pacific flyway and predator migration corridor. It is the nerve center for salmon restoration; world security and nuclear waste safety issues; crossroads for world trade and agricultural policy; and one of the world’s most highly manipulated and damaged great river systems. The challenges and opportunities here are huge.

   Clean Water: RFA is working closely with the national Clean Water Network, and local organizations including Willamette Riverkeeper to support a strong federal Clean Water Act and to encourage effective state and local implementation of clean water regulations. We also take an active role in support of critical issues throughout the Columbia River basin including cleanup of combined sewer overflows on the Willamette, participation in various efforts regarding the cleanup of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation on the Columbia, forest policy and timber harvest controversies throughout the region, water quality and quantity initiatives including energy and agriculture policy, and other important regional environmental issues as they arise.

   Biodiversity: RFA is opportunistically supporting a variety of efforts to restore damaged ecosystems, protect and restore endangered species, and educate both the general public and watershed management professionals, in addition to working with the Oregon Conservation Network on state and regional legislation and policy initiatives.

   Environmental Justice: RFA coordinates closely with the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission and other organizations on salmon recovery, public health impacts of toxic pollution, and ratepayer impacts of legislative and corporate policies.

   The Encyclopedia of Restoration of Northwest Ecosystems, edited by Dean Apostol and written by a distinguished team of over 30 ecological restoration scientists and environmental lawyers, will be published by Island Press in 2005. The Encyclopedia is a perfect example of our mega-linkage focus with its concentration of information covering a diverse series of ecosystems and restoration challenges. It will provide practical, how-to information about restoring our regional ecosystems, with coverage of special topics such as invasive species, traditional ecological knowledge, stream restoration, and others. This will be the first attempt to cover the whole range of restoration activities in this region.

3. The Colorado River watershed in the U.S. and Mexico:
   
   

   Clean Water: In the Colorado River basin in the United States and Mexico, we are working to provide a new approach and catalytic ideas to the “Gordian Knot of Water in the West”—the grossly inequitable, unsustainable and horrendously complicated mismanagement of the Colorado River.

   Top among our goals are restoration of the three major symbols of dams run amuck, and their wonderful and critical ecosystem resources —Glen Canyon, Grand Canyon and the Colorado River Delta. We support public awareness of siltation problems, and water lost to evaporation, caused by the Glen Canyon Dam and reservoir operation policies driven by the Colorado River compact and policies of the Bureau of Reclamation. We are also excited by our ability to sponsor the San Diego, California GreenMap Project headed by RFA supporter Suzanne Michel with funding from Colorado River water user the Metropolitan Water District of San Diego. Other innovative approaches to watershed education are in the works and we are constantly open to strategically placed partnerships and other opportunities.

   Biodiversity: We support groups educating the public regarding the 100 years of dams and ecological calamity in the basin, especially focusing on the damage from the cold and widely varying water releases from Glen Canyon dam that are destroying the Grand Canyon’s ecosystem. Conversely, wasteful evaporative losses from the Glen Canyon reservoir (Lake Powell) and problems with the enormously inequitable and complicated “Law of the Colorado River” starve the ecosystems of the Colorado River Delta and the Gulf of California.

   RFA supports the Glen Canyon Institute (based in Salt Lake City), whose goal is restoring Glen and Grand Canyons. We also support other regional entities, including various transboundary and southern California water groups.

   Environmental Justice: The Colorado river water system is rife with inequity. RFA’s goal is to play a catalytic role in the establishment of just and accurate division of the use of the water of the Colorado among all parties to the river, including the upper and lower basin states, the sovereign nations of native tribes, the United States and Mexico and the needs of critical ecosystem components. We act in part to focusing attention on damage to the Colorado River Delta caused by inequitable sharing of the river between US, Mexico, and the Cocopah Indians and other tribes.

   As in other areas of our work, we are researching and issuing reports on topics relevant to each region and to our mega-linkages. Recent releases include work on environmental governance and cultural attitudes including "The Movement for American Ecosystem Restoration: Quagmire, Diversion or Our Last, Best Hope?" published in the Tulane Environmental Law Journal Winter 2003; "Watershed Councils East and West: Advocacy, Consensus, and Environmental Progress" in the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy Spring 2004; and "Concrete Results" in the Natural Resources Law Journal of the University of New Mexico School of Law, Summer 2004.

Global Water Policy Initiative

Our Global Water Policy Initiative works at the heart of water policy issues, especially the global debate on the privatization of fresh water resources and growing water supply controversies throughout the United States and the hemisphere. We believe all children and all people deserve clean water, and that access to a subsistence level of water is a basic human obligation.

The US-Canada Columbia River treaty has key components coming under review in 2006, and conflicts over various US-Mexico treaties, state compacts and other agreements on the Rio Grande and Colorado are volatile. In addition, although 2003 was the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Year of Water, North American issues were barely touched because the Bush Administration did not participate. Major opportunities include the U.S. Department of Interior’s new focus on western water issues, the continuing drought in the North American Southwest, and increasing population pressure combined with climate changes that are straining both urban drinking and industrial water supplies and rural agricultural and ranching uses.

1. Human Health

   Among the many issues related to the water policy initiative, RFA is focusing on links to human health in two areas. First is the disproportionate impact on indigenous peoples of bio-accumulated poisons in their foods. For most tribal cultures, wild foods, particularly fish, form a pivotal part of individual diets and these foods are often central to the spiritual and cultural tribal practices. Numerous studies have documented the increasing concentrations of mercury and many other industrial poisons in reservoirs, lakes and streams and the resulting bio-accumulation of these poisons in fish and other animal tissue. The major pathways for these contaminants include rain deposition of air pollution, direct industrial discharges—both legal and illegal, along with runoff from land surfaces to reservoirs, lakes and streams. Because native peoples eat more fish than the general population their health impacts are more severe. We intend to fund more research and restoration projects, as well as more education campaigns to begin to reverse the increasing amounts of poisons in wild food supplies.

   Second, we are actively supporting efforts to limit the use of antibiotics and growth hormones in animal feeds, and to curb unnecessary use of antibiotics for non-responsive medical conditions. The overuse of antibiotics and growth hormones has several negative consequences for water quality and human health. First, the use of antibiotics as growth stimulating compounds in chickens, cattle and pigs leads to antibiotic resistant bacteria and to increasing concentrations of both these bacteria and the antibiotics themselves in our rivers and streams. The use of growth hormones has similar problems. The effects of these water contaminants include interference with the reproductive cycles of some organisms including frogs and toads. We are actively supporting educational and advocacy campaigns seeking to stop misuse of antibiotics and growth hormones to protect their use for treatment of disease.

2. The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Watershed in Canada and the United States:

   In late 2004, we will expand our mega-linkages to the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River basin. The magnitude of the Great Lakes water system is difficult to appreciate, even for those who live within the basin. The lakes contain about 23,000 km3 (5,500 cu. mi.) of water, covering a total area of 244,000 km2 (94,000 sq. mi.) The Great Lakes are the largest system of fresh, surface water on earth, containing roughly 18 percent of the world supply. Only the polar ice caps contain more fresh water.

   In spite of their large size, the Great Lakes are sensitive to the effects of a wide range of pollutants. Sources of pollution include the runoff of soils and farm chemicals from agricultural lands, the waste from cities, discharges from industrial areas and leachate from disposal sites. The large surface area of the lakes also makes them vulnerable to direct atmospheric pollutants that fall with rain or snow and as dust on the lake surface.

   Outflows from the Great Lakes are relatively small (less than 1 percent per year) in comparison with the total volume of water. Pollutants that enter the lakes - whether by direct discharge along the shores, through tributaries, from land use or from the atmosphere - are retained in the system and become more concentrated with time. Also, pollutants remain in the system because of re-suspension (or mixing back into the water) of sediment and cycling through biological food chains.

   The unique resources and political geography of the Great Lakes make them a center for a number of significant environmental issues and opportunities. The global debate about the privatization of drinking water resources is centered in part on the Great Lakes. The movement for removal of small dams that is now spreading worldwide owes much of its momentum to the work of the River Alliance of Wisconsin (a group began by RFA President Pete Lavigne in the early 1990s—working then for River Network) and the recent establishment of several tribal fisheries commissions has given new impetus to tribal water use and wildlife harvest rights in the region.

   RFA plans to carefully select indigenous activities and organizations to support in the region while adding a strategic voice to the many water use issues in the basin. We are in the midst of preparing several water policy reports focusing on Great Lakes issues and we will work with the Great Lakes Indian Fisheries Commission, the Indigenous Environmental Network and other organizations to identify ways we can bring new resources to critical issues in the region.

3. North American Water Policy Forum

   RFA will focus attention on Great Lakes and global water issues with a 4-day North American Water Policy Forum, co-sponsored with the Executive Leadership Institute at Portland State University in early 2006. The North American Water Policy Forum will:

   • Convene 300-500 people from the US, Canada and Mexico--policy makers, government officials, indigenous organizations, NGOs, environmental justice organizations, corporate water providers, agencies, scholars, and community organizations.
   • Promote a systemic and continent-wide approach to issues, thus emphasizing the need for policies that transcend narrow, fragmented attempts to achieve change.
   • Encourage participants to form partnerships, share ideas, and collaborate, which should promote more consistent strategies and approaches to watershed issues.
   • Publicize water issues with follow-up policy initiatives, publications, and web-based dialogues.

   The North American Water Policy Forum is an ambitious project. It may play a key role in catalyzing significant change on a global scale. We have the organizational resources in partnership with the Executive Leadership Institute to plan, implement and conduct such a gathering.

   As part of the build-up to the North American Water Policy Forum, RFA President Peter Lavigne is launching a series of public speaking engagements on water policy issues. RFA will also issue a series of briefing papers and reports on water policy problems and opportunities.

Rivers Foundation History

The Rivers Foundation of the Americas was conceived in 2000 with the goal of forming a large initial endowment upon which we would base our grant making, organizational policy and program work. Our business plan relied upon several invitations from large foundations for seed funding to hire staff and launch our programs and endowment campaign. We also received a pledge for a $1 million dollar endowment donation from a Portland, Oregon based dot com company.

We opened our office in August 2001 and the worldwide economic and security collapses that followed in September quickly rendered our business plan irrelevant. The operating grant invitations were withdrawn, and the million dollar endowment pledge vanished into that dot com company’s bankruptcy.

We regrouped and reprioritized and since 2001 a remarkably accomplished and committed board, staff and large core of volunteers has built the infrastructure and programs of the Rivers Foundation of the Americas into a substantial and growing core of programs and accomplishments.

We received over 4800 hours of volunteer labor from our CEO, board members and various other highly skilled and committed volunteers in FY 2003. Our infrastructure now includes 5 fully outfitted computer workstations, a sophisticated internal network, and a new web and email communications plan which is being implemented with assistance from ONE/Northwest and Nterrobang Design through 2004.

We are expanding and changing the nature of our board of directors to reflect our changes in focus in 2001-2004 while keeping our eyes on the permanent goal of the Rivers Foundation of the Americas: to bring substantial new funds, organizational and policy support to the efforts of innovative and effective individuals and their organizations in critical large watersheds throughout North, Central and South America.

Building Our River CPR Endowments

The Rivers Foundation of the Americas is a catalyst for social and environmental change. It seems obvious and yet the need for social and political change is often invisible in environmental protection and restoration efforts. We have the vision and track record to promote long-lasting and exciting changes. To accomplish this vision we will begin our long-envisioned $30 million endowment campaign.

Our “River CPR” Endowments—the Conservation, Preservation and Restoration funds—will fund a small core staff and give us the ability to fulfill the grant-making and other key funding and technical assistance parts of our plan. As with everything we do, our endowment funds will use a systems approach integrating human health, biodiversity protection and social change metrics for our donors and grantees.

As a public foundation we are structured to manage endowment donations from individuals, businesses, public funds, and from private foundations in three distinct funds:

Our Conservation Fund will provide grants for:

• Promotion of restoration of rivers and their watersheds through funding of research and education activities.
• Projects might include survey research, message development and marketing, and support of video, web, newspaper advertising, books, performances, and other public media productions reaching critical audiences.
• Operating Support

Our Preservation Fund will provide grants for:

• Policy work forwarding the permanent protection and/or restoration of rivers and their watersheds.
• Policy applications focusing on systemic change of root causes of environmental degradation including population growth, health care, and social justice issues.
• Purchase of development and other property rights of critical river lands
• Operating support.

Our Restoration Fund will provide grants for:

• Development of “out of the box” applications and appropriate technologies for restoration of contaminated lands and waters.
• Projects forwarding systemic change and applications of whole systems efficiency and energy technology.
• Specific restoration actions.
• Operating Support.

Systems Analysis: Clean Water, Biodiversity, Human Health

All people deserve to breathe clean air, live on pristine lands and drink clean life-bestowing water. A healthy environment helps lead to healthy, happy and prosperous people. We believe that in many areas throughout the Americas human health, population and quality of life concerns must be integrated with biodiversity protection and ecosystem restoration. To put it another way, until we address clean water, biodiversity protection, population and human health problems, in many areas there is no way to ensure environmental health.

River protection and restoration isn"t just dam fighting or riverbank protection—it is largely about land use in the watershed. Protecting rivers means that effective river organizations can expect, over time, to address nearly every environmental degradation problem. By looking at the big picture, the Rivers Foundation of the Americas can support a variety of opportunities that traditional riverbank approaches might not have recognized. We are making the connections between the parts and the whole.

Strategic Action Plan 2004-2007 Indigenous Peoples

We support efforts by indigenous peoples and organizations for ecosystem conservation, protection and restoration of rivers and their watersheds.  Indigenous peoples have been disproportionately affected by environmental pollution, destruction of natural areas critical to their way of life, and loss of their ancestral homelands, languages and culture.

We do not support indigenous environmental efforts out of a naïve belief that everything indigenous, native or Indian is an unalloyed environmental or social good. We act out of the roots of ecology—a word that derives from the Greek “oikos” or dwelling. The best single word defining ecology is “respect”. Respect for the earth and its occupants. We seek to encourage and support indigenous environmental restoration and protection efforts that address historical injustices while protecting and restoring ecosystem and human health for many generations to come.

After all, as Copper River Delta native and Eyak tribe member Dune Lankard of the Eyak Preservation Council often says “we are all indigenous to the earth.”

Let us begin.
Let us restore the earth.
Let the mountains talk and the rivers run. Once more, and forever.

David Brower

Choices for C.P.R. Endowment Funds

Naming Opportunities: $3 million per Fund

(The ___ Restoration Fund)

• Founders Circle:  $500,000 and up
• River Guardians:  $100,000-$499,000
• River Angels:  $10,000-99,000
• River Protectors:  $5000-9,900
• River Defenders:  $1000-$4999
• River Supporters:  $1-$999

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The Rivers Foundation Team

Thanks to our donors!

The Bullitt Foundation, Brian Posewitz, Mark Dubois, Yvon Chouinard, PacifiCorp Compton Foundation, Dorothy Douglas, Gaile Parent, Alexander Gaguine, David Leiter, Ron and Becky Pollack, Rebecca and Roy Miller, Kate Vandemoer, ripe, Trudy Coxe Jim Compton, Metro, Joe & Haven Frank, William Hutchison, Dean Marriot, Mary Wahl Michael & Sharon Rivas, David Koepping, Mark Lavigne, Peter Paquet, Ed Mattes Scott Burns, Marcus Ingle, Jack Corbett, Bob & Donna Brayton, Bill Eisenhauer Ann & Bill Beverly, Langdon Marsh, James Coman, Pamela Hyde, David W. Orr The Paulus Foundation, Nancy Parent, Michael Lavigne, Matthew Donahue, Deric Pamp Elyssa Thelin, Mike & Kim Gordon, Steve Blackmer, Jillaine Smith & Philip Bogdonoff David Bolling, Lynne Paretchan, Todd Ambs, Dan Meyer, Chris Brown, Cassie Thomas Groundwater Solutions, Dave Cooke, Debra Fife, Sandra Fife, Nancy Belau, Jeff Hammarlund, Phil Atkinson, Jeremy O"Leary, Peter Wright, Michael & Michelle Biehler, Lynn Werner, John & Christine Perala-Gardiner, Willamette Riverkeeper, Riki Ott, Walker Macy Susan Holloway, Steve Bredthauer, Mike Fremont, The Threefoot Family, Charles Hudson Pete Conklin, Marsha Holt Kingsley, Patagonia, Dan Beard, Alison Handler, Willia
m Burgel Jay Austin, Jerry Yudelson, Erin Kane, Rich Ingebretsen, Ann Lennartz, Hawthorne Auto Clinic, David Gold, Hanna Cortner, Kristan Knapp, Powell’s Books, Sylvia Ward Schultz Mary Dunea, MWD of San Diego, Hal Nelson & Gina Kulig, Ann Hochberg, Peter Lavigne Jon Eisner, Inger Best, Jodi Paar, Laurence Cotton, David Anderson, Fannie CromwellWilliam Hill, Ken Leghorn, Wayne Lei, Terry Egnor, Heidner Trust, Virginia HoyteElaine Cole, Matt Desmond, Kathy Armstrong, Michael Faletra, Dana Katz, Susan BartlettJib Ellison, Mary Avalon, Vicki Watson, Ben Curtis, Catherine Austin, Joyce Follingstad Elizabeth Fewel, Karen Firehock, Rob Moore, Josh Caplan, Jessica Bader, Layla HughesNina Gonzales, Elizabeth Brooke, Katie Lynch, Higgins Restaurant, Richard De Zeeuw Computer Sciences Corp., Lucy Brehm, Joe Pruett, Field & Associates, Lisa BauscheltJacqui Reisner Bostrom, Joanne & Ed Harris, Terry Rudd Spencer Beebe, Sarah Smith Kenneth Hall, Liz Ryan Cole, Robert Brading, Steve Gerould, Jeri Ledbetter & Brad Dimock Michael Matylewich, T. Allan Comp, Mary Ann Nichols, Laura Goodman, Barbara Brower Peter Noordijk, Piedmont Environmental Council, Patricia Burns, John LecavalierP.O.W.E.R. (Public Officials for Water & Environmental Reform), Rick & Lindy Sanders Portland General Electric (PGE), Mary & Maurie Clark, Copper River Watershed ProjectVirinder Singh, Nick Orfanakis, Arthur Ginsburg, Jeanne Norton, Neil Collie Brian & Rosalinda Lightcap, ShoreBank Pacific, J. Newton, Madeleine KimmichGil Kelley, Vernon Rifer, Laura Nobel, Joyce Kerstiens, Sasha Pollack, Teresa WilmethBrooklyn Business Center, Kerri Gunderman, Thomas Kingsley, Jane & David SchueCarl Paulsen, Maya McBride, Sustainable Northwest, Richard Zita, Edward Wolf Norman Sims, Katharine Schnepp, Dyami Valentine, Jackie Smith & Joe Hartzler, Dulane & Mike Moran, Karen Wood, Katherine Turpin, Beatrice Hedlund, Gregory Smith James Kay, PrintSync, Tim Palmer, Beth Maynor Young, Xerox, Christopher Schofield, Jason Burns, Austin Sherris.