Overview

How does a regional non-profit organization make an impact on the world’s biggest environmental problem? 

That’s the challenge Climate Solutions has taken on.  Started in 1998 in Olympia, Washington, our founders faced a political landscape that made bold national action to confront global warming virtually unimaginable.  

In the face of an issue mired in partisan politics, scientific confusion, and a scope too large to easily grasp, the team at Climate Solutions decided from the beginning to focus on accelerating practical and profitable solutions to global warming. 

Working at the regional level, we built long-term relationships, often across the partisan divide.  Through years of patient organizing and bridge-building, Climate Solutions has developed vibrant partnerships with an extraordinarily wide array of business, farm, government and civic interests. 

Stabilizing the climate is a challenge so big that the standard toolkits for pollution control and environmental advocacy are not enough.  It requires – it promises - a new economic vision, a sustainable prosperity that engages a broader spectrum of values and interests.  This vision responds directly to our most urgent environmental problem. It can also inspire and engage a winning constituency for climate solutions because it is much more than that:  It calls us toward a new energy agenda that can fundamentally improve the conditions for security, prosperity, and economic justice — domestically and globally.