Environmental Tips & Tricks

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

– Albert Einstein, Physicist

The Pollution Prevention Resource Center (PPRC) is a non-profit organization based in Seattle, Washington, founded in 1991 to provide pollution prevention information and technical assistance and training to small businesses, local communities, and industrial facilities. PPRC’s services come in the form of research, site assessments, face-to-face and virtual training, and general information dissemination.

PPRC provides technical assistance for Tribes in Washington state and in pollution prevention to programs in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska.  Jean Waters is Project Manager for PPRC. Contact her at jwaters@pprc.org. 

The Responsible Purchasing Network (RPN) engages and helps government agencies, businesses and institutions across the U.S. to increase their purchases of environmentally sustainable and socially responsible goods and services. RPN can help tribal governments to: develop green purchasing policies;- create specifications and contracts for more environmentally preferable products;- identify cooperative purchasing opportunities for safer products available from state and federal agencies; conduct training on green purchasing best practices; and- track the environmental, health and economic benefits of their green purchasing decisions. The executive director of RPN is Alicia Culver.

For more information, go to www.responsiblepurchasing.org or email membership@responsiblepurchasing.org. 

Gary Liss & Associates is a leading advocate of Zero Waste who helps communities, businesses, and institutions to develop Zero Waste plans, training, policies, programs, and new solid waste and recycling systems.  Contact Gary with any questions about Zero Waste at garyliss4395@gmail.com. Jeremy Drake of Strategy Zero Waste Solutions is an Associate who presented the Zero Waste component at P2ZW trainings in 2023.  Contact Jeremy with any questions on Zero Waste concepts or information presented or discussed at the 2023 trainings at jeremy@strategyzerowaste.com.