This annual community event is held around the week of University District Street Fair. University District and neighboring communities and residents meet at University Heights Center to “Spring Clean” their neighborhoods. Cleaner-Uppers meet for breakfast, conversation and assemble teams to go out into designated areas for clean-up. After cleaning their area, cleaner-uppers return… [ Keep reading ]
Reduce your energy use – which reduces your carbon footprint – by upgrading to energy-efficient appliances. Seattle City light offers rebates to help.
At the Climate Solutions breakfast on May 10. Watch the conversation here.
King County residents will gather as volunteers at farms and gardens throughout the county as part of the Just Garden Project’s second annual Spring into Bed! celebration. Volunteers will build gardens, work on farms and help to build a more robust and secure local food system. The idea behind this… [ Keep reading ]
17,500 tons of unwanted paper—100 pounds per household—delivered each year! The City of Seattle now offers a free and simple online registry system that will allow Seattle residents and businesses to choose whether they receive yellow pages phone books. But you need to act fast if you want to… [ Keep reading ]
Are you just a “sunny-weekend-days” biker but interested in increasing your miles pedaled per month total? Now is the perfect time to make that change! May is Bike To Work Month and the way to celebrate that is to participate in the 2011 Group Health Commute Challenge!
Even though it felt like it took a long time to get here, it looks like spring is finally here to stay. Anxious to finally get your hands dirty in your garden? As you carefully tend to your veggies, flowers and plants, don’t forget your trees as well! As the… [ Keep reading ]
The Office of Sustainability and Environment will be briefing the City Council Regional Development and Sustainability Committee next Tuesday, May 3 between 2-4 pm. Briefings will cover a climate risk assessment tool developed by OSE, as well as the City’s operations greenhouse gas inventory for 2008/2009. The agenda for this briefing can be… [ Keep reading ]
You are invited to the community kick-off celebration for Community Power Works for Home – a program to help make your home more comfortable, efficient and healthy. Join your central and southeast Seattle neighbors and the City of Seattle at South Shore School on May 3, 2011. The event will… [ Keep reading ]
The Community Power Works for Home program launched on Tuesday, April 19 at the home of a Genesee Park couple who are early participants in the program. Mayor Mike McGinn chose Earth Week to launch Community Power Works for Home, a neighborhood program that will create good, green jobs and… [ Keep reading ]
