WOODINVILLE Finding Nature in Unexpected Places By Kate Bedient, Director of Urban Programs at IslandWood In our line of work, we often hear people talking passionately about getting children outside into nature. While this is a critical mission, the reality is that...
SEATTLE Green Infrastructure Summit Accelerate [ak-sel-uh-reyt] verb. Accelerated, accelerating. 1) To cause faster or greater activity, development, progress, advancement, etc., in: 2) To hasten the occurrence of: You may expect to see this word for a car show or...
PUYALLUP Puyallup Green Street Puyallup has its first Green Street—though for now it’s still called 8th Avenue. Over the last few years, Stewardship Partners and the 12,000 Rain Garden campaign teamed up with local homeowners to bring rain gardens to the Puyallup...
SEATTLE Chua Co Lam Pagoda Temple July 2017 Mid-July, nearly 3,000 members of Seattle’s Vietnamese Buddhist community gathered at the Chua Co Lam Pagoda on South Graham Street to celebrate the annual Quan Am festival. Along with live music, dance performances and...
PUGET SOUND Veterans Conservation Corps September 2017 Puget Sound Conservation Districts (PSCD) are known to be the “boots-on-the-ground”efforts to maintain and restore a healthy and thriving Puget Sound.The approach to implementing community-based...
NORTH RAINIER MT. BAKER HUB Seattle’s First Living Community Challenge Commitment With the many immediate neighborhood initiatives being implemented in Seattle and the greater Puget Sound region, it’s easy to lose sight of long term, multi-generational goals...
