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What I found out at the WorldChanging Seattle Meetup

I just got back from this month’s WorldChanging Seattle Meetup, which was held at the comfy/artsy Grey Gallery and Lounge. It started out as a way for WC Seattle’s volunteer bloggers (like myself) to meet face to face, but it’s quickly becoming a who’s who of the local, green and networked. Luckily I had my handy-dandy notepad with me, so I took a bunch of notes about neat green projects currently sprouting up around Seattle.

 

  • This meetup’s cohost was Sustainable Seattle, “a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the long term quality of life in the Seattle / King County area”. Pretty soon they’re going to roll out Sustainable Seattle 3.0, which will include the transformation of their blog into their new main website, more focus on the Sustainable Cities Action Network (SCAN) blog, and Project 2100, a competition to invite community members to envision what Seattle will look like at the turn of the next century. It also means the launch of the B-Sustainable Project, “a regional resource of relevant, trusted and actionable information, providing an innovative framework and open platform for taking our collective sustainability efforts to the next level.”
  • Buy Local:
    + Sustainable West Seattle is looking into creating a West Seattle currency. Brian Allen of SWS wants a currency that can be used to pay for food and necessities as well as your bills to the city (water, electricity, etc.).
    + Sustainable Ballard’s President, Jenny Heins, told me that SB rolled out it’s own currency, Festival Dollars, at the last Sustainable Ballard Festival. There’s not much info about this online, but if I find out anything more I’ll post an update.
    + Jenny clued me into Wallingford’s version of local business promotion, Wallingford Saves: shoppers just take their receipts from one participating business to any other participating business and they get a discount.
  • Eat Local:
    + Jenny also gave me a heads up about two neat local food mapping projects: Cere Davis’ Garden of the Commons, a searchable registry of the locations of edible public domain plants (i.e. you can harvest this food without trespassing), and Matt Stevenson’s map of all the arable land within 100 miles of Seattle.
  • Built Green:
    + Ritzy Ryciak of Concious Choice told me that Olive8 (almost completed hotel/condo at Olive and 8th) is going for LEED Silver certification.  Olive8 is just on the wrong side of I5 to be in the range of CHS’ usual sphere of interest, but LEED + new condo was too good a piece of news to keep to myself.
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JoshMahar
15 years ago

Olive 8 also has one of the largest green roofs in Seattle:
http://www.djc.com/blogs/BuildingGreen/2009/01/08/pictures-o

Thanks for all this cool info! I hope we can keep pace with the greenies over in West Seattle and Ballard.