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Puget Sound Community Change card holders and businesses give back to their community and make a powerful social statement through donations to local nonprofits and schools of their choice. Puget Sound Community Change participants receive cash rewards for shopping with local participating merchants, and share them with local nonprofits and schools. Please select Sustainable Seattle as your beneficiary.

Sustainable Seattle is excited to announce
the publication of its report,
Why Local Linkages Matter:
Findings from the Local Food Economy Study
for public comment

This report redefines our understanding of what "local" is by focusing on the web of relationships that make up the local food economy.  It contains new research on the practices, strategies and challenges of local food economy businesses as well as on the economic impacts of buying and selling locally produced food.  It also looks at how local economic linkages contribute to social and environmental sustainability.  You are invited to read and comment on the report prior to its final publication. 

The B-Sustainable Information Network

For the last three years, Sustainable Seattle has worked with over 80 organizations and hundreds of stakeholders to develop the next generation of actionable sustainability indicators as an information commons.  This Information Network will revolutionize how information is shared.  It is a web based living commons focused on the web of sustainability information and demonstrating the interdependence between the natural, built, social and personal environments.  This effort started as the Regional Sustainability Information Commons.  Its launch is scheduled for fall 2008.

Action Partners Wanted

Organizations involved in providing solutions to problems along the broad range of sustainability issues are invited to become B-Sustainable Action Partners.  As an Action Partner, you will be able to share your strategies and ideas across sectors and outside the choir.

Please contact us for more information.

Sustainable Seattle's partners

Sustainable Seattle is proud to be fiscal sponsor to the following initiatives whose sustainability-based missions and goals complement the work of Sustainable Seattle:

• Sustainable Cascadia:
  

Sustainable Cascadia gathers citizens and civic, private sector and NGO leadership (a leader is anyone willing to help!) across the bioregion to invoke a broadly shared civic passion for sustainability and the ongoing cultivation of best practices to dramatically catalyze progress toward sustainability in one generation. This initiative fosters innovation in defining the way forward and develops effective collaborative structures to support learning and implementation of an ongoing action agenda.

Sustainable Cascadia stewards an alliance of organizations to co-create an ongoing action agenda. It catalyzes engagement, supplementing the events with collaborative technology infrastructure, collaborative work sessions and leadership development at the community level.

• Climate Dialogues:

The Climate Dialogues is a coalition of local and national groups led by the 2People.org citizen's network. Contact Phil Mitchell (phil [at] 2people.org) for information about getting your business or organization involved. The Dialogues have been formally endorsed by the Seattle City Council.

• Mobility Education:

“Mobility education” is a enhanced, multi-modal version of driver education that includes training on bicycles, transit, and new technologies. The Mobility Education Foundation is promoting mobility education and focusing on driver education as an important leverage point for inducing a cultural shift toward sustainable transportation behavior.

• Energy for Life.