$1000 Toward a Rain Garden in Your Neighborhood!
Well, that is if you live in West Seattle, Beacon Hill, Central District, or White Center! This are the neighborhoods we are targeting for more rain garden installations to follow on from our successful Sustainable Rain Program. If you live in one of these neighborhoods and want to see a rain garden installed near you, APPLY FOR OUR $1000 SCHOLARSHIP!
Stormwater runoff from our streets, rooftops, yards, and businesses is widely recognized as the largest contributor of pollution in the Puget Sound. 14 million pounds of pollutants are estimated to flow into the Sound annually!
Our rain gardens have generated community interest and excitement around not only water management, but other sustainable lifestyle actions. Community members are now interested in hearing about home retrofits to save energy, shared tool libraries, and other actions they can take to lead low-impact lifestyles.
Sustainable Seattle will be hosting upcoming workshops on these topics in the next few months. Neighborhood residents will have an opportunity to learn from others who have succeeded in bringing positive changes to their areas. Stay tuned..
Community Power Works Now Available Citywide
Read Mayor Mike McGinn’s press release announcing the citywide expansion of Community Power Works (CPW) for Home, the City of Seattle’s home energy upgrade program.
 CPW for Home gives Seattle homeowners access to approved home energy experts that help them make the smartest choices for their homes. CPW for Home also provides financing, rebates and incentives to help offset costs, as well as a free quality assurance inspection once the work is complete. Read more on the CPW blog, and sign up for the home energy assessment!
Sustainable Neighborhood News
Introducing Sustainable Neighborhood News! Every month, we
will highlight one sustainable neighborhood group, focusing on how they developed their project and why it has been a success. We hope this an opportunity for you to learn about the many exciting projects happening all around Seattle as well as an inspiration for you to get involved in one of these projects or
even to deelop a similar one in your neighborhood. In January, we featured Sustainable Greenwood-Phinney and their focus on building community through bringing people together. Read the inaugural edition here. If you would like to continue to receive the newsletter, subscribe to the Neighborhood News email list.
 May 12, 2012
You cannot wait to share your dream of a happy and healthy future in the Puget Sound Area? Great! We would love to see your ideas. Individuals, c ommunity or neighborhood groups, initiatives, organizations and families or friends are encouraged to submit. More information.
Business Workshops
We will be hosting some CSR Roundtables and Sustainable Business Workshops in the next few months. These will bring practicing professionals and those who are interested in learning about sustainable business tools together to build a community of best practice. If you would like to be updated on the upcoming schedule of events email
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 Happiness In itiative
The mission of the Seattle Area Happiness Initiative is to provide a comprehensive assessment of wellbeing and to engage & inspire people, organizations and policy makers to action.
The Happiness Initiative starts with survey s and objective ind icators measuring in ten domains of happiness: Material Wellbeing, Governance, E nvir onment, Health, Psychological Wellbeing, Time Balance, Community, Culture, Education, and Work Experience.
Our sponsors
Thank you to our sponsors for helping us reach our mission.
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