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SWS & West Seattle Nursery Present GreenLife at the West Seattle Summer Fest
Sustainable West Seattle and the West Seattle Nursery once again are pleased to sponsor and present this year’s GreenLife exposition as part of the three-day-long West Seattle Summer Fest, Friday, July...
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SWS August Forum: Picnic on Beach @ Lincoln Park, Try Electric Bikes & Kayaks
August’s Sustainable West Seattle Community Forum will be our traditional pot-luck outdoor dinner barbecue at Lincoln Park Shelter #3 on Monday August 20. Join us starting at 5:00 pm and lasting...
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Lowman Beach Pump Station Work Underway
King County contractors will be working at the County’s Murray Pump Station in Lowman Beach Park to replace the pump station’s wet well grating. The contractor will begin work the week of July 16. The...
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Seattle Parks Accepting Applications for Volunteer Naturalists
Seattle Parks and Recreation is accepting applications for our Seattle Volunteer Naturalist program. Up to 50 applicants will be accepted into this unique program that includes 200 hours of instruction...
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Seattle Parks Board Opposes Coal Trains
Seattle Board of Park Commissioners opposes coal trains The Seattle Board of Park Commissioners recently sent a letter to the Gateway Pacific Terminal regarding its opposition to the passage of coal...
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EPA Releases Duwamish Cleanup Plan
EPA has released its Proposed Cleanup Plan for the Duwamish River. This is an extremely important time since the community will only have 105 days to make sure that the chosen alternative is the most...
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Sustainable West Seattle Forums To Feature Quarterly Themes: First Up Is...
Join us Monday, March 18, at South Seattle Community College’s Horticulture Center for a new approach to communtiy forums. Sustainable West Seattle is changing the way we conduct our monthly community...
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Washington Department of Ecology to Begin Yard Sampling & Cleanup in Tacoma...
The Washington State Department of Ecology is about to start a Tacoma Smelter Plume Yard Sampling & Cleanup Program and has an open Public Comment Period from March 14 through April 29. This year,...
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King County Water & Land Resources Division Seeks Clean Puget Sound Help, Has...
King County’s Water and Land Resources Division wants us all to take action to save Puget Sound. Stormwater, or polluted runoff, is the leading contributor to reduced water quality in Puget Sound....
View ArticleApril Forum: Successful Gardening with Nature II – Designing Perfect Garden
Sustainable West Seattle’s April Forum, a continuation of our Spring series “Successful Gardening with Nature,” will be on Monday, April 15, at the West Seattle Community Orchard. This time we’re...
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Seattle Parks Future Embodied in “Parks Legacy Plan,” Public Invited to Comment
Seattle Parks and Recreation would like to share the first draft of what they’re calling the Parks Legacy Plan, and to invite the public to come to one of the six public meetings planned in May to talk...
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Help Create New, Sustainable Organic Community Garden @ Westcrest Park
Join Sustainable West Seattle on Saturday, May 18, between 1:00 pm and 5:00 pm at the new Westcrest P-Patch. SWS members and members of the Westcrest P-Patch will be taking knowledge learned from the...
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King Conservation District Offers Free Soil Sampling, Up To 5 Samples Per User
The King Conservation District provides free soil tests for all landowners in their service area. Each year you can submit up to five samples to test for major and micro-nutrients, pH and organic...
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SWS June Forum: Walk Longfellow Creek Watershed & Learn About Wetlands,...
Join Sustainable West Seattle for an urban hike through one of Seattle’s most beautiful watershed environments. The Longfellow Creek Watershed drains almost 3000 acres of West Seattle, and is one of...
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Visit GreenLife @ West Seattle Summerfest Friday, Saturday & Sunday, July 12...
GreenLife will once again be an integral element of the West Seattle Summerfest – West Seattle’s annual three-day super street festival along California Avenue in the West Seattle Junction. Sustainable...
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Parks Levy Fund Will Improve 6 Street Ends & Help Increase Our Shoreline Access
Improvements to six shoreline street ends will be coming this summer. Seattle Parks and Recreation and Seattle Department of Transportation are working together to improve public street ends and...
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Seattle reLeaf Program Offering Free Trees, Training on Planting, & Waterbags
Seattle reLeaf’s Trees for Neighborhoods program is giving away free trees to Seattle residents. Through the program, participants receive up to four trees, free watering bags for each tree, training...
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Murray Basin Work To Prepare Site for Overflow Tank Construction Begins,...
Beginning Thursday, August 1, King County’s contractor, Tiger Construction, Everson, WA, will begin work to clear the buildings from the Murray Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Control Project site,...
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August Community Forum: Our Annual Lincoln Park Picnic @ Shelter #3
Join Sustainable West Seattle Monday, August 19th for our annual community harvest celebration and picnic. We will be gathering at Shelter #3, the large shelter with a barbecue grill on the southern...
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West Seattle Bike Connection Gets SWS Sustainable Champion of Year Award;...
Sustainable West Seattle yesterday awarded our annual Sustainable Champion of the Year award to the West Seattle Bike Connection. The SWS Sustainable Champion award recognizes the efforts of...
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