The Green Seattle Partnership Blog
Give Back this MLK Day with GSP
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing to help others?'" Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr This year, make MLK a day on, rather than a day off, by volunteering with the Green Seattle Partnership! Check out the list of events below to find a...
Stewardship in 2030
As the year ends, many of us speculate what the new year will bring. Personal goals and nation-wide shifts are on our collective minds. A long-term perspective on population and environmental guides our actions today as Green Seattle Partnership continues its 12th...
RFP 2017 Seattle Parks and Recreation Volunteer Coordination
The Seattle Parks and Recreation Department is seeking consultants to provide the volunteer coordination and leadership for the Green Seattle Partnership programs in 2017, with the possibility of an extension for 2018. The Seattle Parks and Recreation Department is...
Duwamish Culture and Native Habitat Restoration
"Preserving the Duwamish Cultural Landscape" is a free public outreach event of the Duwamish Longhouse Urban Reforestation Project sponsored by a King Conservation District grant. Park's Plant Ecologists, Lisa Ciecko and Michael Yadrick, will provide insights into the...
Magnuson Volunteer Honored with Denny Award
In 2015, over 38,000 people volunteered for Seattle Parks and Recreation, providing 270,360 hours of service. Green Seattle Partnership volunteers definitely contribute to the City's legacy of volunteer service by helping to re-establish and maintain healthy urban...
Green Seattle Day 2016!
Thank you to everyone who came to Green Seattle Day this year! We were beyond thrilled to have 958 volunteers join us at 14 parks across the city. Together we planted 4,392 trees and other plants that will grow up into our future urban forest. If you were one of those...
Stewardship motivations, from the local to global
Community leaders locally, nationally and abroad are interested in learning and supporting stewardship motivations. Over the past year, Green Seattle has heard from some of the most active volunteers on what can make the stewardship experience with the Green Seattle...
Forest Inventory Results
Background Green Seattle Partnership (GSP) annually inventories 300 – 500 acres of our active restoration sites using the GSP Inventory Protocols (available at www.greenseattle.org search: Inventory). Active restoration means that Parks staff, volunteers, or...
Restoration Action at Lower Kinnear
Kinnear Park Kristen Reichardt, GSP Forest Steward at Kinnear Park since 2015 Day Job: Education Programs Coordinator at King Conservation District When I first moved to Seattle, I looked for ways to find a place in my new neighborhood. I wanted an opportunity to...
World of the East Duwamish
Matthew Hilliard Day job: Corpsmember with Washington Conservation Corps Forest Steward at East Duwamish GS: Beacon Ave S (aka Horton) My 1st priority for becoming a GSP forest steward was and still is to restore the ecosystems and habitat that have existed in...
Weathering Identity
A day without rain is like a day without sunshine -Weathering by A.R. Ammons There aren’t poems about Seattle’s dry summers. A week of cloudless, bright blue skies are as predictable and needed as the rain, as vital to growth. But Seattle has always been hesitant to...
Heron Watch 2016!
Great Blue Herons are fascinating birds that can live up to 20 years. These majestic animals can grow to up to 4.5 feet tall and have a wingspan of over 6.5 feet wide, and they are living right in our wild backyard! Seattle is home to heron colonies in Kiwanis Ravine...