What’s new with Green Seattle Partnership?
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...
Unfading Stewardship
There is a certain kind of Seattleite that is driven to give plants some love and/or restoration of their community is a unifying force in their life. Collectively, we refer to them as the Forest Stewards. They are part of an ever-growing community in which forest...
Forest Stewards Benefit from Behind the Scenes Access
There are endless ways to experience and benefit from being in our Seattle parks. Running, walking, and playing in a community green space provides social and health benefits. Relaxing experiences, like sitting on a bench and watching the clouds roll by, lowers stress...
Seattle Parks seek superhero volunteers!
Have you volunteered recently? If you have, let us take a minute to say a huge thank you! The Green Seattle Partnership could never do be what it is without your help. With thousands of people pitching in tens of thousands of hours at hundreds of events every year,...
Green-Duwamish Watershed Symposium 2016
Do you know that the Green River and the Duwamish River are actually one river, 65 miles long with its headwaters in the Cascade Mountains flowing through wilderness, farmlands, tribal lands, suburbs and dense urban areas? Join us for a day of learning about this...
Green Seattle Day 2015 in pictures
Thank you so much to all 792 of you who made the 10th Annual Green Seattle Day such a success! Together we planted 5,896 trees and other plants that are now taking their place in 16 forested parks throughout the City. We had a great day and hope you did too! Here are...
First Call for Forest Steward Cohort #12
Seattle's forests need volunteers to safeguard our favorite forested parks. Are you interested in leading your own forest restoration project, or joining an existing volunteer team that needs a boost? Then we want you to reserve some dates in advance of the 2016...
Excellence in the forest and in the classroom: teachers recognized by the Seattle Foundation’s Patsy Collins Award
The Patsy Collins Award for Excellence in Education, Environment, and Community is distributed by the Seattle Foundation to three teachers annually "to reward teachers who embody the spirit of Patsy Collins: educators who create learning experiences that make a...
GSP 3rd Qtr Progress 2015
Back in the summer, we posted about the "Dashboard" and how it helps us track our progress citywide. Well, here it is again! As you can see the numbers keep going up. Looking at this Dashboard as we close out the 3rd quarter of the year, one can see we are nearing...
We’ve Crunched the Numbers, and the Result is… Volunteers Rock!
We don’t need qualitative analysis, statistics, or assignments of monetary value to know how important Forest Stewards and volunteers are to our forests and communities. But these techniques can help, especially when justifying expenditures on programs like the Green...
Thank You Shareholders!
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