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1 Nonprofit Sector Current Activities and What We Bring to the Table Heather Trim Our Green/Duwamish Watershed-Wide Stormwater Strategy Workshop May 4, 2016
2 Photo: Heather Trim EDUCATION/SOCIAL MARKETING
3 Mission: ECO Nets As the King County EcoNet, we connect and collaborate to provide education, outreach, and involvement opportunities to our community promoting the health of the Puget Sound watershed.
4 rain gardens competitions curriculum watershed report forums 21 Acres Center for Local Food & Sustainable Living Alliance for Puget Sound Shorelines Asa Mercer Middle School BALLE Seattle Bellevue Stream Team Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Calyx Sustainable Tourism Camp Long Environmental Learning Center Cascade Interpretive Consultng Cascade Land Conservancy Cascadia Consulting Group Cascadia Environmental Science Ctr City of Bellevue City of Bothell-Public Works City of Kirkland Public Works Department City of Lake Forest Park City of Pacific City of Seattle City of Shoreline City of Tukwila Community Coalition for Environmental Justice COSEE-Ocean Learning Communities DOH Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition EarthCorps Ecology ECOSS EEAW King Co and Sound Experience Envionmental Science Center K I N G C O U N T Y E C O N E T - W E A R E BIG! Environmental Outreach and Stewardship Alliance Environmental Science Center EPA-Region 10 Facing the Future Falls City Float Task Force Farallon Consulting, L.L.C. Fauntleroy Watershed Council Feet First Friends of North Creek Forest Friends of the Burke Gilman Trail at Sand Point Friends of the Cedar River Watershed Friends of the Earth Friends of the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery Friends of the L White River Friends of Uplake Vista Park Girl Scouts of Western WA Green Seattle Partnership Green Seed Consulting Homewaters Project Islandwood Just Health Action Keepers of Point Robinson Kent School District King Conservation District King County King County Noxious Weed Control Program King County WRIA 9 Marine Science and Technology Center, Highline Community College Mid Sound Fisheries Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust National Wildlife Federation Native Growth Nature Vision Newcastle Weed Warriors NOAA O heaghra Enterprise Ocean Ing Project and NANOOS, University of Washington Olympic Outdoor Center Olympic Sculpture Park/SAM Pacific Education Institute Pacific Science Center Partnership for Water Conservation PCC Farmland Trust People for Puget Sound Puget Sound Energy Puget Soundkeeper Alliance Puyallup River Watershed Co REEF and WA Scuba Alliance Resource Stewards Consulting Resource Media Sage Environmental/ WRIA 8 Salish Sea Expeditions Seattle Aquarium Seattle Green Schools Seattle GreenDrinks Seattle Parks and Recreation Seattle Public Utilities Seattle Tilth Seattle Urban Wildlife Group Service Education Adventure Shared Strategy Puget Sound Shoreline Sierra Club Sightline Snohomish County Sno-King Watershed Council Snoquolamie Watershed Forum Solid Ground Solutions for Humanity, Commnunity & Environment Sound Experience Stewardship Partners Still Hope Productions Stilly-Snohomish Fisheries Enhancement Task Force Surfrider Sustainability Foundation Sustainable Hotel & Tourism Consultants Sustainable Seattle Terry Home The Center for Wooden Boats The Piper s Creek Watershed Proj The Russell Family Foundation The Whale Trail Triangle Associates, Inc Trout Unlimited University of Washington Urban Wilderness Project UWEO Engineering and Technology Programs Vashon Beach Naturalists WA MESA WA Parks WA Sea Grant Washington Biodiversity Washington Toxics Coalition Waskowitz Outdoor School Watertenders Whale Tale, UW Woodland Park Zoo WRIA 8 WSU Beach Watchers and Shore Stewards / Snohomish County WSU King County Extension Watershed Stewardship Program coasters vetted facts festivals behavior change natural yard care
5 Education and Outreach
6 Students
7 Don t Drip and Drive
8 % of Cars that Leak About 10% (About 282,000 vehicles)
9
10 Other Social Marketing Campaigns
11 Terminology Research Current usage: Runoff Drainage Erosion Flooding Rain or rainwater Surface water Stormwater pollution or polluted stormwater runoff
12 BIG PICTURE Photo: Heather Trim
13 Equity and Environmental Justice
14 Legislative
15 Institutions Carry Message
16 RESOURCES Photo: Heather Trim
17 Volunteers
18 $$$
19 Art! Culture shifting
20 Business Training and Outreach Industrial stormwater training workshops Technical Assistance (spill kits) District approaches ECOSS.org
21 Citizen Monitoring
22 ON-THE-GROUND
23 Rain gardens Regional campaign Individual projects
24 Depave and Dirt Corps
25 Habitat Restoration
26 OTHER Photo source:
27 Stormwater Litigation
28 Growth Management Act Advocacy Density = stormwater management Protecting working lands, rural areas, etc. Protecting critical areas Futurewise.org
29 Effectiveness monitoring Photo by Curtis Hinman.
30
31 Photo: Heather Trim
32 Photo: Heather Trim In sum Huge amount of effort to be leveraged Have unique resources Particularly helpful for shifting the culture
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