Conservation

New stand alone Outside Your Door site:  outsideyourdoor.org  password is outside

2023 Conservation Committee Charitable Donations List select here

Link to “Nature’s Best Hope” Video select here

“Wake Up Call!” Resources select here

Link to our Tips from Jan 5th 

7/30/20: Conservation Book Group met and discussed “Last Child in the Woods” by Richard Louv. Several attendees suggested the following resources for further consideration.
Meeting audio recording available, select here

• • 7/30/20: Book Group “Last Child in the Woods” by Richard Loey, met via Zoom and here are some resources:
    • Audio Recording of Book Group Meeting: “Last Child in the Woods” by Richard Louv
    • Center for Ecoliteracy
    • “Children and Nature” Community Action Network set up by Richard Loev
    • E. O. Wilson Biophilia Hypothesis: humans are genetically programed to need experiences in nature in order to thrive.
    • The Urban Ecology Center  serves 18K students in Milwaukee, directed by Ken Leinbach.
    • Natural Learning: Robin Moore – International leader on the design of environments for children’s interaction with nature.
    • Schlitz Audubon Nature Center Preschool
    • National Wildlife Federation – Green Hour – get kids outdoors one hour a day
    • Fiddleheads Forest School
• Conservation Category in News and Articles

2019-2020

• RIDWELL Recycling Bi-Weekly PU-batteries, light bulbs, plastic film and clothing
  • Save more stuff from the landfill We give you bags to store your batteries, light bulbs, plastic film, and threads. These are your core categories!  Link to PDF of rotating categories list.
• “The Plastic Problem” – Nov 27, 2019 – A PBS NewsHour Documentary 
  • By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans. It’s an environmental crisis that’s been in the making for nearly 70 years. Plastic pollution is now considered one of the largest environmental threats facing humans and animals globally.
    In “The Plastic Problem: PBS NewsHour Presents”, Amna Nawaz and her PBS NewsHour colleagues look at this now ubiquitous material and how it’s impacting the world, why it’s become so prevalent, what’s being done to mitigate its use, and what potential alternatives or solutions are out there. This hour-long program travels from Boston to Seattle, Costa Rica to Easter Island to bring the global scale of the problem to light.

2018-19

• Sep. 5th, Conservation Committee Meeting Resources:
  • Oct. Possible Visit to Western Academy of Beaux Arts Shoreline Habitat Restoration
  • Oct. 24, 6:30pm Illsley Ball Nordstrom Hall UW Doug Walker Lecture by Richard Louv:
    • ”Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”
  • Eliza Davidson: Criteria for GCA Founder’s Fund Award
  • #ForestProud:  Shaping the Future of North America’s Forests
  • Pacific Northwest Invasive Plant Council and Ivy Projects via Carey Davis
  • American Rivers  via Cindy Bostwick
  • Auction Project ideas considered – Kayaking, boating idea/tours of Duwamish and/or Nisqually Delta, Mouth of Snohomish River out of Everett.
  • March: Possibe Visit: Seattle Parks Foundation: Duwamish Restoratoin Options
    • Duwamish River Clean Up Coalition
    • John Barker, Landscape Designer
    • Duwamish Long House site important
  • May: Conservation Exhibit at Nature’s Poetry Flower Show
  • April 25, 2019 Wetherill Work Party with Sis Woodside

2017-18:

• 3/19/18  “Loop Biosolids Tour” Photos
  • Biosolids Tour Upload Link select here
  • Directions for Upload select here

2018 NAL Report by Barbie Snapp

Bee Toxic Pesticides in “Bee Friendly” Plants

Bee Health Letter to Retailers

Timeless Tips: 1985 Conservation Committee Tips

Beneficial Insect Hotel

2016:

Rain Garden Installation click here

“Step Up” Initiative for 2016-2017  info click here

Strategies to Address Climate Change click here

March 2016 Conservation Report from Barbie Snapp

2015:

Nov. 2nd Computer Recycling Photo Gallery

The 12,000 Rain Garden campaign is a cooperative effort with local partners lead by Stewardship Partners and Washington State University Extension. The campaign targets rain gardens to address significant problems on priority streams and marine shorelines caused by untreated, uncontrolled runoff. Our rain garden installations are clustered strategically to ensure the greatest cumulative benefit. Attend a workshop and find out how you can help expand rain gardens across the Puget Sound area.

May 2015 Conservation Report:

The Conservation Committee will be delighted to present: The Bellevue Botanical Garden and Reusing Roof Rainwater Exhibit at our May flower show. The BBG sends excess roof rain water into two places: a beautiful Iris Rain Garden and also, after filtering, to flush toilets. You will learn from fun films how rain gardens help
salmon. Explore the Iris Rain Garden. Wander through our exhibit and find out whether you could do a rain garden and if you qualify for public underwriting of your rain garden. If you have a wet basement, this also might be for you. The exhibit will be prepared by Barbie Snapp, Carey Davis, Sheila Wyckoff-Dickey, Jenny Wyatt, Carolyn Kitchell and Carol Eland. We’d like to thank 12,000 Rain Gardens.org, Nancy Kartes of the BBG, Liz Browning of Swift Landscaping and Olsen Kundig Architects for their help.
Carolyn Kitchell, Chair

Irrigation Management Systems for the Seattle Region

Irrigation Water Management Systems (IWMS) provides simple tools to improve the efficiency of automatic irrigation systems.  Brought to you by the Saving Water Partnership and Seattle Public Utilities.  Link to Homepage: http://www.iwms.org/