By Sarah Titcomb
(Fighting a wildfire near Chelan, WA. Wildfires and droughts are expected to become more common due to rising temperatures from climate change. Photo Source: Ben Brooks from Fife, WA)
By Sarah Titcomb
(Fighting a wildfire near Chelan, WA. Wildfires and droughts are expected to become more common due to rising temperatures from climate change. Photo Source: Ben Brooks from Fife, WA)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Matt Chadsey, Project Leader, Earth Economics
Did you know the 8th Annual South Sound Sustainability Expo is happening this weekend? This event is a great opportunity to connect with private and public organizations whose work support environmentally sustainable practices. Learn more about the event here.
Did you fly Alaska Airlines recently? If you did, you might have seen the great article on the University of Washington’s Green Futures Research and Design Lab, where the ROSS project is housed. The GFL’s innovative Green Wall project is prototyping and monitoring growing food vertically as well as providing habitat for native birds, reducing heat island effect and reducing heating and cooling costs for adjacent buildings.
Our region, the Central Puget Sound, is in the midst of a highly progressive and innovative regional planning effort to conserve and enhance the open space systems that provide direct inputs to the ecological, economic, social, recreational and aesthetic vitality of our region.
It has been a busy summer for us here at the ROSS. Not only have we been hard at work on our open space services work and entering into an agreement with King County and the City of Seattle for the Green-Duwamish WOSS you may have read about earlier this month, we’ve also been developing a new website.
Monday, September 9, marked a seminal moment in open space planning, as King County and the City of Seattle, in the presence of community groups, natural resource agencies and local news media, announced plans to develop a Green/Duwamish Watershed Strategy.