COMMUNITY CHALLENGE!!!!

Reduce Waste and Win!
Approximately 200 tons of garbage are collected from Seattle households every day – the equivalent of 50 elephants! Much of this garbage could have been recycled, or better yet, not created in the first place.

To promote community-wide waste reduction, CleanScapes is piloting a Neighborhood Waste Reduction Rewards program in central Seattle. (See map for pilot project neighborhoods.)

Does your neighborhood need public benches, a pocket park, an information kiosk, public art or other improvements? Team up with your neighbors to reduce waste and win a $50,000 community improvement project selected by the community and installed and maintained by CleanScapes, the City-contracted garbage and recycling service in central Seattle.

To win, simply reduce the amount of garbage, recycling and yard waste set out for collection by households in your neighborhood collection area. The neighborhood with the greatest percentage reduction between Fall 2009 and Spring 2010 wins. Community councils representing the winning area will choose a community improvement project from a list of options worth $50,000. The winning area will be selected in early spring 2010, so spread the word and reduce waste now!

How to Win:
1. Find your neighborhood collection area.

2. Stop waste before it happens:
REDUCE purchases of disposable items
REUSE or DONATE products you already have
COMPOST at home

3. Get the word out and start organizing your neighborhood!

Visit www.cleanscapes.com for more ideas on how to reduce waste and win.

Candy Castellanos
Waste Diversion Project Manager
CleanScapes, Inc.
5939 4th Ave S
Seattle, WA 98108
www.cleanscapes.com

Please don't print this e-mail unless it's necessary

Announcement: The Freedom School

AFSC & People's Institute NW bring you the 2009 Winter:

Tyree Scott Winter Freedom School
December 28-30, 2009
10am to 4pm @ Cannon House
113 23rd Ave S
Seattle, WA 98144-2384

Why are people poor?
Why are so many ?people of color? in prison?
Why do our schools teach us lies?
Know your rights with the police.
Organize against racism...and much more!

Freedom School is for youth ages 15-21 to learn about racism and organize to undo it.

We take field trips around the city, learn anti-racist community organizing skills, and listen to community elders.

We learn about why people are poor and break down the education system, the media, and the criminal justice system.

We come together to create change and share culture.

To participate in the Freedom School, fill out the attached APPLICATION and mail to the address on the application by
*** DECEMBER 10, 2009! ****

Questions? Call or email Dustin Washington 206-632-0500 x 14 or dwashington@afsc.org or John Page at 206-250-7737.

GREEN EXPO in Georgetwon!! October 9th....

Save the Date!!!

Green Expo at Georgetown Campus
Friday, October 9

Greetings PSIEC Coalition Members -

Join OSPI Superintendent Randy Dorn, electric car owners, biofuel
experts, Cool Schools and your colleagues at the second annual Green
Industrial Business and Career Expo, Friday October 9, at South Seattle
Community College's Georgetown Campus.

To Register Click
Here<http://cmpgnr.com/r.html?c=1525202&r=1523861&t=1777315801&l=1&d=91206989&u=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2eregonline%2ecom%2fCheckin%2easp%3fEventId%3d760139&g=0&f=-1>

Learn more: go to the Expo web site at www.greenexpo-wa.com

I look forward to seeing you at the event.

Joe Hauth
Director, Puget Sound Industrial Excellence Center

Georgetown Campus, South Seattle Community College
6737 Corson Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98108
(206) 764-5838
http://georgetown.southseattle.edu/

STOP METRO REDUCTIONS/SHOW UP!

ANNOUNCEMENT - ALERT
BRING A PLAN! BRING YOUR VOICE!

----From CCEJ!
Please consider attending King County's Public Transit Forum next Wednesday
evening at the Rainier Vista Boys and Girls Club, 4520 Martin Luther King Jr
Way S, reception at 6 pm, program at 6:30. This video is the County's official
public invitation, with a fairly objective presentation of what they intend to
say. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuYavsoq90A

Environmental Justice organizations elsewhere, especially in Los Angeles and
Atlanta, have identified access to public transit as an issue of Environmental
Justice.

While CCEJ has focused on other issues here, the same questions arise
in this case:

• How fairly will the cuts be distributed?
• Will Metro try harder to retain the rich suburban riders from Redmond than they do the poor urban and suburban people from Seattle and South King County?
• Will their slick new Light Rail train displace the neighborhood service that poor people need to get around?

Please attend this forum and voice your own questions and concerns.
Thanks!
Jonathan Betz-Zall, CCEJ Board Member

Housing Levy Support Needs Your Help!!!

A message to all members of Seattle Network, or Folks who would be if you knew about us...

Hi Great City supporters,

I’m writing to let you know about an upcoming phone banking event on behalf of the Yes on Prop 1 campaign (aka the Housing Levy). The event runs from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm and is being hosted at GGLO on September 23rd at 5:00 (tomorrow evening). This is a great cause, so please help spread the word!

Event Details:

GGLO
1301 First Ave, Suite 301
GGLO Harbor Steps (enter through door located about ¼ of the way down the Harbor Steps)
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

If you can help out, please RSVP with Pricilla:
priscilla@yesforhomes.org
206.307.9252

Thanks,

Paul Chasan

Information about the Housing Levy follows:

VOTE YES! ON PROP 1 TO RENEW THE HOUSING LEVY!

For 28 years, the Seattle voters have provided a critical housing safety net for thousands of our city's most vulnerable through the Housing Levy. Your vote to renew the Housing Levy will:
Provide 1,850 affordable homes serving thousands of families and individuals over the next 50 years.

Continue to help our most vulnerable neighbors including seniors, people with disabilities, victims of domestic violence and working families.

Prevent over 3,000 families and individuals from becoming homeless and get them back on their feet for the long term.

Build on a successful investment that creates over 4,000 jobs and brings in additional funds to our community.

Visit Seattle Network at: http://seattlegreatcitynetwork.ning.com

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Youth Charette Hits Mark

Youth engaged in planning, education, and leadership at Yesler Terrace.

The Yesler 2014 summer teen team hit it big at their "Yes for the Best & Nothing Less!" community charette event! Held at the Yesler Terrace Community Center on August 13th, the 8-teen team activated their training, experience, and committment to do their best at the event.

Seattle Housing Authority provided the food, fruit, and water...(no high frutose, soda, or cookies allowed). And a range of city partners on the project provided interactive information tables from their respective departments.

Seattle Department of Transportation Director Grace Crunican surprised the teens and staff with working the SDOT booth herself handing out bike maps, safety info, coloring books, crayons, and advise on the upcoming Seattle streetcar project.

Mark Troxel from Planning and Development answered Center City questions and introduced kids to green building and design process. It is a hard topic to translate into fun but Mark made it fun, entertaining at times, and added his wit to the event. Vince Lyons from the Design Review Program showed up also and was excited about the impact of the program. Martha got grilled on design process and she shot back with "How can we influence how the redevelopment looks on the outside? What about signage?"

Attendance was good with about 35 youth under 10 years old and about 15 teens between 13 and 19. It was thought that events in the future should have more "entertainment" with local performers covering topics like social, economic, and environmental equity and equality. The pizza was great, but some of the more costier "draws" for teens could not happen this time. Yesler 2014 teens are preparing for a food summit event in October and are planning to make sure they have more "Bang"!

A report of their findings and design suggestions will be submitted to the SHA Board of Commimssioners and SHA/CollinsWoerman staff in October for inclusion in any public record opinion on the upcoming redevelopment.

The teens did an exemplary job and their plans and ideas helped to make this event a success!

YT2014 Summer 2009: Youth Mind on Design

Welcome Back for 2009!

The Yesler2014 program applications are being moved around the neighborhood and teens from 15 to 19 years old are responding to the call for participants. This year is all about DESIGN. "Youth Mind on Design" is the program theme and we are looking forward to starting on Monday July 6th.

The program was given some energy when two staff members went to the American Planning Association Conference in Minneapolis in April to meet and absorb information on the front-lines of planning and youth engagement programs around the country.

Workshops and Speaker Sessions with representatives from Growing Power in Milwaukee, WI, AIA Youth Design Program, and others.

Our program this year is linking with other teen and young adult training programs being started through partnerships between Seattle Housing Authority and community partners centered around "Green" job development, training, and entrepreneur incubation.

Look forward soon to updates and exciting details!!!

First Lady Michelle Obama Goes Urban Gardening

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/white_house_garden

WASHINGTON – The White House is getting a new garden.

First lady Michelle Obama is scheduled to break ground Friday on a new garden near the fountain on the South Lawn that will supply the White House kitchen.

The Planning - Step 2

The past few weeks have been focused on refining the curriculum that was formalized by Marcia Arunga from Arunga & Associates.

Her work with the project last year gave it its necessary guidance on the mother-teacher analysis and process. Marcia balanced the planners, architect, and social services angles that were at the table and what came out of it was a great pilot project and the opportunity to stabilize the program at Yesler Terrace for at least five years is fantastic.


The inclusion of University of Washington and Seattle University students with experience (and some without) working in minority and marginalized communities is going to be in interesting learning experience, however it will also improve staff process, ensure team teaching at all times, and free-up the site manager and supervisor (new positions this year) for administration and community/schedule coordination.

Some of the staff from last year will be back this year, and we are also only recruiting from Yesler Terrace youth this year to refine and build a community youth leadership core for summer youth leader positions next year and so on...

This years focus is on design. The consulting firm, Collins-Woerman, that is developing the Yesler Terrace alternative site concepts will be the lesson tools to guide the teens through design planning, site planning, model building, community engagement, and design considerations. Though these are professional level skills development, this was found to be a way to empower teens with an understanding of government process, rights, responsibilities, and ways to explain and see more clearly what the source and meaning of the change going on around them.

This year the activities will be more hands-on and less talky. Last year we talked too much, there wasn;t enough outside time, old school design time, talking and reflection, survey and recording of their voice. That also is one of the areas of change this year.

Environmental Racism from the Top

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson -- Lisa Jackson, the first African American administrator of the EPA, will appear today on the Tavis Smiley broadcast and explain her views on environmental racism.

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200903/20090317.html (Link for more information)
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/broadcast/ (Link to check for
local listing schedule)

2009 Summer Project is a GO!!

2009 is ON!

After months of negotiation the 2009 Yesler 2014 Program has been approved and budgeted for funding from the Seattle Housing Authority's Executive Board!!!

This years program will begin recruiting in April and applications will be posted at the Yesler Terrace Management Office as well as the Community Center.

This year's program will focus on DESIGN. This means that focus will be placed on community assessment, skills development around design, drawing, model building, and assessing, planning, and learning the tool required for the design process.

This year the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), Department of Planning and Development (DPD), Seattle University, University of Washington, the Urban Land Institute (ULI), American Planning Association (APA), and DK Architects will be working with Creative Community Builders, LLC to make this year better, more engaging, and enjoyable for all that participate.

There are only 8 positions this year for new enrollees, but there are two Intern spots for older teens to work and learn management skills!!

We are excited and look forward to getting the process started for recruitment.

Changes in the Hood': ID 2030 Presentation!!

Anticipating significant zoning changes to South Downtown the International District community produced a plan to guide and shape growth, ID Vision 2030.

Please join us at GGLO on March 12 for a brownbag lunch presentation on ID Vision 2030 by Tom Im, hosted by Seattle Great City Initiative.

Tom Im has been a community organizer and planner for InterIm Community Development Association in the ID for the last 11 years.

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Find details here
Time: March 12, 2009 from 12pm to 1:30pm
Location: GGLO Harbor Steps
Street: 1301 First Ave – Enter at GGLO Level A-off of the steps.
Event Type: brown, bag, lunch

SE Community Event!

We are excited to discuss the Transit Oriented Communities Bill HB 1490 with you and hear your ideas. Here’s the proposed agenda for tomorrow’s meeting. We are looking forward to a productive discussion. If you need to reach me tomorrow, my cell phone is 206-619-3903

Agenda

2:00 pm – Welcome and introductions
2:10 - 2:30 pm -Transit Oriented Communities HB 1490: An overview
2:30 – 3:15pm – Discussion and feedback – Addressing community ideas and concerns about the bill
3:15 pm – Next steps
3:30 pm - Adjourn

Thank you for giving up your Saturday afternoon to be with us!

Details:
WHEN: February 14, 2:00 - 3:30 pm
WHERE: Rainier Vista Center, WAMU Room, 4410 29th Ave South, Seattle, WA 98108

Light refreshments will be provided.

Thanks
Shefali and the staff at Transportation Choices Coalition and Futurewise

Shefali Ranganathan
Director of Education and OutreachTransportation Choices Coalition
Phone: 206-329-2336; Fax: 206-329-2705www.transportationchoices.org

College Scholarship Funding 2009

Scholarships for African American StudentsAlpha Omicron Boulé ScholarshipRenewable scholarships and mentoring to African American male citizen who is a high school seniors from the Puget Sound region.

BAM! (Blacks at Microsoft)Financial assistance and mentoring to outstanding high school seniors who are interested in pursuing careers in technology

Patricia Fisher Endowed ScholarshipTo assist African American high school seniors and undergraduate students living in Washington state with a serious career interest in print, photo or broadcast journalism

Dorothy E. General ScholarshipTo a deserving African American student in the field of healthcare

Yes You Can (YYC) ScholarshipRenewable scholarships to African American students of business, law, technology, science or education

Youth Programs in the Region

Here are links to similar programs that we are working with or connected to in a drive to expand our support:

Stuart Foundation
Planners Network
Center for Cities & Schools at UC Berkeley
Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment
Academy of Urban Planning
DUMBO Improvement District
Communities in Schools - New Orleans (CISNO)
Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP)
Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership
PLANetizen