Rainier Beach Environment Action Team Presentation 2010

Inspiring Involvement Building Community www.rbcoalition.org

Civic Engagment
Restore and reconcile your community by shifting the public conversation
The nature of the questions we ask either keep the existing system in place or bring an alternative future into the room
Your are now invited to create possibilities

Environment
Priorities
Urban Farms and Wetlands Project (formerly known as the Atlantic City Nursery Repurposing Social/political/environmental intersection (integration)
Green jobs for youth – Got Green (weatherization), Energy Efficient Outreach Program (energy audits of businesses)
Rainier Beach Community Center Walking map
Rainier Beach Learning Garden
Mapes Creek Clean up
Community Coalition for Environmental Justice No Idling Campaign ( www.ccej.org )
Ensuring social/political intersections and integration of the environment oriented activity in Rainier Beach
Vision: An environment that supports children, families and the community. This includes issues surrounding our safety, our cleanliness and our health . Goal : RBCEC seeks to support the community in the preservation and improvement of natural and manmade open spaces and parks; and the management of environmental impacts to the community.

Atlantic City Nursery Urban Agriculture Project| Fall 2009 Goal: Repurpose the greenhouses and growing space at Atlantic City Nursery in Southeast for urban agriculture and create a local distribution system so that the food produced provides fresh, nutritious food for residents of the Rainier Valley community

Environment RAINIER BEACH PARKS, GREEN SPACES & CULTURAL PLAN Light Rail Chief Sealth Trail Rainier Beach Learning Garden Urban Farm and Wetlands Project Mapes Creek

Environment and Economic Development Mapes Creek, 52 nd Avenue Walkway

Environment and Wetlands Atlantic Beach

Environment and Family Life Southeast Athletic Complex

Environment and Family Life Beer Sheva Park

Environment and Education South Lake High School Southshore School

Environment and the Arts Peat Settlement Public Art

Environment and Public Safety

Environment and transportation Rainier/Henderson Link Light Rail Station

Environment
Vision: An environment that supports children, families and the community. This includes issues surrounding our safety, our cleanliness and our health.
Goal : RBCEC seeks to
support the community in the preservation and improvement of natural and manmade open spaces and parks; and the management of environmental impacts to the community.
Priorities
Urban Farms and Wetlands Project (formerly known as the Atlantic City Nursery Repurposing Social/political/environmental intersection (integration)
Green jobs for youth – Got Green (weatherization), Energy Efficient Outreach Program (energy audits of businesses)
Rainier Beach Community Center Walking map
Mapes Creek Clean up
Community Coalition for Environmental Justice No Idling Campaign ( www.ccej.org )
Ensuring social/political intersections and integration of the environment oriented activity in Rainier Beach

Other Environmental projects to watch
Urban Wilderness Project, 206.464.8364, www.urbanwildernessproject.org
Got Green, 206.290.5136, www.gotgreen.org
Bridge to Beach Makeover, April 24, 206.322.6134, www.sngi.org
Spring Clean (SPU), April 1, Community wide, 206.233.7187, www.seattle.gov/util
Natural Yard Care Classes, April 21, May 5, May 19, Emerson Elementary, 206.633.0224 (sign up by April 4 th )
Seward Park Environmental and Audubon Center, 206.652.2444. [email_address]
Chinook Beach Park Salmon Recovery Plan, 684.7048, david.graves@seattle.gov

Civic Engagement
The questions areas………
What can you say that has the power to transform this neighborhood and inspire yourself regarding the environment?
What do we want to create together that makes a difference in the environmental arena for us?

Next Steps
2010 RB Coalition Action Team Meeting (ATM) Schedule
January – Rainier Beach Town Hall Meeting (January 28)
February – Education in Rainier Beach (Guest Maria Goodloe Johnson
March – The Environmental Movement in Rainier Beach
Back2School Bash (B2SB) Introduction
April – Family Life (Kinship Care), B2SB
May – Transportation, B2SB
June – Economic Development, B2SB
July – Economic Development, B2SB
August – B2SB (August 28)
September – Public Safety, B2SB Debrief
October – Education, Town Hall Meeting Planning (RBTHM)
November – Environment, RBTHM
December – Transportation, RBTHM
Third Thursday of each month, 6:30 p.m.

Next Steps
www.rbcoalition.org
www.twitter.com/rainierbeach
www.facebook.com/RainierBeachCoalition

Rainier Beach Environment Action Team Presentation 2010

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