rainier beach environment action team presentation 2010
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Overview of Rainier Beach Community Empowerment Coalition Action Team on the Environment, last updated, March 16, 2010TRANSCRIPT
Inspiring InvolvementBuilding 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
EnvironmentPriorities
• 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 2009Goal: 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
Rainier Beach Learning Garden
EnvironmentRAINIER 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 DevelopmentMapes Creek, 52nd Avenue Walkway
Environment and WetlandsAtlantic Beach
Environment and Family LifeSoutheast Athletic Complex
Environment and Family LifeBeer Sheva Park
Environment and Education
South Lake High School Southshore School
Environment and the ArtsPeat Settlement Public Art
Environment and Public Safety
Environment and transportationRainier/Henderson Link Light Rail Station
EnvironmentVision: 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
• 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
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 4th)• Seward Park Environmental and Audubon Center,
206.652.2444. [email protected]• Chinook Beach Park Salmon Recovery Plan, 684.7048,
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 Steps2010 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 BeachBack2School 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