Tacoma/Pierce County Community Garden Program Hosts 4th Annual Community Garden Summit to Inform and Energize Local Residents about Community Gardening Tacoma, WA, May 4, 2013 – Tacoma/Pierce County Community Garden Program, an initiative to promote healthier lifestyles for local residents will gather community gardeners, active and interested citizens for the Community Garden Summit from 10…
Category: Ecology
Borrow a fish-friendly car wash kit for your next fundraiser
Car wash fundraisers can be a great way to raise money, but the soap and pollutants that run off the vehicles can be toxic to fish and other aquatic life. Organizations can help keep Puget Sound clean during their next car wash fundraiser by checking out a fish-friendly car wash kit. The kits are available…
Comment period reopens for listing prairie species as threatened
This is the link to the electronic form to comment on the listing of the (Taylor’s checkerspot, streaked horned lark, Mazama pocket gopher) which has reopened. Your comments can be brief, just a paragraph or two. You can indicate whether you support the proposed listings and comment on items such as the adequacy of current, non-federal…
Earth Day is April 22!
EPA.gov — We’re excited to share many opportunities with you to celebrate and engage! Share your -questions. Join us for a Twitter chat on April 22 at 2 pm ET. The discussion will be about climate change and what we can all do to save energy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and help protect the planet. Follow…
Green-Powered Northwest Colleges and Businesses are Reducing Pollution and Fighting Climate Change
(April 17, 2013 – Seattle) –– Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the Green Power Partnership Top 50 Green-Powered organizations using electricity from clean, renewable sources such as solar and wind energy. Several businesses and colleges in the Pacific Northwest are among the best in the nation in increasing renewable energy use. Microsoft Corporation…
Parkland Spanaway Kiwanis clean up the old Spanaway graveyard
Saturday April 20, the Parkland Spanaway Kiwanis cleaned up the old Spanaway graveyard at 176th and A Street. The days work included chopping back overgrown brush, blackberries and dead trees. On May 4th, the work will continue as the brush is picked up and hauled to the appropriate yard waste disposal. Here are a few photos…
Orangegate Park Clean-Up Day, April 20
By Larry Volland, Summit Waller Community Association President Mark your calendars! Saturday, April 20, 2013, 9:00am to noon. This will be a community effort in conjunction with Pierce County Parks & Recreation’s “Parks Appreciation Day”, and with the Earth Day efforts around the globe. Your participation will be greatly appreciated. Besides our usual efforts in…
Turn in unused or expired medicines on April 27
PIERCE COUNTY — Unwanted and unused prescription drugs can be harmful to people and the environment. You can safely dispose of these medicines – including controlled substances – during the nationwide drug “take back” day on Saturday, April 27. This one-day event will provide free, anonymous collection of unwanted or expired drugs between 10 a.m. and…
2013 Chambers-Clover Creek Watershed Council grant annoucement
2013 Chambers-Clover Creek Watershed Council Supplemental Environmental Grant Announcement Please note: This is a second opportunity to apply for grant funding through the 2013 Chamber Clover small grant program. Following the first grant round we have identified a balance of available funds and hope to have them applied to more projects within the watershed. The…
Living Well in Pierce County: Happiness, Economy and Environment May 11
Living Well in Pierce County: Happiness, Economy and Environment May 11, 2013 at University of Puget Sound Wheelock Student Center Rotunda Capacity is limited. Reserve your free spot and find out more at www.tpchd.org/ehindicators or by calling Marianne Seifert at (253) 798-3823. Keynote speaker: David Batker, local author of What’s the Economy For, Anyway? Professor Kate Stirling…
Puyallup River Clean-Up seeks volunteers on April 20
PIERCE COUNTY — Pierce County residents can go green as they tackle their spring cleaning to-do list. “Indoors and outdoors, sometimes the products and methods we use to clean and spruce up our homes can be harmful to our family and the environment,” said Pierce County Executive Pat McCarthy. “Citizens can make simple changes as…
Invasive Plant Identification Training May 5 and 6
By Cris Peck, Nisqually Land Trust The Pacific Northwest Invasive Plant Council is hosting a free training for those interested in learning invasive plant species of the Pacific Northwest. Volunteers from the Land Trust have attended this training in the past and have found it very useful. The Training The PNW Invasive Plant Council’s mission is…
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