climate change

  • Green Lake Branch Renovation Project Achieves LEED-Gold Certification

    Green Lake Branch Renovation Project Achieves LEED-Gold Certification

    This May, the Seattle Public Library’s Green Lake Branch renovation project received LEED-Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, the nation’s foremost nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering energy-efficient and environmentally responsible building design. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is the most widely used green-building certification system in the world. It evaluates building… Continue reading

  • Looking Towards a Fiery Future

    The devastating fire in Maui is the most recent reminder that uncontrolled fires are happening more often, in more places, at a more harmful scale than ever before, and will only continue to do so as climate change contributes to our warming planet. Writers are grappling with these realities, looking back for lessons even as… Continue reading

  • Craft for a Cause

    I used to volunteer every year for a cause and it used to be my balm when things felt like too much. I rebuilt houses, fed the insecurely housed, and cared for children who had experienced trauma, abuse and neglect. The pandemic and my kiddo put all that on hold. Now more than ever though… Continue reading

  • Taming Bigfoot

    This post and corresponding booklist were created by students at Nathan Hale High School as part of a teen service learning project.  Over the past nine months I have had the pleasure of volunteering with the non-profit organization Taming Bigfoot Seattle. Taming Bigfoot Seattle is a 1Sustainable Planet volunteer project, inspired and guided by retired… Continue reading

  • A Short Climate Change Reading List

    Climate change is an issue on the minds of many people around the world. After years of unsuccessful attempts to come together around this issue, 195 countries met in December 2015 at the Paris Climate Conference and adopted the first ever universal, legally binding deal to address climate change. Yet the issue of climate change… Continue reading