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. ggatton@audubon.org• 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 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

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