Chance to help Puget Sound

Right now is a unique opportunity to help clean up the waters of Puget Sound! With your help, we can strengthen water quality testing programs and make plastic pollution in our ocean and on our beaches a priority for the clean up of Puget Sound.

WHAT: Comment on the 2011 update to the Puget Sound Action Agenda – the plan to recover Puget Sound by 2020. The actions in this plan set the course for collective recovery efforts including the work of government agencies, non-profit organizations and businesses.

HOW: Attend a public open house.
Public open houses are a great opportunity to learn about the clean up Puget Sound and give input on how to support clean water for recreational users. Here are some key points that Surfrider Foundation is making:

Support Clean Water for recreation!

• Expand water quality testing programs to include winter months. Yes, we paddle and swim in the winter, the most likely time for storm induced run-off events that pollute our waters.
• Clean up polluted sites threatening water quality in Puget Sound, including the Port Angeles Landfill and the Warmhouse Beach Dump.
• Make plastic pollution a priority. Plastics are not only strangling marine wildlife, but are being ingested by mammals, birds, and the fish that we eat.

WHEN/ WHERE:

Mill Creek: Monday, October 3, from 4:30 – 7:00PM Department of Fish and Wildlife, Mill Creek Regional Office, 16018 Mill Creek Boulevard
Poulsbo: Tuesday, October 4, from 4:30 – 7:00PM Poulsbo City Council Chamber in City Hall, 200 Northeast Moe St
Mount Vernon: Monday October 10, from 4:30 – 7:00PM Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, 10441 Bayview-Edison Road
Olympia: Tuesday, October 11 from 4:30 – 7:00PM LOTT Clean Water Alliance, 500 Adams Street NE
San Juans: Wednesday, October 19 aboard the interisland ferry. Depart Anacortes at 9:30AM. Depart Friday Harbor 11:35AM. Arrive Friday Harbor 5:10PM. Arrive Anacortes 7:50PM

For details on the Action Agenda: http://www.psp.wa.gov/

photo: Fred Felleman

"Bag It" playing in Wallingford Sept 9th

Join PCC, Zero Waste, Seattle City Council Member Mike O'Brien and others for a special showing of "Bag It" and help kick off a great campaign to ban plastic bags in Seattle...

Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies: BAG-IT...the movie about Bags and Plastic and the Environment.

WHEN: Friday, September 9, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

WHERE: 5019 Keystone Place North, Keystone Congregational Church 1/2 block north of NE 50th in Wallingford. Metro bus 16, 26, 44

FREE. donations kindly accepted. Hall capacity about 200 so get there early for a seat!

Bag-It is followed by a post-film discussion with PCC Sustainability and Public Affairs Directors Diane Crane and Trudy Bialic, Heather Trim from Zero Waste Seattle, Seattle City Council Member Mike O'Brien, Dick Lilly from Seattle Public Utilities, and Jill McIntyre Witt of Bag-Free Bellingham. Be in on the start of a successful Bag-Free Seattle Campaign!