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Impact Circle 4 Results
The Board approved their recommendation to award a $10,000 grant each to:
Puget Soundkeeper Alliance: Water Quality Monitoring Project
Soundkeeper actively monitors Puget Sound’s water quality by boat, enforces the Clean Water Act, engages with stakeholders and regulators and implements solution-oriented partnerships with Puget Sound residents and the business community. The Clean Water Act allows citizens to step in when regulatory agencies like the state department of Ecology are unable to fulfill their legal obligations to protect the Sound.
This grant supports Soundkeeper’s patrol presence from six hours/week to 46 hours/week and enables the expansion of its patrol range.
ReSources: Tenmile Creek
ReSources' Clean Water team has been conducting work in the Tenmile Creek watershed of Whatcom County. The project aims to reduce the amount of fecal coliform in the watershed. The Tenmile Creek watershed drains into Portage Bay, which is a traditional shellfishing area for the Lummi Nation. The area is periodically closed due to high fecal coliform levels.
The grant supports this work and will enable ReSources to expand this model to adjacent watersheds.
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Your Money At Work
Seattle Audubon Society
Sustainable Path has awarded a number of grants for Seattle Audubon's Citizen Science Neighborhood Bird Project. Data from this project has been used to investigate the effectiveness of restoration work in four of Seattle's urban parks - Carkeek Park, Discovery Park, Golden Gardens and Magnuson Park. The report that was produced from this analysis is entitled: Impacts of Habitat Restoration and the Status of Avian Communities in Seattle City Parks. This well-written 27 page scientific report is full of interesting data and delightful photographs. You can pick up a copy at their office located in the Wedgwood neighborhood: 8050 - 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.
A copy of the PDF can be found here.
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Noteworthy
Investigative Journalism
The Board awarded a small grant to InvestigateWest to fund regional news coverage on climate change. You can read some of InvestigateWest's articles here.
Grantee News
Congratulations to one of our current grantee organizations, FRIENDS of the San Juans that received a $100,000 grant from the Washington Women's Foundation to increase shipping safety standards for the Salish Sea and reduce the risk of oil spills.
Did He Really Say That?
Source: The Guardian
"The former chairman of Shell has said that investors moving their money out of fossil fuel companies is a rational response to the industry’s “distressing” lack of progress on climate change." Read the full article here.
"What Politicians Talk About When They Talk About Coal"
by the Politico Lazer Lab
Data scientists used public statements members of Congress made about coal between 2010 and mid-2014. Here’s what they found.
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