EcoCity Action

Good morning! We are a newly formed grassroots groups of environmental experts & advocates who love cities, nature, & people. We want to build a fun & collaborative community of environmentalists who love trees and orcas just as much as they love busses, bike lanes, and walkable communities.

When I filed for city council a year and a half ago, one of my main goals was to get the city to allow small, walkable retail on residential lots in our leafy suburb. Walkable destinations where neighbors gather is how we build community. We took a key first step toward that change on Monday.

Because making these walkable third spaces isn’t just about my wanting more places to get coffee and ice cream and a sandwich (although…) Walkable neighborhoods emit less carbon, and send less toxic runoff to poison salmon. They create connections for kids who don’t drive and seniors who stopped.

The let everyone be independent. They help neighbors meet and care for neighbors. They give people a new income source. Corner stores and cozy retail like this are how cities have grown since the idea of a city was invented. It’s part of a process of succession as natural as meadow becoming forest.

A hundred years ago, exclusionary zoning disrupted that natural process. Across America, people are going to older cities here or in Europe, and discovering that walkable, cheery, friendly neighborhoods need retail. And are rewriting city rules to allow this fundamentally human process to resume.

Hope to see you in a few hours. Come chat about urbanism in pioneer square at DeLeo's Pizza starting at 5:30pm

If you want to see this type of organizing in the Seattle area check out @eastsideurbanism.org I have also been "stealing" this idea for pioneer square urbanism: 5:30pm every Friday at DeLeo bros Pizza

Plant a tree. Vote. Revolt against the oligarchy. Not necessarily in that order, but vote before November 3 for sure.

I’m at the Leafline Regional Trails Summit today to learn and talk about how to expand, connect, and improve our trails!

Ecology has released a set of proposed regulations that are comprehensive and a step in the right direction, but we need them to do MORE to improve regulations and protect our shorelines. 📢 Make a comment by Nov. 16! Learn more more & find key talking points in our blog post. ⤵️ 2/2

Take action to protect Washington shorelines! 🌊 As part of HB 1181, the Dept. of Ecology is required update its shoreline master program guidelines to address the impact of sea level rise & increased storm severity on people, property, & the environment. 1/2

Seattle keeps showing off this month.

If you don't have time to do anything else, send this letter so that there's a record of support to offset the historic boards. admin.actionnetwork.org/letters/safety-first-means-giving-sdot-the-ability-to-act

SDOT has a great map here that lets you see which neighborhoods are planning Halloween night street closures; currently there are a lot in North Seattle and none showing on the map in the Rainier Valley.

omg this one. "I know what you are thinking"This is too much work", but think of all the salmon you can save."

The kids are alright ❤️

Please check out our events page and join us to see salmon spawning at Carkeek Park on Nov 21!!!! Thank you for the shoutout, @ericacbarnett.bsky.social!

No new golf courses ANYWHERE. Plain and simple.

Anti homeless bench where if you sit on it while homeless you're immediately given a house

I will 100% take an increase to whatever tax you want if we can fund this, yes, please, dear god, please

We propose a little bus like the Golden Garden shuttle that would run from Northgate Station up into Carkeek Park, stopping at the picnic area, then the restrooms, then the lower park. Same-ish hours as GG shuttle in the summer, then every Fri-Sun during salmon season (November at least!).

The best people visiting the best fish! Please join us!

My precioussss

Thou shalt absolutely covet thy neighbor’s Waterlines brochure.

We could totally do with a new Metro Flex zone at a bare minimum...

Seattle Transit Measure priority... Parks access? Taller Denser Faster priority... Park Oriented Development? It says something that our most frequent service does not reach some of our best parks! Sorry, rich people - these parks are *public*

Park Oriented Development needs to be a huge philosophy here in Seattle. Increase access to our parks with density, and transit to accompany it. Jackson Park could be Seattle's mini Central Park! New neighborhoods all around!

Someday, we’ll have streets like this in every neighborhood in Seattle and ask ourselves why it took so long.

We filed an appeal of Whatcom County’s comprehensive plan! On September 30, Futurewise – along with our partners at @re-sources.bsky.social and Whatcom Environmental Council – filed an appeal of Whatcom County’s latest comprehensive plan update.