The Green Seattle Partnership Blog
Seattle Parks and Recreation is Hiring!
We're hiring! Seattle Parks and Recreation is expanding our amazing Natural Area Crews that works on restoration and maintenance in forested parks across the City. Maintenance Laborer opportunities have posted for positions on these crews beginning in 2017. Be...
2016 Year in Review
Check out just how much progress we made in 2016 towards achieving our goal of restoring 2,500 acres of Seattle's forested parklands by 2025. Thank you to everyone who came out to volunteer with us in 2016, and we can't wait to see these numbers grow in the year...
What’s volunteer time worth, anyway?
Planting trees, grubbing out blackberry, pulling ivy all can be tough work; which makes our volunteers and the time they dedicate to the Partnership so valuable. But did you know that there is an actual dollar value attributed to volunteer hours? In fact, Independent...
Call For New Forest Stewards
You may be ready to take your GSP volunteer commitment to the next level if you: Have attended a restoration workparty event in the past year in Seattle; Really love one particular forested park in your neighborhood and are concerned about its future; Want to...
Give Back this MLK Day with GSP
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing to help others?'" Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr This year, make MLK a day on, rather than a day off, by volunteering with the Green Seattle Partnership! Check out the list of events below to find a...
Stewardship in 2030
As the year ends, many of us speculate what the new year will bring. Personal goals and nation-wide shifts are on our collective minds. A long-term perspective on population and environmental guides our actions today as Green Seattle Partnership continues its 12th...
RFP 2017 Seattle Parks and Recreation Volunteer Coordination
The Seattle Parks and Recreation Department is seeking consultants to provide the volunteer coordination and leadership for the Green Seattle Partnership programs in 2017, with the possibility of an extension for 2018. The Seattle Parks and Recreation Department is...
Duwamish Culture and Native Habitat Restoration
"Preserving the Duwamish Cultural Landscape" is a free public outreach event of the Duwamish Longhouse Urban Reforestation Project sponsored by a King Conservation District grant. Park's Plant Ecologists, Lisa Ciecko and Michael Yadrick, will provide insights into the...
Magnuson Volunteer Honored with Denny Award
In 2015, over 38,000 people volunteered for Seattle Parks and Recreation, providing 270,360 hours of service. Green Seattle Partnership volunteers definitely contribute to the City's legacy of volunteer service by helping to re-establish and maintain healthy urban...
Green Seattle Day 2016!
Thank you to everyone who came to Green Seattle Day this year! We were beyond thrilled to have 958 volunteers join us at 14 parks across the city. Together we planted 4,392 trees and other plants that will grow up into our future urban forest. If you were one of those...
Stewardship motivations, from the local to global
Community leaders locally, nationally and abroad are interested in learning and supporting stewardship motivations. Over the past year, Green Seattle has heard from some of the most active volunteers on what can make the stewardship experience with the Green Seattle...
Forest Inventory Results
Background Green Seattle Partnership (GSP) annually inventories 300 – 500 acres of our active restoration sites using the GSP Inventory Protocols (available at www.greenseattle.org search: Inventory). Active restoration means that Parks staff, volunteers, or...