Past Events

Come celebrate the launch of Clean Streams with Sustainable Seattle and Puget Soundkeeper Alliance! Clean Streams is a multi-year campaign focused on wild salmon recovery and the critical role farmers, chefs, and grocers have in creating an environment that cultivates the growth of effective streamside buffers and healthy salmon habitat in our local waterways, big and small. Clean Streams will help amplify and raise awareness about the habitat loss and water quality issues impacting our wild salmon; help audiences understand…

Join for a free workshop & beach walk developed for property owners along the marine shorelines of King County. The workshop will provide participants with an opportunity to learn about the ecological, geological and vegetation management issues associated with owning property along the beach or bluff. Hear presentations from local experts and stay for an optional field trip to see examples of all topics discussed. Schedule 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Indoor Session) 12:30 - 3:00 PM (Optional Lunch &…

Rates of infectious disease outbreaks are on the rise in our oceans. Fueled by sewage dumping, unregulated aquaculture, and drifting plastic in warming seas, ocean outbreaks are heralds of impending global environmental disaster. Renowned scientist Drew Harvell takes the stage with a daunting and urgent report of the rising risks of marine epidemics in Ocean Outbreak: Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease. She underscores these diseases’ destructive potential to cause a mass die-off of wildlife from the bottom to…

Are your oysters healthy? WSG volunteers provide landowners evaluations of bacterial contamination for privately owned beaches in Hood Canal and throughout Puget Sound at these locations: Hunter Farms 1921 E. State Route 106, Union, WA QFC parking lot, under flag pole – pharmacy side – 201 NE State Route 300, Belfair, WA For more information, see our flyer

Setting The Table is a monthly gathering to learn, converse, and break bread around an important issue — presented by The Evergrey, Makers Workspaces, and Voyager’s Table. This month's discussion topic is Living Sustainably. In a time where it can feel overwhelming to feel ownership and accountability of our environmental crisis, we ask how can we live more sustainably in our lives, both as individuals and as a community. How can one shift their lifestyle and perspective to not only…

Join Puget Soundkeeper for the first cleanup of the Seattle Summer Cleanup, a series of events focused on removing thousands of pounds of debris from Seattle’s urban waters. On Saturday, June 22nd, walk the floating paths through the Arboretum in search of beer cans, tangled fishing gear, lost flip flops and other weird finds, or hop in a canoe borrowed from the Waterfront Activities Center to scoop up floating debris. Contribute your own kayaks, canoes or other floating devices! Afterwards,…

Join Josh Farley (Kitsap Sun), Kitsap Beach Naturalists and partners Amy Linhart from WSU Extension, Jeff Adams from WA Sea Grant, Lauren Kemper from the SEA Discovery Center and Rachael Easton from Harbor Wildwatch for some summer fun! The event beings at 1 p.m. in Evergreen Park in Bremerton. From there, Josh Farley will lead participants on a walk to Lions Park, where the intertidal exploration will begin. The Bridging Bremerton Event is also hosting a "Healing the Salish Sea" walk at 8 a.m. and a "Dark…

The Pac-12 is the first collegiate sports conference to convene a high level symposium focused entirely on integrating sustainability into college athletics and across college campuses. All of the Pac-12 athletic departments have committed to measuring their environmental performance, developing strategies and goals to reduce their impact, monitoring their progress, and engaging fans and communities in greener practices. The Pac-12 Sustainability Conference signals an elevated approach to enhancing sustainability efforts within collegiate athletics departments, designing new collective initiatives, and sharing best…