The city of Seattle is launching its “Puget Sound Starts Here” water quality education campaign at Naked City Brewery & Taphouse, 8564 Greenwood Ave. N., Thursday. The campaign features drink coasters with an environmental message about how to reduce the impacts of storm water runoff on Puget Sound.
Thanks in part to a grant from the Puget Sound Partnership, the coasters are being distributed by community partners to restaurants, bars, and cafes in The Piper’s, Thornton, and Longfellow Creek watershed neighborhoods. These fun and colorful messages will provide an opportunity for Seattle residents to learn what they can do to improve the health of local waterways and Puget Sound every time they lift a glass.
30,000 coasters will be distributed; they describe four actions that will help reduce pollution: picking up after your pet, preventing automotive leaks, not using pesticides and fertilizers in your yard, and planting more trees. All the coasters share the same message on back: In Seattle, 46,000 storm drains carry untreated runoff directly to our waterways.
The coasters will be available at other participating restaurants after August 5, including these Greenwood businesses: Pig N’ Whistle, Gainsbourg, Sip & Ship, Wheatless in Seattle, 74th Street Ale House, Prost!, Pillager’s Pub, Pub at Piper’s Creek, and Bleacher’s, just to name a few.
Thursday’s event is from 6-10 p.m. Naked City is family-friendly until 10 p.m. Limited edition I “heart” Puget Sound T-shirts will only be available at the kick-off event.
9 responses so far ↓
1 Tahomajim // Aug 2, 2010 at 9:19 pm
Very clever and appropriate. AP or the Times need to pick this story up.
2 stonesinfo // Aug 2, 2010 at 9:31 pm
I think this is great…however as a previous dog owner I always picked up my dog’s poop. Why are we so focused on dog poop but don’t care about the thousands of outdoor cats that poop in yards, flower beds, etc. If dog owners should have to pick up their crap, shouldn’t cat owners have to go around to their neighbors yards and pick up their crap too?
3 Julie // Aug 2, 2010 at 9:38 pm
This is an excellent point. At least one year when testing was done on Piper’s Creek the primary fecal contaminant was from cats, not dogs as expected.
4 robert o // Aug 3, 2010 at 5:10 am
you pick up the poop, toss it in the trash, which gets tossed in the landfill. then it rains and the poop enters the water table. so basically, you pick up the poop so others don’t step in it.
5 SarahB // Aug 3, 2010 at 5:41 am
I always wonder about people who profess to be concerned about the environment, yet they feel it is their right to crank out more and more children, when the #1 problem facing the global environment is overpopulation. Do the research:
http://www.populationconnection.org
There used to be a movement called Zero Population Growth, where responsible people limited themselves to two kids. Now people are taking drugs to enable them to have multiples and there are giant strollers everywhere. If you really care about the environment, then educate yourself about the effect of increasing population on our planet before you add to the problem.
6 Alan // Aug 3, 2010 at 7:25 am
Sorry “Robert O” but modern sanitary landfills are sealed, to prevent contamination of the water table underneath the facility. You are correct, however, that the real reason we pick-up after our poochies is to keep the city free of stinky, gross poop!
7 Whopper // Aug 3, 2010 at 8:06 am
” yet they feel it is their right to crank out more and more children”
Yet again, green extremists show what they really hate: humans.
“Now people are taking drugs to enable them to have multiples and there are giant strollers everywhere.”
Actually population growth for whites in the US is flat so I’m not sure where your anger and lunacy are directed.
8 Kate Martin // Aug 3, 2010 at 9:20 am
Hat’s off to Bill Malatinsky at Carkeek and Restore Our Waters folks for trying out some new outreach and education ideas. Sounds like a good way to get the word out.
9 a.out // Aug 4, 2010 at 3:19 pm
Nothing says environment friendliness like 30000 pieces of trash.
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