A community climate justice partnership
Dear friends of Green Buildings Now, With your help, the future South Beacon Hill Resilience Hub has moved much closer to reality. Your contributions funded the recent insulation of the main building, and we have sufficient funds to begin weatherizing and decarbonizing additional buildings. We’re writing to you today to share the exciting news that…
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You can help the South Beacon Hill Resilience Hub by supporting a city budget appropriation to build out the South Beacon Hill Resilience Hub more quickly and more fully than can be accomplished through community fundraising alone. Seattle City Councilmember Tammy Morales, who represents Beacon Hill, has proposed a $455,000 appropriation to the Office of Sustainability…
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We were delighted that U.S. Rep. Adam Smith recently visited the future South Beacon Hill Resilience Hub on the campus of Bethany United Church of Christ. Smith posted this tweet: Yesterday I was in Beacon Hill – a neighborhood impacted by aviation-related air emissions – with several community members to visit an urban agriculture hub…
WhenSaturday, September 24 at 1:30pm Sunday, September 29 at 7:30pm WhereGood Shepherd Center The Chapel Space (map)4649 Sunnyside Ave N Seattle WA 98103 Music Lessons is an exploration of what came after losing a husband and dear friend; how music became a path from grief into possibility. After the sudden death of her husband, Wayne, Patricia Smith…
“The Alaska Suite” benefit The Nelda Swiggett Quintet’s May 15 benefit performance of “The Alaska Suite” brought in more than $6,000 in ticket sales and another $6,000 in donations. Thank you to Nelda Swiggett, her fellow musicians, and everyone who took this opportunity to learn more about climate change while supporting Green Buildings Now. Although…
Tickets are now on sale at https://bit.ly/aksuite for the Nelda Swiggett Quintet’s May 15 benefit performance of “The Alaska Suite” at 3 p.m. at Seattle First Baptist Church. All proceeds benefit Green Buildings Now, a grassroots initiative promoting social justice and climate resilience by working with frontline community leaders to remove fossil fuels from buildings in a just way. Swiggett’s “The Alaska Suite:…
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The health and environmental damage caused by gas stoves is significantly greater than previously thought. A Stanford University research team has found that methane emissions from gas ranges in the United States cause as much climate damage as half a million cars. And most of the methane is released when the stoves are turned off….
The Nelda Swiggett Quintet will perform “The Alaska Suite: a story of beauty, loss and hope” on Sunday, May 15, 2022, as a benefit for Green Buildings Now. Sponsored by Seattle Insight Meditation Society and other Green Buildings Now partners, the performance will take place at Seattle First Baptist Church at 3 p.m.“The Alaska Suite,”…
Welcome to Green Buildings Now! We’re so glad you’re learning about the Green Building Now initiative to address the climate emergency and environmental injustice. We welcome your comments about the project, our website, and how we can best achieve our goals of removing fossil fuel from buildings while bringing the benefits of clean energy to…