Video Library

• Watershed Address (17:09)
• Watershed College (3:00)
• Making the Music (3:00)

Sustainable Schools Update:

• Watershed Schools (1:46)
• King County Green Schools Update (6:55) SOON
• Seattle Public Schools Resource Conservation Update (9:26) NEW
• Mega Trend: Ground Source Heat Pumps SOON
  
• Mega Trend: Stormwater Pollution Solutions SOON
• Mega Trend: Solar Energy Production SOON
• Curriculum Connections (2:30)

Sustainable Cities Profile Protocol:

• Sustainable Cities Profile Protocol (6:11)  NEW
  

Puget Sound Starts Here:

• Action Agenda - Ecological Economics SOON
• Action Agenda - Regional Priorities NEW
• Action Agenda - Vital Signs Dashboard SOON

Water Water Water:

• Water Consumption (1:51)
• Water Conservation (2:14)
• Net Zero Water (2:53)
• Reclaimed Wastewater (1:42)
• Stormwater Pollution (2:50)
• Rain Garden (2:14)
• Rain Garden - Community Scale   (3:31)

Carbon Neutrality:

• Six Strategies (3:34)
• City Climate Action Plans  (2:54)
• Seattle Carbon Neutrality Scenario (7:47) SOON
• King County Consumption-Based GHG Inventory (8:57) SOON
• King County Climate Action Plan SOON
• Green Power Programs (4:48)
• PSE Home Energy (:43)
• Energy Disclosure (1:08)
• Seattle 2030 District (1:01)
• Lake Forest Park (2:09)

Green Building:

• green building codes (1:09)
• BuiltGreen (1:18)
• LEED (2:18)
• zHome (1:38)
• Living Building Challenge - Bertschi (2:44)
• Living Building Challenge - Flower Power (7:48) NEW
• Living Building Challenge - Zero Net Energy SOON
• Living Building Challenge - Zero Net Water SOON
• Living Building Challenge - Materials SOON
  
  

Watershed Address (17:09)

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Every citizen, every family, every student and his or her teacher needs to know the foundation story of our shared Watershed Address. We all know our street address, but it’s really the quality of our local water and land resources that sustain us. The greater Lake Washington basin is home to some 1.9 million people, almost half of all the people in the Puget Sound bio-region. Because we are the most densely populated watershed community we have the biggest responsibility to model stewardship behavior.

Watershed College

The Watershed Report Student Leadership Team is comprised of highly motivated high school students representing different school districts throughout the watershed plus the private school network. The Leadership Team works with our Science and Sustainability Mentors, receiving over 100 hours of training in project management, policy analysis, public speaking and broadcast journalism. The students are responsible for producing the Watershed Report and communicating results to their City Council, School Board, Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club and other civic organizations. Interested in applying to join the Watershed Report Student Leadership Team?

Making the Music

All of the music for the Watershed Report was improvised by student musicians. Under the direction of Tahoma High School graduate, Kevin Davis, a team of young musicians worked five hours a day for four days in a sound studio at Jack Straw Productions to improvise music for a range a moods, time signatures and instrumentation. It was a beautiful experience to be in the room with all that musical thinking.

Watershed Schools (1:47)

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See a map of how our school districts overlap with the natural boundaries of our watershed address. Even Everett has one high school within our watershed. All together, there are about 113 high schools related to our geography which means roughly 16,950 high school seniors in our watershed will turn 18 this year and graduate. Have they internalized the three academic standards for Environmental and Sustainability Education?

Seattle Public Schools Resource Conservation Update (9:26)

Curriculum Connections (3:40)

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We feature three exemplary programs. (1) A fascinating new high school program in Northshore involving a partnership with both McKinstry and Cascadia Community College. (2) An environmentally themed junior high in the Lake Washington School District. (3) The Tahoma School District’s effort to fully integrate sustainability education. Tahoma continues to be a leader in the state. Students learn about local and world environmental challenges, and use the environment as a classroom to investigate and solve complex issues.

Sustainable Cities Profile Protocol (6:11)

Action Agenda - Regional Priorities