Interior designer and general contractor Jacqueline Powers shares practical tips and guidance for homeowners wanting to turn their homes into green living spaces. Her locally published book, Transitioning to Green, explains the types of "green" services and products available, and how to make decisions based on cost and sustainability when doing home remodeling, from small and simple changes to whole house retrofits.
Learn how to persuade decision makers to support tree planting and preservation.
Geoffrey Donovan, USFS researcher, will quickly cover dozens of recent studies, translating them into layman's terms and pointing out the highlights and limitations of each.
Courtney Dillard, professor in the University of Oregon Strategic Communication Program, will teach you how to use the information from these studies to persuade community groups, homeowners, and elected officials to take action on urban forestry issues.
As an addition to traditional Park(ing) Day parks, where participants create temporary parks in parking spaces, we will be transforming this once vibrant block, illegal parking lot, and now vacant space into a collection of small parks for the day. The event was approved by the owners of the space and we also received a smART ventures grant from the Seattle Arts Commission to help make the event a reality.
It is time again for Second Use's annual Fall Festival and Salvage Art Contests!
Saturday, September 26th
11am-4pm
This is the one time of year when staff and customers can really kick back and have some fun - with free food, live music, games for the whole family, horse rides, and lots of inspiring art.
In celebration of our 16th anniversary, we will also host a special one-day sale:
10% off (most) everything in the store
sale does not apply to some consigned items
