Sustainability Ambassadors work advancing the city's Sustainability & Transportation Strategic Plans

Jan 13, 2025 6:40 PM
Peter Donaldson of Sustainability Ambassadors
Sustainability Ambassadors work advancing the city's Sustainability & Transportation Strategic Plans
Students of the Sustainability Ambassadors Kirkland Team will engage the Rotary Club of Kirkland around a range of impact campaigns that they are facilitating in collaboration with the city of Kirkland to advance the city's Sustainability Strategic Plan and Transportation Strategic Plan. The Sustainability Ambassadors' mission is to “rapidly advance a sustainable future” and they have some exciting ways that they are leading by example at home, at school, and in our neighborhoods. Presenters will share their work on…
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Low Carbon Commuting
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Switching to Heat Pumps
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Going Solar
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Shrinking Lawns and Going Native
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Plus… Strategies for inspiring more youth to engage in solutions
Collaboration
In conversation with Rotarians, the Ambassadors would like to explore ways that they might work together across generations and neighborhoods on reducing our collective carbon footprint through transportation choices, energy conservation, home electrification, tree canopy, and water conservation. They would like to inform, inspire, and involve the Rotary Club in these efforts. The Ambassadors admire Rotary's service-oriented mission and would like to combine forces wherever practical. There are so many solutions.
The Ambassadors have three goals for this presentation and in follow up with club members:
- Establish an annual tradition of reporting to your members scheduled far in advance so you know and we know the timeline and goals.
- Identify one or several points of personal contact with your members to enhance direct communications on shared impact projects, school or neighborhood campaigns.
- Collaborate with your members on impact storytelling, a way to track actual impact aligned with the city’sSustainability Strategic Plan and/or their Transportation Strategic Plan. These data-driven stories featuring the well-informed voice of youth will help all of us showcase and celebrate what’s working, nurturing the conditions for more of it to happen.
The Student Ambassadors invite Rotarians to join them in their mission to rapidly advance a sustainable future right here in our community.
Sustainability Ambassadors Staff
Peter Donaldson, Director of Learning, peter@sustainabilityambassadors.org
Jenna Leverich, Communications Coordinator, jenna@sustainabilityambassadors.org