The SODO Green Guide for Businesses , ways to save money and the environment

Join us on November 13, 8:00 – 9:30 a.m. at The Pear Garden (3220 First Ave. S.) for a fun-filled breakfast celebrating the Green Guide . Be prepared for an energizing activity followed by speakers highlighting money-saving “green tips”. Breakfast provided by Herban Feast. You don't want to miss it!

What meeting topics are of interest to you? We value your input so please let us know! Simply email your thoughts to mike@processheating.com so that planning can take place for meetings the rest of the year and into 2009.

The 2nd Edition of the Resource Guide is completed. Copies will be sent to all Sodo Business Association members. To request more copies of the Resource Guide, please email info@sodobusinessassociation.org.

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The SODO Business Association is developing a Green Guide for Businesses that will provide local business owners information about how your business can save money through resource conservation. The Green Guide will be your resource for learning how to reduce energy consumption and divert waste. It will have suggestions for transportation alternatives and list options for materials and purchased goods – all with the ultimate goal of saving you money.

The Green Guide will also provide a directory of websites and resources for more detailed information. We will post the Green Guide on the SODO website, and hope to develop a new SODO Green website in the near future. The website will allow ‘real time' information to be posted, along with links to the many related websites.

Below is a link to a short survey designed to ensure the Green Guide works for you. Please take five minutes to complete the survey. All survey participants who respond by July 15 will be entered in a drawing for a gift certificate $50 from a local merchant.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=CLc8_2f4_2f9oUAb3TYxrHFQPA_3d_3d

Free EPG Now Available in Quantities!

This guide will walk you through the essential steps you must take before, during and after an emergency to protect your business, your property and your employees.

Many businesses are keeping it on hand for employees and also offering it to clients and customers. For copies of the Emergency Preparedness Guide to hand out at your business, email mike@processheating.com.

GOOD KIDS, A NEW BOOK ABOUT ARTWORKS,

is out now! Written by our founder, Mike Peringer, Good Kids explains how ArtWorks got started and incorporated as a non-profit, along with stories inspired by our participants. It even lays the groundwork to implement a program like this in other communities. Click here to order.

1st Ave S WORK STARTS Week of May 19th

Each year, SDOT repaves a number of streets to improve the pavement
condition and promote smoother, safer, and quieter streets.  In 2008 and
2009, we are repaving First Avenue South.  This project is part of the
"Bridging the Gap" transportation levy approved by Seattle voters in
November 2006.

The 2008 work on First Ave S will be done in four (4) phases described
below, with some overlap between each phase:

1. E Marginal Way S to S Spokane St; S Stacy Street to S Dearborn Street
. Curb ramps and sidewalks only
. mid May - mid July

2. E Marginal Way S to S Hudson Street
. mid May - mid July

For the complete Construction Notice, click here.