The Tox-Ick team joined forces with Students from Chief Sealth International High school to help celebrate World Water Week!

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Want to learn more about how to fight the Tox-Ick?

We will be tabling at Chief Sealth for World Water Week on Thursday from 6pm-7pm (open to public) and friday giving two presentations to the students!

Please join us!!!

Earthfix KCTS 9 production by Katie Campbell on polluted runoff makes it to PBS!

http://video.pbs.org/video/2344489788

A huge shout out to Jennifer Dumalo, the outreach Manager for the Environmental Science Center!

Todays Tox-Ick.org presentation was organized in concert with Jenny Pell from Permaculture Now!

The LID (Low Impact Development) workshop was held in the Burien Library and City Hall building.  It was an excellent venue, with comfortable seating for numerous attendees and enough room in the back for light refreshments (including Whale Tail Chips) and tables for our Tox-Ick.org informational presentation board, pamphlets and brochures from many  partner organizations such as Rainwise, King County, Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, Seattle Public Utilities, Puget Sound Partnership’s Puget Sound Starts Here, just to name a few.

After the presentation, the audience members handed in their Tox-Ick.org pledge forms (3 things for 3 months, thats all we ask!) and names were then drawn at random for some EXCELLENT prizes graciously donated by: The Seattle Aquarium (this was a huge hit!), Zipcar (who couldn’t use some driving time??), Elephant Car Wash, Tully’s Coffee and Alki Auto Repair.   At the end of the year, all the names will be put in a BIG HUGE HAT, mixed up, and drawn for our GRAND PRIZE, a family membership to the Seattle Aquarium!   Many thanks to our donors, without you this wouldn’t be possible!

We are very grateful for opportunities such as this and would love to bring the Tox-Ick.org presentation to a business, school, community center, church, library, coffee shop, synagogue, or pizza place near you!   We are taking applications for our ambassador program, so if you are interested in helping stop The Monster, please email Cate (at) tox-ick.org or Laura (at) tox-ick.org.

Our next tabling event and presentations will be during World Water Week at Chief Sealth High School on Tuesday March 19 at the community resource fair between 6-7pm, and Friday, March 22 for two presentations at 9:50 and 11am.

There will be an 8 min “update and intro to Tox-Ick” at the upcoming Whale Trail Monthly Speaker Series on March 28

In April, DiverLaura will be giving an evening talk at the Environmental Science Center’s Earth Day Dinner and Silent auction on April 20th,  Tox-Ick.org as Keynote Speaker, how exciting is that?!

Photo’s courtesy of Norma Tompkins and Laura James

This project is funded in part by a Lower Duwamish Air and Water Quality Improvement Grant from the King County Wastewater Treatment Division.  

The content herein does not constitute an endorsement by King County Government, it’s employees, and its elected and appointed officials. 

The team from Tox-Ick would like to cordially invite you to come help us kick Tox-Ick in the Polluted Sediment!   Join us for “Don’t Feed the Monster:  Seven Simple Solutions to Restore Puget Sound” on Sunday, March 10 from 2pm-4pm at the Environmental Science Center!

Tox-Ick’s Diver Laura teams up with Whale Trail and Seal Sitters for the kick off of a new Guest Speaker Series in West Seattle!

This week featured Mark Sears from Central Orca Network, with updates from Robin Lindsey with Seal Sitters (we got the scoop on a rehab’d pup visiting West Seattle) and Tox-Ick  (we wow’d the audience with The Monster Time-Lapse) and was standing room only at C & P Coffee

Stay tuned,  The Tox-Ick Team will be guest speakers at a future event!   (next up will be Lynne Barre from NOAA)

Great write up from West Seattle Blog!

The Whale Trail is kicking off a winter meeting/speaker series on Thursday, Jan. 24 at C&P Coffee.

When: Thursday, January 24, 2013, 6:30 – 9:00 pm

doors open – 6:30

program begins – 7:00

 

Cost: $5 suggested donation; kids free!

Advance tickets available at brownpapertickets.com

Description: Mark has been studying and documenting whales in this area for over 30 years. He’ll present highlights from and history of his research, including updates on recent orca sightings. Join us for this fun and informal evening – learn about orcas and support The Whale Trail, too!

Seal Sitters and diver Laura James (Tox-Ick.org) will also be on hand to share information and updates.

Tox-Ick.org Awarded $15,515 Grant from King County to Expand Outreach to Businesses in the Duwamish River Basin

Tox-Ick.org is pleased to announce that it has new funding to grow its program teaching individuals how to clean up and protect Puget Sound through simple lifestyle choices.  The funding from King County will allow us to schedule 8 site visits at major businesses located in the Duwamish River Basin.

Lurking beneath the beautiful surface of Puget Sound is a big problem, a problem we call the Tox-Ick Monster. It is the polluted runoff that comes from our cars, our streets, our rooftops and yards and parking lots.  It might not sound like much, but cumulatively, it adds up to be the single biggest source of pollution entering Puget Sound each year – 14 million pounds of pollutants.  The pollution is killing off our salmon and our killer whales, and it threatens the future of Puget Sound. The good news is that every individual has the power to make choices that will prevent the pollution and help restore Puget Sound to the robust fishery that we imagine it can be.

Since being launched a year ago, the Don’t Feed the Tox-Ick Monster campaign has given more than 10 presentations to more than 500 community members at churches, community centers, Rotary Clubs, and school PTA’s, and awarded $5,000 in pollution prevention prizes. This generous new contribution will allow us to expand our outreach even further to some of the major businesses that drive our local economy.

Tox-Ick.org is a program of Sustainable West Seattle.  Tox-Ick.org educational resources are available to other community groups that want to become Ambassadors for Puget Sound. To learn more, visit Tox-Ick.org