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12,000 Rain Gardens in the News

• Moving sustainability forward at Sea-Tac Airport: Daily Journal of Commerce, April 19, 2012
  With a site footprint of 23 acres, waging an aggressive sustainability campaign at the Consolidated Rental Car Facility was one of Turner Construction’s most ambitious green efforts to date.
• Gaining Ground for Puget Sound by building rain gardens: Issaquah Press, April 17, 2012
  12,000 Rain Gardens campaign aims to curb pollution, create beautiful landscapes.
• King County unveils West Seattle Rain Garden plans: Investigate West, April 17, 2012
  Rain gardens got a bad rap last year in Ballard when a portion of the neighborhood's gardens failed to drain, upsetting some residents. But for a neighborhood in Everett, the shallow, plant-filled depressions are a source of pride and offer welcome relief from some nasty flooding.
• 12,000 Rain Gardens: Seattle Seedling, April 13, 2012
  If you ask me where I’m from, you’ll likely get a sigh and a complicated answer.
• Local collaboration brings rain garden workshop to Auburn: Auburn Reporter, April 19, 2012
  Urban Farmer Stacey Brewer gives her thoughts on the 12,000 rain garden campaign and Stewardship Partners partnership with Caffé Vita for the 12,000 rain garden coffee blend.
• New Hot Java Blend, "12,000 Rain Gardens" Hopes to Protect Puget Sound: Green Acre Radio and KBCS, March 29, 2012
  If a new blend of coffee takes off, local java lovers will have a key role in protecting Puget Sound from its biggest environmental threat. Martha Baskin has our story.
• PBS Newshour: Seattleites construct rain gardens to curb pollution from stormwater runoff
• Bean Benefits: Your Coffee Habit Can Green Up Seattle: Northwest Home Mag, March 28, 2012
  Caffe Vita and Stewardship Partners have just launched the 12,000 Rain Gardens coffee blend. The coffee shop will donate 10 percent of proceeds to Stewardship Partners and Washington State University Extension’s 12,000 Rain Gardens campaign.
• Sustainability Segment: KEXP Presents Mind Over Matters Sustainability Segment, March 4, 2012
  Guest Stacey Sowers, Program Manager at Stewardship Partners, speaks with Diane Horn about the 12,000 Rain Gardens campaign to help reduce stormwater pollution in Puget Sound.
• How Does An Industrial Rain Garden Grow?: Earthfix January 3, 2012
  TACOMA, Wash. — Standing upper deck of a six-story massive cargo ship, Rand Lymangrover looked out over chronically polluted Commencement Bay and the surrounding acres of asphalt that make up the Port of Tacoma terminals. His company, Totem Ocean Trailer Express, or TOTE, has something that none of his neighboring cargo shipping companies have – rain gardens.
• KUOW 94.9 Morning Edition December 7, 2011: Water Pollution: The source be with you
• Live broadcast of "Gardening with Ciscoe" on KIRO 97.3 FM from our Everett rain garden installation event on September 24, 2011
  1. Intro with Marla Carter from City of Everett and Derek Hann from Snohomish Conservation District.
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  2. Jami Burke from Cedar Grove Composting and Zsofia Pasztor from Innovative Landscape Technologies.
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  3. Curt Moulton from WSU Snohomish Extension and Stacey Gianas from Stewardship Partners.
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  4. Audience questions and answers.
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• Evolving Northwest Landscapes South Sound Magazine, October 2011
• One week, six rain gardens This Old House Magazine, September 2011
• Using Rain Gardens to Keep Waterways Pollution-Free This Old House Magazine, September 2011
• How to Build a Rain Garden This Old House Magazine, September 2011
• Neighbors Fight Stormwater Pollution by Building Rain Gardens earthfix, September 2011
• Raingardens will help prevent flooding in basements Snohomish Tribune, September 28, 2011
• Karshner fifth graders install rain gardens Puyallup Herald, September 28, 2011
• Shout Out to Our Partners – Bring on the Rain, Rain Gardens That Is Puget Sound Partnership Director’s Update, September 28, 2011
• Arctic Directory: TOTE installs Puget Sound industrial rain garden Petroleum News, September 25, 2011
• Ooh, la, la: Gardening guru Ciscoe Morris to pitch rain gardens at Everett show on Saturday
  Everett Herald, September 21, 2011
• Video: Neighbors Fight Stormwater Pollution by Building Rain Gardens earthfix
• Seattle Garden Trends: What’s In and What’s Out seattlemag.org, August 2011
• Rain Gardens cut runoff Capital Press, August 18, 2011
• Stewardship Partners receives $250,000 for Snoqualmie Stewardship Program SnoValley Star, August 17, 2011
• Puget Sound Land Conversion (1972-1996) readthedirt.org, August 8, 2011
• Seeing Trends, Coalition Works to Help a River Adapt The New York Times, July 21, 2011
• Nisqually River Partnership New York Times, July 21, 2011
• Saving Puget Sound a rain garden at a time The Seattle Times, June 13, 2011
  
• Burien neighbors build rain gardens The Des Moines News, May 23, 2011
• Puyallup rain gardens garner award puyallupherald.com, May 18, 2011
• Project aims for 12,000 new Rain Gardens in region Everett Herald, April 28, 2011
• It's Raining Rain Gardens Sightline, April 22, 2011
• Cisterns, barrels, and rain gardens! Oh my! Everett Herald, April 21, 2011
• WA Fights Water Pollution with rain gardens Washington News Service, April 20, 2011
• Campaign wants 12,000 rain gardens in Puget Sound AP, April 19, 2011
• Rain garden coming to TOTE terminal The Olympian, April 12, 2011

Press releases

• WSU and Stewardship Partners Announce 12,000 Rain Gardens Campaign to Protect Puget Sound Region

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