First day at the Saturday market!

Vashon Island's GreenMap team—a branch project of Vashon's Social Ecology Education and Demonstration School (SEEDS)—launched their public input-seeking phase at this week's Saturday Farmers Market, August 23 2008. Visitors are greeted with a display and notebook detailing what a Greenmap is, and are invited to contribute their ideas to two different maps: "Celebrate What We've Got," and "Envision a Greener Vashon." The suggestions gathered here and in other community-outreach avenues will be incorporated into a comprehensive first-draft Greenmap of Vashon, to be released and celebrated in mid-2009. Bob Spivey, Annie Brulé, Deborah Perpetua, and Joe Taskey were on hand to engage visitors in conversation about Greenmapping and community empowerment.