Equity & Environment Initiative
UPDATE: We are currently recruiting participants to serve on the Environmental Justice Committee. Deadline is December 19. More info here.
On Earth Day in 2015, Mayor Ed Murray launched Seattle's Equity & Environment Initiative (EEI), a partnership of the City, the community, several City departments, and private foundations to deepen Seattle's commitment to race and social justice in environmental work by creating an Environmental Action Agenda centered on equity.
On Earth Day in 2016, Mayor Murray released the Seattle Equity & Environment Agenda, the cornerstone of the Equity & Environment Initiative. The Agenda is series of community-developed goals and strategies that address environmental inequities and create opportunities for communities of color, refugees, people with low incomes and limited-English proficiency individuals to be leaders in Seattle's environmental movement.
Equity & Environment Agenda
The Equity & Environment Agenda is a blueprint to advance racial equity in Seattle's environmental work. The Agenda lays out four key goal areas and recommended strategies in each area.- Healthy environments for all
- Jobs, local economies & youth pathways
- Equity in city environmental programs
- Environmental narrative & community leadership
Mayor Murray Leadership Actions
Over the course of the last year, several key "themes" kept surfacing in our conversations with priority communities. In response, the Mayor announced a series of leadership actions as part of Seattle's on-going committment to this work.
Mainstream Ally Commitments
OSE and the Community Partners Steering Commitee hosted a series of workshops with leaders of historically white-led environmental organizations to help prioritize racial justice in their work. Organizations made a series of commitments as a result of these workshops.
