kWh Challenge
Reduce your energy use with this 4-week kWh challenge! Actions include upgrading lightbulbs to LEDs, daylighting, turning off appliances and electronics, and unplugging. SEEDS guided the City of Traverse City…
Trees: Let’s Tend More!
Trees: Let's Tend More! Posted by SEEDS on Sep 05 , 2019 - 07:48 am Want to reverse global warming? Tend to a tree! Trees and other woody plants are superb at taking carbon from the atmosphere and sequestering it in their trunks, roots, and in the soil. Earth's lungs are also earth's "carbon sink". [...]
Traverse City Staff Take on a KiloWatt-Hour Challenge!
Traverse City Staff Take on a KiloWatt-Hour Challenge! Posted by SEEDS on Aug 14 , 2019 - 12:12 pm For one month this summer, City staff were encouraged to take electricity efficiency into their own hands! In striving towards its 100% renewable electricity goal, the City Manager, Marty Colburn, endorsed a City-wide Staff kWh Challenge [...]
Clean Energy Salon Series
For centuries, the energy marketplace has been focused on: Centralizing power structures (large-scale power generation, financial controls); Exponential growth in the demand for electricity and extractive additives (think fertilizer and…
Acting Natural: How the Sidewalk Ends
Acting Natural: How the Sidewalk Ends Posted by SEEDS on Jun 12 , 2019 - 05:37 am By Will Nichols, SEEDS Volunteer Biomimicist by profession, physicist by training, nerdy by nature, Will is passionate about how systems are designed and how systems work. The theme of Acting Natural is to highlight ways nature can help [...]
Drawdown EcoChallenge Top 20!
Top 20! Posted by SEEDS on Apr 30 , 2019 - 01:19 pm Top 20! Our Drawdown EcoChallenge team scored #17 out of 1000+ teams! We asked, you delivered! Our 20th anniversary wish was to rank in the top 20 teams of this year's global Drawdown EcoChallenge, and because of you, we did it! [...]
Celebrate Our 20th Anniversary with Us by Joining Our Drawdown EcoChallenge Team!
Celebrate Our 20th Anniversary with Us by Joining Our Drawdown EcoChallenge Team! Posted by SEEDS on Mar 22 , 2019 - 02:47 pm We have a special ask for our 20th anniversary! Will you help us celebrate by making a measurable environmental impact? Join "Team SEEDS" in the second annual Drawdown EcoChallenge and join an international [...]
City of Traverse City upgrades Carnegie Library Building lights to LED
City of Traverse City upgrades Carnegie Library Building lights to LED Posted by SEEDS Team on Feb 11 , 2019 - 09:17 am The City of Traverse City replaced 76 light fixtures at the historic Carnegie Library Building based on energy efficiency recommendations made by SEEDS, moving the City towards its operational goal of 100% [...]
