Celebrating a Community of Leadership and Innovation

Last night we celebrated our community’s hard work at our Annual Sustainable Community Outstanding Leadership & Innovation Awards Dinner where we awarded individuals and organizations for all of their truly inredible pursuits. The event was held at the beautiful Duwamish Longhouse where Taylor Shellfish provided fresh seafood and other entrees for a tasty meal. We also had amazing salmon provided by Loki Fish Co. accompanied with fresh bread rolls from Macrina Bakery. Along with all the amazing food and drinks, the room was filled with a lot of great people, including a great storytelling by Jeff Leinaweaver.

And let’s not forget the awards! We had a lot of nominations this year, and we wish we could have given everyone an award—you are all winners to us! Check out the complete list of nominees here. The winners are:

Social Environment

Leader in Sustainability: Community Kitchens NW

Innovator in Sustainability: WestSeattle Tool Library

Personal Environment

Leader in Sustainability: Pomegranate Center

Innovator in Sustainability: Sarah Elwood

Built Environment

Leader in Sustainability: Charlie Cunniff

Innovator in Sustainability: Green Plate Special

Natural Environment

Leader in Sustainability: Stewardship Partners

Innovator in Sustainability: Reed Painting

Happiness Award: Cathy Tuttle

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Sustainable Seattle also had a chance to share what we’ve been up to and where we’re headed in the New Year. We hope you are as excited as us to hear about the national recognition of theHappiness Initiative, the accomplishments of Sustainable Rain, and our upcoming Dream a Sound Future and Neighborhood and Business workshops. We are all so excited to share this work with you, please stay tuned.

All of us here at Sustainable Seattle want to give a big thank you to everyone that came to the event last night. It’s truly an honor to celebrate the vibrant community we have here in Seattle. If you missed it, we hope to see you next year, and if you came, we hope you had a great time!

Click here to view pictures from the evening.