Videos, Presentations, and Articles
Here you can find videos, presentations and webinars from many areas
Tour the historic and contemporary Duwamish River watershed and Superfund site with BJ Cummings (author, The River That Made Seattle) and James Rasmussen (Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition). Co-produced by the UW Superfund Research Program and ECO Resource Group, with support from Puget Soundkeeper Alliance. 20 min
The River that Made Seattle Presentations
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Environmental Justice: what it is and how we can help
Grist video about our Moss Study
Climate change is here. The next flood or fire can hit anytime. We need to prepare. Listen from leaders all over the US including our own Hibaq Osman from DRCC Youth Leadership Council sharing perspective with Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal about Climate Justice.
December 3, 2020
Who: James Rasmussen
What: RECLAIMING URBAN SPACES FOR NATIVE COMMUNITIES
November 19, 2020
Who: Paulina Lopez
What: Seattle Times interview on West Seattle Bridge Closure
November 18, 2020
Who: Adrienne Hampton
Transit Chat: How Can Road Pricing Advance Equity?
November 17, 2020
Who: Leilani Gutierrez
Leilani, a Duwamish Valley Youth Corps alumna is now working as an intern with DRCC. Learn more about what DVYC is for Leilani.
November 2, 2020
In Seattle, a ZIP code can predict everything from income to social class to life expectancy. White, wealthy residents of northern neighborhoods such as Laurelhurst live 13 years longer than their poorer neighbors of color in the southern neighborhoods of South Park and Georgetown. Air and soil pollution has disproportionately affected Seattle’s communities of color for decades, but now a group of University of Washington researchers is working with those communities to understand how COVID-19 makes a dire situation worse.
October 27, 2020
Who: James Rasmussen - Duwamish River Cleanup & History
October 21, 2020
SoDo’s Duwamish River Is Visibly Healing
Many Seattleites live in this city and hardly see the river that birthed it. Perhaps, crossing the South Park Bridge, we glimpse water beyond the railings. Otherwise the Duwamish River flows mostly hidden between the Industrial District’s shipping containers and cranes and docks.. Read More
October 20, 2020
Who: Ruby Vigo & Magdalena Angel (Maggie)- Puget Soundkeeper Youth Award
The Duwamish Valley Youth Corps is this year’s Puget Soundkeeper Youth Award recipients. This is the second year that Soundkeeper is presenting a Youth Award - which is given to a youth-led organization whose work to protect our waterways includes, empowers, and inspires young people to be clean water stewards. Based in South Park, the Youth Corps engages young people in environmental education - specifically around water and air quality - and community service, providing paid training and work experience for students ranging in age from 13-18 years old. Join us in congratulating the Duwamish Valley Youth Corps!
October 15, 2020
Who: James Rasmussen - Antioch SSCC Webinar
August 25, 2020
Who: DVYC & Climate Justice Interns - Our youth speaking on the West Seattle bridge closure and how this impacts you our community. Follow their guidance. Great job to our youth intern Leilani Gutierrez for leading the conversation and youth involvement.
June 30, 2020
How the Duwamish River defined Seattle — and could again
Who: BJ Cummings
In a new history, author BJ Cummings explains how Seattle was built on the waterway at the expense of nearby communities and the river itself.