Sustainable Seattle

Our Vision

Sustainable Seattle (S2) ensures those at the frontlines of climate and environmental injustice have equitable access to resources to build healthy, safe, regenerative communities of self-determination. We envision a thriving, regenerative, sustainable Seattle which centers reciprocity, liberation, and restored abundance.

Who We Are

S2 is frontline. Who we are is connected to the work we do and how we do it.

That is, both the majority of S2’s staff and Board leadership and those participating in programs are people who are likely to be hit first and worst by climate change. Specifically, we are Black People, Indigenous People, People of Color / Queer, Trans, Two-Spirit Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC/QT2SBIPOC). As diverse BIPOC and QT2SBIPOC leaders, we understand our communities’  experiences of systemic income, wealth, and opportunity disparities rooted in racism and white settler colonialism resulting in housing insecurity, food scarcity, and lack of access to healthcare and retirement benefits.

As leaders on the frontline we advance community-owned solutions at the nexus of racial, environmental, and economic justice. We work to build a multi-generational, muti-racial inclusive and welcoming organization.

What We Do

S2's current work falls in three main program areas: 

1. Interweave is an interdisciplinary community-led sustainability accelerator comprised of frontline-led peers, practitioners, and projects that share our vision of justice-centered sustainability.  As an equitable intermediary, S2 provides these projects peer-led fiscal sponsorship, financial management, technical assistance, and transformative capacity building services. Today, there are 18 projects with 8 additional projects in the pipeline. All are frontline; 94% are QTBIPOC or BIPOC-led. Since 2020, S2 has returned $3.1M to the community through this program.    
2. The Soil Health and Justice Initiative (SHJI) builds community understanding of sustainability issues while base-building to strengthen human, social, political, and organizational capital to fuel strategic, effective grassroots advocacy. 
3. The Just Circular Communities Initiative (JCC), a collaboration between community-led, co-developed, owned, and managed circular economy framework that reduces waste and pollution, regenerates ecosystems, prevents systemic displacement and economic stagnation, and builds resilience in Frontline neighborhoods.