Chris Miller

 

Favorite thing about living in Seattle?

The proximity to nature. Rugged mountains, the ocean and sustainable farms are all right here.

 

What are you involved in around the community? How do you spend your free time?

I am a canvass director for People for Puget sound, so I get the word out on how people can balance their relationship with nature. In my free time I like to talk with friends about how best to create a sustainable world, go camping, and write. I’m also a community journalist, reporting for papers like Real Change.

 

Why do you use the Community Card?

To help solve global warming, supporting local economies cuts down on energy use from transportation.

Favorite place to use Community Card?

Third Place Books.

What local business would you like to see in the program?

REI, The Essential Baking Company, Tilth Restaurant

What beneficiaries have you chosen and why?

ACORN, because they address housing, which is such a major issue, but I don’t work on it directly in my life. This is a way I can help out.

 

 

 

 

 

Rafael Sanchez

Favorite thing about living in Seattle?

The views.  This city has some of the most amazing views.  Besides, you have beach, lake, and mountains all within hours of each other.  Great place to enjoy the outdoors.

 

What are you involved in around the community? How do you spend your free time?

I do volunteering for a few organizations, but I'm more involved with Washington CASH, which is a microlending organization.  I love helping people reach their dreams.

 

Why do you use the Community Card?

To support businesses that are dedicated to the preservation of balance and health on our planet.

Favorite place to use Community Card?

PCC by far.  :)  Though I keep forgetting to pull it out when I shop.  :(  I'm getting better at this though.

Rafael Sanchez with his father

What local business would you like to see in the program?

The Sunlight Cafe on Roosevelt.  They make killer sauté vegetables.

What beneficiaries have you chosen and why?

I have selected a few.  WA toxics coalition:  I have volunteered with them and they do good work.  Many people don't realize how toxic our "normal" lives have become. Climate Solutions:  We seriously need to do something about climate change.  PCC Farmland Trust:  We need to ensure that our food comes from healthy land.

Pennie O'Grady

 

Favorite thing about living in Seattle?

Accessibility to good organic food, ease of walking and bussing to destinations (I come from Cleveland, OH where that is not the case!), all the great energy emerging through the SCALLOPS groups!

 

What are you involved in around the community? How do you spend your free time?

I'm active in my community/Greenlake, and interested in building a "sustainable Greenlake" council.  I spend my time with my family, gardening and learning about permaculture.

 

Why do you use the Community Card?  

It reminds me I can make a difference every day in many ways.  Participating in the local economy has been important to me for decades and it's such a relief to see how the importance of that is growing in collective awareness.

 

Favorite place to use Community Card?

PCC Greenlake!

 

What local business would you like to see in the program?

Health professionals, book stores, toy stores.  How about the Big Guys: Microsoft, Amazon, Boeing, etc.?

What beneficiaries have you chosen and why?

There are so many worthwhile organizations doing great work in this region, it's hard to choose.  I've chosen the PCC Farmland Trust and Franklin High School, where my daughter has attended for the past 2 years.  I think it's important to support what feeds us (literally and figuratively), and then spread the resulting abundance to those who need extra help so we strengthen the web of connection and nourishment available for all of us.

 

 

 

 

ALIX WILLIAMS

 

Favorite thing about living in Seattle?
I love the weather and all the good juju in this city


What are you involved in around the community? How do you spend your free time?
I am just discovering the joy of bike commuting and riding for kicks out and about in Seattle.


Why do you use the Community Card?
I use the Community card because I value just that: my community.  I don't shop at big box stores, I want to know to whom and where my money goes, and I love the idea of keeping it all local.


Favorite place to use Community Card?
PCC of course.


What local business would you like to see in the program?
It's great to see more businesses join up, and I think the more bike shops, nurseries, and bookstores, the better!


What beneficiaries have you chosen and why?
It was hard to choose, but I've split my donations between four non-profits:  the Children's Alliance, PCC Farmland Trust, the Institute for Children's Environmental Health, and Black Dollar Day Task Force.  It's a no-brainer for me to support and invest in the health of our kids and the many generations that will follow, thus explaining my choice of the Children's Alliance and the Institute for Children's Environmental Health.  I also believe in fostering and supporting organic sustainability in our food chain, so naturally I'd pick the PCC Farmland Trust.  Finally, I believe that true sustainable community change is possible and necessary, which is why I support the Black Dollar Day Task Force.