Tag Archives: Creativity in Action

Wet Science Center

The wet science center is a scientific learning center that educates the public on issues of water conservation, treatment, and reclamation. Their focus includes climate change and the effect rising sea levels will have on downtown Olympia and their onsite treatment site.

Organization Type: For-Profit Corporation

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Telephone

(360) 664-2333

Address

500 Adams Street NE, Olympia, WA 98501

City Repair Project

As stated on the webpage, “City Repair is an organized group action that educates and inspires communities and individuals to creatively transform the places where they live. City Repair facilitates artistic and ecologically-oriented placemaking through projects that honor the interconnection of human communities and the natural world. The many projects of City Repair have been accomplished by a mostly volunteer staff and thousands of volunteer citizen activists.”

City Repair emphasizes sustainability through localization.  With Placemaking as a sustainability strategy, they hope to foster engaged and active relationships between community members and the spaces they inhabit.  They assist community members in creating communal and ecologically oriented places through educational or hands-on projects such as Intersection Repair and Village Building Conference.

Other City Repair fields include:

•Urban Planning and Design

•Ecological and Social Sustainability

•Community resource localization

•Nonhierarchical decision-making

•Equality, diversity and peace

•Cultural identity and Bioregionalism

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Telephone

(503) 235-8946

Address

PO Box 42615 Portland, OR 97242