Public Engagement Strategy Development
Client: Shared Strategy for Puget Sound
The Puget Sound Partnership faces a challenge: in a little more than one year, it must create an Action Agenda to restore the health of Puget Sound. Prior to the formation of the Partnership’s Leadership Council, Shared Strategy for Puget Sound retained Cascadia Consulting Group, Inc. to help it devise creative strategies to encourage meaningful public engagement in developing the content of the 2020 Action Agenda. To do so, Cascadia facilitated an informal dinner meeting with leaders from the Puget Sound region to identify public-engagement strategies that have been successful in this area. We combined the results of this meeting with our experience conducting public education and outreach into a memorandum that describes one approach to public engagement for the Partnership to consider.
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Virginia Mason Medical Center's cafeteria has no garbage cans, since 100 percent of the cafeteria's waste is recycled, said Steve Grose, administrative director for process improvement. The hospital composts 750 pounds of food a day instead of grinding it in garbage disposals, which had needed 4,000 gallons of water a day. The water savings pays for the bags and composting, he said.