Green Futures Research and Design Lab

Shoutout to our friends at Herrera Environmental Consultants, Inc. for their fantastic work installing some floating wetlands at the Snoqualmie Casino's stormwater pond. It's amazing to witness this innovative technology in action. Let's keep pushing for more sustainable solutions together! https://www.herrerainc.com/floating-wetlands/?fbclid=IwAR3_s6YS4p3cswSiZKXO9n7jGlrhFEG9Tae-NSuCu2UecSMc5oc_URFzbGI

Floating Wetlands Installation – Herrera Posted on December 13, 2023 by Lily Schreder Herrera worked with the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe to design and install two floating wetlands in a large stormwater pond at the Snoqualmie Casino. The stormwater pond treats casino property runoff and discharges into Coal Creek, a salmon-bearing tributary o...

Building wetlands to sustain salmon For thousands of years, the Duwamish River has been an important waterway for Puget Sound salmon. In recent decades, industrialization and pollution have deg...

Check out this great video from King County summarizing our Duwamish floating wetland project! The Green Futures Lab strives to create habitat and cleaner waterways through the use of floating wetlands. As Mason says, they're "nature's kidneys," and are highly effective at their job!

Building wetlands to sustain salmon For thousands of years, the Duwamish River has been an important waterway for Puget Sound salmon. In recent decades, industrialization and pollution have deg...

The Duwamish River Restoration Efforts Are Really Coming Along Eagles! Cormorants! Fish! And New Parks!

☀️ Research requires a lot of innovation and creativity.☀️ For the team at the Green Futures Lab, that creativity shows up in a variety of ways. Here are two erasure poems that were written by Ayana Harscoet, our Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program @ UW summer intern. Drawing inspiration from the GFL's 2019 Executive Report. Support her art by sharing with your followers! Want to read more of her work from the summer, visit her website here https://ayanaharscoet.wixsite.com/floatingwetlands .