The City of Mountlake Terrace and Community Transit hosted the grand opening of 10 new electric vehicle charging stations Saturday at the Mountlake Terrace Transit Center. Several dignitaries were on hand to mark the occasion, including Congressman Rick Larsen, Mountlake Terrace Mayor Jerry Smith and Mayor Pro Tem Laura , Community Transit Board Member and [...]
The City of Mountlake Terrace, in partnership with Community Transit, will host the grand opening of 10 new electric vehicle charging stations on Saturday, May 5, at 1 p.m. The event takes place at the Mountlake Terrace Transit Center, 6001 236th St. S.W. Congressman Rick Larsen, Mountlake Terrace Mayor Jerry Smith, Community Transit Board Member [...]
Windermere Real Estate North is teaming up with non-profit 1 Green Planet this Saturday, April 28, to help their neighbors recycle difficult items and confidential data disposal to help assist in the safe disposal of confidential documents post tax season. Large appliances, car batteries, cell phones, computers, monitors, printers, televisions, stereos, ink cartridges, medical equipment [...]
About 100 volunteers turned out in near perfect weather to help clear 120 yards of debris, brush and blackberry bushes in Terrace Ridge Park in honor of Earth Day. The Mountlake Terrace Garden Club pitched in by planting over 30 landscape shrubs at the Ballinger Lake Golf Course parking lot. Additionally, Waste Management Northwest was [...]
By Doug Petrowski With Earth Day, April 22, on the horizon, the City of Mountlake Terrace released an internal study last week of its efforts for conservation and sustainability within city government. The study showed mixed results in various performance measures such as use of resources and materials, educating the public on sustainability strategies and [...]
Just in time for Earth Week events, Snohomish County Public Utility District announced Tuesday that the utility and its customers have hit an all-time high for energy conservation, saving nearly 9.3 average-megawatts of energy in 2011 – enough to serve about 7,000 homes. Collectively, consumers and businesses reduced their energy bills by more than $6 [...]
From our friends at My Edmonds News: The City of Edmonds reported Friday morning that an Allied Waste truck struck a pole in the Burlington Coat Factory parking lot at 24111 Highway 99 in Edmonds and spilled diesel fuel into the City’s storm water system on 242nd Avenue Southwest. “If you see diesel fuel in [...]
Snohomish County Public Utility District and two other local utilities hit a milestone this week, by collectively recycling their 40,000th inefficient refrigerator. The PUD, Seattle City Light and Tacoma Power work together to take energy-wasting refrigerators out of circulation through a partnership with JACO Environmental, a national appliance recycler. The utilities were joined at JACO’s [...]
