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2004 BEST Awards Winners
The Resource Venture and its program partners honored eleven businesses on May 13, 2004 at its 3rd annual BEST Awards Ceremony at Bell Harbor International Conference Center. The BEST (Businesses for an Environmentally Sustainable Tomorrow) Awards celebrate notable "green" achievements by companies in the Greater Seattle area.
Waste Prevention & Recycling Award:
Wild Mountain Cafe
Wild Mountain Café is a full-service restaurant and bar located in the Crown Hill neighborhood.
Currently, Café staff recycle: cardboard and mixed paper, glass bottles, aluminum and tin cans, plastic and food waste. |
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In July of 2003, staff began using a commercial worm bin to compost coffee grounds and clean kitchen scraps into a soil amendment for use in their spectacular gardens. The worms will consume approximately 1 ton of waste per year. Wild Mountain is also participating in a pilot program in which plate scrapings are collected and sent out for composting.
Since the Café's inception, reuse has been a major consideration in all of the restaurant's operations. The Café was formerly a residence. When co-owners Connie Stone and Roo McKenna bought the house, they traded in old light fixtures, doors and hardwood flooring for an antique light fixture at a local used building-materials store.
They purchased used stoves, ovens and prep tables from an auction and bought, and continue to buy, all of the restaurant's plates, silverware, at a local thrift store.
The bar boasts an old chalkboard countertop, and the liquor bottles
sit on shelves that were once the headboard of a waterbed.
Following the rainstorms of 1996, Roo collected broken tiles on the beach where 5 houses had slid down the Magnolia bluffs. She used the tiles to create mosaic tabletops for the restaurant.
And lastly, Connie and Roo promote reuse and recycling to their patrons, employees, suppliers and the public through their Web site, newspaper ads and a colorful notebook, available to any curious patron, containing the Wild Mountain Café story. |
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Saturday, July 03, 2004
Dana Dibble / NEXT team
Green fever: Catch it on a roadway nearby or on the waters of Elliott Bay
It seems this year's summer sun has brought out more than just smiling faces and old, dusty attic fans. External evidence of a fast spreading "green fever" is quickly beginning to take shape in the Seattle area. Symptoms of this unique epidemic include increasing concern for the welfare of future generations, intelligent decision-making in relation to human and environmental health, and unpleasant realizations regarding the menacing impacts of our current behavior.
Evidence of the tireless efforts of those already struck by the fever is in full bloom this summer.
In mid-May, The Resource Venture, a program of the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce and partnered with Seattle Public Utilities, honored 11 local groups for such notable "green" achievements as waste prevention and recycling, sustainable building and energy conservation.
Several efforts at achieving "green goals" were unique and admirable. For example, Wild Mountain Café in Ballard manages to keep about 1 ton of kitchen scraps and coffee grounds out of the garbage each year by using a commercial worm bin.
Dana Dibble is an '04 UW graduate.
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