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Two Electric Ladies!
Deb Seymour hates plastic, loves solar and drives an electric ZENN car named Zoe.
An life-long musician and avid environmentalist, Deb Seymour has been exploring different ways to live lightly on the earth ever since age seven, when her question “where do they put all the garbage?” was not sufficiently answered.
Not long after that, she became early proponent of recycling: re-using envelopes and manila filing folders for school work, shopping in thrift stores, (despite having enough money), and driving small, fuel-efficient Japanese-made cars, way before it was common-place (and despite the cars being called “rice stompers” by the uninitiated.)
A volunteer block captain for Boulder, Colorado’s EcoCycle, Deb knocked on neighbor’s doors, handed out fliers and even offered to collect people’s reusables. This was, of course, way before the era of curbside recycling.
She then went on to co-found and work for Greener Cleaners, “Boulder’s First Earth-Friendly Cleaning Service”, experimenting with her fellow co-founders Andrew Mayer and John Horner, how to effectively use baking soda and vinegar to clean houses. By trial and error, the three cohorts soon has a business clientele that included commercial offices as well as private homes.
Shortly after moving to Seattle, WA, Deb found her self working for Cascadia Consulting Group, doing public education of Household Hazardous Waste issues at the King County Waste Mobile. She also did a stint conducting garbage surveys, via Cascadia, for the Kind County Solid Waste Services.
Deb has volunteered for highway trash pickup, interned with YES! Magazine, a progressive journal of positive futures, t, is a member of the Nature Conservancy, Washington Wildlife Fund, and has lobbied in Olympia, WA for the Washington Toxics Coalition and, more recently for House Bill 1481 about electric cars in the State of Washington.
She either is or has been a regular supporter of People For Puget Sound, The Cousteau Society, People Against Rocky Flats and numerous other Colorado and Washington environmental groups.
She is currently an avid and active member of the Seattle Electric Vehicle Assocation
When not bloggin, Deb is also an award-winning performing songwriter with three music CDs to her credit and is the owner-operator of DebWebWorks Web Design.
Check out Deb’s song “Little ZENN Car” about her electric car!
CONTACT
Deb Seymour
700 NW 42nd Street #301
Seattle, WA 98107
206.818.3475
This blog is well wrriten and inspiring. Learned more about the trash collection practices of our country than I wanted to know… I think…(seriously, it’s given me food for thought and I will be looking for ways to cut down what we throw out at my house)
Hi Deb
Phil over here in Kennewick. I put the CALB 100ah batteries in my Zenn also. What a wonderful upgrade. I am still dialing in the batteries, but it looks as if I can go 60 to 70 miles pretty easily. Not many small hills here and the AC motor might be a little better on mileage. I am pretty pleased. I had to do it myself as there is no one in this part of the state to help.
Phil
Deb,
Your post was forwarded to me through the Town & Country / Central Markets website. Thank you very much for the kind words of support. You are right about the local humanely raised meats. We have a large variety of local products in all of the departments.
Unfortunately, I have a correction to your post. The butcher paper is not compostable. We and our suppliers are constantly looking to find alternatives to this paper, which is a laminate of paper and plastic. We haven’t found an alternative that prevents moisture from leaking though the package. The confusion comes about because “waxed” paper is coated with a plastic component that has a weak molecular bond. That type of paper is compostable in a commercial system, like Cedar Grove, the compost handler for the city of Seattle. The sturdier laminate of paper and plastic doesn’t break down in compost.
There is one other bit of good news though. The meat and seafood that we cut and package is wrapped in a non-Styrofoam, compostable tray. It is easy to identify by its light tan color. We even have found a supplier that makes a compostable soaker pad. We are currently working with them on getting the quantities that we need for all five of our stores.
Please feel free to contact me by email or phone any time.
Sincerely,
Tony D’Onofrio
Sustainability Director
Town & Country and Central Markets
206-948-8601
Hi MS Seymour,
Love your Little ZENN Car song. Play it a lot!
I am inspired by your story and your 2008 ZENN. I have been looking for one for several months, and hopefully I too will have 2008 ZENN! It is in Michigan and will be transported to Missouri in the next few weeks. Thanks for the song and encouragement.
Thank you so much! Keep in tough about your own ZENN when you get it!