About Deb /Contact
Two Electric Ladies!
An life-long avid environmental activist, 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.
Shocked that all the landfills were already filling up, 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, that more often than not publishes articles pertaining to the environment, 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.i 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.
When not ruminating on the environment, Deb is the owner-operator of DebWebWorks Web Design and plays Seattle cafes and folk festivals with “Deb Seymour& The Debonairs: Kool Kat Krazy Folk”.
And lest you think she is *way* too serious for her own good, let it be known that she thinks it is perfectly normal to watch an episode of Battlestar Gallactica and follow it with old re-runs of The Muppet Show OR the original Get Smart, starring Don Adams & Barbara Feldon:
( “Sorry, Chief- but my shoe phone is ringing…no wait, maybe it’s my tie…”)
CONTACT
Deb Seymour
700 NW 42nd Street #301
Seattle, WA 98107
206.818.3475
greengirl at debgoesgreen dot com
