Date: 4/1/25 10:19 pm From: Kevin Lucas via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Terrible Place for the Audubon Society of Seattle
Pamela,
I've no delusion this will be helpful, but being helpful is genuinely my intent.
Perhaps the Birds Connect folks will, or could, or have already set up an online "store" that provides delivery by low carbon or "no carbon" (yes, there's no such thing as no carbon vehicles) vehicles. Even my bicycle 'costs' carbon and more.
Amazon delivery vans, here in Podunk Yakima, are to my aged, yet still very sensitive ears, and to our dog's extremely sensitive ears, electric.
While I cannot visit the Birds Connect store/center over there on the 'dark side', I ask you to contact them and ask them to arrange for a low-impact delivery service of seed to you. For years here in Yakima I scrounged tons of bird seed that was destined to a landfill, and delivered it to folks using my gas-hog van, compact pickup, and later fuel-'efficient' 33 mpg Corolla, and, even better, had folks come get at our home in Selah using their often 'fuel efficient' vehicles. Where there's a will, there's a pretty good way. When people gave me money in thanks, I gave that to Cowiche Canyon Conservancy in their names.
If you wish to visit the Birds Connect store in person, and want/need to use a low cost and/or low carbon method, please ask them for advice, and ask them to advertise and promote it.
Perhaps a Tweeters reader can offer advice to all of us on public transportation transport of 25 pound cargo, or help you with that more directly, as my family similarly did with others for years, both giving and receiving, where I grew up in southern New Jersey over 50 years ago. That wheel has already been invented.
I intend none of this to come across to you as being in any way chiding. It's my asking you for help to work towards sharing good and lessening harm. If I've pissed you off, please accept my sincere apology, then re-read this to understand my good intent.
Perhaps Birds Connect Seattle being downtown is a problem for some in some ways, but I think it's not taking coals to Newcastle. I hope they'll reach and connect with folks there in need.
Kevin Lucas A tall, strong, large, white, overfed, ambulatory male in Yakima County, WA Who loves birds
On April 1, 2025 5:54:28 PM Pamela Okano via Tweeters < <tweeters...> wrote:
> I cannot think of a worse place for the new Audubon office. How am I, a 90 > lb woman, supposed to get 25 lb of bird seed onto light rail from > downtown???? > > Pamela A Okano > Seattle, WA 98105 > _______________________________________________ > Tweeters mailing list > <Tweeters...> > http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters > >
