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Spring 2025 | Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Creating Sustainable Transit-Oriented Development: How Seattle Can Grow its Light Rail Network Sustainably

Callum Mitchell

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Spring 2025 | Business & Sustainability, Policy & Regulation

Strengthening Material Reuse in King County: Barriers, Solutions, and Circular Potential

Olivia Knutson

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Spring 2025 | Business & Sustainability, Policy & Regulation

Lengthening Linen Longevity: How the Barriers to Hotel Textile Recycling can be Overcome

Alex Johnson

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Natural Science & Restoration, Policy & Regulation

Tools for Curiosity: Hands on Sustainability and the Fight Against Perceived Obsolescence

Chancellor Hoppenrath

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Spring 2025 | Honorable Mention: Best Lightning Talk, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Clean Air Action: How Community-Driven Solutions Can Tackle Environmental Injustice in Policy Implementation

Megan Hassi

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Behind the Seams: Understanding Youth Attitudes Toward Sustainable Clothing and Textile Waste

Sammy Harrison

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Spring 2025 | Natural Science & Restoration, Policy & Regulation

Underwater Real Estate: Analyzing Policy Frameworks for Effective Eelgrass Restoration on the U.S. West Coast

Jordan Genuario

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Spring 2025 | Arts & Humanities, Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

The Language of Justice: Participation, Knowledge, and Power in Environmental Policy

Shannon Cosgrove

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Spring 2025 | Business & Sustainability, Policy & Regulation

LEED-ing Green Futures: Understanding the Challenges of Widespread LEED Certification

Sean Carey

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Redlining Today: Greenspace Inequity, the Detrimental Effects of It and How the City of Seattle Confronts It

Kristina Gerard Canonizado

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Spring 2025 | Best Lightning Talk, Policy & Regulation

Blue State, Purple Policy: Lessons for Bipartisan Environmental Policy in the Puget Sound

Benjamin Blatt

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Policy & Regulation

Local Nonprofits Have Our Backs– Who Has Theirs?

Anna Crow

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Autumn 2024 | Policy & Regulation

The Dangers of Weak Policy: Voluntary Corporate Participation in Standardized Date Labeling as an Enabler of Food Waste

Olivia Hallas

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Autumn 2024 | Education & Outreach, Natural Science & Restoration, Policy & Regulation

Bridging Divides: Holistic Approaches to Managing Salmon and Forest Ecosystems Amidst Increasing Wildfires

Nina Pursai

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Autumn 2024 | Best Poster, Business & Sustainability, Policy & Regulation

What does it Take to Improve Recycling Contamination in the Medical Field?

Caroline Pavloff

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Autumn 2024 | Agriculture and Food Systems, Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Top Barriers to Multifamily Composting: Matters of Accessibility & Justice

Evelyn Osburn

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Autumn 2024 | Agriculture and Food Systems, Policy & Regulation

Keeping our Communities Fed: A Local Approach to Food System Planning

Katie Olsen

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Autumn 2024 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Nature’s Wealth: Quantifying Benefits of Nature Exposure and Promoting Equitable Access through Policy

Chikita Nigam

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Autumn 2024 | Education & Outreach, Natural Science & Restoration, Policy & Regulation

From Coastlines to Classrooms: Marine Mammals as a Wake-up Call for Transformative Environmental Education

Ainsleigh McKinlay

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Autumn 2024 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Barriers Hindering the Minority and Women-Owned Businesses to Reuse and Recycle Construction and Demolition Debris

Nha Khuc

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Autumn 2024 | Agriculture and Food Systems, Policy & Regulation

We Can Manage: Examining Offal Waste Management Pathways For Washington State

Andres Kappes

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Autumn 2024 | Business & Sustainability, Policy & Regulation

The Power of a Circular Economy to Meet Sustainable Development Goals

William Hooper

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Autumn 2024 | Education & Outreach, Policy & Regulation

Cultivating Well-Being: The Transformative Impact of Community-Based Environmental Learning

Monica Hniang Dawt Chin

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Autumn 2024 | Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

How to Achieve Transit-Oriented Development in an Equitable and Just Way

Sydney Elfstrom

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Autumn 2024 | Policy & Regulation

Capitalism and Sustainability: Understanding the Role and Implications of Corporate Greenwashing and Climate Misinformation

Maeve Doolin

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Autumn 2024 | Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Reinventing Recycling: How Drop-off Sites Can Engage Consumers and Keep Recyclables Out of the Landfill

Alec Baron

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Autumn 2024 | Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Toxic Tech: Washington’s Path to a Sustainable Electronics Recycling System

Elena Vega de Soto

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2013 Spring | Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Quantification of Environmental Justice Communities and the EPA

Byron Wenning

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2013 Spring | Policy & Regulation

Cleaning up Environmental Regulations to Help Clean up Stormwater

Alison Sienkiewicz

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2013 Spring | Business & Sustainability, Policy & Regulation

Environmental Policy Needs Both the Carrot and the Stick

Laura Shields

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2013 Spring | Policy & Regulation

Increasing Disaster Preparedness

Charles Shannon

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2013 Spring | Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Burning Passions: Woodstove Emissions, Tribal Sovereignty, and EPA Regulation

Sarah Sanborn

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2013 Spring | Natural Science & Restoration, Policy & Regulation

Stormwater Runoff Management: A Complicated Issue with a Feasible Solution

Amber Johnson

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2013 Spring | Agriculture and Food Systems, Policy & Regulation

Food Policy in the Central Puget Sound

Libby Hollingshead

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2013 Spring | Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Air Pollution and Environmental Justice in EPA Region 10

Carlos Cruz

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2011 Spring | Agriculture and Food Systems, Policy & Regulation, Sustainability

Shifting towards Sustainable Consumption Management

William J. Sharick

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2011 Spring | Business & Sustainability, Education & Outreach, Policy & Regulation, Sustainability

The Culture of Consumerism: Eco-Labels and Sustainable Choices

Taylor Sproed

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2011 Spring | Education & Outreach, Policy & Regulation

Solarize Seattle: Implementing a Neighborhood-Based Bulk Purchase Model to Mainstream Solar Energy in the Rainy City

Alexandra Sawyer

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2011 Spring | Policy & Regulation

Using Environmental Databases and Studies to Find Risk Factors for Lead Hot Spots and Create a Standard Operating Procedure to be Used

MacKenzie Kieft

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2013 Spring | Policy & Regulation

Down the Drain? How Stormwater Management is Changing

Anthony Ataee

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