Emergency Preparedness and Sustainability

There is a natural intersection where emergency preparedness and sustainability meet. Here are a few things you can do to enhance your personal preparedness while becoming more sustainable!

Solar Energy & Storage

Installing solar panels and battery storage helps the environment and grid reliability as well as improving your household’s preparedness for power outages.

• Learn more about installing solar power and battery storage. 

Gardening & Composting

Composting and gardening at home or community gardens reduces waste, protects soil, mitigates urban heat island effect as well as provides your family with nutritious food when stores are closed.

• Get involved at the City's Community P-Patch.
• Learn more about composting.

Tree Canopy

Tree planting efforts on private and public property increases the community’s resilience during extreme heat events by increasing the tree canopy and lowering the overall temperature as well as providing shade.

• Learn more about the City's tree canopy and what you can do to help strengthen it.
• Click here for more information about the City's tree giveaway program.

Open Space Restoration

Participate in City-organized open space restoration events that help improve the health of Island forests and trees and increase stormwater infiltration and retention, which results in reduced soil erosion.

• Participate in the City's Restoration Events.

Urban Flood Management

More frequent and intense rainstorms and urban flooding may be mitigated by regrading your yard as well as improving your yards drainage. Replacing grass with rocks, stones, and gravel helps prevent landscape erosion and flooding.

• Learn more about how to implement low impact development on your property.

Community Resilience

Understand the hazards for where you live. Make an emergency plan for your household. Get to know your neighbors through programs like Map Your Neighborhood (MYN), community gardening, and restoration events.

• Help build your neighborhood's resilience by hosting a Map Your Neighborhood program.
• Join neighbors from across Mecer Island at the Community P-Patch Garden.
• Get to know like-minded folks at the City's numerous Restoration Events.