About Us

Patty Borman teaches math and science at an alternative Seattle public high school. She has managed past Cascade Neighborhood Council neighborhood planning and improvement projects including: Sustainable Strategies, set of design guidelines for new construction; Rainharvest, built examples of urban rain collection systems; and Cascade Community Classroom, a feasibility study for the ecorenovation.

Mike Broili's professional interests focus on integrated water management systems. He has over thirty years of experience in construction, project design and management, mapping, marketing and research. Mike has a degree in forestry and is certified in permaculture and sustainable building design. He offers his experience and a broad network of contacts across the low-impact design community.

Phillip Fujii is currently community relations manager with Vulcan Inc. and previously spent 25 years with the City of Seattle working with local communities. With the city he served as urban designer for downtown projects, legislative City Council assistant, capital projects manager, and neighborhood planner.

Ed Geiger is President & CEO of Frontier Geosciences - a company internationally renowned as a leader in field of inorganic environmental chemistry. He co-founded and is President of the Urban Environmental Institute & SLUFAN and has been on the board of several organizations, both for-profit and non-profit. Ed runs his company with a passion for a true balance of economic vitality, environmental sustainability, & social responsibility.

Lynn Gordon is a student at Antioch University, Seattle and will be completing her Master's degree in the Environment and Community Program in June, 2003. She is working on her Practicum with the Cascade Neighborhood on the Eco-Renovation Project which includes grant writing and coordinating the fundraising committee. Lynn has her law degree from the University of La Verne College of Law, California and currently works for the Seattle City Attorney's Office as a training coordinator for prosecution staff under the Federal Violence Against Women Act.

Linda Moore artist, activist, Cascade resident and urban farmer. My involvement with the Eco-renovation is through the realization of the importance to encourage the education of urban environmental response-ability.

Sandy Pernitz has been involved in the Cascade neighborhood for 9 years working on greening & sustainability efforts as a community activist. Sandy also works for the city of Seattle's P-Patch community garden program.

Robin Russell has the great joy of working for the at the Cascade People's Center. Robin is a graduate of Oberlin College, with a background in Mediation and Multiculturalism. The fact that this effort is driven "by the people" is what keeps her passionate about this project.

Jonathan Scherch, Ph.D., is a social worker, teacher and designer at Antioch University Seattle.
Dr. Scherch is involved in local-through-international community organizing and sustainable development initiatives, nonprofit (NGO) and small business administration, and myriad socio-environmental courses, projects and events.
A returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Jamaica, 1991-93), his personal and professional interests involve many themes, including sustainable food systems, low-impact (ecovillage) development, appropriate technologies and permaculture. He is Co-Principal of Living Systems Design Guild.

Scott Species has collaborated on projects in the Cascade neighborhood and with the Cascade Neighborhood Council since 1994. Projects include the Sustainability Guidelines fro the Cascade Neighborhood and the Cascade Community Classroom Feasibility Study.

Daniel Stratten is currently the manager of the Danny Woo Community Garden in Seattle's International District. He is vice-president of the Friends of P-Patch, a non-profit sustaining community gardening in Seattle. Danny is trained in permaculture design and is a lifelong student of sustainable lifestyles and holistic science.

Lorena Taylor-Miles
I work for DSHS-Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration-Region 4. My position is running JRA Youth Work Crew, I believe that all Children/Youth have a non-criminal skill. However no one has offered them a variety of job related skills to explore their passion. I have experience & training in all jobs related areas except electricity. In my job position, I take 5 youth that are on parole into the community volunteering for jobs such as helping at the food bank, clean streets to helping renovation of a building.
This is how I came involved with the Cascade Comm. Eco Project. In 2001, my summer work crew program was the
major volunteer participant, besides the community, who went in painted & renovated the 1st half of Cascade Community Center. We have been involved with the community, giving garden and the center ever since.
Here are some of the agencies we have done work with Mayor's office for Seniors, St. Mary's food bank, Fremont Community, Parks Department (UW Horticultural Dept), Arboretum (South Seattle & UW), Adopt A Street, and various other
organizations.

Candi Wilvang has lived and worked in the community since 1997. Both she and her family use and volunteer at the Cascade Community Center. She is vice-president of the Cascade Neighborhood Council. She sells advertising for Real Change, a newspaper by the poor and homeless. She lives with her family at the Lakeview Apartments, which are located across the street from Cascade Park. The 59-unit apartment building is owned and operated by the Low Income Housing Institute, one of the contributors of funds to the Cascade Eco Renovation Project.

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