For 40 years, Earth Day has been an important day for raising people’s awareness and appreciation of our environment. Many of us think of preserving Mother Earth in our daily actions and more people are catching on the green fever that surrounds the Pacific Northwest.

Seabrook’s town design was in fact based on the belief that any sort of activity, even a real estate development, should first and foremost preserve the environment around it. Since its establishment, Seabrook has emerged as one of the leaders of sustainable development nationwide, with recognition coming from all corners of the country. We compiled a list of some of our sustainable efforts we think you will find interesting.

1. Walk-able Town Plan

From the beginning, Seabrook has been designed to provide beach lovers with easy, walkable access to all amenities one would require at the beach. Everything at Seabrook is within a 5 minute walk, and cars are stowed away nicely in garages and allies to gather some dust while you stroll around Seabrook in your flip flops. Find out more about the town master plan right here.

2. Very Low Light Pollution

Every light bulb in Seabrook is energy-efficient and every light post uses the minimum amount of wattage to save on electricity. In addition, every street light is subtly located on corners and pathways looking downwards instead of upwards. This way your view of the star struck sky from our town and the beach isn’t hindered by the lights that surround you.

3. Recycling = Less is More

Seabrook has implemented its own recycling system and every house is provided with a bin for general and glass recycling. If you walk around town, you will notice our employees and residents with reusable, ceramic or aluminum water bottles and cups; plastic water bottles are a foreign object to many at our beach town. Even our sales office will offer you water or coffee in a ceramic cup. Everything starts with the little things right?

4. Sustainable Design

One thing we can learn from the past is that traditional architecture is timeless. We have focused on this type of architecture that has stood the test of time and are creating a public beach resort for the ages.

5. Green Building

Everyone talks about green building, we actually do it. We build our homes to last hundreds of years, and we already have many homes with a LEED certification. 70% of the trees fallen on site for development are used for cedar shingles, picket fences, and landscaping features throughout Seabrook.

There are many more facets of Seabrook that make it a leader in environmentally friendly real estate developments we can dwell on further. Our sustainability pledge keeps us on course in everything we do, and we keep adding new ways in which we can preserve the beautiful nature around us and around the world.

If you have any suggestions or ideas in which you see Seabrook being more environmentally friendly, please share in the comment box below.

Happy Earth Day!

The 5th Annual Easter Egg Hunt took place last weekend on Crescent park and was truly a great time for everyone there! Around a hundred kids from all over the Pacific Northwest raced around Seabrook’s biggest green grass park hunting for Easter eggs and other small treasures. Three lucky egg hunters found Golden Eggs which were strategically placed in harder to find areas.

The weather looked gloomy right until the point when the Easter egg hunt was supposed to start. Then it cleared up and families with their kids, dogs, egg baskets, and cameras spent a fun couple of hours around the park and around Seabrook. We had many guests staying at some of our vacation rentals, as well as Seabrook homeowners that are by now regulars at these events. Easter Bunny was there too to take pictures with this year’s egg hunters and put everyone in a good mood with his goofy-looking costume.

We have gathered a bunch of pictures from some of the families present at the event, and are posting them here for you in case you couldn’t be there. Once again, Happy Easter to all and we hope to see you at the 6th Annual Easter Egg Hunt at Seabrook next year!

While many across the world celebrate Good Friday today, we thought we’d share some of our most interesting stories and facts about Easter with you. The Children’s Easter Egg Hunt has become quite the tradition at Seabrook and in anticipation, we’d like to share some fun Easter stories before the Easter Bunny arrives.

1. An Easter Egg Made of 4,000 lbs of Chocolate?

The Guinness Book of Records states that the largest Easter egg ever made was the one by Belgian chocolate producer Guylian in 2005. The edible egg was 27 feet tall, 21 feet wide, and weighed 4,299 pounds. The author of the humongous egg mentioned he had spent over 500 hours creating it – what we want to know though – how long did it take to eat it?

2. Medieval Times Tradition

Think hunting for Easter eggs is boring? You can always try this one. A festival of throwing eggs was held at a church back in Medieval times, where the priest would throw an egg at the choir and then the choirboys would throw it amongst each other. Whomever had the egg when the clock struck 12 was the winner! We just hope that egg was hard-boiled, otherwise that game is due to end very, very soon.

3. Easter? You Mean the Candy Holiday, Right?

Easter is the second most candy consuming holiday after Halloween in the US! In fact, when Americans get their hands on those bunny-shaped chocolate figures, 76% of them prefer to bite off the ears first, 5% eat the feet first, and 4% eat the tail first. That someone would do research on this is simply mind-boggling.

4. Easter Celebrations Around The World

The Christian Orthodox religions in Europe have a custom where they hard-boil and paint eggs, and then wack’em on Easter eve in an egg war. The person whose egg does not get damaged at the end is the winner and is supposed to have a successful year ahead. In Australia, kids exchange chocolate Easter eggs that have little toys in them. Fun!

5. Peeps Rule Easter

Americans buy over 700 million Peeps during Easter season. Obviously, this makes Peeps the most popular non-chocolate Easter candy. Recently, we took one of our homeowner’s advice and tried Peeps smores during a fire pit hangout at Seabrook. Needless to say, they were delicious!

Got any more fun stories and facts about Easter? We would love to hear them! Drop us a line below and share some Easter fun with us and our readers!