Welcome to Andy Silber’s Energy and the Environment Blog at Sustainable West Seattle. Let me start with letting you know a little bit about myself and what I hope to accomplish with this blog.
First education. My studies have been as a physicist, with a bachelor’s from U.C. Berkeley and a Ph.D. from MIT. Physicists look at energy they way that accountants look at money. We track it, we count it, and when the numbers don’t add up, we know that something interesting is happening (though it ...continue reading
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"Clean water is everyone's right." |
Steam meets, free and open to the public, are held on the 2nd Saturday of each month, from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm. Steam meets include operating hot gas, gasoline, air, and steam engines, beverages, snacks, and guided plant tours including oral history and dynamic display of plant engines. Cited below are some links to videos and photos of this local but hardly-known cultural and engineering feature: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6210580512035483148# http://flickr.com/photos/espressobuzz/sets/72157621451817510/ http://flickr.com/photos/vwguy/sets/72157606651279302/ ...continue reading
GoGreen ’10 is a one day sustainability conference for business in Seattle on Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 built to motivate, inspire, and educate business owners to “go green” and become more sustainable. As an action-oriented, non-typical conference, GoGreen ’10 teaches tactical steps on how to “green” your business and provides actionable next steps to sustainability for business owners and decision makers. Attendees will learn from live success stories and participate in panel discussions geared to provide ...continue reading
The Northwest Environmental Training Center, an EOS Alliance program, is presenting “Deep Green: The Road to Zero-Impact Buildings,” a sustainability building and house design course in their Georgetown classroom facilities at 650 South Orcas Street, Suite 220, Seattle, WA 98108.
Join the grand opening of the Neighborhood House High Point Center. Enjoy music, refreshments, speakers, tours of the LEED Gold building and a ribbon cutting ceremony! The High Point Center doubles as a home to Neighborhood House’s comprehensive web of social services, as well as an environmental education center with programming aimed at low-income communities. Come see the largest solar panel array atop a building in the entire state of Washington! Neighborhood House is located at 6400 ...continue reading
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