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"Clean water is everyone's right."  We Need Your Help!
Ever borrow a tool from your neighbor?
Ever wish they had a better selection?
Sustainable West Seattle has won a grant from the City of Seattle Department of Neighborhoods and has set up a tool lending library. You can find out more information or check out our inventory!
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Our schedule for the Winter 2012 is: February 5 – drop by – it’s s’posed to be Sunny!! February 19 (demo day) March 4 March 18 (demo day)The second tabling each month is where we host demonstrations using tools from the Tool Library. We also have the new West ..continue reading The Board of Directors met recently to create a 2012 Strategic Plan. Below is our draft plan. Please let us know any comments on the plan by February 6th. This plan will be reviewed at the February 6th board meeting.
Sustainable West Seattle is seeking new members for our Board – called the Coordinating Council. We will present the Bylaws change at October’s Forum, Monday, October 17, at the Admiral Theater. The Coordinating Council is looking for new members for 2012. If you think your talents would contribute to our efforts, please let a current CC officer know or send an e-mail to info@sustainablewestseattle.org. For a current list of Coordinating Council members and officers, see http://www.sustainablewestseattle.org/about/ Requirements, how to apply and duties: Requirements: You must be a voting member of SWS, ..continue reading
If you are a participant, log those trips. If you are not a participant, go to the King County Metro sign-up page and join. The benefits ..continue reading Sustainable West Seattle is offering two $50 scholarships (good towards reserved $65 admissions) to the 2010 Northwest Permaculture convergence held at South Seattle Community College from September 17-19. Applicants are must live within the SWS neighborhood (all of West Seattle and unincorporated King County West of the Duwamish river, and North of Burien), and submit the following information via email to brian@sustainablewestseattle.org before 5:00 pm on September 1, to be considered for the scholarships: Full Name, Street Address, ..continue readingPhotos from the 2010 Sustainable West Seattle Festival are at this Flickr™ website: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chasbot/ This year’s SWS Festival was in concert with the 2010 Delridge Day Festival, and was themed reFRESH Southwest. The festival was supported in part by the Sponsors of the combined festival were Sustainable West Seattle, the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center in cooperation with Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association, the King County Food and Fitness Initiative, the Seattle Parks ..continue reading Check the Get Involved section to see how you can help SWS in a number of areas including newsletter, website, a film series and, of course, our June 5 festival (also see notice above about the Festival). On December 4 SWS, CoolMom and half-a-dozen allied organizations hosted a Winter Festival at the Duwamish Longhouse. We will NOT be holding our regular third-Monday-of-the-Month general membership meeting on December 21. Our next general meeting will be January 18. The meeting space will also be announced in the coming weeks as the Camp Long Lodge will be undergoing much needed and Parks Levy-funded retrofits and improvements. Take the Sustainable West Seattle Tool-share Library online questionnaire. Sustainable West Seattle members are working to establish a tool-share library. We are working with South Seattle Community College and other partners to move towards establishing a local, community-led tool-sharing lending library. Help us define this new resource by taking the survey at this link http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=4nFv7Wx8bTBno5CxUlBLLw_3d_3d Also, check out the “Get Involved” section where more details on the tool-sharing library project are available. The Transit Riders Union (of Metropolitan Puget Sound) last month invited all candidates running for legislative and executive offices in King County and the City of Seattle to respond to the concerns of transit riders. TRU recently received the candidate responses and have posted them on the Transit Riders website at: http://www.transitriders.org/election09. Transit is an important element in having a lower carbon footprint, it is an element of being a more sustainable community, and it is an element which is dear to West Seattleites – all four City Council ..continue reading |
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