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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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By chas
You are invited to the Mayor’s town hall on Tuesday, March 13, at the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center. This town hall is an opportunity to voice your concerns and offer feedback directly to the Mayor Mike McGinn.
From 5:30 to 6:30pm, there will be a community information fair. If you belong to a community group in Delridge or West Seattle, this town hall is also an opportunity to share information about your group with other community members. Please contact Ed.Pottharst@seattle.gov if your group would like to ..continue reading
By chas
Are you curious about green building? Want to learn about how your home can be healthier for you and more environmentally friendly?
Then come to the 2nd annual Green Home Tour on April 21 & 22, from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. A project of the NW EcoBuilding Guild, the 2012 Green Home Tour features a self-guided excursion to view up to 20+ local, healthy, and green new houses, remodels, and energy retrofits in the Seattle area and Eastside.
Additionally, a Saturday EcoExpo at ..continue reading
By chas
The City of Seattle is offering grants to support community education and engagement projects through the Technology Matching Fund. Grants of up to $20,000 are available. The deadline is Tuesday, April 3.
The fund supports Technology Literacy & Access and Civic Engagement projects that reach technology underserved communities, thereby increasing, “digital inclusion.” The City’s goals are to:
Technology Literacy and Access:
Empower technology underserved communities so that all residents have the technology skills necessary for civic and cultural participation, employment, lifelong learning, ..continue reading
By chas
This week’s Occupy West Seattle General Assembly will be at 2:00 pm, Saturday, Feb 18 at the High Point Branch of the Seattle Public Library. The High Point Branch is located at 3411 S.W. Raymond St., Seattle, WA. We hope you are all able to join us this week. Please spread the word to your neighbors and friends as well as any other community groups you may be associated with.
By chas
The February Highland Park Action Committee meeting is shaping up with quite a full agenda. Join neighbors to hear updates from the design team and Seattle Parks on the Highland Park Spraypark Project, and the Westcrest Reservoir Project, including the proposed P-Patch.
This month, the HPAC meeting takes place Wednesday, February 29th, the 5th Wednesday instead of the 4th. This is a temporary date change.
Potluck at 6:30, meeting starts at 7:00 pm at the Highland Park Improvement Club on 12th and Holden.
If you ..continue reading
By chas
West Seattle Greenways: First Meeting!
The neighborhood greenway movement in Seattle has been gaining a lot of momentum lately. Neighborhood greenways are routes which provide safe connections for bicyclists and pedestrians between neighborhoods, and to schools, parks, shopping and other destinations. Often they are located on quiet streets parallel to busy arterials, and include traffic calming measures, protected crossings, pocket parks, and other elements that make the route safer and more pleasant for everybody.
The city of Seattle has committed to funding eleven miles of greenways in 2012, and twelve ..continue reading
By chas
Save the date! for SCALLOPS Spring Forward meeting. The event occurs Saturday, March 10, at the Sammamish Valley Grange in Hollywood Hills, 14654 148th Avenue Northeast, Woodinville. Join colleagues for a day of:
Heart and Soul music with Dana Lyons ( www.cowswithguns.com)
Roundtable Introductions
Sustainability Reports
West Seattle’s Tool Library, Woodinville’s Mason Bees, Bellingham’s Dandelions Unlimited, Edmonds Community Solar Coop
Potluck Lunch Business Update from SCALLOPS Central Discussion Groups
To RSVP send email to katwink@comcast.net.
Also, a new SCALLOPS website was recently launched - http://goscallops.org/ (www.SCALLOPS.ning.com will be phased out ..continue reading
By chas
 Community Power Works (CPW), a City of Seattle energy efficiency initiative to weatherize buildings and help grow a sustainable source of green jobs through energy upgrades, is now serving homes throughout the City of Seattle.
The CPW for Home program is one of six programs operated by Community Power Works and funded in part by a grant from the US Department of Energy. The other CPW programs are CPW for Multifamily units, CPW for Small Businesses, CPW ..continue reading
By Patrick
 The next Sustainable West Seattle Community Forum is about Health. We’ll again be at the Senior Center of West Seattle, on SW Oregon St. right around the corner from California Ave. SW. We meet upstairs in the large community room.
Our health care system is both more expensive and has lower quality than other industrialized countries. Many describe this as a sick care system because significant is not spent until after you get sick. Communities are now developing alternatives that cost less and move people toward whole health. By focusing on prevention and early intervention we can also drop the costs of health care.
Our speaker is Dale Jarvis, a healthcare consultant and West Seattlite who has worked at fixing the healthcare system in 20 states since the federal healthcare law passed in 2010. Dale will describe healthcare reform ‘triples’ and ‘home runs’ that can fit Seattle’s neighborhoods. Join this discussion of a new healthcare ecosystem for West Seattle.
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The next Sustainable West Seattle Community Forum is about Health. We’ll again be at the Senior Center of West Seattle, on SW Oregon St. right around the corner from California Ave. SW. We meet upstairs in the large community room.
Our health care system is both more expensive and has lower quality than other industrialized countries. Many describe this as a sick care system because significant is not spent until after you get sick. Communities are now developing alternatives that cost ..continue reading
By chas
Once again DubSea Bikes will be hosting a free bicycle clinic. Sunday, February 12, from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm at 10029 8th Avenue SW (White Center Food Bank), the team will be taking bikes for repair and tune-up.
Our mission to increase cycling in White Center is gathering speed. Matthew Tilton’s beautiful metal bike racks along 16th Ave SW tell folks that White Center believes in the future of bike transport!
Now Rick Jump has offered the FREE use of the spacious, well-lit White Center Food ..continue reading
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