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 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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The project is called Presto Garden and is possible through ..continue reading
Sustainable West Seattle selected three organizations at our March 18 forum from six applicants for the Green Project Incubator Grant program. The rating criteria for the grant applications included these elements: Feasibility, Sustainability, Social and Economic Justice, Community Building, and Educational Elements. Shown accepting their award in the photo are (l to r) Ranette Iding, Delridge Grocery, Stu Hennessey, DIY Bikes, and Tansen Spengler, Timebank ..continue reading
For over 5 years SWS has had monthly meetings on the 3rd Mondays of the month to bring interested West Seattleites together over a variety of topics. Much has been learned and shared and many community alliances have been formed. Now, a new concept is being ..continue reading Sustainable West Seattle received six applications for our Green Incubator grant program. On Tuesday evening, February 19, at SWS’s monthly forum at the West Seattle Senior Center, the six proponents presented their ideas and how their project would benefit the community and be an engaging and sustainable component of life here in West Seattle. Listed below are the six proposals in alphabetical order: Delridge Produce Cooperative Membership Outreach This project would help the Coop build membership in advance of their plans to open a storefront operation on Delridge Way in 2014. ..continue reading
Just two and half years after The Tool Library started, we are about to welcome our 1,000th member through our doors. Thank you to each and every one of you who have helped to make The Tool Library such an amazing success! The West Seattle Tool Library is a project of Sustainable West Seattle and is located in the rear of the Youngstown Cultural Art Center, 4408 Delridge ..continue reading
Also bring your tools to donate to the West Seattle Tool Library. We also have the West Seattle Walking Trails map and the South Park, White Center and Central District walking maps. We’re here to help you with your questions about being more sustainable, about being a bit more green, and we’re here to take your left-over or under-used tools for the West Seattle ..continue reading
Also bring your tools to donate to the West Seattle Tool Library. We also have the West Seattle Walking Trails map and the South Park, White Center and Central District walking maps. We’re here to help you with your questions about being more sustainable, about being a bit more green, and we’re here to take your left-over or under-used tools for the West ..continue reading The West Seattle Tool Library officially opened its doors in June of 2010, offering free community access to a rather decent variety of over 100 tools out of a small storage closet. Just two years later, that modest collection has now grown to over 1,500 tools, serving a membership of around 700 neighbors from a wonderfully renovated workshop space at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center. Though an incredible amount of volunteer effort, staff time, and member support certainly helped bring this community resource to life, The Tool Library also owes ..continue reading
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SWS Board Member & West Seattle Tool Library Founder It might seem a little risky to lend out a bunch of power tools to those who probably don’t know how to use them. After all, tools can be dangerous, people can be idiots, and we live in an exceptionally litigious society. For some strange but very understandable reason, those concerns alone have been more than enough to effectively end many community tool libraries before they even start. As the sharing economy continues ..continue reading |
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