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"Try mass transit if you can't walk or bike."  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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CURRENT ODDS: 1 in 50 On February 21st, 2012, Sustainable West Seattle will be giving away 2 roundtrip tickets* good for anywhere Alaska Airlines or Horizon Air fly. Raffle tickets will be awarded to all those who complete any of the following before the date of the drawing: Join Sustainable West Seattle or renew your membership with a $20 donation; Join The West Seattle Tool Library or renew your membership with a $20 ..continue readingTo The Honorable Representatives of the 99%:
The last ten years have shown that our nation’s economic and political systems are clearly broken. In the wake of a dramatic recession, the economic health of average Americans has been devastated and our national leadership has been ineffective, if not downright counter-productive, in bringing forth a remedy. As long as most Americans remain complacent or silent in their frustration, this horrid situation is unlikely to improve. Your actions, however, have helped to awaken ..continue reading By Patrick Dunn
There’s a beautiful image that comes to mind when you think of an old woodworker in his shop, shaving off a paper thin slice of red cedar with a jack plane as the wood burning stove in the corner helps heat up a kettle of coffee for break time. This picturesque scene surely still takes place here in Seattle but often there are a few modern conveniences thrown in to alter that nostalgic vision and maybe add a little noise and dust ..continue reading By Amanda Leonard One of the most popular and heavily used power tools is the hand held circular saw. You’ve probably seen them on just about every do-it-yourself show out there. Believe it or not, stationary circular saws have actually been around since the late 1770’s, though they weren’t available in a hand held form until 1923. The basic circular saw uses a rotating blade to make relatively straight cuts across a piece of material. Though the hand held version is the type most people think of when circular saw is mentioned, ..continue reading By Micah Summers
This week at The West Seattle Tool Library, I unearth one of carpentry’s oldest (and most useful) modern tools, the jack plane, which is a general-purpose bench plane. This particular plane, the Stanley No. 5 ¼, predates World War II but has been fully refurbished and cleaned for use. The term jack refers to the ‘jack of all trades’ saying, in that this plane can perform the duties of both smoothing and jointing planes.
Smoothing refers to a means of finishing a flat wood surface by shaving off thin ..continue reading by Micah Summers At The West Seattle Tool Library, we’ve been thankful and fortunate to receive a large number of unique donations, from brand-new tools to obscure, vintage items. Today I’m writing about a tool donation that came to us nearly unused, a Porter Cable profile sander. If you’ve ever tried to refinish a piece of old furniture or prepare fine woodworking for that gorgeous finish coat, then you’ve likely discovered that most power sanders aren’t too useful when it comes to the small details. The profile sander is a multi-function sander ..continue reading
On June 8, 2010, Sustainable West Seattle achieved a great landmark in the life of any non-profit organization by officially receiving its 501c3 status from the Internal Revenue Service.
While making donations to SWS tax-deductable, this status may also enable SWS to serve as a fiscal sponsor for small, local, sustainable projects that are unable to receive funding from most private organizations, government agencies or other funders. ..continue reading Beginning January, 2010, the Department of Neighborhoods will be using revised guidelines for the Neighborhood Matching Fund programs which make the application easier to use, and which change the dollar amounts involved for both citizen input (worth of an hour of citizen time goes up to $20/hr from $15/hr) and for the upper limit for some of the smaller programs (small grants now allow up to $20,000). |
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