Welcome to the 1st Annual Sustainability Festival

4314 SW Alaska St, One Block West of the Alaska Junction in West Seattle

Sustainable West Seattle's inaugural Festival theme is “Building Community - Creating Connections”. We hope the festival provides you with an opportunity to connect with and learn from others in your community Festical Logo - citizens, activists, businesses, and groups - who are working to make West Seattle more sustainable.

The mission of Sustainable West Seattle is to educate and advocate for urban sustainability in our local community. Sustainability is the ethic and practice of ensuring that our needs and resource-use can be maintained and will not rob future generations of meeting their needs and maintaining healthy ecosystems. We can make a difference for each other by improving transit service and advocating bicycling, cleaning our local watersheds and replanting with native species, reusing and recycling materials, and many other things that are easy to integrate into our everyday lives.

All of these skills and techniques make a more respectful use of the gifts of this planet, while addressing the major environmental problems of these challenging times. Sustainability make us richer in the community connections we make, our knowledge of how nature provides for us, our personal health, our ecosystems health, and robustness of our local economies. Sustainability, practiced correctly, is truly a win/win proposition.

We appreciate the generous participation of the many leaders, speakers, and workshop panelists who have made time to be with us here today. They understand that communicating with each other and learning from each other on these issues is essential to our collective future.

This Festival represents the efforts of dozens of volunteers who have worked hard to put this day together. It also would not be possible without the generous donations of many visionary sponsors who understand that a sustainable economy is a healthy, stable economy that uses resources wisely. We are excited about the more than 50 local businesses and groups who have joined us today to share their unique approaches to the sustainable path. We hope that you enjoy the Festival while learning about living more lightly on this planet, and urge you to join us!

Bill Reiswig, Co-founder - Sustainable West Seattle