MUST SEE !! Elizabeth Kolbert on Climate Change

December 5, 2006

Where? 

Benaroya Hall

What time? 

7:30pm

For more information, contact 

206-621-2230

A special evening with the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe and the award-winning New Yorker series on global warming. Elizabeth Kolbert discusses her views on how climate change is affecting the natural world as well as the latest research on the phenomenon of human-induced warming. Her presentation is followed by a panel discussion moderated by Timothy Egan, New York Times reporter and distinguished author. Joining the conversation are K.C. Golden, Policy Director for Climate Solutions, and Stephen Gardiner, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington. ( Sustainable Ballard will be the main tabler at this event!) Presented with North Cascades Institute. Underwritten by the Campion Foundation with support from the Mountaineers Books, NBBJ, and Reed, Longyear, Malnati, Ahrens & West, PLLC. To purchase tickets, call 206-621-2230

PLAYGROUND PANCAKE FEED - Dec 2006

December 9, 2006

Where? 

Salmon Bay School

at 1810 NW 65th St. (between 18 & 19th Ave NW)

What time? 

8:30 to 11:00 a.m.

For more information, contact 

Sam Star

Sam Star wrote: Save room for some pancakes!

Plan to join us at Salmon Bay School at 1810 NW 65th St. (between 18 & 19th Ave NW) on December 9 from 8:30 to 11:00 a.m. for a Pancakes and Playground pancake feed. For a mere $5 per person, enjoy fresh, home cooked griddle cakes topped with all the fixins,’ including REAL MAPLE SYRUP, and learn more about our plans to renovate the playground to better serve the community!

We’re more than half way towards the fund-raising for the field, and have a design almost completed. It’s time for our community to get serious about finishing the fund-raising and start planning to enjoy the new facility. We’re inviting our neighbors as well as the soccer teams that use the upper field -- we’ll give you more details in coming weeks.

For now, SAVE THE DATE. Way to go Sam!!

Business-After-Hours 2006

December 12, 2006

Where? 

Maritime Pacific Brewing Co.

1514 NW Leary (not in the Tap Room, but enter via the door to the west)

What time? 

5:30 to 7:30 PM

For more information, contact 

Beth Williamson Miller, Executive Director, The Ballard Chamber of Commerce, (206) 784-9705, E-mail: beth AT ballardchamber.com

Mark your calendars for next Tuesday! It's our annual Maritime Pacific Brewing Co. Business-After-Hours. For those of you "old" timers, we're back at the brewery and can see right where this wonderful elixir is made. Please join us to celebrate the holidays and another great year in our wonderful town of Ballard.

• Cost: $7 per person or $10 per couple

Hope to see you there!

Ballard Chamber of Commerce Luncheon - Dec 2006

December 13, 2006

Where? 

What time? 

For more information, contact 

(every 2nd weds)

Replaced this month with the BALLARD COMMUNITY PARTY

Ballard District Council Meeting - Dec 2006

December 13, 2006

Where? 

Ballard Library

What time? 

7pm

For more information, contact 

(every 2nd weds evening)

Agenda: See BALLARD COMMUNITY PARTY

FIRST ANNUAL Ballard Community Holiday Celebration and Leadership Recognition Awards

December 13, 2006

Where? 

Ballard Library

What time? 

7pm

For more information, contact 

Rob Mattson, Coordinator, Ballard Neighborhood Service Center, 684-4060, rob.mattson AT seattle.gov

Music, Potluck, Wine, Community Service Awards. Please join us for FIRST ANNUAL Ballard Community Holiday Celebration and Leadership Recognition Awards, Dec 13, 2006, 7pm, Ballard Library. Recognizing the contributions of these forces is something we must do to strengthen this community and to inspire others to step up to the challenge of community service and civic leadership.

Bring any treats which you would like to share. So far, we have a pledge for a quantity of pickled herring. Any other ideas? Join us on December 13 for an evening of holiday food, drink, and entertainment and to pay tribute to some of those who have gone above and beyond to make this a better place to live, play and do business. Call if you have questions or other ideas concerning this event.

(Organized through Ballard Neighborhood Services Center, Sustainable Ballard, Ballard Chamber, Ballard District Council to name a few). You won't want to miss this evening!

Film Screening: The Future of Food

December 14, 2006

Where? 

Camp Long Environmental Learning Center Main Building

5200 35th Ave SW, Seattle, WA

What time? 

7pm

For more information, contact 

(206) 684-7434

Cost: FREE/ donation

Highly recommended, eye-opening documentary on the precarious situation of our global food supply.

THE FUTURE OF FOOD offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade.

THE FUTURE OF FOOD examines the complex web of market and political forces that are changing what we eat as huge multinational corporations seek to control the world's food system. The film also explores alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture, placing organic and sustainable agriculture as real solutions to the farm crisis today. { 88 min.}

http://www.nweec.org/ea.htm

2006 Festival of Lights

December 16, 2006

Where? 

Trinity United Methodist Church

What time? 

7 pm

For more information, contact 

Come enjoy the Sparkling Choir of Love with guests; The Choir of St. Paul's. A World of Christmas! By: Joseph Martin

Transportation Guild Meeting - Dec 2006

(3rd tuesdays)

December 19, 2006

Where? 

Opperman Design office

What time? 

7 - 9 pm

For more information, contact 

Vic - 206.789.7646

Feet, bikes, busses, carpools, boats, cars. Current projects: Ballard Car-Free Event planning, Ballard Artistic Bike Rack design Contest and Implementation, Ballard Grease Reclaimation project, Sail Transport Network. Bring your Advanced Transportation ideas! POTLUCK! For directions to meeting please call 206.789.7646. Thanks and see you soon! Vic

1Source Ballard Website

December 22, 2006

Where? 

Ballard Neighborhood Center

Next to the library at NW 56th and 22nd NW

What time? 

1 pm - 3 pm

For more information, contact 

fulvio(at)sustainableballard.org

Sustainable Ballard, Groundswell NW and the Ballard Neighborhood Center are joining forces to create a one-stop community website for the town of Ballard. This is particularly aimed at citizens and organizations who are interested in civic activities. The website would feature a community calendar, a list of projects (and volunteer opportunities) and much more.

Ballard Carbon Neutral Garage Sale

December 30, 2006

Where? 

7713 11th NW

What time? 

10 am - 3 pm

For more information, contact 

Andrea Faste

Sustainable Ballard's Home Energy Guild is holding an odds & ends sale to promote carbon offsets. Proceeds from this sale will help keep the Cooling Down Ballard thermometer in Bergen Place Park and also generate some offsets for the Whittier Heights area of Ballard. Stop by and find some trinkets/treasures or bring something that you are ready to part with and offer it to the cause.
Coffee, drinks and cookies will also be available for a donation. Or just come by for the amusement of an icy winter garage sale.

Environment, Waste and Water Guild Meeting - Jan 2007

January 3, 2007

Where? 

Ballard Community Center - Kids Room

6020 28th Ave NW, Ph#684-4093

What time? 

6:30 - 8:30 pm

For more information, contact 

ingela AT sustainableballard.org

Our EWW Guild meetings will generally be held on the 1st Mondays.

Please join us as we finalize plans for our Feb Sustainable Landscaping class.

1Source Ballard Website - 8th Meeting

(every other Friday)

January 5, 2007

Where? 

Ballard Neighborhood Service Center

5604 22nd Ave NW (in the public library building, next to main entrance)

What time? 

1:00 - 3:00 pm

For more information, contact 

Fulvio

Sustainable Ballard, Groundswell NW and the Ballard Neighborhood Service Center are joining forces to create a one-stop community website for the town of Ballard. This is particularly aimed at citizens and organizations who are interested in civic activities. The website would feature a community calendar, a list of projects (and volunteer opportunities) and much more.

Transportation Movies: Blueprint for a Bikeable City

Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Network presents... Monthly Green Film Series

January 5, 2007

Where? 

911 Media Arts Center

South Lake Union 402 9th Avenue N., Seattle, WA 98109

What time? 

7:30 - 9:30 pm

For more information, contact 

http://www.hazelfilm.org/greenfilms.html#bikeable

Blueprint for a Bikeable City

With co-host Sierra Club Seattle Group.

Easy Rollin'

A community of cycling enthusiasts in Vancouver, BC, finds funky ways to bring together their environmental and artistic ideals to promote green transportation and alternative ways of engaging within our car-congested society. Bio-Diesel and Pedal-Powered Generators are only a few examples of how to rethink the way we live and move through this world. Join us for a community-building street festival with some of the most creative and fun transportation options you'll ever see. A humourous and light-hearted look at creative alternatives. (Marianne Bos & Hadas Levy, 2004, 17 min)

We Are Traffic! A Movie About Critical Mass

We Are Traffic! chronicles the history and development of the "Critical Mass" bicycle movement, one of the most spirited and dynamic social/political movements of the apathetic 90's. In over 200 cities in 14 different countries, Critical Mass has now become a monthly ritual of reclaiming the streets by bicycle activists riding en masse.

We Are Traffic! tracks this leaderless, grassroots movement from its beginnings in San Francisco in 1992 to its spread across the globe. With a radical direct-action approach the participants of Critical Mass are celebrating the bicycle and in turn taking on perhaps the century's most sacred cow: the automobile. Film available from filmmaker Ted White at http://www.tedwhitegreenlight.com. (Ted White, 50 minutes, 1999)

Panel Discussion: Seattle Bicycle Master Plan

• Chuck Ayers, Cascade Bicycle Club
• Rachel Smith, Transportation Choices Coalition

Sustainable Ballard Board Meeting - Jan 07

Second Mondays

January 8, 2007

Where? 

Opperman Design

What time? 

6:30 pm

For more information, contact 

call for directions 789-7646, or contact vic AT sustainableballard DOT org

Agenda:

• Project Proposal Review
• Do we want to pursue a Neighborhood Grant?
• How do we handle decisions outside of or between Board Meetings? What decisions can be made at Guild level? What activities do or don't require a project proposal?

Community Guild: Sustainability and Kids project meeting

January 10, 2007

Where? 

Ballard

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What time? 

6:30-8:30pm

For more information, contact 

A group of us are interested in creating a Sustainability Curriculum or another means of engaging kids to develop their own sustainabilty projects. We'll be talking about a curriculum project at Puget Sound Community School this spring, a possible Sustainability Summer Camp, and more. Join in!

Meeting notes

Community and Economy Guild Meeting - Jan 2007

January 11, 2007

Where? 

Ballard Community Center - Kids Room

NE corner of NW 60th St & 28th Ave NW

What time? 

6:30 - 8:30 pm

For more information, contact 

The Community & Economy Guild will be meeting on the second Thursday of the month, starting in January.

All are welcome, from the committed to the curious!

Come hear about our current projects and dive in (we're working on developing a Sustainability curriculum for schools, 1Source Ballard website, community connectedness for emergency preparedness, and more). Also meet your neighbors, and share ideas for how we can work together to make our community more sustainable and connected.

Eat Local Now! 1st Planning Meeting 2007

January 11, 2007

Where? 

Sustainable Group office

844 NW 49th St.

What time? 

6:30 pm

For more information, contact 

jenny heins

Once again, the Sustainable Ballard Food Health Medicine Guild will be collaborating with BALLE Seattle to host a community dinner in late March featuring local food, local farmers and local chefs. If you would like to be part of the planning committee, please join us for this very important planning session.

Agenda:

Pick a date for the 2007 ELN Dinner

Set up meeting nights

Discuss what we'd like to do differently this year

Look at timeline

Highlights from the Bioneers Conference

January 11, 2007

Where? 

Seattle Unity Church

200 Eighth Ave. N., Seattle

What time? 

7:00pm - 10:00pm

For more information, contact 

http://www.seattleunity.org

The Bioneers Conference is an amazing annual conference that highlights values that we care about most. This will an opportunity to sample some of the plenary speeches from the 2006 conference. We will play the DVD's of three of the speeches and have time for discussion about each.

Paul Stamets - How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World- Paul Stamets discusses the importance of Mushrooms to our future and how they can help solve some of the major problems of our time.

Sarah Crowell - The Courage to Walk in Beauty- Creating Space for Young People to Find Truth and Power -Sarah Crowell operates a children art's center in Oakland, California that positively changes people life. This piece includes a speech by Sarah and a performance by her current students in which they ask us to wake up.

Tzeporah Berman - Corporate Campaigns and the New Environmentalism, Places, People and the Fate of the Last Great Forests. Tzeporah Berman is one of the leaders in the fight to force corporations to the negotiating table through consumer action as opposed to government regulations. Her campaigns have included success with Home Depot and Victoria Secret.

Contributions Appreciated to Cover Costs- No Entry Fee

Sponsored By: The Sacred Activism Community of Washington, Seattle Unity Church Empowerment Radio

1Source Ballard Website - 9th Meeting

special meeting to finish grant application

January 12, 2007

Where? 

Ballard Neighborhood Service Center

5604 22nd Ave NW (in the public library building, next to main entrance)

What time? 

1:00 - 3:00 pm

For more information, contact 

Fulvio

Sustainable Ballard, Groundswell NW and the Ballard Neighborhood Service Center are joining forces to create a one-stop community website for the town of Ballard. This is particularly aimed at citizens and organizations who are interested in civic activities. The website would feature a community calendar, a list of projects (and volunteer opportunities) and much more.

3rd Annual Environmental Film Festival For High School Students

YMCA Earth Service Corps & the Northwest Environmental Education Council Present

January 13, 2007

Where? 

The Downtown YMCA

What time? 

3:00pm-6:30pm

For more information, contact 

http://nweec.org/AEFF.htm

Food, Health and Medicine Guild Meeting - Jan 2007

(usually 3rd Mondays)

January 16, 2007

Where? 

Mr. Spot's Chai House

5463 Leary Ave NW

What time? 

6:30 pm

For more information, contact 

melissa(at)sustainableballard.org

We have lots of great projects lined up for 2007 including the Eat Local Now! dinner, a soap making class, an herbal workshop, the 100 mile diet, a Ballard Health Walk, and more. Please see the Food, Health, and Medicine tab on the left of this page for more details on FHM projects & events and join us in Jan for our next meeting!!

Transportation Guild Meeting - Jan 2007

(every 3rd tuesday)

January 16, 2007

Where? 

Sunset Hill Community Association, downstairs office

3003 NW 66th Street

What time? 

7pm to 9pm POTLUCK

For more information, contact 

vic 789.7646, or kevin, 714-4606

Hello there,

T Guild meeting will continue as usual every 3rd tuesday. For those of you that live in Ballard and have been with SB for awhile, please consider running for coordinator position or nominating someone. This position is also a Board member position and I will be happy to talk with any of you more about that.

2 projects on the board to discuss at next mtg / project forms to fill out:

1. Ballard Bike Rack Design Contest (like the Pike Place Mkt designer pig project) - John Mickett
2. Bus-a-thon, a week before the SB Climate Change Forum (advertising for bus riding and climate change SB Forum being planned)(May 2007) - Duff Badgley

Also on the agenda: Bike Storage at Shilshole

• How can condo and marina dwellers influence the decisions made by whatever body governs the property?

Please contact Vic Opperman if you have any questions, concerns, or humor. See you in January!

Happy and safe holidays to all,

Best, Vic

Free Movie: An Inconvenient Truth

January 17, 2007

Where? 

Ballard High School - Commons

What time? 

7 pm - ?

For more information, contact 

Living in a World of the Unimaginable - 2007

Public Lecture and Dialogue by Prescott College President Dr. Dan Garvey

January 18, 2007

Where? 

Mountaineers - The Tahoma Room

300 3rd Ave W.

What time? 

7 - 9 P.M.

For more information, contact 

rsobol@nwetc.org

The first in the series of national Imagine: Sustainable Futures Dialogues sponsored by Prescott College

How many among us ever imagined that we would witness the destruction of the Twin Towers by terrorists, or of New Orleans by hurricane, within our lifetime? How prepared will we be to respond creatively to future events? Dr. Dan Garvey, President of Prescott College, will discuss the opportunities open to citizens and leaders to imagine and create the future we would like to live in, both in our personal lives and for the public good. This presentation kicks off a two-year series of Sustainable Futures Dialogues which Dr. Garvey and others from the College will be offering in communities across the US in an effort to stimulate dialogue on creating sustainable futures.

Screening: Broken Limbs

January 18, 2007

Where? 

Ballard Library

5614 22nd Ave. N.W.

What time? 

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

For more information, contact 

Melissa(at)sustainableballard.org

Food/Health/Medicine Winter School
Screening and Discussion of "Broken Limbs: Apples, Agriculture and the New American Farmer"
For more info on this documentary see http://www.brokenlimbs.org

Documentary Description

Wenatchee, Washington, "Apple Capital of the World." This pastoral Valley in the heart of the Pacific Northwest prospered for nearly a century as home to the famed Washington apple. But the good times have vanished. Apple orchardists by the thousands are going out of business and thousands more await the dreaded letter from the bank announcing the end of their livelihoods and a uniquely American way of life.

After his own father receives just such a letter, filmmaker Guy Evans sets out on a journey of discovery to try to find out what went wrong here in this natural garden of Eden. Along the way he witnesses small farmers forced off their land as they struggle to compete against the Goliaths that populate today’s global economy. The future looks grim for the Apple Capital until Evans happens upon an entirely new breed of farmer, practitioners of a new model for farming called sustainable agriculture. They have come to be known as the New American Farmers and they are finding success by going against the grain of conventional agriculture. The ideas that Evans uncovers define a path of renewal that could save not only his father, but farmers across America.

BROKEN LIMBS explores these hopeful stirrings within agriculture, and outlines ways in which any individual can play a role in saving America’s farmers. Told from a hometown perspective, the film presents the stories of farmers attempting to create this new model for agriculture and emerging, more sustainable solutions to the crises of recent years – solutions applicable not just to apples and not just to farming, but to nearly any sector of the American economy troubled by the effects of consolidation and globalization.

Kiwanis Work Party

KIWANIS WILDLIFE CORRIDOR HABITAT WORK PARTY

January 20, 2007

Where? 

Kiwanis Wildlife Corridor

just south of the Locks, and south of Commodore Park. Call for details and further directions!

What time? 

10 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

For more information, contact 

Gail Lassman at glassman AT oco.net 206 282 1243

Project Come learn and support heron habitat with a work party!
Sponsor Heron Habitat Helpers (HHH)

General Meeting - Jan 07

Sustainable Ballard's regular monthly meetings are held on the 4th Monday of each month at Sunset Hill Community Center, unless otherwise noted.

January 22, 2007

Where? 

Sunset Hill Community Center

at the corner of 30th NW & NW 66th

What time? 

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

For more information, contact 

vic(at)sustainableballard(dot) org

Theme: MOVING into the New Year
Sustainable Ballard is all about action, so we want to start the new year right with an "active" meeting!
Agenda:

6:30 pm Mission Statement, "Walk the Talk" & Potluck!

7:15 pm Qigong with Kim Ivy of Embrace the Moon arranged by our Food, Health, Medicine Guild

8:00 pm Meet our Guilds - We will have stations set up around the room for you to walk around and get acquainted with each guild, see some project ideas and suggest your own!

2007 Fall Festival - 1st Planning Mtg

Annual Ballard Sustainability Festival

January 24, 2007

Where? 

Jenny's house

contact jenny heins for address

What time? 

7pm - 8:30 pm

For more information, contact 

jenny heins

1/24/07 Festival Planning Meeting

Intros/Special Skills:

Ezra – fundraising, event planning

Ingela - environment guild, willing worker

Will – copywriter, PTA president – whitman school, more

Jenny – attempted manager of last year's fest

Vic – SB President

Michael – jester, entertainer, software designer, more

Gudrun - arrived late so didn't get to describe her special skills

Application has been submitted for Sept 29 & 30th

Ultimate Festival:

• Collaboration w/ like-minded organizations – maybe they could each manage a zone?
• Bigger - close 22nd past library plus Ballard Commons, or 22nd/Marvin/Bergen
• Tree Ballard - have a spark forward out of the festival – what next?
• Collection buckets for each guild to fund specific projects
• Advertisements for the Guilds
• Have sign-up sheets for guild activities
• How Sustainable Ballard Works signs
• Theme:? Sustainability for the Next Generation
• advertise in school newsletters
• Paid staff does logistics so volunteers can focus on guild portion
  • Feedback loop where paid staff are working for volunteers by powering and supporting
• Education/Inspiration/Giving people tools
• After Event/ Fundraiser (Tractor Tavern/ Leif Erikson Hall)
• No Selling
• Food Samples/Buy Local Food -Chamber?

Possible Working Teams:

• Food
• Booth/Vendors
• Volunteer Coordinator
• Website
• Displays/Printing/Graphics
• Program Direction/Schedule
• Logistics/Apps/Rentals
• Media/Advertisement/PR
• Fundraising/Sponsors
• Project Management (Timeline/Flowchart/Budget)
• Kids Outreach

Possible Funded positions:

• Sponsorship/Fundraising/Media/Publications
• Project Management/Collaboration/Volunteer Coordination/Logistics

Seeking Solutions: Green Chemistry

2007 Environmental Health Lecture Series

January 24, 2007

Where? 

Town Hall Seattle

1119 Eigth Ave google map

What time? 

Reception: 5:30 pm, Lecture: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

For more information, contact 

Seattle Biotech Legacy Foundation

Speaker: Terry Collins, PhD, MSc

Growing awareness about the health implications of hazardous chemicals in our everyday lives has prompted some scientists to design less toxic alternatives. This exciting new field of research is known as green chemistry, and Terry Collins, PhD, MSc, is one of the major leaders and drivers of this field. He serves as the Thomas Lord Professor of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University where he directs the Institute for Green Oxidation Chemistry. Dr. Collins has also written and lectured widely on the opportunity for chemists to be significant players in developing vibrant new economies to promote sustainability. He will speak about his research program which focuses on greening oxidation technologies by designing nontoxic catalysts as well as public policy opportunities to encourage the development of products using green chemistry.

This lecture is part of the 2007 Environmental Health Lecture Series sponsored by the Seattle Biotech Legacy Foundation and organized by the Institute for Children's Environmental Health. Sightline Institute is a partner in these events.

Advance reservations are $30 for the four-lecture series until January 15th, or $10 each for individual lectures. Tickets available here.

For more information about the lectures, please check individual events here, and for logistics and details, see the series page here.

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH - presented by NWEEC - Jan 2007

http://www.nweec.org/ea.htm

January 25, 2007

Where? 

Camp Long Environmental Learning Center - Main Building

5200 35th Ave. SW Seattle, WA

What time? 

7:00 P.M.

For more information, contact 

rsobol@nwetc.org

free / donations

Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced.

Eat Local Now! 2nd Planning Meeting 2007

January 25, 2007

Where? 

Sustainable Group office

844 NW 49th St.

What time? 

6:30 pm

For more information, contact 

jenny heins

Agenda:

Venue report & choose one

Solidify plan (family-style dinner v's buffet v's sampler v's some mix)

Identify and define working groups

Community Weaver Certification Training - Jan 2007

January 26, 2007

Where? 

2100 Building - Board Room

2100 24th Ave. So.

What time? 

9am - 5pm

For more information, contact 

Registration Info - 206.240.2241

Community Weaving is a grass roots community mobilization approach that increases community capacity and social capital by engaging citizens to pool resources, network with one another and co-create initiatives for the common good of the community. As a Community Weaver, you will learn how to start-up Family Support Networks in schools, churches, neighborhoods, associations and agencies within your community and train volunteers as Family Advocates/Liaisons. You will gain insight into transformative community building theories and practices and learn practical applications of ABCD (Asset-Based Community Development) and Family Support principles that underpin the FSN methodology. All the tools, techniques, technology and expertise you need are provided to customize change initiative(s) to empower families toward self-sufficiency and better meet the needs of your community. You'll be amazed at how easy it is to engage, train and mobilize a grass roots social support system that serves as a safety net for families, fosters social capital and functions interdependently with formal systems to improve the health and welfare of the whole community from the inside out.

• Cheryl Honey, CEO, Excel Strategies, Inc. and Founder, Family Support Network, International
• Jim Diers, author Neighbor Power & ABCD Faculty

Registration Fee:$250

(Includes certification, materials & meals)

Scholarships available

Email scholarships@familynetwork.org with your scholarship request

(No one will be turned away due to financial constraints!)

Those coming from outside the Seattle area, rooms have been reserved at: Baroness Hotel

Single Rate: $65

1005 Spring St

Seattle, WA 98104

(206) 624-0787 Ext. 0 or www.baronesshotel.com

For more information: 206.240.2241 wecare@familynetwork.org

• Family Support Network
• Community Weaving

"The more resourceful we are among ourselves, the more valuable a resource we become to our families, our communities and our world."

New Web-Based Technology!

FSN volunteer, Max Stalnaker, developed a web-based technology to enable individuals and groups to share resources, establish Group ID's, locate resources, organize activities, spearhead initiatives and publish resource directories. To tour FSN website go to: www.familynetwork.org. This technology is free has flexible applications for connecting members of groups, associations, neighborhoods, churches, and schools together.

The 2100 Building is located in the heart of one of Seattle's most culturally diverse communities, Rainer Valley. We engage the agencies and families we serve by helping them organize a variety of activities and special events for the whole community. You are welcome to drop in and tour the facility.

Community Building Opportunity for Seattle's Neighbors

January 27, 2007

Where? 

Bertha Landes Knight room at City Hall

5th Ave and James St.

What time? 

9 am - noon

For more information, contact 

Karen Ko, Northeast District Coordinator at 233-3732.

Are you interested in becoming involved in your community? Are you looking to contribute time and give back to your neighborhood? Join us for a Community Brainstorm!

The combined District Councils of Seattle are hosting a leadership forum, with Councilmember Sally Clark as keynote speaker.

Several panels will have members give presentations on:

Identifying and coalescing around important issues

Raising money and generating in-kind contributions

Finding and mobilizing volunteers

Outreach and Publicity

Panel presentations will be followed by break-out sessions on these topics.

Free childcare will be provided onsite for a limited number of children. Please be sure to give us advance notice. Free bus fare will be provided for up to 50 people.

Community Weaver Certification Training - Jan 2007 (Day Two)

See entry for Jan 27

January 27, 2007

Where? 

2100 Building - Board Room

2100 24th Ave. So.

What time? 

9am - 5pm

For more information, contact 

Registration Info - 206.240.2241

SB Transportation Guild: Organizing for the Ballard Bike Rack design Contest

So ...you want us to get out of our cars eh? Together let's create an abundance of artful & user-friendly bike racks so that we will all ride our bikes more often AND have more racks to lock to.

January 29, 2007

Where? 

Sunset Hill Community Club (check back please ... afternoon of mtg/ location may change)

30th & 66th

What time? 

7 to 9pm

For more information, contact 

vic AT sustainableballard DOT org 650.7646

We are starting to organize this project/ contest. We will meet every 2 weeks for the next several months to get this project "rolling". Please check back for more details re: location. We will also be discussing this project at our 4th monday general meeting, Feb 26. Visit our guild table then. THANKS!

SeaVU Social - Jan 07

January 29, 2007

Where? 

Mr. Spot's Chai House

5463 Leary Ave NW

What time? 

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

For more information, contact 

ross AT seavu.org

Join the SeaVU crowd (that's Seattle Community Currency) for an evening of fun and conversation at this great LOCAL establishment. Visit www.seavu.org for more information about SeaVU.

Home Energy Guild meeting - Jan 2007

January 30, 2007

Where? 

Andrea's house

7713 11th NW Seattle WA

What time? 

7:30 pm

For more information, contact 

andrea faste or 783-6963 regrets

Home Energy Guild will be regrouping for the new year. Proposed projects are:

1. Promoting home energy audits in Ballard to encourage people to save energy Jan Gravemaker
2. Re-igniting "Ballard Cooling Down" campaign Tracy Carroll
3. Doing the 4 week's of readings in the NW Earth Institute's course called "Global Warming: Changing CO2urse"
   

Or possibly combining 1 and 2, along with learning from Vashon's attempt to create an independent Public Utility District (PUD)

Our guild welcomes new members.

SB Transportation Guild (Addl Mtg): Ballard Bike Rack Design Contest project

So ...you want us to get out of our cars eh? Well then, together let's create an abundance of artful & user-friendly bike racks so that we will all ride our bikes more AND have a thoughful place to lock them up! We can do better than chaining up to trees, sign posts and newsstands.

January 29, 2007/ yes we changed mtg to the 29th (not the 30th).

Where? 

TBA

TBA

What time? 

7pm to 9pm

For more information, contact 

kcarrab AT comcast DOT net

We are starting to organize this project/ contest. We will meet every 2 weeks for the next several months to get this project "rolling". Please check back for more details re: location. We will also be discussing this project at mondays general meeting, Jan 22. Visit our guild table then. THANKS! Kevin and the T Guild rollers

Monthly Green Film Series: Sustainability through Reinvention and Re-evaluating

Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Network presents...

February 2, 2007

Where? 

911 Media Arts Center

South Lake Union 402 9th Avenue N., Seattle, WA 98109

What time? 

7:30 - 9:30 pm

For more information, contact 

http://www.hazelfilm.org/greenfilms.html#reinvention

Sustainability through Reinvention and Re-evaluating

With co-host SCAN TV.

Mama Earth

Mama Earth is silent no more. The planet you live on speaks out. While experts offer solutions to the economic forces driving the sustainability movement. Mama Earth interlaces her eternal whimsy and wisdom into their thought-provoking commentary, comedy, music and her love of the film medium. Prepare yourself for an experience that will compel you to reevaluate your relationship with Mama Earth and concepts that will prompt action. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll recycle. (Leslie Bloom Van Ee, 2005, 83 min)

Guest speaker: David Batker, Founder and Executive Director of Earth Economics. David completed his graduate training in economics under Herman Daly, one of the world's foremost ecological economists. Dave has taught in the Training Department of the World Bank and has worked for Greenpeace International, specializing in trade and international finance. He also worked for two years with the Rural Reconstruction Movement, a Philippine non-profit group dedicated to ecologically sound community-based development.

Sustainable Landscaping:What the Heck is That?

Sustainable Landscaping Class

February 3, 2007

Where? 

Sunset Hill Community Clubhouse

3003 NW 66th St. Seattle, WA 98117

What time? 

12:30-3:30pm

For more information, contact 

Ingela Wanerstrand (206)789-5810 or ingela AT sustainableballard.org

A 3 hr beginner class geared towards the residential homeowner with presentations by experts and tables full of information on the following facets of sustainable landscaping:
Time & money saving tips & tricks; Methods & Materials ( soils, composting, water catchment & conservation, organics, permaculture, etc); Native Plants; Wildlife (attracting,creating habitat,salmon friendly gardening); Edibles (annuals & perennials,ornamental edibles, fruit trees & shrubs ): Our Urban Forest (tree selection & care, hazard tree evaluation); and more!
Tickets $15 and available at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/9591

Sustainable Medicine - Homeopathy

Medicine for the 21st Century

February 3, 2007

Where? 

Wedgwood Center for Natural Medicine (open house)

7337 35th Ave. NE, Seattle, WA. 98115

What time? 

1pm

For more information, contact 

Tim Ticehurst, DCH at 206.240.9513

This lecture is to celebrate the opening of the Wedgwood Center for Natural Medicine. Come and visit the Open House from 11am - 3pm and hear Tim speak at 1pm.

Homeopathy is a 200-year-old system of healing that utilizes minute doses of substances from the animal, plant and mineral kingdoms to gently stimulate the body’s inherent ability to help remove illness – both chronic and acute.

For a years supply of medicine (which is hundreds of thousands of doses) for a particular remedy only a few pounds of the substance is needed. We don't need to look to far to see that some herbs are endangered because of over harvesting, and unethical growing practices. The pharmaceutical industry uses lots of resources to make their medicines, often at the expense of the environment and animals. This talk will focus on the making of remedies, how a homeopathic lab manufactures its medicines. We will also talk about the basics of homeopathy.

Homoepahty is considered the most holistic of all alternative medicines as it takes into account the patients mental, emotional and physical symptoms and combines them as a totality. Homeopathy treats the person, not necessarily the illness.

Tim Ticehurst, DCH, is a classical homeopath who practices, teaches and writes in Seattle.

Environment,Waste and Water Guild Meeting-Feb 5th 2007

February 5, 2007

Where? 

Ballard Community Center

6020 28th Ave NW

What time? 

6:30-8:30pm

For more information, contact 

Ingela Wanerstrand (206)789-5810 or ingela AT sustainableballard.org

AGENDA:

• Discuss how Sustainable Landscaping class went.
• Schedule projects/events for 2007

Seattle Practice Group for a WISER Commons - Feb 2007

'Location Changed to allow for more time and a larger space

February 6, 2007

Where? 

Calm Rain Designs Studio

1825 S. Jackson, STUDIO 101, Seattle, WA 98144

What time? 

6-9 p.m.

For more information, contact 

habib AT connectexpress.com or call 206-725-7074 or 206-860-3974

Please join us as we practice sharing resources and collaborating for a more just and sustainable world. We will be learning about and helping to develop the WISER Commons, as well as exploring other tools and approaches. We may be forming into subgroups based on areas of focus (Business & Economics, Community Development, Technology etc.)

If you can't attend this gathering, don't worry. There will be lots of other opportunities to plug in. Our intention is not only to create something new, but to empower all of our existing efforts by weaving them together.

For more info about the Seattle Practice Group, please contact habib AT connectexpress.com or call 206-725-7074.

Directions:

Calm Rain Designs Studio is 1/2 block east of 18th Ave S. and one long block west of the intersection of 20th Ave S. and S. Jackson. Direct bus service by route 27. A few blocks away from bus routes 7, 14, 4, 8, and 48. If you can arrange an early dinner, there are two great restaurants at the corner of 20th and Jackson -- Moonlight Cafe (Vietnamese) at 1919 S. Jackson, and Hidmo (Eritrean) at 2000 S. Jackson. We will have light snacks at the practice group.

Transportation Lobby Day

February 6, 2007

Where? 

United Churches of Olympia

110 11th Avenue SE (across the street from the Capitol), Olympia

What time? 

9 am - 4 pm

For more information, contact 

rachel AT transportationchoices.org

Question: How can I influence my Legislators about transportation issues that are important to me?
Answer: Come to Transportation Lobby Day 2007!

Mark your calendars now for Transportation Lobby Day - February 6. With a long Legislative session ahead of us and unprecedented challenges and opportunities, we'll need your help more than ever! This year we'll be focusing on 4 major priorities:

1. Carbon Assessments
2. Mobility Education
3. Revising State Transportation Goals
4. Additional Revenue and Policy Changes for Local Sidewalks, Bike Lanes, and Transit

Join us for meetings with Legislators, presentations by special guests, networking with fellow transportation advocates, and having a big impact on the transportation decisions that are made in 2007. Representative Judy Clibborn, the new Chair of the House Transportation Committee will be our guest of honor and give us her take on what's happening in the Puget Sound region. This year we're teaming up with other partners in the environmental community - including All Aboard Washington, the Bicycle Alliance of Washington, the Cascade Bicycle Club, Feet First, Futurewise, Sierra Club, and WashPIRG - to make a big splash in Olympia.

RSVP NOW: rachel AT transportationchoices.org

Transportation: We will have several options for getting down to Lobby Day. Please indicate which mode you will be using with your RSVP, as well as your home address.

• This year we'll be supplying a fleet of Flexcar minivans to take us down to Olympia. We'll have five location options. Choose the van closest to your neighborhood and as the date approaches we'll confirm a meeting place and time for each van.
  • Downtown Seattle / Capitol Hill / Queen Anne
  • North Seattle / Wallingford / Green Lake / Fremont / U-District
  • Ballard / Interbay / Phinney Ridge
  • Bellevue / Redmond
  • West Seattle / South Seattle
• If you want to start your morning early, the Bicycle Alliance will be leading a bike ride to and from Olympia. That's right - riding TO and FROM Olympia! Contact Kent Peterson at 206.224.9252 or KentP@bicyclealliance.org for more information on time and meeting location.
• If you're more of a train rider, then take Amtrak with our friends from All Aboard Washington. Seattleites should take Amtrak Cascade #501 leaving King Street Station at 7:30 am and arriving at the Centennial Station at 9:00 am. All Aboard Washington will have folks there to shuttle you to the church. On the way home, they'll shuttle you back in time to catch the 4:38 pm Amtrak Cascade #516. For questions, contact Lloyd Flem at 360.943.8333 or washarp(AT)olywa.net. For Amtrak tickets, call 1.800.USARAIL.
• Finally, if you'd like to carpool just let us know and we'll see if we have other RSVP's from your neighborhood!

Seeking Solutions: Nanotech

2007 Environmental Health Lecture Series

February 7, 2007

Where? 

Town Hall Seattle

1119 Eigth Ave google map

What time? 

Reception: 5:30 pm, Lecture: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

For more information, contact 

Seattle Biotech Legacy Foundation

Speaker: Joel Tickner, ScD

Nanotechnology has fast become an arena of great technological promise. By manipulating the structure of matter at the level of small numbers of atoms, engineers are producing novel materials and devices. However, nanotech also carries a number of potential and concerning health risks. Given the scientific uncertainty of this technology, some researchers and environmental health advocates are using this debate to call for a thoughtful application of the precautionary principle. Joel Tickner, ScD, is director of the Chemical Science and Policy Program and assistant professor in the Department of Community Health and Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, has written and lectured widely on implementing precaution in public health and policy settings. He will describe how using precaution can lead to more prudent public health choices when considering emerging technologies such as nanotech.

This lecture is part of the 2007 Environmental Health Lecture Series sponsored by the Seattle Biotech Legacy Foundation and organized by the Institute for Children's Environmental Health. Sightline Institute is a partner in these events.

Advance reservations are $30 for the four-lecture series until January 15th, or $10 each for individual lectures. Tickets available here.

For more information about the lectures, please check individual events here, and for logistics and details, see the series page here.

Eat Local Now! 3rd Planning Meeting 2007

February 8, 2007

Where? 

Sustainable Group office

844 NW 49th St.

What time? 

6:30 pm

For more information, contact 

Jenny Heins

Agenda:

• Discuss Ballard High School collaboration
• Discuss budget/ticket pricing

Edens Lost - presented by NWEEC - Feb 2007

Free / Donations

February 8, 2007

Where? 

NW Environmental Education Council

650 South Orcas Street, Suite 220 Seattle, WA 98108

What time? 

7:00 P.M.

For more information, contact 

info@nweec.org http://www.nweec.org/ea.htm

Billy Frank of the Nisqually tribe, Bernie Matsuno of the Dept. of Neighborhoods, members of the People's Waterfront Coalition and High Point development bring us up to date on the efforts to implement sustainability in Seattle.

More on the film

Sustainable Ballard Board Meeting - Feb 07

Second Mondays

February 12, 2007

Where? 

Opperman Design office

What time? 

6:30 pm

For more information, contact 

call for directions 789-7646, or contact vic AT sustainableballard DOT org

Agenda:

Festival Planning Meeting - 13Feb07

February 13, 2007

Where? 

Jenny's house

contact jenny heins for address

What time? 

7 pm - 8:30 pm

For more information, contact 

Jenny Heins

Agenda:

• review timeline
• review paid position proposals
• create teams - choose team leaders
• identify 1st tasks