2009 Schedule

Host a Conversation

If you are interested in hosting a conversation in our Town Hall (pick a topic and have an open discussion or share your knowledge and invite others to share theirs), please email Jenny with your name and a description of your presentation.

Saturday

Food and Garden Learning Stage

12 pm Cooking Demo: NW Fall Harvest Stir-fry
Johnna Dietz, WholeBody Nutrition

1 pm Cheese Making at Home
Matt Hamel

2 pm Food Preservation Demo
Making the most of the harvest
Sarah Elmore

3 pm Growing Winter Vegetables
Everything you need to know to make your winter garden a success
Michael Seliga, Cascade Edible Landscapes

4 pm Native Plants
Varieties that look great and attract local wildlife!
Don Norman, owner of Go Natives! nursery

Music Stage

12:15 pm Greenleaf
indie acoustic folk

1:15 pm Recycled/Upcycled Fashion Show
featuring re-creations from local artists

2:15 pm Bill Matthews and Fremont Drum & Dance
African drum and dance

3:15 pm Max Crumble Orchestra
acoustic lounge string band

4:15 pm The Tallboys
old time string band

Green Home Workshop Stage

12:30 pm Before you choose high-tech…
Is a high tech/high cost solution your best option?
Jim Bristow, Solar and Energy Conservation consultant
Bristow Enterprises

1:30 pm Pull the plug on your electric bill
a survey of hand-tools for kitchen and workshop
Balllard Woodworks and Bridget Smith

2:30 pm Water-catchment home tour
meet at the Green Home workshop tent at 2:15 pm to walk over

3:30 pm Getting into hot water… solar, that is!
Gerard Del Monte, Liquid Heating

4:30 pm How to Build a Solar Oven
Briana Barrett

Town Hall

12:45 pm Compassionate Communication
Creating Sustainable Relationships
Host: Joseph Crick, NW Compassionate Communication ITC

1:45 pm The Economy and Local Banking
Let's look at how the money we deposit affects our community
Host: John Repp, Seattle FOR (Fellowship of Reconciliation)

2:45 pm Investing our Money: Sustainability and Community Included
Connecting the dots, a conversation
Host: Eric Smith, CFP, AIF; Goodfunds Wealth Management

3:45 pm Healthy Living, Sustainable Life
Strategies to living a life of sustainability with your health
Host: Derek Strachan, Divine Spine Chiropractic

Sunday

Food and Garden Learning Stage

12 pm Container Gardening
The basics of growing beautiful edibles in small spaces
Ingela Wanerstrand, Green Darner Garden Design

1 pm Cooking Demo: Seasonal Treasures
Phyllis Rosen, Catering by Phyllis

2 pm Cooking Demo: Sensational Seasonal Summer Salad
Chef Lesa Sullivan

3 pm Designing your Veggie Garden for Beauty and Yield
Succession and companion planting to increase your harvest"
Amy Ockerlander, CPH, garden educator, Seattle Tilth and the Garden Hotline

4 pm All About Seeds Author Bill Thorness
Growing heirlooms and other open-pollinated varieties and saving our own seed

Bill has been a Seattle gardener since the mid-1980s and a longtime P-Patcher. He writes about gardening for The Seattle Times and other local publications, and is the publications editor for Seattle Tilth. Edible Heirlooms is his second book.

Edible Heirlooms: Heritage Vegetables for the Maritime Garden (Skipstone Press, October 2009)

Music Stage

12:15 pm Haymish Klezmer
traditional folk music of East European Jewry

1:15 pm Northwest Choro Collective
brazilia jazz

2:15 pm Bill Horist
acoustic guitar excursions
more about Bill

3:15 pm Total Bluegrass Assault
bluegrass with newgrass banjo and 2 part harmonies
with members of Loose Digits and Max Gross Weight

4:15 pm Flash Fashion Challenge
24 hours to build a new fashion from old
Pick up your special garment kit on Saturday at the Library. Return on Sunday with your creations. Add other scraps and remnants (SewUp Seattle will have some at the Starting Lines and/or add from your own stash). All sewing skill levels are welcome! Enter the challenge on your own or team up to create.

Green Home Workshop Stage

12:30 pm Right Bulb, Right Place – Lighting that Works
Energy-efficient lighting for home and office: Best use of fluorescents, motion sensors, LEDs, cold-cathode, and more.
Kurt Nielsen, Enluminate: Energy-efficient Lighting Consultant for Home and Office

1:30 pm Living in Your Comfort Zone
insulation, leak-sealing and draft stop'
Jan Gravemaker, Home & Built Environment Guild Leader

2:30 pm Water-catchment home tour
meet at the Green Home workshop tent at 2:15 pm to walk over

3:30 pm Mycofiltration
Mushrooms in your garden
Liz Dunigan, Groundswell NW

4:30 pm Speaking Up
Why talking to the government still matters
Andrea Faste, neighbor and lifelong activist

Town Hall

12:45 pm Collective Leadership
Structures and systems for working cooperatively
Hosts: Jenny Heins, Sustainable Ballard and Fulvio Casali, Web Collective

1:45 pm Peak Oil and Climate Change 101
Awakening to Utopia in the middle of a hurricane of information is difficult. So instead we'll share a simple discovery process. This format that has inspired many towns and cities internationally. The group navigates, feels, debates, and relates - deeply, information in hand. Come away refreshed.
Host: Briana Barrett, www.transitionseattle.ning.com

2:45 pm Sustainable Communities ALL Over Puget Sound
Advice 5¢ : How to start a new Sustainable Community
Host: Vic Opperman, SCALLOPS co-founder

3:45 pm Your topic here
Your name here