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Cooperatives!
Join us this month, February 22nd, to learn about the various cooperative models being employed by businesses and organizations around Seattle. See our calendar for more details.
You may have heard that Sustainable Ballard employs some of the practices from Sociocracy in running our organization. Sociocracy is a new style of governing that is both inclusive of all views and efficient in communication. Techniques from Sociocracy are used by families, businesses, non-profits and government agencies. This Spring we hosting and helping to teach a full weekend workshop on Feb 27 & 28. Click here for Sustainable Ballard discount details.
Calling all Offcast Artisans, Detritus Designers and Trash Fashionistas
The RE Store is soliciting artwork, functional designs, and fashion submissions for the 9th Annual Recycled Art & Fashion Show. The deadline for submissions is March 8, 2010. Recycled Art is artwork crafted from found, salvaged, scavenged, and repurposed materials. The art can take the form of 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional, fashion design and accessories, interactive, mechanical, electronic, kinetic and multimedia works. Complete criteria and applications are available at www.re-store.org/recycledart. Mark your calendars, the Recycled Art Show runs April 10 - May 4 at Blowing Sands Gallery and the Trash Fashion Show takes place April 17 at the New York Fashion Academy in Ballard!
Special offer from Zipcar:
Members of Sustainable Ballard can join Zipcar for only $25/year and no application fee -- a savings of $50! Join now at www.zipcar.com/sustainableballard to sign up. Also, stop by the Zipcar booth at the Sustainable Ballard Festival - show your Undriver License and NEW Zipcard for a chance to win a $50 ORCA Card!
Green My Ballard
The Ballard News Tribune website now has a column for green and sustainable issues, information, ideas and stories called Green My Ballard. Do you know an individual or business setting a good example for the rest of us? If so, please email rhonda@sustainableballard.org or call 206.783.7079.
Undriving by Bike+Bus
The Bike/Bus combo extends your Undriving options - and King County METRO recently made this more convenient! Now you can load/unload your bike anywhere in downtown Seattle during off-peak hours. (From 6-9am and 3-7pm M-F, remember to load/unload at the first or last stop in the Ride Free Area.) You can load/unload bikes any time in the Transit Tunnel. Also - electric bikes up to 55 lbs. can ride the bus! Click here for more bike resources.
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Cooperatives!
February 22, 2009
- Where?
- Sunset Hill Community Club
- 3003 NW 66th St.
- What time?
- 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
- For more information, contact
- fulvio@sustainableballard.org
Has the economy got you down? Fear not! The cooperative model provides a real alternative to the shenanigans that have brought us the current global recession. At this month's Sustainable Ballard gathering, on Monday, February 22nd, cooperatives will take center stage, and you are invited! Come and meet the owners of Equal Exchange and other local cooperatives. You will learn about the cooperative ownership and governance model, and perhaps be inspired to take matters into your own hands and together with your trusted associates start your own cooperative business. Co-ops are not a romantic, pie-in-the-sky dream for idealists, but actual, viable organizational structures that provide valuable services and feed a lot of people, while at the same time embodying all the values a sustainable economy must be built on.
Special Guests:
- Alison Booth, Equal Exchange
- Helen Bennett,
- Program Coordinator - SLICE (Supporting Local Independent Coops Everywhere)
- Member - Sherwood Cooperative
- Derek Hoshiko, Tatiana Cattand, Scott Behmer, Noelani Alexander, Rachel Petric- Harvest Collective
- Alex Tokar, Derek Hoshiko, Fulvio Casali - Web Collective
- Rick Riehle, Wendy Britton - Pangaea Organica Cooperative
- Aaron Waldkoetter, Caple Melton, Webster Walker - Central Coop's Madison Market
Further Resources
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Sustainable Ballard, a blueprint for Everytown, USA, educates, inspires, and engages neighbors to take action to live more sustainably both individually and collectively. Our vision is an inclusive, joyful, sustainable community co-creating a world for this and future generations where eco-systems are healthy and peace is inevitable.
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1% from Ballard Market
Your Ballard Market receipts mean income for Sustainable Ballard! As a charitable organization registered with Ballard Market, Sustainable Ballard receives a donation of 1% of pre-tax subtotals from receipts we send in to them. Please save your receipts. You can bring them to any Sustainable Ballard meeting, or mail them to us at 2442 Market Street PMB 286, Seattle 98107. This is EASY money, so keep those receipts coming! Ballard Market only. Thanks!
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