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by Karyn Strickler a political scientist, grassroots organizer and writer. She is a senior fellow with the Center for New Politics and Policy. Karyn is the producer and host of Climate Challenge on MMCTV. You can contact her at climatechallengetv@gmail.com

"We have been too kind to those people who are destroying the planet ~ inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind."
-- Derrick Jensen, author of Endgame

As the bell rang in the U.S. House of Representatives,… Continue

Growing Food Growing Communities coordinator extraordinaire Abby Klingbeil and her husband David Zipkin welcomed their new baby Julia Sophie Zipkin to Wallingford on July 24. Mom, dad, and baby are doing great and even more photos are at this address.

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Here are minutes from Mike Ruby on a June 3 2009 meeting with Sustainable Wallingford, Sustainable Greenlake and City Light staff, as well as followup comments from Juan Peralez, City Light Manager.
The program's website is at the Neighborhood Power Project

We met with Juan Peralez (206 684-3868) of Seattle City Light yesterday to discuss the Neighborhood Power Project (NPP). Apparently it has been runn… Continue

Read the original article here http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nicolebrodeur/2009330268_brodeur12m.html

Gardening tons in tough times
More and more, Seattle's ubiquitous gardens are where community problems are solved.

Nicole Brodeur
Seattle Times staff columnist

This is where it started. Literally.

On a street in Wallingford, in a greenhouse behind Cyrus Appell's house, co… Continue

I attended the Third Annual Transition Conference in London May 22-24, 2009. Transition Towns were a relatively new idea to me. This is what I learned that I want to share with you.

The Transition Town movement started quite recently, in 2005, in the tiny rural village of Kinsale, Ireland (pop. 2,200) when a permaculture teacher, Rob Hopkins, applied the permaculture principle… Continue