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Climate Action Network of Sustainable Wallingford Meeting minutes 11.2.2009

In Attendance: Arvia Morris, Lynn Fitz-Hugh, Chuck Lare, James Williams 1) Outreach brain storming, Carbon Salon anyone? After reporting back from the 350 events (see below) we spent most of the meeting talking about how to reach out to our friends and relatives who are concerned about climate but not activists at this point. We all agree that more education is necessary for more people to become committed to working for a climate change agenda. We thought it would be a good idea to have an e… Continue

Added by Arvia Morris on November 15, 2009 at 9:07pm — No Comments

Great election results for Seattle, King County and Washington State!

Just a quick congradulatons to everyone for getting out and voting and asking your friends to vote in this past election. Due to your hard efforts King County and Seattle have great leadership for creating a sustianable future. State wide, Washington State has rejected a ballot measure that would have severely undercut our efforts to educate ourselves and maintian our natural endowment. And is it not great to live an a state that recognizes everyones civil rights! Sincerely, Arvia Morris Climat… Continue

Added by Arvia Morris on November 7, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

How will Climate Change impact each region of the US?

A new study has come out which descibes the impacts of Climate Change region by region. Check out the page: http://research.yale.edu/environment/climate/ Towards the top this link has a button to watch a tv interview about it – it is about 10 minutes and is very good. It also looks like on this page that it maybe possible to download it free – the study. It is actually an associated book: A Climate for Change that describes how each region will be effected. Continue

Added by Arvia Morris on October 17, 2009 at 4:28pm — No Comments

Info and action on the Boxer-Kerry Climate Bill

Boxer-Kerry Senate Climate bill Over all this is considered a good bill and is endorsed by many environmental groups. It undoes some of the bad measures in the house bill such as stripping the enforcement power of the EPA with coal power plants. see one sky summary http://www.1sky.org/files/1sky-kerry-boxer-bill-analysis-10-8-09.pdf It has a big emphasis on green jobs and technology. This the heart of the issue for the US. Are we going to be defining 21st century energy technology or are we goi… Continue

Added by Arvia Morris on October 17, 2009 at 4:24pm — No Comments

Public comment on Northwest Energy plan for the next 20yrs. Till November 6th.

Northwest Power and Conservation Council is accepting public comments on their energy plan for the next 20years. PUBLIC COMMENTS DUE NOVEMBER 6th. While the plan does hold C02 emissions at the current level for the next 20years, it does not include a plan for reduction of C02. They say that to including reductions in their plans would hurt the poor. Our position is that the poor will be hurt the most by climate change, thus mitigating it with the development of renewable energy and more aggress… Continue

Added by Arvia Morris on October 17, 2009 at 4:22pm — No Comments

Time for Fall Crops! Are we all outside digging yet?

Late September and early October are a wonderful time to plant your early spring crops and some over-wintering leafy greens. If you are looking forward to a garden next spring, let's get planting! According to a publication by Tilth late September is the time to plant: Merida Carrots Many Fava Beans (a hardy favorite of aphids and, by association, ladybugs) All of your favorite Beets Red Romaine, among other lettuces Chinese Snow Peas ...and a variety of annual flowers including sweet peas and… Continue

Added by Aaron Armstrong on September 30, 2009 at 10:28am — No Comments

Let's fill up the Tomato truck!

Sustainable Green Lake is ordering tomatoes from Eastern Washington and needs your help to fill up the truck. The tomatoes are from a small farmer’s cooperative including Michael Pilarski’s farm, one of the founders of Tilth and a well-known permaculture teacher who is overloaded with tomatoes! The price is $1/pound for fresh field-run (straight from the field, no washing, no stickers) canning tomatoes and $2/pound for #1 heirloom slicers. Pick-up will be arranged in Green Lake around September… Continue

Added by Christian Rusby on September 9, 2009 at 8:28am — No Comments

Silicon Energy - Washington made solar panels announcement

here's an article from the arlington times (skagit county) http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/north_sound/arl/business/52972682.html this is interesting because these WA made panels are eligible for significantly more valuable rebates than other solar panels. e.g. 3 times as much money! while the article doesn't say these panels are now available, it does imply they're getting closer. dealers are requested to call their number for details. we'll see what their pricing is. please let us know if you fi… Continue

Added by Peter Clitherow on August 11, 2009 at 10:38pm — No Comments

What you can do to improve Waxman-Markey Climate Change Bill

What can we do: 1) Contact our Senators and ask for these three changes to American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES): --Require power companies to produce more clean energy --Restore authority to the EPA to crack down on global warming from power plants --Reduce giveaways to polluting industries in order to bolster green job development and protect vulnerable communities. http://cantwell.senate.gov/ http://murray.senate.gov/ 2) Build your net work of personal contacts especially in state… Continue

Added by Arvia Morris on July 25, 2009 at 4:40pm — No Comments

T-shirts from Climate Action Network of Sustainable Wallingford

Hi Everyone, Check me out in the new T-shirt put together by the Climate Action Network of Sustainable Wallingford (see photo). If you would like to order one (two or 20), please let me know. If I can get an order for 100 shirts, they will only be $7.00 a shirt. The T-shirt is a way to bring up the topic of Global Climate Change without having to introduce the topic verbally. Share the T-shirt as a gift with family and friends. It is very comfortable at picnics, hiking, walking around town. We… Continue

Added by Arvia Morris on July 25, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

What I Hate and Love about Waxman-Markey--From Sightline Institue

Hi Everyone, Please see the link below for an analysis of the Waxman-Markey bill. It is writtten by Alan During head of Seattle's Sightline Instiute which among other things, researches sustainablity solutions for the Cascadia region. http://daily.sightline.org/daily_score/archive/2009/07/10/14-things-i-love-and-6-i-hate-about-waxman-markey Link to Sightline web site: http://www.sightline.org/about Continue

Added by Arvia Morris on July 25, 2009 at 4:21pm — No Comments

Waxman-Markey Will Not Do: A 'Fell-Swoop' Moment Missed

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

Added by Cathy Tuttle on July 7, 2009 at 8:32am — No Comments

Rep. McDermott supports "The American Clean Energy and Security Act" HR2454

The exciting news is that Jim McDermott has decided to support the American Clean Energy and Security Act. This is my take on the matter: For me it is critical that Obama have something on the ground that demonstrates a sincere effort on the part of the US to move forward on climate. The President needs this by December for the international Climage Conference in Copenhagen a key chance for the US to show leadership on global climate change. Laws can be changed if they are not achieving their go… Continue

Added by Arvia Morris on June 25, 2009 at 10:05pm — No Comments

Growing Food Growing Babies

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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Added by Cathy Tuttle on June 25, 2009 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment

goats in wallingford ?

Was not able to make the last wallingford walk and was sorry to have missed it. I had heard or read a posting about visiting someone keeping goats in wallingford. I am so very interested in this. Is that family willing to let me come take a look at your set up? ~Kelle Continue

Added by kelle standley on June 24, 2009 at 9:02am — 2 Comments

City Light Neighborhood Power Program

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

Added by Cathy Tuttle on June 17, 2009 at 4:18pm — No Comments

Growing Food Growing Community in the Seattle Times

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

Added by Cathy Tuttle on June 12, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Transition Town Conference Report

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

Added by Cathy Tuttle on June 9, 2009 at 4:36am — No Comments

Transition Money

I attended the May 22-24, 2009 Transition Town Conference in London. This is what I learned about money (I also brought back a couple of Lewes Town Pounds -- if you want to see them let me know): Even prior to the economic breakdowns we are now experiencing, economists who study globalization found that only about 20 percent of the money you and I spend in our friendly local c… Continue

Added by Cathy Tuttle on June 9, 2009 at 4:18am — No Comments

Please leave a comment for the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases

We can't let Big Oil and Big Coal restrict the EPA. On April 17, the EPA formally declared carbon dioxide and five other heat-trapping gases to be pollutants that endanger public health and welfare, setting in motion a process that will lead to the regulation of the gases for the first time in the United States. This is a huge step forward in the fight to curb global warming. However, the EPA cannot start regulating carbon until they've accepted public comments and can show there's broad suppor… Continue

Added by Rich Voget on May 12, 2009 at 11:03pm — No Comments

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