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The Sustainable Ballard Festival: Get Involved!
The 2008 Festival is coming this fall (Sept 27-28) and we can use your help now!
- Folks: Mark your calendars for Wednesday, August 13th. We are throwing a pre-festival party! Get a sneak preview of this year's festival and sign up to join one of our action teams creating an exciting area at the festival. Or get first dibs on the best volunteer shifts at the fest. If you are unable to attend, but would like to jump in and help, contact Andrea(at)sustainableballard.org.
- Businesses: Sustainable Ballard is interested in partnering with locally-owned Ballard businesses, as well as businesses and organizations who practice social responsibility and environmental stewardship. If you fit these criteria and are interested in developing and promoting a festival partnership with Sustainable Ballard, please contact Jenny. If you would like to make a personal donation, please contact Inna(at)sustainableballard.org.
Ballard Bike Rack Design Contest
We are very excited to launch our super-cool Bike Rack Design Contest!
You design, Ballard Metal artists build --- all of Ballard benefits!
Go to our contest website http://birdie.sustainableballard.org to read all about it, and to download the full guidelines and sign up.
How to get a free bike rack on City property:
Are you a Ballard business looking for a free bike rack in front of your establishment? All you have to do is contact our friend Dave Janis of the Bicycle Alliance at 206.224.9252 Ext. 302 or Davej@bicyclealliance.org and he'll take care of the rest, it's that easy! More information can also be found at [1], but make sure to contact Dave because he runs the show.
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July 28, 2008
- Where?
- Sunset Hill Community Association Clubhouse
- 3003 NW 66th St. (corner of the 66th St. NW and 30th Ave NW)
- What time?
- 6:30 - 9:00pm
- For more information, contact
- bridget(at)sustainableballard.org
- Program
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- 6:30-7:00 - Potluck! Bring something delicious to share, and meet your neighbors (also BYO plate/utensils/cup!)
- 7:00-7:45 - The NW EcoBuilding Guild will present creative ideas they have put together for the City regarding neighborhood planning.
- NW EcoBuilding Guild’s basic premise is that:
- It's a given that the Seattle area will continue to grow in population;
- We will need to provide more homes for those new people;
- If we want to prevent sprawl (and the associated problems of increased greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, loss of farmland etc.) we need to accommodate new homes within existing urban areas;
- The large majority of land in Seattle is zoned single-family - are there ways to increase density in areas beyond just those currently zoned as multi-family?
- NWEBG will discuss ways that existing single-family zones in Seattle might be able to increase the number of homes, in ways that respect the existing character of the neighborhood;
- Come join the conversation about how to make well-designed, beautiful, walkable, livable communities that are denser, and show images of cities that have managed to do it well.
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- 7:45-8:15 - Then we will bring it ‘home’ to Ballard…. We will also have Liz Dunigan and Joanne Burtch with us. They are creating a project that will focus on neighborhood planning (specifically Ballard) to support green infrastructure and the urban village concept per Sustainable Ballard and the NW EcoBuilding Guild outline using the Open Space 2100 map as a starting place.
- Be sure to come explore how we can create a neighborhood that will be a multi-sensory experience.
- There will be opportunity to participate….
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- 8:15 - 9:00 - Learn about all of the fun/exciting/community building projects currently underway in the Sustainable Ballard community.
As always, bring your Ballard Market receipts and leave the alcohol at home.
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Sustainable Ballard is a non-profit organization developing a grassroots vision of sustainability for the community of Ballard. Sustainability roughly means "meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs," and it is a philosophy which affects every sphere of human activity.
Join the Sustainable Ballard mailing list or individual guild lists, to receive important updates on Sustainable Ballard.
Become part of the Sustainable Ballard Community
Our site is a community effort. You will find some pages are protected and may only be updated by board members, but most of them are open for the public to create, update, edit and patrol. Our previous website is still available for awhile as we transfer information over to the wiki. archive Sustainable Ballard web page.
For new users, here are some wiki tips.
Events are located on the navigation bar at the top of the page.
Working Guilds and Taskforce links are now located on the left side of the page.
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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