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  • Forum – Climate Change: The Rules are Changing – Apr 25

    Sponsored by The Center for Law and Policy (CELP), EarthJustice, Futurewise and
    Seattle University

    8:25 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

    Seattle University School of Law
    Sullivan Hall, Room 109
    901 12th Avenue (12th & Columbia)
    Seattle, Washington 98122

    Current changes and challenges in policies, standards and regulations will be addressed at local, state, and national levels (and internationally as they impact Washington).  Areas of focus will include: shoreline development, public trust litigation; and legal standing status.
    [7.0 CLE credits (including 1.0 ethics) (WSBA pending)]

    Program
    Registration opens at 8:00; program starts at 8:25
     
    The Keystone Principle & the UN Convention on Climate Change
    KC Golden, Climate Solutions
     
    Atmospheric Trust Litigation
    Andrea Rodgers Harris, Western Environmental Law Center
    Mary Sue Wilson, Washington Attorney General’s Office
     
    Ocean Acidification Petition related to Water Quality Standards
    Mickey Moritz, Center for Biological Diversity
     
    Ethics
    John Strait, Seattle University School of Law
     
    GHG emissions and climate change: Standing & other issues
    Janette Brimmer, EarthJustice
    Mary Sue Wilson, Washington Attorney General’s Office
     
    Achieving GHG emissions reductions through land use and transportation planning
    Larry Phillips, King County Councilmember
    Jeff Eustis, Aramburu & Eustis, LLP
    Karen Wolf, King County Office of Performance, Strategy and Budget
     
    Healthy Shorelines: a legal framework for adapting naturally to rising seas
    Kyle A. Loring, Staff Attorney, Friends of the San Juans
    Ian Miller, Washington SeaGrant
     
    5:00 Adjourn

    Registration
    General Registration: $225 ($195 early bird until April 11)
    SU Law Alumni Class 2010 and earlier: $195 ($175 early bird until April 11)
    Members of EarthJustice and CELP and Futurewise: $195 ($175 early bird until April 11)
    SU Law Alumni Classes 2011, 2012 and 2013: $125
    Non-attorney NGO staff: $100
    Live Webcast registration: $225 ($195 early bird until April 11)

  • Wild & Scenic Film Festival – Apr 24

    Wild & Scenic Film Festival – Apr 24

    Washington Water Trust hosts the Seattle premiere of the 12th annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival at the SIFF Cinema Uptown on April 24th.
    Prepare to be amazed, motivated, inspired and wowed by a number of carefully-selected films, including The Strong People, a powerful documentary telling the story of the Elwha Dam Removal, and Momenta, which describes the impact of the planned coal export trains through the Pacific Northwest. Other films will give festival viewers a view into real life adventures in the natural world—hiking with daring kayakers into a remote Mexican jungle in search of the perfect waterfall from which to plummet; reveling in the adventure of catching air; discovering what motivated a man nicknamed SLOMO to live by inline skate; and floating the Trinity River of California with a five year-old boy in search of his first steelhead trout. More about the Featured Films including links to trailers here.
    Come experience the Wild and Scenic!
    5:00 – 6:00 p.m.: Happy Hour
    6:00 – 7:15 p.m.: First Session
    7:15 – 7:40 p.m.: Intermission and Raffle Drawing
    7:40 – 8:45 p.m.: Second Session
    Happy Hour: Attendees 21 and over are welcome to enjoy a complimentary beer or wine during happy hour. Additional drinks will be available for purchase.
    Raffle: Each festival ticket purchased includes a complimentary raffle ticket. Additional raffle tickets are available for purchase online and during Happy Hour prior to film showing. Winning tickets will be drawn at the end of intermission.  Raffle items are from: KEEN, KAVU, Redington, Filson, and Patagonia.
    Proceeds from this event will support the work of Washington Water Trust.
  • Screening of "A Place at the Table" – Apr 27

    Screening of "A Place at the Table" – Apr 27

    Our Redeemer’s Lutheran Church – 2400 NW 85th Street
    Fellowship Hall: enter through the door down the steps from 25th Ave NW

    4:30pm – Doors open, refreshments served
    5pm – Screening begins
    6:30pm – Discussion

    Fifty million people in the United States—including one in five children—suffer from hunger. In A Place at the Table, award-winning directors Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush follow three families struggling with food insecurity. A Place at the Table shows us how hunger and obesity pose serious economic, social, and cultural implications for our nation and how food access issues could be solved.

    View the trailer.

    All are welcome!

  • It’s Time to Get RainWise – Apr 30 Workshop

    It’s Time to Get RainWise – Apr 30 Workshop

    7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. at Ballard First Lutheran Church, you can learn more about the RainWise rebate program and the expanded rebate area!  Register here.

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    Wednesday, April 30th — All are welcome to attend this free event and hear about the community benefits of installing rain gardens and cisterns in Ballard. Attendees will have a chance to learn about the ways in which rain gardens and cisterns help protect the Puget Sound from toxic storm water run-off. Local homeowners who have claimed their rebate and RainWise-trained contractors will also be on hand to answer any questions.

    Rain that falls around our homes rushes quickly to the closest drain or stream and during big storms this excess rainfall can cause sewer backups, pollution and erosion to our streams. The City of Seattle is promoting the rebate program so that locals can do their part in reducing flooding, protecting property and restoring the local waters both for people and wildlife.

    Ballard First Lutheran is located at 20th Ave NW & NW 65th Street.  The workshop will be in the church hall behind the beige house at 2006 NW 65th Street.  Parking is available in the lot at NW 65th Street & 21st Avenue NW.

  • Seminar: Growing Tomatoes – Apr 26

    Seminar: Growing Tomatoes – Apr 26

    There’s nothing like homegrown tomatoes! Learn the secrets of growing juicy, bountiful tomatoes in the Northwest from Master Gardener Tracy Turner of Westwind Gardens. She teaches essentials such as planting times, cultural requirements, fertilizing needs, watering systems, and more.  At Swanson’s Nursery: 9701 – 15th Ave NW.

    Saturday, April 26,  2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

    Seminars offered at Swansons are free, unless otherwise noted. Some may require sign-up in advance so we can prepare materials. Please be aware that seminars are often full, so we recommend arriving 10 minutes early to be assured of a seat. Due to limited space, we ask that you do not bring your pet to seminars.

  • Connecting the Dots – Apr 27

    Compassionate Communities Fostering Climate, Social & Economic Justice
    Sunday April 27th from 12:30 – 5:30pm
    Pigott Auditorium on Seattle University

    Come collaborate on the critical issues of our time! Learn, connect with groups working on the issues, make art, and develop a better understanding of what we all can do to be part of the solution.

    Compassion Games Opening Ceremony in Seattle350 Seattle will talk about the realities of climate change, and the need for collective action. Compassionate Seattle will challenge us to come from a place of compassion and healing intent in all our actions. And Backbone Campaign will host The Canopy Collective, an eco-feminist cooperative, to provide anti-oppression trainings that build capacity for collaboration and collective liberation. And more workshops offered by other allied groups.

    Oil Train from art buildThere will be a focus on anti-oppression work, homelessness and housing, at-risk youth, compassionate education, health, alternative economies, and other facets of economic justice, as well as the many levels of what we can do locally about the climate emergency, and what climate justice is all about.

    iMatter Art Build Our goal is to build our community’s capacity for collective impact to promote tipping point changes in policies and practices! We all feel the discomforts of suffering and injustice. In coming together we can find hope, joy, and power.

    We’ll have inspiring speakers, workshops, breakout sessions, performers, dialog, and a Compassion Activation Station where everyone is invited to participate in making art for the involved organizations as a response to the call for a more engaged community.

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    Allied Organizations also Presenting: Idle No More, Wamend, Kathleen Dean Moore, SalishSea.org, Got Green?, Rising Tide Seattle, King County Committee To End Homelessness, Faith and Family Homelessness Project of Seattle University, Church Council of Greater Seattle, O.S.P.I., Youth N Action/WSU, Unleash the Brilliance, Compassionate Listening, Youth Ambassadors, Tools for Change, Seeds of Compassion, Center for Mindfulness, Queen Ann UMC/The Well, Compassion Games, Global Climate Convergence, and Discover Giving.. Thanks to Sierra Club for helping with printing & more.

    Thanks to Seattle U and the Sustainable Student Action Club for the space!

    • Schedule: Formal Event 12:30-5:30*
    We Can Create a World That Meets The Needs of Everyone!11:30-12:30: Art, Mingling and Tabling
    12:30-1:30: Lunch and Program Opening w/ main speaker Kathleen Dean Moore, a Blessing w/ Sweetwater Nannauck of Idle No More, Music and performances with youth from Unleash The Brilliance & more.
    1:45-2:40: First set of 55 min workshops (or 2 hour workshops continue over both slots)
    2:50-3:45: Second set of 55 min workshops
    4:00-5:10: Community dialogue to cross-pollinate, sharing insights & intentions
    5:10-5:30: Interactive Closing
    5:30-6:30: post-event art, mingling and tabling
    *Backbone will also host additional Anti-Oppression training from 9am – 12pm, & 1:45-5:00pm.
    **All-ages Art & Imagery Station All Day from 11:30-6:30

    Register here.

  • Help us spread the words!

    Help us spread the words!

    We are creating a poster and map to showcase our Little Free Libraries® project, hoping eventually to share it with other community groups. You can help!

    Send our Project Leader, Paula ~
    ~ an address and/or picture of any Ballard Little Free Library® you know of/find;
    ~ any quote you have heard generated about Little Free Libraries.

    Let Paula know ~
    ~ if you would like to be connected to anyone with carpentry skills, be contacted about work parties, and/or if you have tools, skills, books or materials to share;
    ~ of any group/person who may want to hear more.

    What is a little free library®?

    Please share with Paula any suggestions, comments, feedback, ideas.

    Thank you!

  • Ballard Prepares! SNAP Emergency Preparedness Courses

    Ballard Prepares! SNAP Emergency Preparedness Courses

    RESERVE YOUR SNAP TIME NOW FOR A FREE PROGRAM IN MAY!

    The Seattle Office of Emergency Management is taking reservations to have the SNAP (Seattle Neighborhoods Actively Prepare) program presented right in your living room! Invite a dozen or more of your closest neighbors together and reserve your time for an evening or weekend class. All the emergency essentials will be covered, from safe actions to coordinating with others. Classes last about an hour and are taught by trained volunteers.
    To schedule a program, please email us. Provide your name, contact info and preferred date and time in May. Please allow three weeks’ notice, and we’ll make sure you have everything you need to host a successful SNAP party!  For more information, email us.
    Check out the SNAP blog and learn about workshops in libraries across the city.
  • Chickens and the Garden Seminar for Kids – Apr 19

    Chickens and the Garden Seminar for Kids – Apr 19

    Swanson’s Nursery, 10:00 a.m. –11:00 a.m. 

    Thinking about including chickens in your family garden? Bring the kids for this free, fun session with local horticulturalist and urban farmer, Ingela Wanerstrand. Meet Ingela’s friendly hen and some cute chicks while learning how chickens can help in your garden. Seminar is limited to 15 parent/child combos. Please sign up at Info Booth.

    Seminars offered at Swansons are free, unless otherwise noted. Some may require sign-up in advance so materials can be prepared. Please be aware that seminars are often full, so we recommend arriving 10 minutes early to be assured of a seat.

  • Join us at the next Ballard Social – April 16

    Join us at the next Ballard Social – April 16

    There’s something special for this month’s Ballard Social!
    ** Everyone who attends will be offered a FREE DRINK! **
    Sustainable Ballard will be there and we hope you will be, too!

    Gratafy.com is kindly offering everyone who attends a complimentary glass of wine or beer.  This month we will meet at Billy Beach in downtown Ballard. We’ll meet up in the bar area. Anyone interested in the free drink (beer or wine) just needs to bring their smart phone to the event (they’ll redeem it through Gratafy.com).

    Otherwise, it’s just like a regular Ballard Social – great people, cocktails and a new place to try! See you on April 16, Wed!

    Billy Beach
    Apr 16, 2014 on Wed
    (3rd Wed of the month)
    Address: 5463 Leary Ave NW, 98107
    By the bar.
    Starts at 7:00 p.m. (to 9:00 p.m.)

    Gratafy is the social gifting platform that lets anyone send friends, clients, and coworkers actual drinks, dinner, desserts and a whole lot more from anywhere, anytime. Choose their favorite menu items from the best restaurants, bars and nightlife spots in town and they’ll get the message via email, text or Facebook.  Gratafy gifts are real, they’re awesome, and they never expire. Website

    Hope to see you at the next Ballard Social!