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How often have you heard  ‘God helps those who help themselves!’  But what if the way we ‘help ourselves’ actually makes things harder for others?

The globalization of economies and cultures creates both danger and opportunity at home and abroad.  For some of us, the issues feel academic.  To those…

Well our annual HandsOn! fair is done and more people can now:  sharpen their own tools rather than send them to the dump; make their own feta, lip balm, toothpaste, soap, lotions, deodorant, nut milk, jam, tortillas, gluten free pasta and sourdough starts, mushrooms, soil, vegan food, beeswax candles, and pickles instead of buying them pre-packaged in plastic; prune and plant their gardens better; grow veggies in containers and homemade coldframes or aquaponic systems; understand why mason…

I am volunteering with an amazing nonprofit organization in our community called EarthCorps. We are currently recruiting homestay families/individuals for the international corps members. Given how close our neighborhood is to Magnuson Park where the corps members do their environmental training during the week, it would be great to find some good homes for them while they are in Seattle!

Please feel free to pass this…

Today marks the beginning of the Red Cross’ “Safe in the Sound” campaign.

Below is a truncated description of the preparedness campaign:

“Safe in the Sound is a three-year regional initiative which aims to better prepare 1,000,000 individuals in Western Washington for emergencies and disasters.  We want the public to take tangible steps toward preparedness through making a…

 The NE Seattle Tool Library celebrated its Grand Opening on Jan 19, 2013, and is now open for business.

For more photos, see the Tool Library blog.

And don't miss member Justin William Almeida's personal…

Some openings left, and this should hit the news tonight.  Please feel free to distribute this to your hub teams and neighbors....





The Ballard Prepares team, a committee of the Ballard District Council, with the funding of a Seattle Department of Neighborhoods Small and Simple grant and community donations, is offering free emergency first aid training to 90 people.  Our objective is to have 90…

Greetings Cascadia Food Lovers



Its seems like not a day passes without a new story breaking about abuses within the agricultural system. The brands that you once trusted to provide you with organic foods turn out to be owned by big ag, grocery stores are selling GMO fruits and vegetables, factory farming is destroying the environment, etc. Where do you turn to, who can you actually trust? The answer is…

Until recently many of us thought that pristine beaches and beautiful weather were part of our daily live, and would be forever.

Well. superstorm Sandy taught us an important lesson when it attacked the eastern seaboard in October and damaged many beaches in a short period of time. If we would like to enjoy our shorelines, we must protect them. Our beautiful beaches and their surroundings will suffer severe damage from erosion by these storms if we will stay…

Purpose of this Project:

We need to create new consciousness with the images and messages that we make.

Today’s children are super smart and have a great hunger for new stories and myths – to create and share them with other kids globally. So I am an advocate for creating new tools for kids:  sound bites or sound tracks, essays, stories. I have published 34 new myths using this sound, text, imagery, vision…

Check out Seattle Times article on the tool library - 

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/seattlesketcher/?p=4822

Another really interesting article from Low Tech Magazine http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/ 

about Open Modular Hardware…

About a dozen NE neighbors showed up to share in Stone Soup Salad, the film "What Would Jesus Buy?" and discuss alternatives to high stress, high consumption holidays. We thought those of you that were not able to be there might want to add your ideas and read what thoughts we had.

Notes from General Meeting…

Harrison’s BioChar Seed Balls & the Grail Pile. New Myth 32 by Willi Paul, newmythologist.com

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"Harrison is collaborating with Occupy the Farm on genetically protecting her seeds from Monsanto. The backyard farmer will tell anyone who stops by that the “super soil’ is her “elixir”, or grail."…

..just read another good article at Low-Tech Magazine on velomobiles:…

http://sustainableneseattle.ning.com/photo/albums/barter-fair-2012