WCC Wins Emergency Preparedness Grant
The WCC received $13,000 to work with Sustainable NE Seattle and other NE Seattle community groups to improve our neighborhood’s emergency preparedness during 2012. Read More …
Tag: Sustainable NE Seattle
Sustainable NE Seattle Home Weatherization Meeting – Nov. 17th at 6:30PM
Learn easy and affordable ways to weatherize your home at Sustainable NE Seattle’s upcoming meeting at Wedgwood Presbyterian Church from 6:30 to 9PM. Read More …
Emergency Preparedness Drill This Saturday
Drill will be this Saturday, October 29th from 8:30-11:30AM at the Hunter Farm site. Be part of this fun event and learn how to be respond in a disaster. Read More …
Upcoming Emergency Prepardness in NE Seattle – VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
NE Seattle communities are working on ways to improve our communities ability to respond in the event of an emergency. Learn how to get involved! Read More …
A Perfect Day for the PLANET:HOME Festival!
The folks at Sustainable NE Seattle sure do know how to put on a sustainable living festival. Whether it was learning on how to solarize your home; demonstrations of several electric cars; ways to care for urban goats and ducks, or any of the other fantastic ways to live more sustainably, the PLANET:HOME festival on Saturday at the Hunter Farm site was another great success. Make sure to check out Sustainable NE Seattle’s website for more of their upcoming events!
PLANET:HOME Sustainable Living Festival This Saturday (10AM to 5PM)!
Sustainable NE Seattle is again hosting this year’s PLANET:HOME festival in Wedgwood at the Hunter Farm site (7744 35th Ave NE) on Saturday, August 6th from 10AM to 5PM. This year’s PLANET:HOME festival will feature many exciting things that weren’t at last year’s wildly successful festival, such as Converted electric cars, bikes and scooters; Zero-Energy Model Home; Alternative currency presentation; Community solar project, Repurposing clothing ideas, and Emergency Preparedness Presentation. In addition to those new things the community will have the opportunity to learn and get light bike repair, have tools sharpened, see cheese making, talk to urban farmers on Read More …
Sustainable NE Seattle Establishing an Emerency Preparedness Guild
On April 30th from 1:30PM to 3PM, Sustainable NE Seattle is hosting their first Emergency Preparedness Guild meeting at the Ravenna Exckstein Community Center. Here is a description of the meeting as provided by Sustainable NE Seattle: We will hear from Mark Howard of the Office of Emergency Management on recommended practices and procedures. We will also have a report on what is happening with the NE HUB. This meeting will also give us a chance to meet one another and discuss some next steps. I hope to see you there. If you have not already joined the Emergency Prepare Read More …
A Gathering Place for Wedgwood?
As most people familiar with the WCC knows the Wedgwood Parks Committee has been actively and diligently working towards the acquisition and development of a new park for Wedgwood to address a usable open space gap identified in our neighborhood by the City. Levy funds have been appropriated for such a task as part of the 2008 Parks and Green Spaces Levy. In fact, on January 12th, we had an extremely successful public meeting about the site the Parks Committee identified for acquisition, which is the Morningside Substation at the NW corner of 86th Street NE and 35th Ave NE. Read More …
Community Skills Fair Coming Soon
Our friends at Sustainable NE Seattle are hosting a Hands On Community Skill Fair in partnership with the Ravenna Eckstein and Meadowbrook Community Centers. The fair is open to anyone who wants to broaden their skills and learn make things with their very own hands again! In an overwhelming show of support, 40 people from the community will be sharing fun and practical skills on such things as food preservation, seed starting, soap making, fruit tree grafting, knitting, tool repair, and singing. Following the skills fair, there will be a community potluck and square dance at Meadowbrook Community Center. Here’s Read More …