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Living Sustainably in Snohomish
County
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Living
with Less is a Good
Thing
Volunteer
Wanted: Carbon
Footprint
Auditing for
Businesses
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turning
off
the
lights
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choosing
to
use
compact
fluorescent
light
bulbs
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using
a
low-flow
showerhead
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lowering
your
night-time
heating
temperature
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And it’s as
uncomplicated
as signing
up to
participate
in one of
the PUD’s
energy-saving
conservation
programs.
click here
to learn how
Engaging |
Green
Everett
Renewable
Living Fair
2008
Over 400 people attended. 75 were present for Mayor Ray Stephanson’s opening
remarks and Charlie Stephens’ Key note on “Peak Oil: What Communities can
do to Re-invent our Future.”
Mini-workshops included: “Show us your Green Cities!”; Green up your Home;
Phantom Energy Miser; Worm Bins; Green Transportation: How Community Transit
and Trips by Bike can Reduce your Carbon Footprint.
Yes, we weathered one of the biggest storms of the season, and the season just
started. We had to move many of our outdoor vendors inside to keep them from
blowing away! We had a total of 51 vendors in attendance. click here to read more
remarks and Charlie Stephens’ Key note on “Peak Oil: What Communities can
do to Re-invent our Future.”
Mini-workshops included: “Show us your Green Cities!”; Green up your Home;
Phantom Energy Miser; Worm Bins; Green Transportation: How Community Transit
and Trips by Bike can Reduce your Carbon Footprint.
Yes, we weathered one of the biggest storms of the season, and the season just
started. We had to move many of our outdoor vendors inside to keep them from
blowing away! We had a total of 51 vendors in attendance. click here to read more
click here to
watch short
clip of the
Fair...
photos
supplied by
Eric Owl at
www.owljester.com
BUY
NOTHING DAY
Friday
Nov 28th
The Day
after
Thanksgiving
With the
economy in the
dumps why would
we want to
encourage a buy
nothing day?
Roughly
5 million people
in 65 nations
took part last
year in this
group's Buy
Nothing Day,
which is the day
after
Thanksgiving --
the traditional
start of the
holiday shopping
season. (He
admits that
probably half
broke down and
bought
something, such
as a cup of
coffee. But
still, they
tried.)
A
growing movement
that urges
simplicity in
all things is
attacking the
"consumer
madness"
Christmas has
become, says
Kalle Lasn,
editor-in-chief
of Adbusters
magazine, which
advocates a
low-consumption,
ecologically
friendly
lifestyle.
click here
to read more
from New
American Dream
click here
to read more
from Adbusters
Fully Contained Communities in our Rural Areas
Snohomish County Council voted 5-0 to adopt a six-month moratorium on accepting permit applications for Fully Contained Communities.
Great efforts
will be made to
ensure the FCC
policies and
codes either are
amended to
ensure current
taxpayers are
not footing the
bill for a new
city
in Snohomish
rural area.
FYI - Proponent
of the FCC at
Lake Roesiger
will continue
his campaign
against
Councilmember
Dave Somers, and
McNaughton Group
will be
advancing
efforts to do
some type of
similar
development in
the Lake Goodwin
area.
Both the Urban
Residential
Design Standards
and Rural
Cluster
Subdivision Code
update public
hearings have
been extended to
January 7th.
Written comments
are still being
accepted so feel
free to mail
those in to the
council. The
URDS hearing
will be at 10:30
a.m. and the RCS
hearings will be
at 1:30 p.m.
Check
www.futurewise.org/snohomish
for most up to
date times and
locations for
all meetings.
Make a
Difference
attend a
Meeting!
Food/Farming |
Focus
on Farming
Conference
"Breaking New
Ground"
Thursday,
November 20,
2008 from 8
a.m. - 6
p.m. (doors
open at
7a.m.) for
the fifth
annual Focus
on Farming
Conference
at the
Lynnwood
Convention
Center.
Online
registration
is now
available.
Conference
will
include:
Rethink/ReUse/Recycle |
2Good2Toss (click
here)
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This Is
Where
You Live
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Living
Sustainably in
Snohomish County
is
Our hope to
connect the
Community in
Snohomish County
to news, events,
conferences,
gatherings,
building,
businesses,
transportation
and more. As a
community we
can:
Educate,
grow,
communicate and
discuss..
To create
action plans to
make change
For the
future...........
Pleased
submit your
views, articles
and reviews so
we may grow
together as a
Sustainable
Community. If
you like what
you read click "foward
to a friend
below".
always
Karen
Erickson
karen@livingsustainablyinsnohomishcounty.com
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Submission
Deadline
for
December
issue is
Nov. 30,
2008
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Copyright 2008
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Nov. 2008
Community Connections:
Sustainable Snohomish County
(SDTF)
Local Food:
Farmers
Market:
Haller Point Arlington
Recycle/ReUse:
Transportation:
Green Biz:
Green Spaces:
Our Waters:
Blogs/Publications:
BuildingGreen:
Renewable Energy:
$15 yearly
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