Elise Hatfield

Come to Planet Home Sustainable Living Festival!

August 21st, 10am-5pm on the Hunter Tree Farm property
7744 35th Avenue Northeast
Seattle, WA, 98115

Free workshops, speakers, food, music, demonstrations! Come learn how you can reduce your environmental footprint and share your experiences in trying to live more sustainably! Take home ideas for environmentally-friendly living and maybe win some eco products to help you on your way.

Planet Home is being organized by Sustainable Northeast Seattle http://sustainableneseattle.ning.com/ - contact Elise at eliselk@gmail.com for details or if you would like to volunteer to lead a workshop, speak about a topic, or help with the event in general.

Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=116633528384607

Hope to see you there!!
-Elise

No Trash Week is April 18-24, 2010
Try To Make No Trash For An Entire Week!

How do you participate? Strive to make no trash for an entire week. Try your best, but don't worry too much about getting a perfect score, especially if this is your first attempt to go garbage-free.

Think about what you eat, how you commute, how you move things from place to place, how you share information and take notes... Remember that although recycling is a wonderful way to extend the useful life of many materials, it still takes energy to remake things, and most end up downcycled until they wind up in the landfill. So treat recycling as a last resort, for materials you just can't find any way to reuse. For this challenge, biodegradable items which you turn back into dirt via a compost in your own yard or home do not count as trash. However, a plastic grocery bag kept only for reuse as a rubbish bin liner still counts as trash!

Tips at http://notrashweek.com/