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Green, Organic and Healthy Living Articles We are Sustainable Ballard, a non-profit organization comprised of inventive, interesting neighbors who firmly believe that community self-reliance and sustainability is good foreign policy implemented locally. Together, we work at a community level encouraging neighbors to take energy conservation responsibility within homes and workplaces, including transportation choices. On a civic level, we organize educational events of a larger public scale, encouraging a discussion of renewable energy technology and implementation within our city of Seattle. We believe that each of us makes an enormous difference toward a successful Sustainable Ballard: A Blueprint for EveryTown USA. Sustainable Ballard’s immediate goals are to establish local sustainability practices like decentralized energy generation, “green” construction, water purification and food production. We engage our community to create local self-sufficiency that is environmentally sound and economically feasible. We challenge the myth that sustainability needs a bureaucracy and bankroll to work, and prove that big ideas need only the small actions of people like you, to make an impact. And we hold the space where all neighbors, no matter what neighborhood you are from, can participate in this vision and implementation. It was a combination of “Peak Oil” and the lack of (re)action surrounding this worldwide event that prompted the three of us, Erica Jones, Vic Opperman and David Wright, to start Sustainable Ballard. We began this effort to save our little part of the world by modeling locally-founded and future-friendly planning, stimulating a discussion about our new future which does not recognize oil as its core. Again, though our efforts are partly inspired by a geologic event known as Peak Oil that will forever challenge notions of the American Dream, they are also inspired by global warming and growing national insecurity. Barely a year old, Sustainable Ballard meets monthly (every 4th Monday) to organize short and long term projects through a network of six guilds which cover a variety of sustainability practices: Water, Waste, Food & Medicine, Urban Planning and Building Design, Transportation and Environment. With future generations in mind, Sustainable Ballard promotes conservation through cost shaving measures and inventiveness. Sustainable Ballard organizes many public events. Yearly we hold the Sustainable Ballard Fair (in the fall) with other like-minded organizations Groundswell NW, ArtsBallard, and ReStore (see websites below). Monthly, we hold the Sustainable Ballard Summer School (every 1st Sunday) in conjunction with the Sunday Ballard Farmers Market. Quarterly, we hold the Sustainable Ballard ASAP Seattle Forum to discuss the development, manufacture and implementation of renewable energy technologies with civic leaders in local government, industry, private business, public utilities, non-profit organizations and the interested general public. The theme of our first forum is: “The Electric Vehicle To Grid Enterprise in Seattle (EV2G)”. Our forums are organized through ASAP (Alliance of Sustainable Alternatives to Petroleum: an educational outreach project of Sustainable Ballard). Whether you are from Ballard or another neighborhood, please join us … we believe all neighbors have beneficial skills and ideas to offer. Our Sustainable Ballard website shows how to get involved, has an events calendar, and contains numerous articles and links to local businesses and organizations that “WalkTheTalk” and share our vision. We invite you to model with us a Sustainable Ballard: A Blueprint for EveryTown USA … good foreign policy implemented locally.Thanks!
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