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Sustainable Ballard Festival this weekend

Posted by Geeky Swedes on September 26th, 2008

Up to 7,500 people are expected at the 5th Annual Sustainable Ballard Festival this weekend at Ballard Commons Park on 22nd Ave. The free event is focused on teaching the community about living and enjoying sustainable lifestyles. This year’s festival will be modeled after an old-time county fair with games, contests and music. Some of the activities include the “Eat Local Challenge” and how to raise chickens in the city. If ready, Sustainable Ballard will also be showing off the prototype of the hygiene station for the proposed car camps, which has sparked quite the discussion on MyBallard. The free event runs from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

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  • Moviecycle
    Trying to reach the organizers, but the website is down. Anyone have an e-mail address. tom@dvd-now.net
  • Moviecycle
    Trying to reach the orgainzers. Anybody have an e-mail address?
  • The All Consuming Self

    "Never before have our emerging environmental crises been laid out so clearly before us. Rather than shouting from the fringes, respected economists, scientists, and politicians are sounding the warnings in high-profile journals and the halls of government - warning that our oceans are dying, that the ice shelves are melting, and that we are setting ourselves up for the most massive and devastating market failure humanity has ever seen. So we recycle our garbage. We vote greener. We buy sleek, new hybrid cars and fill our houses with energy-efficient light bulbs. And we put our money and our faith in brave and ingenious technologies that will rescue us from the whirlwind. But it won’t be enough. Because this is not, fundamentally, a technological problem. Nor is it, fundamentally, a political problem. This is a problem of appetites, and or narcissism, and self-deceit. The planet is breaking, and it is breaking under the weight of our hunger for more. To reform the world, we must first reform ourselves. “
  • biff
    I'll be there teaching everyone how to take a shower. The fight against odor laden hippies must be fought on all fronts -we cannot allow our buses, homes, and workplaces to be used for terrorist activities.
  • Ballardog
    Looks like Seattle City Light is going to show up with their "green" toxic light bulbs. LOL>
  • NAG
    A bunch of people will be out there registering voters, so please seek us out if you're not registered yet!
  • Timmy
    Car camps? Don't those cause global warming to drive to?
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