Learn how to go green at Renewable Living Fair
Published 10:47 pm Monday, September 28, 2009
Have they gone too far?
Not really, if one is totally committed to green living.
The fourth annual Green Everett Renewable Living Fair &Solar Home Tour is planned for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. It’s at the Snohomish County PUD Building, 2320 California St., Everett.
Green Everett, with the Foundation for Sustainable Community, the Sustainable Snohomish Development Task Force of Snohomish County and the Snohomish County PUD sponsor the program. Find a day of ideas about sustainable and renewable energy.
“This year’s event will feature keynote speaker Paul Stamets, who will talk about mushrooms and their benefits for the planet such as neutralizing oil spills, breaking down pesticides and herbicides and other toxic waste treatment,” says organizer Debbie Shue. “Other speakers will talk about such topics as community gardens, water, biking, and sustainable living.”
Exhibitors include businesses offering solar and wind power systems, electric vehicles, agriculture and more.
Buy tickets for a raffle for an electric bike from the Green Car Company. At the door, it’s a $5 donation, and the fair will collect old cell phones and empty ink jet and laser cartridges.
Refreshments will be available from Zippy’s Java Lounge and the Sno Isle Co-op.
Here is where it gets super green: Bring your own cups and plates.
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That parade of cars and trucks loaded with trash, oddly heading away from the dump Saturday morning near Paine Field, was quite a show.
Many folks didn’t get the memo that the Snohomish County Recycling and Transfer Station in Everett is closed through Oct. 10.
The convoy headed in a line to the Mountlake Terrace station to empty rigs.
Does anyone find it funny that the acronym for the Airport Road Recycling and Transfer Station is ARTS?
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Thousands of participants in a Susan G. Komen 3-Day Breast Cancer Walk got a sweet — and spiritual — surprise in Everett.
Kami Borg says folks from Forest Park Seventh-day Adventist Church at 4132 Federal Ave. supported passersby Sept. 12.
“Our little group greeted them with cheers at the top of Federal Avenue off Mukilteo Boulevard,” Borg says. “Many said how much it meant to them to have people out supporting them and cheering them on.”
Walkers were offered cookies and water.
And a prayer for loved ones battling cancer.
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How would folks feel if the family farm became a park-and-ride lot?
Whatever the family wishes for its property, it’s best to get it in writing.
A class is planned, “Ties to the Land,” at 6 p.m. Thursday and Oct. 8 at the Arlington Boys &Girls Club, 18513 59th Ave. NE in Arlington.
“We’ve studied landowners in Snohomish County and found that 75 percent are over age 50,” says Kevin Zobrist, WSU Area Extension Education, forest stewardship. “A big generational shift is coming.”
He says the class deals with the human side of estate planning and helping to make families comfortable with talking about the future of their land, a future that extends past mom and dad’s lifetime.
“Succession planning is often the difference between the family farm or forest staying as such or becoming a strip mall,” Zobrist says. “In a time where everyone is concerned about the loss of forest and farmland in Snohomish County, this is perhaps the most important workshop we offer.”
For more information about the $75 program, call 425-357-6017 or e-mail kzobrist@wsu.edu.
Get ahead of family squabbles.
Plan your legacy.
Kristi O’Harran: 425-339-3451, oharran@heraldnet.com.
