Category: Sustainability

Everett’s Farmers Market Season Coming Mother’s Day

Carl Setzer
2017 Everett Farmer's Market Opening Day

As someone who adores are area’s farmer’s markets, this email delights me. The start of local market season is a great deal of fun for me. Seeing all the people, with all the vendors, one of kind craft goods and locally grown food is simply a delight.

Also, Everett’s markets are a great success story. They continue to grow and expand, and work to ensure the whole community is able to take part, helping ensure that local produce is not just a middle/upper class experience.

 

24 Years Celebrating Fresh and Local from Washington

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Some “Earth Month” activities in Lynnwood for you

Carl Setzer

Heritage Park Spring Clean – Wednesday, April 6

Spring Clean

Wednesday, April 6th, 10am-3pm (2 shifts available)

Heritage Park

Potluck Lunch Provided

Join us for a day of cleaning and landscaping at Heritage Park, Equipment, tools and lunch provided. We’ll be cleaning windows, floors, mopping and dusting, and landscaping, weeding, and spreading bark.

RSVP by April 4th to Marielle Harrington; mharrington@ci.lynnwood.wa.us or 425-670-5532.

Earth Day at Daleway Park – Saturday, April 23

earth day

Saturday, April 23rd, 9am-2pm

Daleway Park

Lunch Provided

Global Peace Foundation and the City of Lynnwood are inviting youth volunteers to join in the celebration of Earth Day 2016 through trash cleanup, invasive plant removal, and playground rehabilitation at Daleway Park. Come out, meet new people, and love our earth!

Register by April 16th by visiting: http://goo.gl/forms/15LT11uSSZ or for more information contact USyouth@globalpeace.org

Some thoughts on this almost Thursday

Carl Setzer

It’s been a wretched week or so. Germs have raised their ghastly heads and brutalized my days, and nights. Losing sleep due to coughing is a paricularly nasty twist. You need sleep to heal, yet the germs rob you of it. Seeking to win, these nasties are.

Lots of sleep, often in chunks. Interrupted, ineffective; it is what it is. Iterating my way to health.

With germs and resulting deferred tssks, I won’t be caucusing Saturday. Disappointed, but that’s life. What about you?

Anyways, here’s hoping for peace, tranquility and effectiveness for the remainder of your week.

The Lexicon of Sustainability

Carl Setzer

Stumbled upon this site today: Lexicon of Sustainability. A great series introducing so much of the work I valued at Starbucks. One of the deepest privileges of my life: Corporate Social Responsibility. Working with the greatest minds on the cutting edge of societal change transformed me.

One constant issue we faced, clarifying such terms as Fair Trade, Organic, and, ultimately, sustainability. I appreciate what these folks accomplished with these videos.

These folks have developed a clever transformational campaign. Ultimately, this project revolves around community engagement, discussing our who were are, and who we want to be.

A Day Made of Glass… Made possible by Corning.

Carl Setzer
Very exciting stuff for the techy in me. I find these utopian visions of the future very interesting and compelling. I wonder, though, how sustainability fits in. Can these products be crafted without destroying the environment? And is this only limited to the rich? Or will the poor of our globe have any benefit from this glorious utopia?

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