Permaculture educator Marisha Auerbach is bringing her “Seedsaving as an Activist Practice” workshop to Green Lake.  A seed exchange will follow the presentation. The workshop is tomorrow night (Saturday, August 21, 2010), 7-9 p.m., at Yogalife’s Greenlake Studio (7200 Woodlawn Ave NE).  The cost is $7 – $10 (sliding scale).  Participants are asked to bring [...]

Many Green Lake residents have a lot to say about the large crater at the site of the old Vitamilk Dairy, a.k.a. “The Big Hole.” Recently, the City of Seattle’s Department of Planning and Development gave Seattle citizens the opportunity to present ideas for interim uses for the city’s stalled project sites. On Sunday, Deanna [...]

From our news partners at seattlepi.com: Local group protests ‘unforgivable mistake’ By Joshua Trujillo Weeks after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, apparently taking 11 workers with it, the environmental disaster continues as oil flows from the destroyed well into Gulf of Mexico. Now a group of Seattle [...]

Driving down E Green Lake Drive N today (May 12, 2010) around noon, it was hard to miss about a dozen teenagers holding signs with various political messages: “No Sin Tax” “No State Income Tax” “Vote!  Even Paris Hilton Can Do It” “Protect America, Stop Arizona” “War is a Failure of Politics” “There are no [...]

The Green Lake Green Thumbs, a group affiliated with Sustainable Green Lake, has launched a new campaign: Edible Neighborhoods. The goal of the campaign is to empower everyone in Seattle and everywhere else to take the first steps toward turning our communities into better wildlife corridors and resources for healthy, home-grown foods. [ ... ] [...]