Sustainable Ballard fosters new awareness of the importance of community connections and meaningful sustainability in response to excess energy dependence and consumption, and the depletion of key resources. Sustainable Ballard conducts workshops, public events, writes reports and research articles, and provides design and planning services, for community education. Sustainable Ballard seeks to empower local citizens to become leaders in collective community self-reliance and autonomy.
Join us for a full day of music, education and discussion. Plus, on-going demonstrations and hands-on activities in our Solar Hot Spots.
2007 Schedule

Saturday

11:00am

HomeStreet Bank Stage: Opening Remarks from US House Representative Jim McDermott, and Office of Sustainability and Environment Director Steve Nicholas

Saturday HomeStreet Bank Stage KBCS 91.3 Community Radio Stage Sustainable Commons
11:30 am Orientation to the Festival
with Jenny Heins, Sustainable Ballard President

Line Dancing
NW Senior Center Dancers

 
12:00 pm

Trees of Ballard
with Arthur Lee Jacobson, Seattle Tree Guru

(followed by 30 min walking tour)

Creating Neighborhood Discussion Circles
Cecile Andrews, Author “Circles of Simplicity

12:30 pm

14th Avenue NW Visioning
with Peter Locke, LMN Architects Green Team

Accordian Assortment (scandanavian and much more)
Trygve Bjorndal & Richard Swenson

Discussion Circles (continued)

1:00 pm Home Energy Savings
with Glenn Maresca, Liquid Heating
 

Discussion Circles (continued)


1:30 pm

Intro to Interior Green Building Materials
with Kassie Olin, Environmental Home Center

Acoustic New Wave
Bob & Sheldon

Ballard Civic Panel: Planning Ballard’s Future
-Tom Hauger- Manager, Comprehensive Plan, City of Seattle Dept of Planning & Development,
-Beth Miller-Executive Director, Ballard Chamber, Community activist
-Thomas Whittemore-City of Seattle Dept of Nbhds
2:00 pm Why Policy Matters
with Meagan Dixon, Climate Solutions
  Ballard Civic Panel (continued)
2:30 pm Going Solar; Incentives & Local Sources
with Pamela Burton, Solar Washington
Indie Acoustic Rock
Angela Jossy
Ballard Civic Panel (continued)
3:00 pm

3pm-4pm
Making Non-Car Choices, an Undriving Panel
with Penny Webb, Carla Sauter (Buschick) and Fulvio Casali

 

What is Local? Workshop
Viki Sonntag, Sustainable Seattle

3:30 pm Undriving Panel (continued) Mellow Rock with a Soulful Groove
Susan Harper Band

What is Local? (continued)

4:00 pm

Democracy in a time of crisis: the Citizen's Climate Summit
with Phil Mitchell, 2People

Local Sustainable Business Innovators
Derek Hoshiko (Web Collective)
Dan McComb(Biznik)
Steve Butcher (brownpapertickets)
 
4:30 pm   A drinking band with an Irish Problem
Boys of Greenwood Glen

 

5:00 pm

5:15 Slow is Beautiful
with Cecile Andrews, Author, Phinney Eco-Village Founder

   
 Sunday HomeStreet Bank Stage

KBCS 91.3 Community Radio Stage

Sustainable Commons
11:00 am Voluntary Simplicity
with Jody Grage, Green Party
   
11:30 am Environmental Concerns and Neighborhood Action
Sound off with Vic Opperman, Sustainable Ballard

Soul, Substance & Sass
Charlotte Thistle

 
12:00 am Sustainable People at Work: Cooperative businesses in the sustainability age
with Eric Magnuson, Web Collective
 

Seattle Climate Action Now Campaign

Pam Emerson, City of Seattle Office of Sustainablility & the Environment

12:30 pm A Case Study in Deconstruction
with Noel Stout, The RE-Store

Rock Blues/Blues Progressive/Celtic
obelisk

SCALLOPS (Sustainable Communities All Over Puget Sound) SUMMIT
Gathering of SCALLOPS organizers, local grassroots activists, working on creating sustainable communities. Open to all who want to join the movement!
(facilitated by Cecile Andrews and Vic Opperman)

1:00 pm Roots & Old Time Music
with Moonshine & Turpentine
  SCALLOPS Summit (continued)
1:30 pm Songs for Peace
with the Raging Grannies

Electric American Roots Music
A Minor Racket

 

SCALLOPS Summit (continued)
2:00 pm An American Response to Global Warming
with Paul Birkeland, Step It Up
  SCALLOPS Summit (continued)
2:30 pm 2:30pm-3:30pm
Biodiesel: Fuel, Fad or Folly? a Panel Discussion

with Mike Buchman, Dan Freeman, Noam Gundle, Lyle Rudensey and Duff Badgley

Acoustic Soul
Vivian Gale

SCALLOPS Summit (continued)
3:00 pm  Biodiesel Panel (continued)  

Sail Transport Network
Vic Opperman, Fulvio Casali -Sustainable Ballard

3:30 pm Regional Transit Bill: Will it HELP OR HURT the CLIMATE CHALLENGE? A Debate
with Sierra Club v's Transportation Choices
Sammy Barrett Sail Transport Network (continued)
4:00 pm Community Change
with Jon & Tova Ramer, Interra Card
   
Closing

Sunday

4:30 pm

HomeStreet Bank Stage: Keynote Speech
Neighbor Power
with Jim Diers, 1st Director of Seattle's Department of Neighborhoods
  Art & Crafts Build It Green Climate Change Corner Eat Local Now
ALL DAY

Sustainable Creative Fun
•Pinecone birdfeeders
•Creative Collage

•Water Catchment
•Green Built Kiosk

•Pictures and Info on Local Climate Disruption
•Solutions
•Netgreen

•Hourly Chef Demos
-Johnna Dietz
-Zephyr Paquette
-Dave Saunders
-Becky Selengut
-Cider Pressing
-Jennifer Adler
-Dustin Ronspies
-Lesa Sullivan
-Jessica Schwartz
-Micah Windham
•How to Raise Chickens Display
•100 Mile Diet Map

  Green Gardens Kids Corner Transportation Row Undriving Station
ALL DAY

•Natives, Drought-tolerants, Edible Ornamentals Plant Displays
•Rain Garden
•Live Chickens

•How to build a worm bin (Free worms!)

•RE-cycled Art Station
•Hula-hoops

•Sustainable Bean Bag Toss

•How to Make Your Own Biodiesel
•Test Ride Electric Bikes
•Bike Rack contest

•Undriving Advisors Station
•Get Your Undrivers License
•Hop aboard the Shufflebus