I am not a member but I have benefitted from the consistently high-quality events organized by Sustainable Northeast Seattle. For 9 years in a row they have organized the large, complex, free community festival Hands On Skill Share Fair. It effectively draws eager participants throughout the Seattle region to learn practical, sustainable skills to build resilient community. Volunteers teach free workshops on topics such as organic gardening, home repair, car repair, emergency preparedness, community cooking, building solar cookers, brewing your own kumbocha, kefir, her me canning, picking, pruning, growing food, bee keeping, upcycling, mending, tool repair and maintenance, authentic native Willow basket weaving, mushroom culivation, foraging, sprouting, potting, edible plants, native plants,and ethnobotany, making your own nontoxic products, tips to reduce waste, creative reuse, book repair, art from reclaimed materials, and building stronger community resilience. Other events include barter fairs, freecycle exchanges, neighborhood emergency drills, service projects, environmental education, and other events in which neighbors share knowledge and skills and collaborate with other groups and agencies. An exceptionally generous and strategically oriented steering committee and long-term volunteers have built lasting institutions. For example the NE Seattle Tool Library loans tools, teaches safe and sustainable tool use, and includes a seed savers exchange. Community kitchens teach preparing nutritious meals ahead and sustainable vegan cooking. A special publishing arm was created to distribute information about how to invest to promote sustainability.

This is not even a complete list of everything Sustainable NE Seattle has done to create concrete systemic shifts in our local and global community.