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Environmental projects, community events & personal commitments.
Environmental projects, community events & personal commitments.
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Project creators launch their ideas and create goals that determine the success of the project. Participants join in, accomplish goals, and earn rewards.
Project creators launch their ideas and create goals that determine the success of the project. Participants join in, accomplish goals, and earn rewards.
An earthbongo project is the creation of someone like you.
It can be big or small, serious or playful. Get inspired, tap the drum, start a rhythm, and the results will come.
It can be big or small, serious or playful. Get inspired, tap the drum, start a rhythm, and the results will come.
Have impact.
Every week, people work on amazing projects that help the environment, children, animals, community,
and individuals. Wouldn’t it be great to add it all up? That’s earthbongo.
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by Magnuson CC
For decades, the sloped landscape beds in front of Magnuson Community Center have been a slowly deteriorating sea of grass that has become very sparse, weedy, and compacted. This has resulted in a huge increase in the amount of runoff and erosion from these slopes, that is washed into the...
Feb
11
by Magnuson CC
We are transforming the deteriorating landscape in front of Magnuson Community Center into a beautiful and sustainable public demonstration garden called the Resource Conservation Landscape.With your help, this event could be a huge benefit to the lanadscape project, as well as providing much-n...
Feb
4
So far, our number of number of native plants earned is 12.
by Amy
I've been reading Raj Patel's amazing book about the global food system, called "Stuffed and Starved", and it inspired me to do more research on what I'm eating. I try my best to eat local AND organic when I can, or just locally/just organic when both aren't an option....
So far, 15 people have joined.
by Jenny
Learn to knit! Learn new knitting skills! Bring yarn and needles if you have them - and some to share with those who don't if you can. Jody Grage is leading this group for anyone who would enjoy getting together monthly to knit simple hats and scarves for community members who do not have a...
by Barry B.
Eating less meat has been a vague goal of mine for some time now. I don't want to become a vegetarian, because, well, I like meat! Maybe I'd be healthier by being a vegetarian. But I'm just not ready to take that step.
But here's a project that I think can nudge me in the right direction ...
So far, our number of meat-free days is 70.
by Barry B.
...and away from your food!
When my family and I were in Europe for a vacation last summer, we had a quick hotel breakfast one morning. It was the same kind of breakfast you've probably had yourself in a hotel somewhere in the US: a little pastry, a little yogurt, some coffee -- set up...
Apr
1
by FionaRhea
Monthly book club to discuss Creating a Life Together by Dianna Leafe Christian. You can attend simply to learn about the process of creating intentional community, or to become more involved in a new enviro-spiritual community that is starting on 120 acres just 25 miles outside of Portland i...
So far, 3 people have joined.
by Valerie S.
Plastic is an ever-present part of our lives, right from the moment we wake up and grab our plastic toothbrush in the morning. But our plastic addiction has serious environmental consequences.
A few facts about plastic:
The EPA reveals that Americans use and discard 380 billion plastic b...
So far, 14 people have joined.
by Valerie S.
Got an old cell phone lying around and don't know what to do with it? I have three of them! One thing is for sure--throwing them away is both wasteful and harmful to the environment.
According to EarthWorks, more than 500 million used cell phones clutter our shelves and landfills, and ano...
by Jenny
Many products contain hazardous materials that cannot be included in your curbside recycling bin. There are just two Hazardous Waste drop offs in the city of Seattle, but luckily, right here in Ballard, Bartells will handle many of these products for you. Medications, rechargable ba...
So far, our number of hazardous items is 2.
by Valerie S.
Want to trade your big bank for an institution that really knows how to make change? Millions of people have already switched from their "too big to fail" banks to local banks and credit unions, and many more will continue to do so.
Local banks are wonderful for many reasons: they r...
So far, 10 people have joined.
by ZM - Seattle
Click on the Hive to see what we are doing!
The New Hive is a platform we are using to document informative 'Expressions' with regards to sustainable, techonological, ...
by Jenny
Join us to hear from Speaker Mark Winne - Author of ''Food Rebels, Guerilla Gardeners, and Smart-Cooking Mamas: Fighting Back in an Age of Industrial Agriculture.''
Afterwards, browse information tables of local organizations promoting local food and urban farming.
co-hosted ...
Feb
7
by Anna
I order a cup of coffee everyday and some days it hits that I've thrown away a paper cup of coffee every day. This project is inspired by the thought that 5 cups of coffee a week and 52 weeks in a year adds up to too many coffee cups thrown away.
My goal is to use a reusable cup at ...
So far, 13 people have joined.
by Kelli L.
I took a moment the other day to really look at what's on offer in my favorite grocery store's bulk aisle - so much! It's a great way to both save money and decrease the landfill load, but somehow I'm usually on auto-pilot when I'm shopping, short on time, and so I grab my stand-by packages of h...
Jun
30
So far, 6 people have joined.
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