Sustainable Crown Hill

SCH Meeting Notes from 4-26-09

From this point forward, each meeting will have a host, facilitator and note taker. These jobs will rotate from month to month so that we all have the opportunity to be more active members of the group and to share the burden of responsibility more equitably.

Job Duties:

Host – emails the announcement that meeting is coming up, provides the meeting space

Facilitator – runs the meeting

Note Taker – takes notes and posts them or emails to someone else to post

Announcements:

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Thank you Martin and Mira for hosting the our Sustainable Meeting 2 months in a row. Our meal had a few theme ingredients avocados, potatoes, and salad. Yumm.

Announcements:

>Kitchen Party at the Galvin’s 5 PM. Bring food, songs, poems, stories, Full announcement later.

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For all of you Crown Hill gardeners out there, here’s a tip for improving your conditioning and reducing the chance of injury as you sprint out for the precious few available gardening hours between snow storms. This comes from Ann Lovejoy’s excellent article on the Ozette potato in the former PI. I don’t know how long it will be available online at the PI website:

I recently learned of another way to enjoy potatoes that doesn’t involve eating or growing them. A friend shared the following suggested exercise for seniors to build muscle strength in the arms and shoulders.

The original article suggested doing it three times a week. It’s so easy, I thought I’d pass it on.

Begin by standing on a comfortable surface where you have plenty of room at each side. With a 5-pound potato sack in each hand, extend your arms straight out from your sides and hold them there as long as you can. Try to reach a full minute, then relax. Each day, you’ll find that you can hold this position for just a bit longer.

After a couple of weeks, move up to 10-pound potato sacks. Then use 50-pound potato sacks, and eventually try to get to where you can lift a 100-pound potato sack in each hand and hold your arms straight for more than a full minute.

After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each of the sacks.

And if you’re looking for music to memorialize the death of the PI,  former Seattle-ite Heidi Muller has this finely crafted contribution “Goodnight PI” to mark the passage.

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WHAT: Sustainable Crown Hill’s April meeting
WHEN: Sunday, March 29, 5-7pm (5-5:30 potluck)
WHERE: Mira and Martin’s house again!! ….. 10017 11th Ave NW

New people welcome!
Email Carol with agenda items or questions at carolbarber@comcast.net

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WHAT: Monthly Meeting of Sustainable Crown Hill
WHEN: Sunday, March 1st, 5-7pm (5-5:30 potluck)
WHERE: Mira and Martin’s house, 10017 11th Ave NW

New people welcome!
Email Carol with agenda items or questions at carolbarber@comcast.net

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STREET PAINTING PLANNING MEETING

Sponsored by SDOT

Jan. 31, 2008

Presenters:

Erik Higbee: h_i_g_b_e_e@yahoo.com, community organizer behind street painting at 49^th and Burke discussed: 1. Process of involving community; 2. Process of designing paintint; 3. How to implement (paint) the design

Jane Rebelowski: jane.rebelowski@seattle.gov, SDOT civil engineer specialists discussed SDOT’s regulations, scope of assistance, and time frames

Brian Dougherty: brian.doughterty@seattle.gov discussed other funding

Jennifer Britton: Jennifer.britton@seattle.gov discussed Dept of Neighborhood funding

Crown Hill attendees: Carol Kennedy & Doug Gresham

There is no “one” way to build community, but Erik Higbee recommended Placemaking Guide Book by City Repair (Portland). He said it is about the process more than the end product.

May need to start with other activities, such as tree planting, block parties, to initiate getting neighbors together.

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Host: Carol Barber
Attendees: Carol Barber, Kit and Dennis Galvin, Jen Smith, Gary Schneider (St. Louis), Danielle, Michael and Mathias, Bert Hopkins, Martin and Myra Adams

Announcements:
1/10/09 – Urban Crop Circle organizing event at Arboretum to see winter gardens. Meet at 9:45 AM @ Loyal Heights to car pool

2/26/09 – CHNA is hosting Tim Gallagher’s presentation on Pacific Coast Trail presentation and slideshow. 7:00 PM @ Abundant Life Church

03/09 – Seattle Green Show. Danielle looking for others who want to volunteer. Jen Smith is interested.

Agenda:
We spent most of the meeting thinking back over the year and a half that we have been together and reviewing where we have been and where we want to go. Following is a list of projects that we have completed, are ongoing, or are in process.

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Carkeek Park Salmon Walk
Friday November 28
10 AM

Join your neighbors for a post Thanksgiving leisurely paced walk to Carkeek Park. Neighbor Doug Gresham will be on hand to talk about and answer questions on the salmon restoration in Piper’s Creek. Doug has worked extensively for the restoration of Salmon spawning habitat in the creek.

Meet at the big oak tree at 13th Avenue NW and NW 95th Street.  We’ll leave at 10 AM and enter the park at the 12th and Norcross.

This will be kid friendly and paced appropriately. Come for the stroll with your whole family from new-born to 90, there will be something for everyone. This is a rain or shine event.

Information kit@crownhillneighbors.org

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Saturday November 22nd
potluck from 6-7:15pm
Movie starts at 7:15pm.
Movie: The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (see synopsis below)
Location: Carol B’s house, 10060 Mary Ave NW, 789-8693
Contact: carolbarber@comcast.net

For those attending the potluck, people are encouraged to bring or prepare foods that are local or as local as possible. Let’s not be fascists about it, but be thoughtful about what you make or bring, and use it as an opportunity to understand where our food comes. Come prepared to talk about what you learned from the process.

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
The DVD focuses on Cuba’s transition from an industrial petroleum-based society to a sustainable society, as a result of their loss of petroleum when their source, the Soviet Union, collapsed.

The goals of this film are to give hope to the developed world as it wakes up to the consequences of being hooked on oil, and to lift American’s prejudice of Cuba by showing the Cuban people as they are. The filmmakers do this by having the people tell their story on film. It’s a story of their dedication to independence and triumph over adversity, and a story of cooperation and hope. Several Cubans expressed the belief that living on an island, with its natural boundaries, breeds awareness that there are limits to natural resources.

“Everyone who is concerned about Peak Oil needs to see this film. Cuba survived an energy famine during the 1990′s, and how it did so constitutes one of the most important and hopeful stories of the past not just of individual achievement, but one of the collective mobilization of an entire society to meet an enormous challenge.”
Richard Heinberg, author of The Party’s Over, Powerdown
RUNNING TIME: 53 minutes
RELEASED IN 2006

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