EARTH WEEK EVENTS AT NSCC AND SEATTLE

· Urban Composting lecture at NSCC

Alternative Material Links

· Envirostars (http://www.envirostars.org/)

· Environmental Defense Fund (http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=822)

· Eco-Touch (http://www.miscellaneousfinds4u.com/blog/2009/07/eco-touch-car-care-that-doesnt-harm-the-environment/)

· Vertical Wind Turbines for your house! (http://www.ecobusinesslinks.com/vertical_axis_wind_turbines.htm)

· Places to recycle your electronics, appliances and pc’s (http://www.takeitbacknetwork.org/) and (http://www.recycledpcparts.com/)

Interesting News and Articles

· Progressive Voters Guide (http://progressivevotersguide.com/2009/washington/?src=PPV)

· Discovery Channel: Natures Most Amazing Events (http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/natures-most-amazing-events/episode-guide/)

· In Fighting A Coal Plant (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/nyregion/19towns.html?_r=1&emc=eta1)

· Fear In the Fields (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/special/fear_fields.html)

· To Cut Global Warming, Swedes Study Their Plates (http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=/2009/10/23/world/europe/23degrees.html&OQ=_rQ3D5Q26pagewantedQ3D1Q26hp)

· Biofuels Could Increase Greenhouse Gases (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jWlmNDwlosgva4LrueNlCB9qU_zQ)

· Algae Foam Killing Seabirds (http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/10/23/Algae-foam-killing-thousands-of-sea-birds/UPI-72851256315488/)

· Conservation.org covers all topics on conserving our earth (http://www.conservation.org/Pages/default.aspx)

· Eating locally here in the greater Seattle regions (http://urbanhennery.com/), (http://www.localharvest.org/)

· Sierra Club teaming up with Green Building solutions (http://action.sierraclub.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=144021.0), and (http://action.sierraclub.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=144021.0), and another (http://www.usgbc.org/)