WHATS YOUR 1 THING?

my husband and I drive natural gas cars.We fill up @ home for 1.63 a gallon & no emissions.  -laura, kenmore
I install energy efficient heating and cooling systems as well as solar and geothermal.  -Travis, Marysville
I grow as many vegetables as I can year round at my neighborhood P-Patch. I give extras to neighborhood foodbank or neighbors.  -Cristina , Seattle
I purposely keep all my receipts in my purse and then clean through my purse with a recycling bin by my side :)  -Cassi, Seattle
Follow my kids around shutting off lights and making sure the water is shut off.Sounds funny but my house saves elec/water.  -Michel Brooks, Auburn
COMPOST  -Katie, Kelowna
I check my tire pressure once a month to improve the efficiency of my gas and reduce the amount CO2 into the air.  -Terra Moreland, Tacoma
I recycle whenever possible. but when im out in public i cant always recycle because there isnt always public recycling cans.  -Kayla, seattle
we raise quarter horses and one thing we do is catch rain water and use it to spray down the arena.  -Leah, Freeland
Alot of people forget about being green at work, put an extra garbage can next to your desk for recyclables.  -Tim, Seattle
Built our "chicken condo" and children's tree fort out of recycled wood from local demos.  -Vicki, Puyallup
I recycle all the garbage I can and compost food scraps. I try to buy organic products with minimal or biodegradable packaging.  -Megan, Tacoma
I use the new mesh grocery bags instead of paper or plastic  -Danica, Seattle
Go Solar!!!! Yes it works here!  -Kate, Seattle
I use a drying rack for my thinner clothing instead of the dryer. Cuts my elec bill and drying time!  -Erin, West Seattle
I switch OFF the print option on my calculator at work. Eliminating the register tape on 99% of the caluations I do.  -Dawn, Marysville
I have a Klean Kanteen stainess steel water bottle that I carry with me instead of constantly buying plastic disposable ones!  -Laelle, Tacoma
For drying clothes I use a clothesline when the weather is good, or a wooden drying rack in the house when it's not.  -Jeanne, Onalaska
I hang my clothes to dry.  -Christy, Seattle
I educate my neighbors about surface water run off to the Puget Sound and encourage them to properly dispose of pet waste.  -Jacqui, Snohomish
Whenever I find it on, I turn off the light in my company's conference room.  -Jill, Seattle
Stop using poison Roundup. Spray vinegar-kill weeds - driveway, sidewalk, between pavers. Breaks down, doesn't hurt Sound.  -Susan, Seattle
I use my own coffee mug and water bottle at work instead of the paper cups  -Priya, Bellevue
i am launching an eco-conscious clothing line: www.salvationware.com!  -jme, redmond
I try yo use my lights as little as possible and always turn them off when i leave a room.  -Aleena, Carnation
Air-dry my laundry.  -Kristine, Seattle
ALL of the light bulbs in my house and outside are the low energy bulbs(11watts) I use less bulbs in all the rooms esp. the bath  -Kaye, Hemet,Ca
I share my home with with 5 other adults and two teens. Living together lowers our footprint and increases our fun!  -Bruce, Lake City
When I see a light turn yellow, I turn off the ignition and coast up to it.  -Erin, West Seattle
I refill four, one gallon, water bottles for work. I am a May truck driver. I hope all trucks get APU's to stop useless idling.  -Richard Carstens, Carson
I use a bicycle instead of the car for meetings and minor errands such as going to the post office, bank or grocery store.  -Doug, Seattle
Solar heated water and a soapstone masonry heater with baking oven minimize our propane use. Awesome.  -Michele Keyes, Olga
I put a watering can under the faucet while I am waiting for the water to get hot.  -Holly, Seattle
I signed up for a food PLUS+ compost recycling bin and cut our trash way down.  -TJ, bellingham
My housemates and I have a big vegie garden going in our yard and are watering with collected rain. Tasts so good!  -Bruce, Lake City
Buy "green" products and try to gradually influence as many of my friends as possible. It's working so far!  -Marian, Lacey
We started hanging up our clothes out side to dry them.  -Riley, Kirkland
Very simple - stop eating meat! Going veggie drastically reduces your carbon footprint.  -Diane, Seattle
Riding my bike to work or carpooling.  -Cheryl, Seattle
I use reusable canvas bags when grocery shopping.  -Linda, Puyallup
At work I buy 100% post consumer paper for our office printing & copying needs.  -Averie, Bellevue
Only printing when I absolutely have to. Take advantage of technology and use less paper, save it online!  -Aileen H., Seattle
If I'm not using an electronic or a light it isn't plugged in or turned on.  -Ashley, Seattle
I live in the community I work in.  -Kara, Olympia
I use cloth shopping bags. PCC has some $10 bags made by envirosax that fold up so small, I even took one to the mall.  -Joni, Seattle
I use cloth bags instead of taking the plastic bag they offer  -William, Fort Lewis
using bar soaps instead of plastic bottled soaps = less packaging. also using all natural dish soaps.  -karin, poulsbo
Changed jobs so now I'm only 3 mi from home.  -MB, Seattle
I recycle my old printed documents by using the clean side as scratch paper before I recycle them in the WOW bin.  -Joanne, Everett
I unplug appliances I don't use on a regular basis like toaster and coffeemaker, microwave and other small appliances.  -Faith, Everett
 

10th Annual Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival at the University of Washington

April 16, 2008 - 4:32pm — clybecker
05/01/2008 - 12:00am
05/04/2008 - 11:00pm
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New documentaries and old favorites, keynote speakers and workshops, animation, inspiration, community, and more. For additional information, please visit http://www.hazelfilm.org or call 206-624-9725. All films begin at 7:30PM and will be played in Johnson Hall at the UW. This event takes place from May 1-4th, 2008.

List of films:

May 1: We kick off the festival with Oil+Water, an exuberant, biofuels-only road trip from Alaska to Argentina punctuated by jaw-dropping whitewater kayaking. People’s Choice award winner at the Wild and Scenic Film Festival. Invited: filmmaker and professional kayaker Seth Warren.

May 2: Friday evening we welcome filmmaker Judith Helfand (co-director of Sundance Film Festival award winner Blue Vinyl) for a screening of Everything’s Cool, about America finally “getting” global warming while industry-funded naysayers sing what just might be their swan song. Helfand and Daniel B. Gold co-directed the film, an official selection of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Judith will share some of the activist extras and discuss integrating a DVD movie into a movement.

May 3: Saturday we go all day, 10 a.m. till 10 p.m., with a smorgasbord of film sessions: family-friendly, environmental justice, appropriate technology, wolves, rivers, and youth films, plus filmmaking workshops. We cap it off with a keynote talk by Alex Steffen of Worldchanging followed by a screening of Renewal, a feature-length documentary capturing the inspiring stories of America’s religious-environmental movement from eight different perspectives.

May 4: Sunday we begin again at 10 a.m. with more film sessions (urban wildlife, agriculture, adventure, and more) plus a workshop on documentary filmmaking by John de Graaf (Affluenza, Buyer Be Fair) and Judith Helfand (co-director of Blue Vinyl and Everything’s Cool). Judith and two of her students will discuss an experiment in teaching "environmental filmmaking" and visual story-telling to students (graduate and undergraduate) who are studying everything—conservation, environmental science, history of medicine, neurobiology, hindi and a little fine art—but film or video. See the results!

May 4: Sunday afternoon we welcome Linda Helm Krapf for a screening of her film Woven Ways about the legacy of uranium mining and coal-fired power plants on the Navajo people. Joining Linda after the film is Deb Abrahamson of the Spokane Indian Reservation where uranium was also mined. We conclude the festival with a screening of When Clouds Clear, about a remote town in Ecuador resisting the intrusion of international mining companies. This film was an award winner at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.