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*We changed websites in April 2022, so posts older than that were transferred over and show an incorrect date and view count.

Mar 12, 2022
5 min

A Local’s Guide to Bike Commuting in Wenatchee

By Cassie Bogdan-Slemmer, board member With transportation accounting for nearly a third of CO2 emissions in the US, and more than half...

Mar 12, 2022
4 min

Confused about recycling? Help is coming to reduce your waste.

By Rick Edwards, on the board of advisors for Sustainable Wenatchee With so many changes happening in the last several years on the...

Mar 12, 2022
3 min

Bulk Up! Zero waste shopping 101

Guest blog by Madelyn Schwilke “Zero waste” grocery shopping is sometimes hard to achieve, and can feel impossible when almost every food...

Mar 12, 2022
4 min

Sustain Your Style - Get Thrifty

By Jenny Montgomery, SW board secretary Today our feeds are flooded with perfectly curated and targeted mass marketing ads. Everything...

Mar 12, 2022
3 min

Are Microfibers a Future Health Risk?

I first met Elsa through our EcoChallenge.org discussion group, reading through Seeing Systems last summer and fall. She joined our group...

Mar 12, 2022
4 min

Local Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Opportunities

By Cassie Bogdan Slemmer, SW board member One thing we all have in common: we need to get energy from food on a regular basis. The...

Mar 12, 2022
5 min

Keeping up with the Joneses'... garbage can.

By Jana Fischback City of Wenatchee residents who are Waste Management customers recently joined the rest of the area in being able to...

Mar 12, 2022
5 min

Hydrogen cars: the new kid on the block?

By Jana Fischback {A different version of this blog was published in the Wenatchee World.] Sometimes my work in sustainability gives me...

Mar 12, 2022
4 min

Handmade Matters

By Jenny Montgomery, SW board secretary (Photos by Jenny or from the business' Instagram) We live in a world where mass-produced goods...

Mar 12, 2022
2 min

What's in your bottle?

By Betsy Dudash, SW board president Whenever someone offers me a drink of unfiltered tap water, I flinch just a little. My tongue still...

Mar 12, 2022
2 min

About that bidet...

As you might remember, Betsy shared options for "Going, sustainably" in a blog post last February. That was before the infamous TP...

Mar 12, 2022
2 min

Don't be Trashy: lessons from litter

By Jana Fischback This year, instead of hosting just one volunteer opportunity on Make a Difference Day, October 24th, we at Sustainable...

Mar 12, 2022
2 min

What would we like for our birthday, you ask?

This is a big day for Sustainable Wenatchee! Today, October 30th, is our "3rd birthday." Three years ago today, Sustainable Wenatchee was...

Mar 12, 2022
3 min

Protecting Trees and the Future

It's in our nature to take things for granted, and one of the best examples of that may be trees. Read below to learn just how many...

Mar 12, 2022
3 min

Have an "Eco-Fiendly" Halloween!

By Jana Fischback Halloween is just around the corner. If you’re like me, you haven’t bought candy yet. Not because I’m a procrastinator...

Mar 12, 2022
3 min

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Joan always does a great job of breaking down climate crises issues. I'm grateful to have a climate change expert on our board. Here she...

Mar 12, 2022
3 min

The Business of Compost

We've written about food waste before - check out Joan Qazi's blog post, "Food Waste > Wasted Food" - but here, board president Betsy...

Mar 12, 2022
3 min

Community victories in gardening

"A garden… is a solution that leads to other solutions,” wrote writer and environmental activist, Wendell Berry in his book The Gift of...

Mar 12, 2022
3 min

Recommitting to reusables

By Jana Fischback with help from Anne Theisen Two steps forward, one step back. The movement away from single-use plastic items was...

Mar 12, 2022
5 min

The Ins and Outs of Electric Vehicles

By Betsy Dudash, Sustainable Wenatchee board member Last year, in a happy coincidence, three of my friends got electric vehicles. So,...